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Financial Systems and Project Accountant

с 10.2017 по наст. время (6 лет 7 месяцев)
Holland and Barrett, Birmingham (Retail)

Reporting into the Head of Financial Projects for a UK High Street Retailer, operating within a £660M turnover, effective in 50 different countries
In this role, I am responsible for the administration of the Oracle Finance System. This involves uploading various interfaces into Oracle, closing and opening ledgers, uploading budgets and forecasts, setting up new cost centres and being the business partner between Finance and IT.

I am the Project Accountant for a project to roll out contactless payment across the stores by the end of the year.
This requires working with Senior Management to create a budget, ensuring all project invoices, expenses and hours worked on the project are accurately recorded into the project cost centre.
Acting as an intermediary between the IT project team and the Banking team - who will be performing reconciliations of the contactless payments to the bank.

On a monthly basis I create a management accountant pack that identifies variances along with supporting commentary and communicate this this to the Senior Management Team.
I have also introduced a number of efficiencies within Finance, including streamlining the upload of Dream Interfaces to Oracle. Before streamlining this task extremely manual – an extract from Dream had to be manipulated, the format and cost centres had to be changed to match the Oracle format. It would take the previous person 4 hours to complete just 1 of the 5 interface uploads, now it takes 5 minutes.

KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
•Created an automated tool using VBA to check GRNI and email over 500 international suppliers advising of missing invoices. Prior to automation it took an AP clerk 1.5 days every month to email all suppliers, now it takes 15 minutes. This also reduced the GRNI account by £634000.
•Introduced data validation into the Oracle journal upload template to prevent the amount of erroneous journals being uploaded and ensure accuracy of accounts.

Fixed Assets and Project Accounting Supervisor

с 06.2017 по 09.2017 (3 месяца)
McDonalds UK, Birmingham (Hotel and restaurant industry)

Reporting into the Lead for a Global Restaurant Business, operating within a $27BN turnover, effective in 120 different countries and listed on the New York Stock Exchange
In this role, I am responsible for managing onshoring of Fixed Assets and Project Accounting from India and Romania. This involves daily meetings, international conference calls and coordinating a team to come over to the UK from India to train new staff.
I am the supervisor for 6 Project Coordinators and 3 Fixed Asset Coordinators, which involves making sure their accounting duties met in line with organisational, audit and Sox compliance.
My main objectives were to identify risk and implement contingency analysis regarding Fixed Assets and Project Accounting and sign off month end complex reconciliations and accruals in line with Sox controls.
I am tasked with upskilling colleagues by running Microsoft Excel classes for the entire Shared Service Centre based on 3 technical levels.
Level 1 involved sum formula, formatting cells, adding and manipulating filters and saving files.
Level 2 involved Vlookups, sumif/s, pivot charts and tables, IF statements, IFerror and absolute referencing
Level 3 involved Index Match, recording and editing Macros, IF And statements, ISNA, Solver and keyboard shortcuts
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
•The team I recruited was 30% under budget and 3 weeks ahead of schedule.
•Within the first month end that was brought back into the UK Shared Service Centre I reduced the number of outstanding items on the Fixed Asset to General Ledger reconciliation from 24 to just 6 (£368000 to £39000)

Management Accountant

с 08.2014 по 06.2017 (2 года 10 месяцев)
Midland Heart, Birmingham (Charity)

Reporting to the Finance Business Partner for a Not for Profit organisation, operating within a £207M turnover.
My main duties included preparing periodic financial statements, including profit and loss accounts, budgets, cash flows, variance analysis and commentaries for the Property Investment Directorate
This involved posting month end intercompany, prepayments and accruals which then led onto providing in depth analysis. For example, the average repair cost of certain repair jobs across properties to against budget/forecast and to monitor expenditure by Contractor against previous years.
I conducted financial reviews of business issues, analysed the income statement, expenses, balance sheet and cash flow, devised and presented data to emphasise key drivers and variances, made accruals and adjustments where required.
I supported the audit process, liaised directly with the external auditor to schedule and follow through tasks.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
•Created a code combination checker tool in VBA, which reduced the number of coding queries via email received by the Management Accounts Team by 70%.
•Incorporated VBA Macros into 42 standard month end journals and reduced the entire procedure from 10 days to 3 days. This reduced the need for manual entry and increased accuracy.
•Uncovered a string of fraudulent transactions, which resulted in a saving of £50000 per annum.
•Successfully completed monthly management accounts, quarterly financial results and year-end financial statements.

Finance officer

с 06.2013 по 08.2014 (1 год 2 месяца)
Sanctuary Housing, Worcester (Charity)

Reporting to the Finance Manager for a Not for Profit organisation, operating within a £670M turnover
My main duties involved critically appraising financial procedures, identifying and recommending best practices to optimise processes. Providing detailed analysis and reporting the Organisations financial position, assisting production of annual budgets in line with standards and regulations
I researched and reviewed statistics, developed financial forecasts and generated reports and presented to Senior Management for review.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
•Increased received money and approval response rate by 23% within six months of employment date by building up a relationship with Local Authorities
•Effectively produced reliable monthly trial balances, financial pack and cost reports, adhered to timescales and transaction controls.
•Productively adhered to GAAP compliance, provided oversight to ensure all transactions were recorded in line with IFRS.

Data Analyst Supervisor

с 10.2010 по 07.2013 (2 года 9 месяцев)
UK Mail, Milton Keynes (Logistics, Transport)

Reporting to the Data Analyst Manager for a Global Logistics Organisation, operating within a £481M turnover
This role involved managing a team of 6 staff and driving them to achieve and exceed set targets and examining reports and presented findings in PowerPoint and Excel.
Producing databases, tools, queries, and reports for analysing, summarizing, and identifying root causes for spikes in data. Versed in finding patterns and trends in complex, multivariable data sets.
I led a project to design survey research studies including questionnaire development, sample selection, checking survey results, statistical analyses and data reporting.
KEY ACCOMPLISHMENTS:
•Identified missing revenue and increased reporting profit from £472M to £481M
•A 15% reduction in transportation costs, resulting in £1.2M annual savings
•Improved demand forecasting that reduced backorders to retail partners by 17%.
•Completed focus group and BI research that helped boost NW region sales by 15%.

Образование

ACCA

Accounting and Finance, Birmingham
Среднее специальное, с 2016 по 2019 (2 года 9 месяцев)

www.accaglobal.com

AAT

Finance and Accounting, Birmingham
Среднее специальное, с 2014 по 2016 (2 года)

https://www.aat.org.uk/

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Professional Profile
An analytical and focused accountant combining strong business acumen with extensive experience in financial analysis and control. Addresses the financial needs of stakeholders, and provides business support to achieve financial and operational objectives. Attentive to detail and with a proactive and analytical approach to solving complex problems, demonstrating in-depth knowledge and expertise of accountancy processes as well as statutory reporting regulations, accounting standards and legislation. Organised and efficient at setting and achieving goals and targets, with time and project management capabilities required to fulfil assignments and objectives in accordance with company requirements. Collaborative communicator continually focused on building relationships and promoting synergy across departments to drive positive change.

Areas of Expertise
Financial Systems
Strategic Planning/Analysis
Statutory & Management Reports
Fixed Asset Register
Project Accounting
Management Accounting
Complex Reconciliation
Streamlining procedures
Automation using Macros
ERP Implementation
Cash Flow & Forecasting
Staff Training & Leadership
Process Implementation
Excel Training
UAT Testing