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United Kingdom

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

Wolverhampton, England, United Kingdom

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Prepared full monthly management accounts, including full commentary and presentation to the senior executive directors.Provided support to the finance business partners for the quarter 1 reforecast.Assisted with ad-hoc tasks as required, which included making improvements to the year-end statutory accounts and brought multiple balance sheet reconciliations up to date including cash flow, bank reconciliation, bad debt provision and rent reconciliation.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Multinational company where I used Oracle financials, Advanced Excel, Power Pivot, HFM and SAP BI Launch Pad.Prepared consolidated financial statements including balance sheet reconciliations for capitalisation, amortisation and bonus calculations for multinational legal entities.Project reporting for major Atradius Work Programmes including IFRS17.Communicated and presented this data via KPI packs to the senior executive team.Managed and developed relationships with project managers, internal and external auditors. This ensured processes were operated in accordance with the internal control guidelines to maintain strong financial controls across complex multinational governance requirements.Budgeting, forecasting and transfer pricing.Ran a process improvement initiative with my team to ensure all processes are fully documented and results presented to the board of directors.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Capital accounting.Budget and forecasting.Balance sheet reconciliation.

Bridgwater, England, United Kingdom

Managed three finance business partners.Responsible for multiple finance business partner manufacturing contracts, where the overall workload is divided up in terms of customer contracts.Analysed and understand the commercial approaches for customers to allow accurate estimating of likely costs. Take a proactive approach to price reviews, highlighting opportunities to improve returns from within the portfolio.Negotiated with customer on price, service, contractual terms, working capital control etc.Obtain information from external suppliers where appropriate.Managed the set-up of the contact within Refresco e.g. EDI, Monthly Reporting and Accounting.Prepared monthly, quarterly and annual returns to the customer as required.Resolved any commercial or operational as they arose.Owned the preparation of all relevant aspects of the management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations and credit control for contact customers.Liaise with contract packers, contract packing customers and Refresco personnel in respect of the Key performance criteria of the Contract Packer or Refresco to resolve variations, agree remedial action and obtain from Contract Packers compensation.Maintain and review monthly balance sheet reconciliations for the contract packing accounts to ensure that these accounts reflect a true and fair picture.Maintain contact packer files with all agreed terms and conditions, payment history, stocks, returns, correspondence and other information pertaining to that contract packer.

Llantrisant, Wales, United Kingdom

Managed accounts payable team of two, accounts receivable team of two and one management accountant ensuring all purchase and sales invoices were entered in a timely manner.Full profit & loss, balance sheet and cash flow reporting including WIP, fixed assets, stock, debtors, creditors, bank, loans, inter-company, accruals and prepayments.Daily and monthly cash flow reporting, which included managing relationships with the bank.Monthly forecasting for the complete management accounts pack, balance sheet, profit & loss and cash flow.Instigated and consolidated all hire purchase vehicles and assets, ensuring all staff adhered to company policy.Budget responsibility including liaison with senior managers.HMRC reporting including VAT, P11D and CIS tax, where I was the main point of contact with the HMRC.Managed the investment from Finance Wales, including the relationship going forward.Project Cost Reporting for all construction sites, including detailed analysis to senior management.Due diligence testing for investors & various banks.AchievementsIntroduced daily cash flow reporting and rolled out to senior management daily, providing senior management with live up to date cash flow information.Drove a Purchase Ledger tidy up exercise to improve information, which directly resulted in the improvement of project cost reporting, cash flow information and the management account pack. This included regular contact with suppliers, where I became a main point of contact, personally managing supplier relationships.Enhanced Project Cost Reporting model, which helped deliver more concise and detailed analysis to the Board.Introduced a monthly reporting checklist which included hard and soft copy reconciliations for all nominal codes ensuring the timely delivery of the management account pack and enabling all staff to have clear deliverables and goals to aspire too.

Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom

Managed one qualified accountant and one purchase ledger assistant.Produced monthly management reporting pack including year-end statutory accounts.Quarterly financial forecast including profit & loss, balance sheet and cash flow.Introduced full budgetary control system.Treasury operations and controls, which included handling daily cash balances, managing banking relationships and foreign exchange transactions.HMRC reporting for VAT and P11D.Implemented monthly KPI reporting process, performed statistical analysis to determine trends, estimates and highlighted major cost movements including commentary to senior management.Use of financial modelling to identify further efficiencies and opportunities across the business.Managed and drove the invoice discounting facility, ensuring timely cash flow and maintained an effective working relationship with the bank.AchievementsCreated a totally new accountancy operation, introduced full purchase ledger control system, monthly management reporting, budgetary controls and full financial forecasts.Managed the process of moving from invoice factoring to invoice discounting to save the business £120k per annum in bank charges plus improving cash collection to vastly reduce aged debtor days and improve cash flow. This included managing the relationship with the bank on a weekly basis to ensure we adhered to their terms and conditions.Introduced new IT system at weighbridge ticket office to ensure accurate and timely recording of company sales.Reduced fixed asset hire purchase interest payback through analysing agreements in detail and liaising with the relevant financial providers.Managed new Biomass project relationships with finance providers and biomass consultancy firm to instigate the setup of the new Biomass plant.

Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom

Managed 11 people, two finance managers, three management accountants, two assistant accountants, two purchase ledger assistants and two credit controllers.Responsible for month end close ensuring all sales ledger and purchase ledger invoices were on the system including signing off reconciled month end files.Profit & loss, balance sheet and cash flow reporting including financial commentary to the management accounts.Ensured all financial transactions entered correctly and reconciled on a monthly basis.Sales reconciliation including technical, material and lease income analysis.Fixed asset and engine depreciation analysis.Prepayment, accruals and inter-company reconciliation.Overhead and labour reporting including cost centre, department and job code analysis.Preparation of management reporting packs including acquisitions, lease, teardown, repair and inventory analysis.Consignment stock analysis. Budgeting and quarterly reforecast.Insurance reporting.Asset management reporting including reconciliation of stock system to accounting system.AchievementsImplemented new finance system including the set-up of new nominal, cost centre, department, job and analysis codes. Involved in ensuring closing balance in old system and opening balance in new system matched as the company moved from reporting in GBP in the old system to USD in the new system.Improved the quarterly management pack broadening the number of KPIs to give the board of directors improved and more meaningful information.Vastly improved budget and quarterly re-forecast through advanced excel modelling making it more robust for the timely delivery of accurate information.Re-introduced overhead budget and reporting, significantly improving the transparency of costs, which in turn improved communication across the business.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Managed 10 people, three management accountants, one financial accountant, four purchase ledger assistants and two credit controllers.Cost accounting over four sites.Prepared monthly profit & loss, balance sheet and cash flow report for three divisions, then compiled group consolidated accounts for all 17 divisions.Implemented monthly KPI reporting process, performed statistical analysis to determine trends, estimates and highlighted major cost movements including commentary to senior management.Reconciled all financial transactions, ensuring accounts in the general ledger are correct.Daily sales and margin analysis reporting for whole group.VAT, P11D, main point of contact with HMRC.Managed relationship with two major banks.Budgeting and forecasting.Main point of contact for the year-end audit.AchievementsSet up a new standard costing model, which delivered greater transparency of product costs to all sales departments across the business.Reduced reporting days from 8 to 4 for the monthly management accounts through the automation and linking of various independent spreadsheet models. Introduced KPI reporting which gave the board of directors’ greater visibility of business performance. This included the introduction of daily sales and margin analysis for the 17 sites.Introduced a daily cash flow and set up a daily meeting with my purchase ledger team to identify supplier payments under tight cash restraints. This helped to maintain a strong and professional relationship with the suppliers.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Played a key role in the cost transfer charging project.Procurement saving analysis through interaction with procurement.Weekly marketing report analysis and meeting.Maintained up to date group policies, distributed and managed as required.AchievementsSet up cost transfer model which enabled clear visibility of all costs against relevant areas.

Bridgend, Wales, United Kingdom

Managed 5 people, three purchase ledger assistants and two credit controllers.Organised and delivered stock takes over three sites including the Irish division.Cost accounting including product costing and BOM analysis for the three divisions.Fixed asset register, commission reporting, holiday pay accrual and overhead reporting.Stock and loan-stock reporting including reconciliation of write-offs – UK & Ireland.Maintained segregation of duties register across three divisions.Product price variance reporting.Assisted in the preparation of detailed P&L variance analysis.Used MFGPro system and uploaded month end results into Hyperion.Maintained and distributed managing director and operations manager monthly reports.AchievementsImplemented a slow moving and obsolete stock report which provided the warehouse manager with in-depth information as to the specific stock items held including detailed information of location. Stock value was reduced from £4.8m to £3.4m in the time I was there.Created a new budget model within excel which generated efficiencies in the budget reporting process.Improved balance sheet reporting through formulation of excel spreadsheets.Worked with the IT department to devise a new stock program, which booked overseas stock into the system as soon as the shipment left the port. This improved the timeliness of stock information.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Cost accounting including SAP processes for creation of accounting views, costing views, product cost calculation, BOM analysis and period end close.Customer cost requests for new business.Material cost analysis and reporting.Organised and delivered stock take.Budgeting and quarterly forecasting for overheads and product costs.KPI reporting.Maintained fixed asset register, holiday pay accrual and cash books.Overhead and salary reconciliation and reporting.CREDIT CONTROLLER (Jan 2004 to Aug 2005)PURCHASE LEDGER CLERK (Jun 2002 to Jan 2004)AchievementsSet up and ran an SAP workshop to produce a standard costing mind map which created clear objectives for all departments across the business. This drove efficiencies, improved communication, which in-turn, improved costing accuracy and enabled all costing information to be delivered within the required time-frame by the sales division.Completely overhauled the standard costing budget process and model. This included detailed timetables for all the relevant departments which ensured timely and accurate delivery of budget results to senior management.Created robust overhead budget and reporting model, which improved visibility of cost centre information for all budget holders.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Mathematics

Bachelor Of Science Bsc, Mathematics