Sohail Adam Email & Phone Number

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Bedspace is an organisation transforming the lives of vulnerable people. Their uniquely tailored housing and support services are changing lives forever. In my capacity as a finance consultant, I provided financial control and assisted the financial controller to complete and file the year-end accounts to meet a tight deadline

Preston, England, United Kingdom

Preston Muslim Girls High School is a progressive, successful and deeply caring establishment where their aim is to provide an excellent academic education within the structure of the national syllabus. They also strive to help each and every individual girl to develop her own character and achieve her personal potential and ambitions through a deep appreciation of her religion.As a freelance financial consultant, I was responsible for providing leadership and direction for the finance and HR teams, to enhance their effectiveness and support the teaching staff in order to achieve the highest standards of learning and achievement in the school.Demonstrating exemplary leadership ensuring that financial and administrative procedures, human resources and personnel systems support the school effectively to maintain outstanding quality and outcomes. As part of the role, full DBS disclosure was required.

Preston, England, United Kingdom

Acted as senior finance business partner to the London senior management team and managed the monthly and year-end accounting and reporting for the business. Led finance process improvements and fully managed the end of year audit process. Managed and developed a small team of accountants to support the business teams.• Monitored overall financial risk and identified processes and controls to resolve any potential issues.• Created a new and improved Finance pack for the Trustee Board Meeting. Presented the pack at the Trustee Board meeting and received positive feedback.• Successfully processed all necessary changes to the ITV Pension Scheme Ltd Financial Accounts following amendments to the Pension Scheme accounting standards. • Analysed, interpreted and presented highly complex investment and finance data to senior leaders and stakeholders, and built business cases supported by clear evidence.• Streamlined month-end processes and procedures reducing the reporting deadline from BD15 to BD10.• Acted as primary contact for the Pension Scheme Investment Custodian, JP Morgan on all investment-related business.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Produced high quality financial information for the Technology and Broadcast Operations area including managing the end to end process posting journals, creating management accounts pack for individual business areas highlighting performance variance analysis, expense analysis and commentary.• Developed a simplified reporting pack for an IT project manager with a £10m budget. Following their positive feedback, the pack was adopted by other project managers as a best practice template.• Provided financial analysis of the Britbox on demand service and identified a £250k pricing error by a supplier.• Consistently produced monthly balance sheet reconciliations on time and holding quarterly reviews with the Group Finance team.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Managed the Group consolidated accounting under IFRS and provided technical advice across the business to ensure the financial integrity of the balance sheet, including Group accounting and consolidation adjustments.• Managed the Group Finance team and other accountants around the business to successfully produce and file 90+ statutory accounts for subsidiary companies under UK GAAP.• Provided accounting guidance on M&A activity including calculating the intangibles and FV adjustments.• Managed accounting for complex treasury instruments including bonds and swaps and providing support to the Treasury team.• Managed the Group and Fixed Assets accounting team consisting of three qualified accountants.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Managed the monthly, annual and ad hoc forecasting and budgeting process across ITV Studios UK – ITVS – highlighting and following up on key areas of risk and opportunity. Produced monthly reporting pack for submission to the ITVS Board and the ITV Group Finance team. Proactively recommended enhancements to the reporting pack to ensure that the information provided is relevant and appropriate to users’ needs.• Worked alongside the ITVS Financial Controller to deliver the ITVS budget in an extremely tight deadline, allowing critical project decisions to be made by the ITVS Board. This involved managing the ITVS finance managers across the business to deliver their information on time.• Managed, coached and mentored four Accountants to continuously improve performance, with two members gaining their professional qualifications whilst managing them. • Coached and trained one team member to successfully present in front of a large audience.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

The co-op bank pioneers banking that makes a positive difference to the lives of its customers and communities. Their vision is to be the efficient and financially sustainable UK retail and SME Bank that’s distinguished by co-operative values.At co-op, I was responsible for producing financial information on a management accounts pack highlighting performance variance analysis, product reporting, periodic results, expense analysis and commentary for the relevant business area. Carried out in-depth analysis, review and challenge of costs, seeking explanations for material variances and built and maintained business-facing relationships with key customers.• Successfully created annual budgets for three business segments totalling £80m.• Introduced new management reports adopting Red, Amber, Green variances.• Managed cost savings projects resulting in savings in excess of £500k.

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Chorley, England, United Kingdom

Qualified as a Chartered Accountant

Fca, Chartered Accountant

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Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Accounting And Business/Management