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Working as part of the Vodafone Business Security Enhanced leadership team, responsible for management of entire P&L. Leading a team responsible for the following activities:Billing & credit control – Liaising internally with sales team and externally with customers to ensure charges are understood, to enable prompt payment. Approximate invoice volume around 3,000 annually.Revenue and gross margin forecasting- Regularly updating quarterly and full year revenue and gross margin forecasts, ensuring action plans are in place with VBSE sales and delivery teams to achieve budget expectations.Revenue recognition- Ensuring accounting policies are adhered to and appropriate revenue accruals and prepayments in place. Solely responsible for all internal and external audit queries. Opex/Capex/CoS management – Ensuring spend is within budgeted levels and any gaps known and understood.Commercial modelling, governance & contracting - Business Case and pricing to ensure profitability of new services/contracts in high profile business area. Drafting of schedules contained in customer contracts and variations, in collaboration with legal and account team.Supplier management – Liaising with internal supply chain teams and suppliers to ensure contracts in place and pricing negotiated.

Newbury

Responsible for leading finance change across UK Enterprise and ensuring the impact of changes resulting from IFRS 15 are understood and become embedded within finance systems and processes.Responsibilities:• Maintain a detailed understanding of the products & services provided in Enterprise as well as commercial structure of deals in order to best inform accounting policies/processes.• Provide finance support to ensure that the solution is compliant with IFRS 15 and meets overall programme principles and objectives.• Collaboration with colleagues from various countries as part of a global change programme.• Accountable for ensuring that the IFRS 15 Enterprise approach is communicated across the UK business.

Newbury

Main point of contact in finance for key stakeholders in delivery, sales and commercial teams working on 3 major new contracts during on-boarding phase (c.£100m TCV revenue). Responsibilities:-Budgeting & forecasting for all aspects of the P&L with reporting back against business case expectations. -Attendance at monthly steering review boards with presentation of financial performance.-Review with the virtual team responsible for delivery/management of the contract in order to understand commercial opportunities to improve contract profitability.-Understanding resourcing requirements for contract and challenge if appropriate.-Ensuring that all items within the P&L are accounted for as per Vodafone policies.-Approval of revenue credit notes and supplier Purchase Orders from a financial perspective.

Bracknell/Newbury

Main point of contact in finance for both Defence & Security and Central Government/Regional Government sales teams of 20-30 people including the channel heads. Ad hoc support also provided for various other service and project managers within the business.Responsibilities:-Revenue and Gross Margin budgeting, forecasting, accounting and variance analysis for the Defence & Security and Central/Regional Government customers. Monthly review held with the sales teams to understand latest outlook and to challenge gap to target.-Creation of training material to explain revenue accounting principles to sales teams.-Consolidation and review of Public Sector revenue and gross margin variance analysis and forecasting.-Validation of commissions paid to Public Sector sales team.-Approval of revenue credit notes and supplier Purchase Orders from a financial perspective.

Bracknell

Main point of contact in finance for the Systems Integrators sales team of 4 people including the channel head as well as ad hoc support provided to service managers.Responsibilities:-Revenue and margin accounting for several large customers with explanations for balance sheet and P&L at year end.-Annual revenue and margin budgeting with input from the sales and service team.-Monthly revenue and margin forecast submitted and variance to budget analysis to identify gap and actions to close the gap allocated to sales and service team.-Monthly explanation of variance between budgeted and actual performance.-Monitoring of bad debt and identification of actions to aid resolution.

Bracknell

• Posting a variety of monthly revenue and cost of sales transactions in SAP and SPOD using outputs from billing systems and cost of sales databases.• Improvement of a variety of processes including billing system reporting processes and third party circuit cost accruals.• Responsible for reconciliation of multiple balance sheets and explanation at audit (some of which had large unknown legacy balances which required investigation).• Responsible for reporting of certain products as well as pulling together reporting for product group.• Supporting product managers by providing explanation of revenue and margin performance as well as assisting in the forecasting process. • Analysis of foreign exchange impact on product performance, which had not previously been done at any level within Revenue and Margin• Full account reconciliation of major customer that was not understood before and subsequently responsible for accounting for this customer and assisting commercial finance in understanding revenue and gross margin performance for several months.

Basingstoke

• Supporting the Development teams by setting up Bills of Materials, requesting Part Number, Document control etc• Attending project meetings and collating/recording development status• Visiting Hong Kong , Turin, Barcelona and Flensburg (Germany) to assist in achieving development deadlines

Reading

• Event Administration including registering delegates and setting up IT equipment.• Office based administration including logging tasks received in Microsoft Excel and dealing with customer queries.

Las Rozas De Madrid Area, Spain

• Translation of company’s website into English• Assisting with the organisation of marketing events including e-Government conference

Palma De Mallorca

Assisting maintenance of CRM system, putting data from call centre calls into spreadsheet and producing graphs with this information at the end of each day using Microsoft Excel

Bachelor’S Degree, Ba (Hons) Languages For Business (Spanish + French With Modules And Assignments In Marketing), 2.2

10 Gcse’S 2 A’S, 4 B’S, 4 C’S. 3 `A' Levels, Maths-C, French-C, Spanish D