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.
• 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

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.
• 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

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

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.
• 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.
• Budgets/Forecast – Responsibility for completion of regions budgets FY14/15 and monthly forecasting for review by Finance Director.

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Statutory Accounts - Completed annual statutory accounts for East Region.

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.
• 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

Crewe

Bachelor'S Degree, Business And Finance

Education record