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eCommerce payment services provider

• A major internal professional services organization incorporating procurement, accounts payable, real estate, travel, catering, reprographics, transport and other soft services.Headhunted from Citigroup for extensive.
• Annual occupancy costs of €1.4bn, soft services and pass through costs of €290m, capex budget of €400m and direct costs of the function of €150m.
• Managed teams in London, Frankfurt, New York, Mumbai, Hong Kong and Singapore with matrix reporting in all other locations.
• Managed the transition of accounting to IAS with effect from Jan. 2007.
• Brought integrity and transparency to the managed cost base with clear communication to the global business units, developing a 36 month rolling forecast to facilitate capex investment decision making.
• Owned accounting for all capital projects globally, including London of €1bn, Hong Kong of €120m and the €370m refurbishment of the HQ building in Frankfurt.

Senior financial roles in Citigroup, a major international bank focusing on the support functions.

• Recruited to resolve control issues in UK corporate real estate function and then rolled the function out across the EMEA Region. Promoted to provide support to the Shared Services Function Heads. Managed budget of.
• Team of 17 in London, Brussels, Düsseldorf and Mumbai and matrix management in other countries.
• Chaired the Shared Services Board.
• Part of EMEA Real Estate Management Team working on major initiatives, including acquisitions, disposals and re-engineering, e.g. sale & leaseback and tax re-structuring.
• Accounting for capital projects in the region specifically the construction of 2 HQ buildings in Canary Wharf; data centre in London and offices in Dublin, Lagos, Frankfurt, Dubai and Bahrain
• Budgeting, forecasting and reporting in local and US GAAP, project evaluation, funding strategies, maximisation of tax benefits and managed the relationship with internal and external auditors in the EMEA region.

Joined as part of the finance team. In various roles managed the financial accounting and reporting team, the management accounting team and then the combined organization. · Led a team of 14 financial control staff and 6 in treasury operations · A Member of the UK Business Management Board and member of the Asset Funding and Liability Pricing Committee ·.