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Swindon, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Project Finance

Swindon, United Kingdom

Managed a team of 12 people with responsibility for Accounts Payable, corporate treasury, global regulatory reporting, global financial reporting and balance sheet control. Personally took responsibility for PeopleSoft Financials maintenance and development, working with Financial Application Support team in the US.Significant achievements include:• Managed and developed a team of 11-12 during international developments (7 new non-UK jurisdictions) and group ownership changes… Show more Managed a team of 12 people with responsibility for Accounts Payable, corporate treasury, global regulatory reporting, global financial reporting and balance sheet control. Personally took responsibility for PeopleSoft Financials maintenance and development, working with Financial Application Support team in the US.Significant achievements include:• Managed and developed a team of 11-12 during international developments (7 new non-UK jurisdictions) and group ownership changes with no increase in headcount• Set up and ran departmental team leader meetings which successfully encouraged better communication and control of projects and business developments• Successful project management and implementation of PeopleSoft Financials – 2012 to 2014 (on budget, on time and within scope)• During PeopleSoft Financials project built effective relationships with Ameriprise Controllership team on accounting systems (development and governance), consolidations and accounting policies and became “go to” person for these relationships• Successfully implemented, as a subject matter expert, Epicor financial system (2004)• Improved the control environment by implementing consistent approach to balance sheet reconciliations, global regulatory reporting and preparation of statutory working papers• Led due diligence work for two acquisitions by the group and then successful transitioned onto finance system, including the requirement for additional controls and regulatory capital modelling• Merged two teams who were responsible for the reconciliations in different areas with a 20% reduction in headcount whilst still strengthening skills and the control environment• Built and developed two new teams during re-organisations of the Finance department• Built effective reporting relationships during four corporate re-organisations / changes in ownership Show less

Winchester

Conder Ltd was group working in petroleum industry installing canopies on forecourts and manufacturing GRP water treatment tanks.Management of team of 6 with responsibility for all finance functions for the group in UK, Germany and Poland. Introduced effective contract performance reporting, brought financial reporting in-house and strengthened controls over VAT returns obtaining additional recovery from HMCE during VAT visit.

Newbury & London

Royal Insurance (London) - May 1995 - January 1997 - Multi-currency consolidations; - Financial reporting; and - Tax computations.Royal Insurance Property Services (Newbury) - August 1994 - May 1995 - Corporate restructure of business; - Financial reporting; - Audit liaison; - Software development of internal system; and - Documentation of procedures for whole of finance.

Basingstoke

Working as part of Internal Audit team within the Insurance and Retail businesses of the company.

London, United Kingdom

Training as a Chartered Accountant (1st time passes)