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Offering finance business partnering services to newly-formed £25m per annum Logistics, £5m per annum Procurement and three smaller functions upon Direct Line Group's separation from RBS. Supporting forecasting, budget-setting and reporting as well as offering advice and support in reducing the cost base.Concurrently Project Accountant for two.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Yorkshire Forward was the Regional Development Agency tasked with promoting sustainable economic development in Yorkshire and the Humber.Supported delivery of the £25m staff and overheads budget. Managed month end.
• Improved a variety of Management Accounts processes using Excel and VBA expertise to speed up and reduce repetitive tasks and provide new ways of achieving requirements.
• Supported senior Management Accountants by forming relationships with Project Managers; resolving queries directly. Supported the wider team with Excel queries and helped improve their spreadsheets to make them more.
• Created an interactive accruals presentation for the organisation to educate non-financial personnel and support accurate accounting for reporting in the financial statements.
• Supported transition and closure processes; mainly the transfer of services that involved complex extrapolations and calculations for multiple years, delivered to a tight timeframe.
• Being told by the Assistant Director that she had decided to hire me after a 20 minute ‘initial chat’ and that she had no doubt I would one day go on to become a Finance Director.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Finance AnalystManaged and authorised cost centre activity and produced monthly management accounts. Responsible for allocation of overheads between clients for monthly billings. Processed monthly accruals and.
• Promoted to Finance Analyst in the Overheads Team to manage a portfolio of complex cost centres including IT and Marketing and report on their spend activity.
• Devised and prepared monthly reports at the request of the IT Director to aid his budget management.
• Improved processes to speed delivery and save time on menial activities. Regularly requested work to keep busy and help ease the workload on others.
• Used self-taught Excel skills to create interactive games, namely Hangman and Family Fortunes, in Excel for use as mock game shows at team building days.Client AccountantDuties included reconciliation of accounts to.
• The use of macros to automate processes; the most effective two of which transformed a manual four hour job into a four minute task with no interaction required and a 15 minute daily job into a 30 second job at month.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• A valued member of the team, proficient in all procedures and areas of operation. Began as a part-time employee whilst at university, and worked full-time after graduating. Worked way up to a Team Leader position.
• Regularly entrusted with sole charge of the store and its circa £5m value; the first time of which was at 12 hours notice, prior to any duty manager training.
• Promoted twice during final year, the second of which was to a management position specifically created to enhance my development.
• Named as “the best member of staff I’ve ever had” by the Store Manager of 25 years.