Patrick Lawlor Acca Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London

London

Responsible for developing and managing systems and controls that ensure complete, accurate and timely recognition of revenue for multi-period projects relating to live music events and tours promoted by Live Nation, and events held at venues managed by Live Nation, in accordance with applicable financial reporting standards.Carrying out monthly revenue forecasting and variance analysis, cash flow forecasting, and reconciling recorded revenue/deferred revenue transactions against data from in-house management accounting systems and investigating variances, and completing a range of monthly balance sheet reconciliations.More recent work has become increasingly programming-oriented with significant time spent developing SQL-driven relational database applications for efficient management of show data and ticketing data.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Responsible for preparing month end accounts up to trial balance under US GAAP and following through to post TB review and promotion to consolidated group accounts, and completing balance sheet reconciliations on GL balances.Carrying out data analysis on sales/cost of sales margins, AP/AR balances and mismatched document clearings and conducting investigations on discrepancies found to ensure the SAP model remains correctly balanced.Preparation of French VAT returns monthly and submission of intrastat declarations on EU member exports.Application of Excel Visual Basic programming to design and build effective labour-saving tools including a comprehensive bank data processing and reconciling system, as well as bespoke data collection and analysis tools.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Led on an internal audit assignment to carry out a complete examination of payroll records associated with Future Jobs Fund project, producing reconciliation reports for project partners containing labour rate/labour hour variance analysis, and finally working with partners to rectify cash positions. A temporary contract which came to an end in December 2011.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

An accounts payable investigations role, responsible for expediting unpaid invoices received by BCC from third party home care providers through analysing care plan costing, reviewing agreed budgets and communicating with provider credit controllers and financial executives to highlight discrepancies or disputes, proceeding to resolve said disputes by coordinating with budget holders and care package brokers.

Birmingham, United Kingdom