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- Prepare quarterly accounts in order to meet deadlines for announcement to the stock exchange.- Understanding all Shell internal group reporting and analysis requirements for the entity whilst ensuring key controls and reconciliations between management and legal reporting are carried out per the reporting timetable.- Ensure adherence to all SOX and Financial control requirements especially in relation to month end (journals, accruals etc). Perform control walkthroughs with audit. Ensure best practice of Internal Controls.- Acting as Focal point for the Period End close process including Intergroup reconciliations.- Co-ordinates with other Reporting teams, the Controllers function and the Shell Shared Service Centres (including Manila and Chennai).- Gather data for Quarterly returns including Group Reporting Sub analysis requirements (e.g. provisions, quantity statistics).- Provide support and co-ordinate reporting activities with other core finance areas.- Timely and effective responses to special data/project requests.- Ensuring the creation, maintenance and update of process and procedures documentation.- Assisting with providing financial guidance and ensuring compliance with relevant Group, IFRS and Statutory requirements and understand the reporting requirements including Group returns.

- Focal point at Operating Unit level for budget queries from budget holders on Retail Marketing spend and projects.- Manage budget and find solutions to management in Business Unit.- Provide transaction analysis and ad hoc business decision support to assist with queries in a timely manner.- Reporting to internal management in Business Unit using SAP system.- Preparation of monthly accruals to reporting deadlines for SIPC and SUKOP.- Analyse Functions costs on budgets and provide monthly reconciliations.- Perform balance sheet and project reconciliations, interrogate numbers, recover project costs and monitor aged open items.

- Responsible for P&L for IT Business. To control costs and recover all IT spend from other Scottish Power Businesses.- Responsible for the submission of monthly IT business return to Group Finance.- Preparation of ITBS budgets, forecasts and business plans, challenging management on costs and finding areas for savings- Maintain the recharge model I used to calculate the monthly IT cost across each of the UK Businesses in order to fully recover costs to achieve the objective of zero profit/loss.- Responsible for reporting ITBS performance to its external customers (UK Businesses) by preparing MI packs and variance analysis for the Finance directors.- Responsible for monitoring and reporting ITBS performance balanced scorecard for the board report and using KPIs to advise management on performance.- Ensure the operation and compliance of internal Sarbanes Oxley key controls for ITBS Finance and contact with internal and external audit. Responsible for updating documentation and additional controls which may have arisen from walkthroughs I carried out.- Responsible for all Interbusiness activities including agreeing balances and instructing payments to be made. - Six sigma green belt trained and one green belt project completed.

- 11 direct reports.- Manage and monitor performance of staff in the team, their duties and welfare.- Ensure internal procedures are compliant with Sarbanes Oxley S404 legislation.- Liaise with external audit at quarter and year end.- Calculate and report relevant figures relating to the teams output in terms of invoices and expenses processed, monthly KPI figures.- Monitor debt levels, analyse information and prepare reports.- Ledger reconciliations.- Liaise with internal and external customers to resolve problems and queries.- Deal with ad hoc issues, balance a number of tasks.- Give input to project team for the replacement of Demon system and MIMS system and a member of the project team for the implementation of robust processes and procedures for the payment process of non-matching invoices.

Completed placements within in Business Accounting, Energy Income, Business Performance, Accounting Systems and Projects, Financial Control, Compliance and Governance, Statutory and Regulatory Reporting. Cross-divisional placements completed within Fleet Business and Corporate.

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