Robert Beech Email & Phone Number

Nether Alderley, England, United Kingdom

• Managed cost accounting and reporting for Brand & Marketing, Commercial, Customer, and Group Operations.• Managed a team of 5, 1-2-1s, quarterly appraisals, annual reviews, training• Auto-Accruals Initiative – Financial Lead to go live (Oct-24), reducing volume of requisitions, training requisitioners/cost centre managers, designing reports and developing system upload processes, cost accounting data cleansing and ongoing process developments. • Led FRDC cost accounting, ensuring all governance and controls with Archer (internal control system) adhered to.• Allocations – Cost Accounting lead for monthly cost allocations.• Delivery of monthly variance and trending reports for Brand & Marketing, Commercial, Customer and Group Operations, including analysis vs plan/forecast and trending analysis• Development of the trending reports both for projects and BAU.• Developed year end file (smartview) to support the service company inputs into the group accounts.• Capita, redesigned accounting process to simplify journals and adhere to accounting standards.

Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

• Project Accountant for specialist consultancy and defence Unit, and overseas (Chernobyl) with turnover of c£13m and EBIT of £4.5m, ensuring accuracy of all accounts in line with company policies and procedures and finance standards, analysis v forecast/budget with commentary• Assisted with production of month Project Profit Appraisal (PPA), within monthly deadlines, commentary vs forecast with gains and losses• Attendance at project review meeting & operational meetings to discuss all finance issues, project setup, variable consideration, WIP, debt, order book, margin reduction and assisting with solutions• Assisting project managers with complex forecast adjustments, including cashflow• Completion of 2 entities order book reports with analysis to senior management • Project accountant audit lead both internal and external, consolidating all team information • Project accountant Lead for Oracle implementation (reporting, data cleansing, data mapping, business process documents, analysis – MDAX Vs Oracle costs)• Developed and presented finance training for all operational managers and project managers within the business• Nominated for a president’s award (Care) Dec-18• Finance Manager Japan – Responsible for all aspects, Sage Set up, Accounts Tfr from US, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Management Accounts, HFM uploads, Treasury/Cash Flow (inc. Loan Agreements), Consumption Tax, Corporation Tax, Commercial Agreements with Supplier c£5m Turnover, Oracle data transfer and subsequent correcting set up, finance representative for new bids with Japan, operational meetings and project reviews.• FBP from Apr21 – Lead Quarterly forecasting ($120m Rev) & FY22 annual budget, monthly accounts preparation and presentation (analysis vs plan, current qtr. forecast), Finance lead at Nuclear Power team meetings with finance presentations, monthly operational meeting reviews with presentations, management of debt/WIP, backlog reporting

Knutsford, England, United Kingdom

• Reporting - Designed user friendly excel month end margin reports EMEA actuals vs budget/forecast using oracle wand (reporting tool – complex structure) $120m Turnover• Reporting - Created a month on month trending report EMEA vs budget/forecast and responsible for month end variance analysis prior to monthly accounts review meeting• Reporting - Created quarter end Operational Analytical Review worksheet (P&L / Balance Sheet Reports, using Oracle Wand (Month v Month, Qtr. v Qtr. Y v Y)• Management - Management & recruitment of 4 Staff with responsibility for the completion of 7 entities accounts to margin level & relevant balance sheet completion (Blackline) • Member of the finance management team and approver/reviewer (journals / reconciliations up to $500k) for 7 entities to Margin level • Accounts - Re-designed several month end processes to enable a smoother month end (Prepayments / Accruals / Accrued Income/ Deferred income/Royalty submissions/Royalty Provisions/etc.) using excel• Project - Global billing relocation to SSC, started project before handing to billing manager • Project – Audio Licence agreements - Finance transactional lead to understand and account for Sony/Warner Chappell/UMG licence agreements and MCPS/PPL returns. • Statutory Accounts – Assisted with the revenue / margin sections of the statutory accounts, including acting involvement calculating stat adjustments for FY14, FY15 & FY16 stats.• Internal Control – Assisted with the development of internal controls with PWC. implemented controls through development of excel worksheets and a throught review/approval process. Adherence to SOX (US GAAP), and helped develop IPE (information provided by the entity) • Billing – Responsible for working with Account Managers to create external billing templates/dashboards for Etihad $10m, New Zealand $4, KLM $4, Air France $3.

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

• Accounts - Responsible for the consolidation of the property flash and monthly accounts, with comparison to forecast/quarterly forecast/budget - c$800m turnover• Forecast - Responsible for the consolidation of the weekly, monthly and quarterly forecast with distribution via commentary to senior management.• Budget FY16 - Lead for the central overhead budget £8.4m.• Reporting - Developed a Sales VAT / Non- VAT report with distribution to the Starbucks managers that has resulted in an increase in revenue of £50k over 2 months. • Fixed Assets – Rebuilt the fixed asset model £100m (26000 Excel Lines) to include all updated company policies and fit in with new lease terms.• IT Project – Finance lead for the roll out of the company IT project £5m expenditure.

Daresbury, England, United Kingdom

• Reporting - Overseeing the east region £26.5m budgeted turnover/ £4.2m profit, 25 Services, 1 admin. hub and 1 central cost centre, to Head of Finance.• Monthly completion of 9 services accounts. Analysis vs. flash, budget, y.o.y and forecast.• Responsible for the finance element of mobilisation for new services within the east region (Petty Cash, Credit Card, PO System, Nominal Set Up, Expenses etc – and Training non-finance staff where applicable).• Norfolk Prisons Service – I developed number of reports for the executive board (Work Force planning reports, Accounts v Bid Model/Forecast, Locum Agency Spend Report, Escort and Bed Watch Reports, Risk and Ops report, Wins/Losses report)• Costing - responsible for costing services/elements of services that were either up for tender (Business Continuation) or where negotiations are required to either change services clinically or financially. A number have been extended or received additional funding based on the work I have completed (Stockton Primary Care, Hartlepool Urgent Care, Darlington MSK)• Budgets/Forecast – Responsibility for completion of regions budgets FY14/15 and monthly forecasting for review by Finance Director.• Commissioner Meetings/Regional Meetings – I am required as finance reconciliation support for the operations team during various clinical commissioner meetings & regional ops meetings, supporting regular service reviews, service finance amendments/extensions and finance reconciliations. • Projects – Working with the systems accountant and operations director we developed a solution to help control the major business cost pressure locum usage via directing POs to the ops director when the monthly budget is overspent. Other projects supported where Payroll, Regional Work Force Planning, Intercompany.• Audit – Created several automated audit workbooks.

• Reporting – Responsible for producing the Consolidated LLP Accounts Pack with commentary (Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow) to senior mgmt team, LLP Consolidated Flash Reporting (as per consolidated report on forecast results WD2), and producing a CMB Pack via power point (review at Clinic Medical Board level).• Reporting Developments - Using Vision (Reporting tool) I developed several month end reports i.e. Consolidated & Individual P&L (Actual, Budget, Forecast, re-forecast, Flash reporting) Balance Sheet, Cash flow Forecast, Margin Analysis, rolling monthly analysis, Transaction lists, AP/SL Processing volume report, Debtor/Creditor Report Analysis. • Budgeting/Re-forecasting – Assisted budgeting process for East Region FY11/12 and lead FY12/13 & FY13/14, involving designing worksheets, understanding the services, liaising with service managers/regional managers with submission to Head of finance. • Project – 3 Months secondment to Devon Children’s Service bid (Jan13 to March13). Working with the bid team / Devon Finance to pull together a FY13/14 budget for the £36m service prior to go live. Praised by several directors for my efforts/work on the project. • System Implementation – Assisted with the implementation of PSF (Introduction of Tok- Open scanning system, User Acceptance training, implementing new chart of accounts within the LLPs, updating nominal account codes, ledgers and assets etc)• Statutory Accounts - Completed annual statutory accounts for East Region. • Business Reviews – Attended Monthly Business Performance Reviews for various LLPs

Daresbury, England, United Kingdom

• Management Accounts – Responsible for producing the East Region accounts (7 LLPs) – P&L, B Sheet, Cash Flow, Cash Flow Forecasting – analysis v Budget/Forecast/Flash all with commentary – monthly pack sent to LLP Business Directors.• Management of AP – Introduced Procedures (Re-designed Purchase Order system and Expenses System, vastly reduced Debit Balances, batch coding), Processes (Introduced strict payment dates, aged creditors review, return of invoice letters, due date entry), Recruitment (2 Staff Members), Training and Development• Management of AR – Procedures (Improved data collection for invoicing and vastly improved debt collection within every entity), Processes (Weekly Aged Debt Review), Recruitment (1 member of staff), Training and Development.

Congleton

• Acting Controller (sick cover) - Managements Accounts team (6 people) for 9 months (Sept 06–May 07). (AP, Payroll, Management Accounts, Forecasts, Budgeting, Manager Reports, Integration Issues (Business Integration/Financial System Integration - SUN)• Acted as trainer for AP Processors and Assistant Management Accountants (5 employees)• Played a major role in the integration of Blackspider (Setting up Bank accounts, payments, fixed assets etc, re-cutting budgets, bringing over the T.B. and setting up business units) • Responsibility to produce France, Germany & UK on demand accounts (Blackspider).• Assisted in the development and then produced monthly contribution statements for distribution to senior sales managers – as part of the monthly accounts pack.• Designed, produced and distributed a marketing manager’s report monthly (committed v budget), and led the monthly meeting with the Marketing Director to monitor expenditure vs. potential business • Assisted in a half year re-budgeting exercise due to volume of restructuring changes.• Produced monthly UK Accounts and holding company accounts.• Assisted with the consolidated global accounts.• Continuation of previous responsibilities.2005 February – 2005 November – Surfcontrol Plc – Assistant Financial Accountant• Produced UK, EMEA and Israel management accounts including commentary (balance sheet, profit and loss and cashflow – multi-currency reporting)• Produced UK, EMEA & Israel monthly quarterly forecast including commentary.• Produced and distributed monthly global manager reports until August 05.• Produced monthly manager profit and loss reports. (Actual v Budget/Forecast)• Other areas of work Accruals, prepayments, cashbook postings, purchase ledger postings, payments, payroll, balance sheet reconciliations, fixed assets, VAT returns etc.• Assisted in the production of the yearly budgets.

Crewe

Bachelor'S Degree, Business And Finance

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