•Monthly reporting at company level to Shareholders/Senior Exec team; Raising reporting processes and quality, ensuring appropriate business driver performance has been explained and identifying the KPI’s behind each contract/corporate division for reporting.•Accurate and timely reporting of presentations for the board; annual budgets, quarterly forecasting and five year planning.•Support and challenge the corporate division (approx. 44) during the budgeting/forecasting process.•Month end reporting of accurate and timely management accounts with variance analysis for corporate division, meeting with budget holders ensuring they understand cost management.•Manage budgets and financial reporting for implementation of new contracts and IT projects (£6m) capitalising costs in accordance with the relevant FRS. •Part of the IT project committee on agreeing project budgets and priorities, challenging and helping to identify if a project is accordance with R&D for tax allowance.•Working closely with head of IT Operations to manage the BAU budget to ensure integrity of the IT costs and IT recharges out to the company business units.•Supporting Procurement and new suppliers regarding supplier billing.•Working with the property team to control property costs/dilapidations and onerous leases.•Balance Scorecard / competitor analysis.•Ownership of key balance sheet accounts such as provision for onerous leases, capitalisation of projects.•Providing financial support, challenge and analyses of the consolidated company accounts.•Promoting and training of the importance of the accurate recording of financial information and its role in supporting decision making across the company.•Direction to finance processing team.•Supervision, support and development of staff.•Assisting Auditors with yearend.•Ad Hoc projects and presentations.

•Working within the New Bids Team.•Creating Life of Contract budgets for new contracts.•Working with senior managers to create activity based budgets and forecasts for new contracts that reflect the delivery model.•Design, implementation of finance processes and controls for new contracts, includes process maps, detailed manual, training, creating appropriate budget models and financial reports. •Ensure timely and accurate income recording and billing process in place with prompt cash collection and that expenditure is appropriately authorised and recorded.•Generation of prepayments and accruals; capitalisation of fixed assets and start-up costs in accordance with appropriate FRS and accounting standards.•Creation and preparation of management reports, detailing actual costs against budget with appropriate variance analysis and narratives. •Ensuring the integrity of profit/loss accounts, balance sheet accounts and production of regular reconciliations.•Providing financial and commercial support, challenge and analysis as part of the implementation team and to the operational managers responsible for the delivery of new contracts.Software used – Sun Accounts, Vision Executive, Vision Excel, TM1, Adaptive Planning, Excel (advance, Macros, Pivot Tables, IF formulas, V Lookups), Word, PowerPoint (advance), Visio and Immediacy Editor, ZAP, AX, Dovico.

•Maintaining accurate financial records, production of timely relevant management information (include management accounts) for corporate division, containing 44 teams.•Prepayments, Accruals, Fixed Assets. •Meeting with senior management on a monthly basis to review the financial performance of their cost centres, promoting the importance of financial awareness and analysis and the use of financial information in decision making. •Yearend statutory accounts and tax schedules. Assisting the external Auditors.In this role I am used to managing expectations and dealing with conflicting priorities.

•Completion of Finance Process Redesign Project, which entailed a current state review visiting all our offices throughout England, Scotland and Wales Implementing quick wins and best practice. The project subsequently led to a Shared Service Centre being set up. •Systems Accountant for the companies accounting and report writing system (Sun accounts and Vision) implementation of rules, data access groups, restructuring of the Chart of Accounts, Creating financial reports within Vision.•Managing the upgrade of Sun Accounts System.•Internal Audits.

I originally joined the company on a short term contract as Corporate Management Accountant; I was offered a permanent role within two months then promoted to Assistant Financial Controller with responsibility for the management of the finance team of 10 people.•Managing Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, Payroll, Management Accounts.•Production of Management Accounts (over 70 contracts across the company), Prepayments, Accruals, Fixed Assets, VAT returns, Balance Sheet Reconciliations, Budgets & Forecasting, what if scenarios. •Liaising with Auditors. Planning, Control and production of the Statutory Accounts including assisting with the Corporation Tax return. •Yearend reporting for Payroll, P11d etc. •Supporting the Regional Management Accountants on a commercial basis. •Systems Accountant for Sun Accounts & report writing financial reports within Vision.

IAF organises the Cannes Lions Advertising Festival in June, acting as Financial Controller (four months) while the post was being recruited for.•Recruitment of 6 temporary people. •Responsible for Payroll, VAT, Insurance, Facilities.•Reconstruction of Three years’ worth of accounts for IAF and its three subsidiaries (Euro Best / Advertising Film Festival & Rapid Search).•Implemented a purchase order system, contracts of employment, documented working instructions. •Designed and implemented new process/form for cash registration. (50th Cannes Advertising Festival in June 2003). This reduced the time of delegate registration, created tight control on the money received and help provide very informative financial and performance information. •Assisted the external Auditors, Inland Revenue audit, HM Custom’s inspection, and the French authorities (VAT).Software used – Sage Line 100, SQL, Secure Trading, Excel, Word, Outlook, Microsoft Access

Assisting with year endAccounting Software – SAP

Reconciliation of nominal ledger, posting of journals, stock movement & ad hoc workAccounting Software - Kerridge Term 600

Meta4 developed and Implement HR and Payroll software. The company was previously owned by Cyborg Systems, which undertook a management buyout and subsequently was purchased by Meta4.I was first employed at Meta4 being responsible for the purchase ledger then took on the role as Management Accountant/Systems Accountant and then to Financial Accountant. •Responsibility for the finance team of five people. •Production of the monthly management accounts, variance analysis with narratives.•Reconciliation of balance sheet, profit & loss accounts. •VAT return, prepayments, accruals, annual budgets. •Annual maintenance billing, royalty payments, unbilled and deferred revenue reconciliations.•Assisting with yearend statuary accounts. •Payroll. •Controlling the bank accounts and Investment of surplus funds. •Systems Acountant - Sun Accounts/Time Watch. Software used - Sun Accounts, Vision Executive, Vision Excel, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Quattro Pro, Lotus Notes, Cyborg ST Payroll, TimeWatch (WIP)

Seymour International Press distributed magazines, during my employment at Seymour I was promoted from accounts clerk through to supervising both the publisher payments and purchase ledger department. I assisted in the design and implementation of the database system for the publisher payments team, which led to significant efficiency gains & more efficiency utilisation of resources within the section. I was in charge of the training and recruitment of staff. Management of two people. Publisher Payments - production of sales reports for magazines and payment, database maintenance, accounts reconciliation. Monthly meetings with Publishers with regard to the reporting of their magazine sales, and payments.Purchase Ledger – Coding invoices, issuing purchase orders, completing payment runs & employee expenses, VAT returns.Fleet Administrator – managing a fleet of 45 company owned and leased cars, obtaining quotes, purchasing of cars, dealing with accidents and insurance claims, production of P11D on cars.Software used - Sage Sterling, Excel, Word, PowerPoint, FoxPro, Lotus Notes