Senior Finance Business Partner supporting the EDF Business Solutions side of the company. Working as part of the GM team but primarily analysing and supporting main stakeholders with cost budgeting and analysis.

As part of the Cost Team within the Customers Finance Division, the Senior Finance Analyst supporting the BC&IT side of the business. The role involved month end reporting, monthly forecasting, budgeting and ensuring the stakeholders were supported with their periodic financial reporting.

Financial budgeting, management reporting and analysis of assigned Functional Areas of Commerce platforms, Brand Marketing and Internal communications, Legal and HR.• Serves as day-to-day business partner for area of support and other functional leaders in order to support execution and measurement of results and business initiatives• Co-ordination of the budgeting and forecasting process for assigned business unit• Ownership for all reporting and analysis deliverables within their area of focusCore functions of role include:• preparation of monthly management accounts from accrual preparation to commentary• partnering• budgets and forecasts (monthly, quarterly and annual)

Primary contact for UK project/fixed asset accounting plus fixed costs accountant for facilities department

Primary contact for UK project/fixed asset accounting

Following company restructure, a demanding role was created combining the Project Accountant and Fixed Asset Accountant roles into one.

o Monthly reporting on fixed asset additions, disposals and depreciationo Assisting in impairment calculationso Budget and forecast preparationo Fixed Asset balance sheet reconciliationso Liaising with internal tax departmento Maintenance of fixed asset register

o Processing Capital Project Approval (CPA) requests onto Oracle Projectso Revenue accruals preparationo Managing capital control accounto WIP analysis and interface to Fixed Assetso Balance sheet reconciliationso Liaising with external auditors

Reporting into the Trading Support Manager. As a member of the Merchandise Payables team, this role predominately involved producing a monthly reporting pack for distribution throughout Homebase, including KPI’s and narrative. Other tasks included:o GRNI Analysiso Creation of Homebase Vendor Packo Liaison with suppliers to implement change of payment method

Working as part of the stock accounting team, being the primary contact in the preparation and analysis of Homebase stock data (£240m stock holding) and dealing with related queries from other departments within the business involving:o Production & distribution of weekly stock count resultso Accounting for shrinkage figures (at store, division and company level) for period end accountso Maintaining department procedures & admin functiono Main point of contact for stock count result queries (for over 300 stores nationwide)o Representing Stock Accounting within special projects, creating concise and clear schedules for use from the shop floor personnel to board levelo Production, running and maintenance of a stock take predictor using Business Objects and Excelo Liaising with external & internal auditorso Occasionally attending stock counts within store, to ensure accurate counting and analysis procedures are followedSince the majority of the head office function relocated to Milton Keynes in 2005, this role has involved a multi-site function whilst travelling between Wallington and Milton Keynes to arrange & attend various meetings.

Reporting to the Head of Accounts.o Reconciliation of various balance sheet control accountso Review accruals, prepayments and balance sheet reconciliations for 45 storeso Planning preparation and review of annual budgets and quarterly forecastso Preparation of weekly & monthly reporting schedules (including commentary for variances to plan & forecast)o Compilation of various reports for distribution to non-accounts personnel, and explanation of contento Completion of ad hoc projects handed down from the Finance Directoro Assisting store admin managers with coding & general accounts querieso Full responsibility for 2 accounts clerks, including recruitment process

A high profile position within the management accounts team reporting directly to the Financial Controller and Financial Director.o Completion of monthly management accounts, periodic forecasting and year end reporting for the sister company, Chanel (UK)o Liaising with budget managers to investigate and explain variances to budget as well as ensuring accuracy and consistency with other financial informationo Managing the coding system and assisting with configuration and maintenance of the SAP Financials

Employed with this marketing, sales promotion agency and advertising company to assist in the preparation of the management accounts for one of the subsidiary companies (with turnover of over £3 million) within the group.o Managing sales and purchase ledgero Compiling information for management reports for board meetings o Preparation of month and year end reportso Liaison with internal auditorso Other tasks include cashflow forecasts, bank reconciliation and balance sheet analysis