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Exeter, United Kingdom

Exeter, United Kingdom

Crediton, Devon

• Forecasting:
• Providing group guidance to the business units on their budget submission relating to exchange rates, accounting policies and intercompany loans and trading.
• Maintaining the Hyperion Financial Management (HFM) system and using it to load, consolidate and retrieve financial information.
• Designing and building of HFM reports to be used for budget reviews.
• Reviewing the budget with the respective Planning Leads.
• Development of an intercompany reconciliation model.

• From Oct 07 to Jan 08 I took a sabbatical from EDS to go travelling around the world. On my return to the UK I re-joined EDS in a new position. The role allowed me to develop the standard skills associated with.
• Working with ten separate business streams to produce and review their financial forecast before submission to the central planning and analysis function.
• Inputting journals at month end to ensure that EDS are US GAAP and SOXA compliant.
• Analysing revenue invoiced vs. achieved in order to make the relevant deferrals.
• Reporting on variances between actual and forecast costs at month end.
• P+L management of an area with a £4.5m monthly spend.

• After completing my university studies, I accepted a position on the DII(F) account with EDS:
• Analysing the financial impact of operational and technical change to the program/contract.
• Producing financial models to support major change (new business) and software license deals from initiation through to management presentation and commercial decision.
• Initiating a project to monitor expenses and investigate cost reduction.
• Forecasting, reviewing and managing professional services contracts.
• Business process improvements (especially in the resource planning area).

• Creating MS Excel based financial models to forecast the costs and revenues of prospective bids. On one particular bid I successfully assisted a major win and received special commendation from the finance director for.
• Responsible for developing a financial model which could be used by Project Managers to input relevant information in order to generate an automatic quote for customers.
• Reviewing project finances against budget and reporting variances to senior management.
• Trading margin and reviewing contingency against project risks.
• Successful involvement in a transition to a new module of SAP.
• Continuous financial support for over two hundred projects.

1St Class Honours, Bsc Mathematics And Accounting With Financial Management

The course consisted of an equal split between mathematics based subjects and business/financial subjects, these included both financial.

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