Experience

Childrensalon
• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 200 - 300 Employee
• Management Accountant

  • Sep 2021 - Present

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• United States
• Restaurants
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Unemployed

  • Jun 2020 - Sep 2021

Millennium & Copthorne Hotels
• Hospitality
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Group Financial Analyst

  • Nov 2012 - May 2020


Oxford Aviation Academy

• United Kingdom
• Education Management
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Jun 2007 - Nov 2012

  One of the largest providers of full flight simulator training in Europe. The Group was originally created in early 2007; GCAT Flight Academy (then owned by GE) was sold to a private equity organisation and acquired SAS's Flight Academy in Scandinavia. The group further expanded through acquisitions worldwide and achieved turnover in the region of £ 180m. In May 2012 the OAA group was sold to Canadian organisation CAE. Production of monthly Group Management accounts through Hyperion Enterprise, with commentaries and analysis for inclusion in board pack, including fx variance analysis of P&L & detailed variance reports of group departments. Implementation and production of Group KPIs. Monthly and Year-to-date operational statistics for the Type division simulators, with comparison to budget & prior year. Variances resolved to volume, price and exchange difference. Constructing spreadsheets to enable compilation of Type division Budgets, with the facility to display by department or location. Involved mapping historic old cost lines to new accounting structure. Provided trends in revenue & EBITDA with equalisation of fx rates, to truly assess like-for-like performance, year on year. Construction of a forecasting model to produce a 3 year forecast by operating division for the group. Has facility to amend exchange and inflation rates in order to produce a robust business model. Setting up and implementation of Group Management recharge process. Maintenance of group-wide capital expenditure by project and currency. Production of divisional & group aged debtor performance with translation to debtor days. This worked in conjunction with the group “watchlist”, which focussed on the customers causing most concern within the group. Production of quarterly bank covenant compliance schedules. Production of ad-hoc reports for Group CFO and FC. Show less



CP Ships

• Maritime Transportation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Reporting Accountant

  • Jan 2005 - Jan 2007

  CP ships (Canadian Pacific) provided international container transportation and owned a fleet of 80 ships and 432,000 containers. It also owned one of Canada's largest marine container terminals, the Montreal Gateway. Bought by Hapag-Lloyd at the end of 2005. Responsible for all financial reporting of the Indamex (India America express) route - $120M turnover per annum. Producing monthly and quarterly management accounts, including commentaries and analyses on variances and other relevant factors. Supervising the production of monthly net revenues, from the EPS (Estimated Performance System). Reconciling to SAP and analysing for trade department. Producing flash reports estimating the P&L performance for the current and following month, based on revenue and volume KPI's supplied by trade department. Quarterly forecast and annual budget production. Liaising with trade department and overseas in order to analyse all aspects of route performance. Show less



Virgin Atlantic Airways

• India
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing

• Financial Planning Analyst

  • Jan 2000 - Mar 2004

  Produced new route studies (3 year p&l), incorporating information for CAA submissions.Assisted Commercial department with what-if scenarios (both short term tactical and long term strategic).Liaised with other departments to provide costings and other information (e.g Engineering, Flight Ops, Cargo).Produced flight cost analyses for Commercial dept. to tight deadlines.Financial work on several major Aircraft acquisition projects (NPV production).Regular forecasting of Airline P&L.Assisted in preparing the annual budget.Developed a route study model for the Commercial dept's use that enabled production of estimated route p&ls for any aircraft type in fleet.Calculated Aircraft ad-hoc charter rates, to supply to Commercial and Operations departments for quotation to external parties. Show less

• Management Accounts Analyst

  • Nov 1997 - Jan 2000

  Co-ordinated and compiled worldwide direct operating cost (DOC) budgets (approx £250M - £300M per annum).Prepared monthly departmental overhead variance reports.Produced monthly journals for payroll and benefits.Maintained and updated fixed asset register and produced monthly depreciation journals.

• Flight Cost Assistant

  • Jun 1990 - Nov 1997

  Accurately coded fuel invoices.Produced monthly statistics for fuel, including calculation of fuel standards for accounts.Communicated and liaised with fuel suppliers.Prepared monthly supplier reconciliation's.Prepared monthly activity statistics (both passenger and aircraft).



Novair International Airways

• DOC Controller

  • Aug 1989 - May 1990

  Checked accuracy of invoices. Inputted voyage reports. Produced flight costings. Checked accuracy of invoices. Inputted voyage reports. Produced flight costings.



Medens Limited

• 1 - 100 Employee

• Litigation Assistant

  • Sep 1987 - Aug 1989

  dealing with repossession paperwork. Compiled affidavits & processed legal documentation. dealing with repossession paperwork. Compiled affidavits & processed legal documentation.