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Gerrards Cross, Gb

Gerrards Cross, Gb

Santa Clara, Ca, Us

Gerrards Cross, Bucks, Gb

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

Alpharetta, Us

• Promoted to replace and absorb previous Finance Director’s responsibilities in addition to existing Head of Accounting role, reporting into the Global CFO• Business partner across all departments including Sales, Legal, HR, IT and operations• Finance lead (including financial/pricing models and decision support analysis) for new customer deals and contract renegotiations, including signing of largest multi million £ UK SaaS migration, and influencing key decision making at the C level.• Responsibility for presentation of monthly regional results (including customer P&Ls) to the CFO and providing forecast/budget input to the Corporate FP&A team• Day to day management of core regional finance functions, including accounting, payroll, accounts payable, treasury and commercial finance• Managing a team of five; three Business Partners (including Payroll function), AP supervisor and Credit Collection• Finance owner of the UK and Australia P&L and balance sheet including 4 trading entities• Ownership of full external audit with no SADs in first year as Director. Achievements• Lead successful cross functional initiative alongside UK Managing Director to increase UK EBITDA margin % by 5%• Designed and implemented consistent Global Business Unit review and monthly revenue flash templates• Created customer P&L reports by recurring and non-recurring revenue streams to understand customer profitability and assess margin opportunities• Led consolidation and restructuring of 10 UK entities down to 2 to reduce administrative burden and reduce statutory filing costs• Overseen a 73% reduction in bad debt expense since becoming FD through improved collections and up front management of customer disputes and doubtful debts• Management and restructure of UK Payroll function to absorb within current team and drive efficiencies

Alpharetta, Us

• Managing month end close reporting process for all UK entities (4 trading and 6 non trading entities), overseeing revenue recognition and appropriate accounting treatments. • Business partnering to global leadership team and other local business units, including commercial support to sales/operations team• Managing the external audit process• Managing a team of four; three Business Partners (one qualified accountant) and an AP supervisorAchievements• Lead recruitment and restructure of UK finance team with an emphasis on bringing Finance out from the “back room” and transforming it into a Business Partnering function• Reduced Month end close process from 19 days to 6 days in 6 months• Designed new suite of month end reports incorporating two finance systems to improve speed and accuracy of analysis• Created and rewrote extensive of Global T&E Policy and Global Procurement Policy partnering with the CFO – including associated finance system (Netsuite) improvements to facilitate the new purchasing process• Lead design and implementation of new global Intercompany invoicing process across four regions

London, Gb

• Business partner for two key programmes (c£10m spend per year) covering all business and finance processes end to end, including procurement, project finance, forecasting and month end reporting• Ownership of annual budget cycle and quarterly forecast cycle for the programmes• Business Partner to Delivery and Development organisation (c400 employees) including cost management, future strategy, reporting and analysis• Finance SME for Group headcount reporting to Mastercard; creating and administering appropriate processes across the Finance and HR team to deliver required outputs• Design and preparation of relevant MI for business stakeholders to assist with strategic decision making including recommendations• Regular communication with Mastercard regarding integration activities

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Leading yearly budget and monthly forecast process for the regions (yearly turnover in excess of $300m) including target setting to Sales teams• Business partnering with functional and local finance teams in EMEA in financial management of planning, analysis, budgeting, forecasting, control and operations.• Presenting analysis and insight to Regional and EMEA leadership team to support strategic decision making• Providing advisory support to functional and regional business leads to assist in forecasting and managing spend• Design and preparation of financial and management reports for Regional/Country management and Sales teams• Ad hoc analysis and support for Regional Vice President and Finance Director

Milton Keynes, Gb

• Group Budget consolidation to account for new companies in the group• Preparation and design of group management reporting pack for CEO and Exec Management• Set up of new entities and formulation of new internal and commercial processes• Key finance stakeholder for IT upgrade project, including negotiations with selected vendor• Key driver of process improvement relating to Commercial and Finance systems• Supporting the Commercial Team to mitigate financial or commercial risks

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

- Pricing analysis and support for customer proposals across all EMEA divisions- Business Partnering with Divisional Managers and the Senior Management team- Monitoring and reporting of key implementation and capex projects within EMEA- Completion and review of capex requests and business cases- Responsibility for calculation of month end and forecasting revenue recognition on large implementation projects

Jacksonville, Fl, Us

- Revenue Reporting and Forecasting across several EMEA divisions- P&L responsibility for Core Banking division- Month End Variance Reporting- Annual budgeting and monthly forecasting- Ad Hoc project work- Internal Systems Improvements and implementation

Watford, Hertfordshire, Gb

Watford, Hertfordshire, Gb