Steven Devine Email & Phone Number

Chorley

Leeds, United Kingdom

Situated within the Real Estate Team working with amazing clients on some of the UKs most prestigious projects

Leeds, United Kingdom

Manchester, United Kingdom

Based at TfGM in Manchester to Project Manage resources and scheme programmes to clients expectations and administer the Delivery Partner (DP) & TPS Framework Contracts for the WSP Business on behalf of TfGM through delivery of the £350m Metrolink expansion projects which include 2CC, Phase 3 and the Trafford Park Line.The role demands high organisational skills including regular forecasting of costs/contract reviews internally within WSP and externally with the client TfGM to ensure successful delivery of the Metrolink expansion projects in accordance with funding and programme.

United Kingdom

Accountable for the Management of 2 Commercial Assistants with Financial Management of 6 cost centres in Transport & Development/Infrastructure across multiple locations UK wide (Southampton/Basingstoke/Birmingham/Leeds/Manchester/Newcastle/Edinburgh & Glasgow) including contract review and providing project accounting advice and support to over 200 staff which included 150 Project Managers and 50 Project & Discipline Directors across 1500 live projects which included local and remote Project Accounting Support generating revenue upwards of £18m annually with monthly P&L analysis of each cost centre reported to the discipline director.The business changed its P&L from a Nett/Gross accounting to EBITDA to align with the Canadian head office expectations (Genivar), during this time I developed templates to assist Directors with understanding the change in numbers and how projects/cost centres are accounted for moving forward and what this means in terms of achieving new targets vs those set in previous years.

Sheffield, Blast Lane Depot

Providing Commercial Business support relating to the Maintenance contract for the LNE route in the Yorkshire region deriving Capex & Opex (Capital & Operational expenditure) based on route maintenance which included meeting with preferred supplies, renegotiating hire terms of RRVs and tools required to ensure maintenance is carried out as per possessions provided weekly from the Commercial Business Partner and ensuring all suppliers are paid in accordance with T&Cs agreed and maintain client/supplier relationships. Regular liaison with NWR Buying team and York Head office when submitting the monthly accounts based on maintenance spend and team resources based at Sheffield Blast Lane depot

Leeds, United Kingdom

Responsible for month financial reporting across 3 sectors: Civil & Structural/Traffic & Transport & Environmental Services which included maintaining full P&L accountability of up to £11m annually with analysis of costs and trends identified.Was able to demonstrate effective client agreements on a P21 scheme where cash flow and profitability was an issue which produced 25% Gross Profit on completion vs the 17% originally envisaged, this was through acceleration of services which could be expedited and by also agreeing Applications for Payment with the client ahead of producing VAT invoices, this reduced the debtor days from 60+days to around 30 days and increased project cash flow throughout the project lifecycle.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Financial accountability for the Ministry of Justice (MOJ) Strategic Alliance Framework providing support to the Strategic Alliance Director which included regular liaison with other consultancies on the Strategic Alliance Register and client in London providing accurate forecasts and cost to completion models based on known workloads.Maintained all internal audit records to ensure compliance which included producing the monthly P&L snapshots to the location Finance Director, this included reconciliations from Petty Cash/Purchase Ledger/Sales Ledger vs future revenue to ensure consistent cash flow on a monthly basis.

Yorkshire

Installation of 1st & 2nd Fix Dry lining set-out from CAD drawings as provided from the site manager which included manual handling of all materials from storage to site ensuring all goods are in professional order and any damaged goods returned and receipted against the original order.

Leeds, United Kingdom

Liaison with customers and haulage drivers regarding daily deliveries expected with anticipated time of arrival with logs entered onto the Oracle system for audit purposes.Collation of Traffic Data sheets to provide a daily sales report and weekly snap-shots of haulage expenditure to Operations Manager for review and to ensure target profitability is maintained as costs change (Fuel/labour) during accounting period.Assisting with the month end accruals and regional board reports for Leeds & Hatfield distribution centre's.