Stephen Potts Email & Phone Number

Burgess Hill

Technologies - Global Accounts Receivable Platform : managing Development funding and reporting on team of over 1,000 Employees and Vendor resources.

Designing and managing process redesign as part of major Finance Transformation Project lead by PwC senior manager. Owner of Revaluation process designer of Control policy. Programme Office co-ordination

Brighton, United Kingdom

UK & Ireland Controller for American Express Global Business Travel. -Financial Integrity, -Regulatory Reporting for CAA, ABTA and ATOL, -Financial Statement preparation

London, Burgess Hill

-Manage the Audit and Finance committees for 2 main American Express companies in Europe. Reporting to Senior Accounting Officer and International Controller. Liaison with heads of Finance, Audit , General Counsel and Treasury functions. Board reporting.- Finance manager for European Goverance Board (heads of European Business); managing of funding of European regulatory projects.- Capital Monitoring & Reporting : owner of Capital Reporting process for 3 main Amex European entities, Annual FSA reporting.

London

Manage Finance for a $130 million SEPA -PSD regulatory project (European Directive). Work included the obtaining of Funding from various European Lines of Business , comminication and discussion with senior European management (Heads of Finance and Heads of Business) Budget creation, allocation and recharging of costs, forecasting and reporting.

Brighton

-Managed Reporting and Finance function of Corporate New Product Development office. Obtaining and monitoring of funding and reporting of project status. Co-branded cards and new services.- European Designer of Global reporting model for Corporate services (Six Sigma Gold Award winner)- Owner of European project methodology

Burgess Hill

- Leader of Nordic Accounting teams : 2 team leaders and 20 accounting staff reporting to me. Department supported Swedish Travel market (2 entities), Norway and Denmark. Account preparation, Balance sheet reconcilations.

Burgess Hill , Uk

Re-enginnering project manager on various Finance re-enginnering projects in Europe. - Nordic Re-enginnering 2 years : Lead manager on Norway, Denmark markets, joint lead on Swedish market leading to combined $4m annualised saves on large re-engineering initiative.- German market (Project owner), France , Italy and Spain migrations.- Owner and designer of Re-engineering Project Methodology.

Burgess Hill

Designed Metrics reporting models used for Global Re-engineering (extended to Japan , Asia Pacific and US regions).-European representative on Gloabl reporting model design team.-

London, United Kingdom

- Finance manager reporting to European head of large US Packaging company co-orinating reporting and Budgets for all European branches.- 6 month secondment as Head of Finance for German subsidiary (fully German speaking environment)- month secondment to French branch. (French speaking office)

Brighton , Southampton

- Senior Auditor on numerous audits of large and medium sized companies

English& European Literature, English & German

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