Finance Business Partner

• Jul 2022 - Present

Corporate Control Accountant

• Feb 2021 - Jul 2022

- Leading a team of Reconciliations Analysts responsible for bank account, control account and off-balance sheet reconciliations across multiple countries and group companies.- Ensuring a rigid control framework is applied and maintained using proactive approaches to month end reporting. Standardising controls across the group to improve clarity, consistency and accuracy of reporting by different companies.- Currently involved in the operational migration of 400+ bank accounts to a new finance system following a merger. This has involved taking the highlights of both company’s reporting to produce more efficient and informative analysis.- Brought our US subsidiary’s bank account control processes into the head office team, agreeing and managing strict KPIs and providing regular reports to US finance managers. This company is undergoing high growth so it has been important to act quickly on requests and build scalability into processes.- Reformed the month end reporting process for the team, automating lookups and taking a proactive view to discrepancy identification and tracking. Ensured this process was scalable and used this opportunity to implement new, more stringent controls.

Treasury Analyst

• May 2018 - Jan 2021

- Day-to-day management of £2.5bn in operational and trust monies including short and medium term cash flow planning, carrying out FX trades and making cash investment decisions. This involved considering FX, credit rating and liquidity risk and maintaining a commercial view of the business and industry.- Building weekly treasury reports for directors and c-level users to provide summaries of the company’s cash position and risk exposure. Amending the report regularly to reflect the changing direction of the Treasury function during a merger.- Redesigned the out of date retail cards reconciliation process, working with non-financial end users of data and banks to provide a report with the most relevant data. Used this opportunity to improve my big data handling and analysis skills.- Managing the retail estate’s banking needs including maintaining the shop card network, trialling new cash deposit and withdrawal methods and monitoring the cost of providing banking services to the retail business. Failure to maintain this environment would lead to a loss of the ability to collect revenues and a poor customer journey.

Reconciliation Analyst

• Sep 2016 - Apr 2018

- Producing reconciliation reports to tight deadlines, working with accountants across various teams to ensure transactions are recorded in a timely fashion.- Working with the fast-moving retail estate to minimise fraud through reconciliation of shop cash and card transaction data. Gathering data on common problems and investigating their root cause to target problem areas and mitigate further risk.- Collation of weekly reporting distributed to functional managers, looking into the detail being reported and proactively providing additional information where data is ambiguous.- Fostering relationships with various teams to follow up on reports, including having to explain accounting concepts to non-financial users and chairing meetings with stakeholders to resolve outstanding issues.- Assisted with a GL migration following a merger, moving 100+ accounts via manual journal posting.- Focussing on efficiency: closing down redundant accounts, optimising filing systems, automating processes, training new starters and maintaining process documents.

Finance Administrator

• Jul 2015 - Mar 2016

- Updating sale, purchase and general ledgers, monitoring stock from purchase through to sale. Working with accounts receivable to reconcile stock figures with invoices and reduce the financial effects of any variances.- Month end activities such as calculating depreciation, accruals and bank reconciliations, much of which was between multiple group companies.- Trialling a new invoicing system and reporting my findings to the board. This involved client site visits and working with the operations and technology teams.- Collaborating with external stakeholders, such as clients, in order to understand their needs in relation to the finance department.