A broad-based role as Silkfred grew from startup phase to c.£66m GMV. The role included process improvement, reporting improvements and commercial aspects.• Improve monthly management accounts processes for faster, more accurate management reporting with Xero and Excel. Month end reporting successfully reduced to 2 working days.• Collaborate with tech developers and the head of data to automate month end and operational processes.• Provide insightful analysis v budgetary forecasts and prior periods for senior management and investors.• Business partner the CTO to claim R&D tax credits from HMRC.• Business partner Marketing to ensure sales targets are met within the constraint of marketing spend targets.• Manage and review payment runs prepared by the accounts assistant.• Daily cashflow forecast modelling Using Excel and Xero to for planning and risk mitigation.• Review VAT returns for UK. Introduce VAT processes for Ireland, Australia & New Zealand.• Introduce and manage monthly balance sheet review processes.• Management of monthly payroll process ensuring up to c.60 employees were paid timely and accurately.• Manage statutory audit to produce IFRS statutory accounts for a high growth business.

Reporting on and analysing commercial marketing projects for clients including Tesco, Co-Operative and Musgrave Group.• Review and analyse marketing programme P&L projections (budgets)• Business partner Programme Managers to track programme costs to ensure tight cost control.• Reconcile operational data with finance data including stock valuations and reconciliations.• Produce management accounts for group using SAP Business One and Excel• Provide insightful explanations of variances from projections (budgets).• Calculate the impact of foreign exchange movements and impact on the P&L• Sales and margin analysis using Infor Query & Analysis (Vision), Excel and Cognos• Standardise and automate procedures.• Prepare and control year end and half year audit packs. • Assist with year-end external audit and audit queries.• Prepare VAT returns, EC Sales List declarations and Intrastat submissions.