Victoria Smith Email & Phone Number

Durham, Gb

Durham, England, United Kingdom

Lead FBP on multiple customer accounts, based in different countries and Industries, partnering executives/SLT and managing a team of Finance Analysts and Finance Graduates. Accounts managed:AGFA (Global account, private sector) – value c. £25m PA Banking and Insurance accounts Portfolio (UK&I, public and private sector) – value c. £50m PAPrevious accounts:Northern Ireland Electricity (UK&I, private sector) – value c. £30m PAScottish Water (UK&I, private sector) – value c. £25m PAWales and Scottish Government (UK&I, public sector) - value c. £30m PASubsea7 (Global, private sector) – value c. £20m PAMajor Events – Commonwealth Games (Global, private sector) – value c. £10m one off projectResponsibilities- Driving revenue and cost analysis programmes to identify and minimise errors/inefficiencies- Assisting the business in strategy formulation by producing multiple year account plans - Monitor and advise on account performance against Initial Business Case/Current Business Case; implement profit improvement plans / cost challenges- Manage and co-ordinate Finance Analysts to produce weekly forecast reports, complete month-end processes, and close reporting- Capex Investment appraisal and approvals; advising the team on the options available within policy and support decision-making - Co-ordination and verification of audit request responses; POC for external auditors on both sets of accounts- Budgeting; creating annual and mid-year budgets, advising account teams on appropriate stretch targets- Validating and approving new business finance process set up- Working with Programme Manager to ensure all project financials are correctly accounted and all projects and changes are covered contractuallyAdditional responsibilities:- Assignment Manager; Finance Graduate Training scheme- ‘We are allies’ Ambassador within Diversity and Inclusion employee network- GPTW Focus Group Team Leader – Resource Allocation and Management (2018-2019)

Durham, England, United Kingdom

Responsibilities:- FX Hedging: advising the business account teams how to apply to the scheme, preparation of analysis, arranging for the hedging deals, reporting dashboards to Global Treasury- Processing and initial approvals for Parent Company Guarantees and associated reporting for Statutory Accounts, Auditors and Atos Group- OBS (leasing, loans, guarantees) analysis and reporting for Statutory Accounts, Auditors and Atos Group- Reconciliation and reporting of Bank and Cash Balance Sheet accounts - Intercompany analysis; approver for IC payments and receipts; point of contact for escalations- Treasury point of contact for External and Internal Auditors- Weekly payment reviews and approvals- Systems Admin / SPOC for corporate banking and treasury software: including Barclays, RBS, Santander, CheckPrint, SAP BCM- Managing all ad hoc Treasury projects, including company acquisition onboarding including migration of bank accounts- Manage the legal aspects of Treasury; bank mandates; signatories for bank approvals, bank documentationAdditional responsibilities/projects taken on:- Special Projects Team; a small team of key finance personnel connected regularly with Global IT representatives, to give and receive feedback, highlight problem areas, concerns.- Managing newly implemented Hedging Programme for UK&I, following ‘Brexit’ result- Merger and Acquisitions; ensuring newly acquired companies bank accounts and payment processes are Group Treasury compliant; working with Commercial, Legal and Clients to transfer existing Guarantees.

Durham, England, United Kingdom

Accounts: NS&I Finance Reporting and Controlling Management (2013-2016) UK&I Financial Services accounts (2010-2013) NS&I Transaction Operations (2008-2010)Barclays Bank (2007-2008)Responsibilities- Forecasting and Budgeting: preparation of monthly, mid year and annual forecast and budget files- Completing variance analysis for Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet and Cashflow- Reconciliation of Balance Sheet accounts and production of monthly Balance Sheet review file - Presenting results to Directors and external stakeholders, and providing explanations / analysis of the results- VAT Reviews: Irrecoverable and Standard rated projects within the account; transactions posted to the account need to be correctly identified, and VAT imputed where applicable.- Producing monthly suite of Customer reports and point of contact for enquiries/queries- Finance partner for Customer Experience Project; providing support to Project Director Managers; and providing analysis and reporting to NS&I finance team- Finance Partner to Operations Managers; providing reports for monthly cost centre reviews- Assisting Operations Managers to achieve financial targets- Point of contact for Auditors, providing information and explanation on accounts - Payment proposals review to approve or block payments, with subsequent cashflow forecasting and analysis Additional responsibilities/projects taken on:- Detailed analysis to calculate Research & Development Tax credits submissions- NS&I Customer Experience start up project and transition to BAU- ‘Flight to Safety’ profit improvement plans; analysis, reporting and presenting financials to business team- pre-launch SAP Systems testing

Accounting And Business/Management

Accounting Technology/Technician And Bookkeeping

Nvq, Computerised Accounts - Sage

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English And History