Experience

ProPharma

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Finance Accounting Manager UK

  • Jul 2021 - Present



Diamond Pharma Services

• United Kingdom
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Manager

  • Oct 2019 - Jul 2021



Wincanton

• United Kingdom
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 700 & Above Employee

• Management Accountant - IKEA Home Delivery

  • Oct 2017 - Oct 2019

  Key Responsibilities: Review weekly and monthly accounts for IKEA Home Delivery contract Manage two staff Produce Causal Tracker for weekly accounts with commentary and relevant KPi’s Review balance sheet reconciliations and produce commentary for sector review Produce budget for Home Delivery contract and calculate weekly run rates based on volume and resource constraints. Key Achievements: Started on the contract on day it went live. Had no staff and no templates for weekly accounts. Had to produce a p&L from scratch on Excel. Have built all the spreadsheets used to produce accounts, monitor spend, reconcile and budget calculation spreadsheets from scratch. Streamlining a lot of the processes. Show less



East 15 Acting School

• Loughton/Colchester

• Finance Manager

  • Jan 2014 - Jun 2017

  Key Responsibilities •Significant financial input into School business plans, working with the Executive Dean, School Director, Faculty Manager & team members to review plans & proposals. •Devise & produce financial reports & information for School & Faculty management to enable efficient & effective management of the School. •Ensure that income & expenditure transactions are correctly recorded on the financial systems. •Assist School Director & Faculty Manager in financial management of School & improving its financial performance in order to move the School into financial stability. •Manage Finance Officer. •Oversee purchasing activity ensure that value for money is achieved & control maintained. •Implement Agresso Income Manager module. •Liaise with budget holders, significant role in preparation of the School’s income & expenditure budgets. •Provision of regular forecasts, budget & outturn figures for the School. •Input into financial initiatives at both a School & University level including understanding of full costs, appropriate commercial pricing policies & course or programme costing. •Management of new projects that can generate income. •Advising on measures that will enable the School’s financial processes & procedures to be efficient & effective. •Review & oversee processes & controls to ensure compliance with the University’s Financial Regulations. Key Achievements •East 15 were in recovery with deficit set to increase. I introduced finance systems in order to budget & monitor course costs, which wasn’t available before. Analysed income & expenses to show a profit or deficit per course, looked at where costs could be cut & where income could be increased. Responsible for achieving a £1m cut in projected deficit for 2014/15 & am reducing it further in future years. •Introduced online payments, credit card machines & Agresso Income Manager. Cash handling has been reduced in line with Audit recommendations. •Input systems to manage part time staff. Show less



BBC

• Finance Analyst, Commissioning and Services

  • Dec 2011 - Sep 2013

  Key Responsibilities * Provide audited talent information for BBC Annual Report * Run meetings and associated paperwork to ensure the practice of good financial governance in BBC Vision Commissioning and Services * Responsibilities as per Drama Finance Analyst Key Achievements I worked closely with the Management Accounts function in the Centre of Excellence and introduced new processes to combat inefficiencies. This included designing and implementing new spreadsheets with advanced functions to help with forecasting and the production of actual data. The only reporting to the Business when I started this job was a workbook full of complicated spreadsheets. I introduced dashboards to be sent to Business which were easy to read and understand and didn’t overload the user with data. Show less

• Process Lead, Programme Accounting, Finance Effectiveness

  • Sep 2011 - Dec 2011

  Key Responsibilities * Identify inefficiencies in the Programme Accounting Process * Design new processes where there are currently inefficiencies in the process Key Achievements I carried out a lean process of the Programme Accounting function. I lead workshops with staff pan BBC and designed a new, leaner process to eliminate inefficiencies.



BBC Monitoring

• United Kingdom
• Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
• 500 - 600 Employee

• Finance Analyst - Talent

  • Apr 2010 - Sep 2011

  Key Responsibilities * Provide audited talent information for BBC Annual Report. * Collate talent costs pan BBC for each individual artist * Collate forecasts pan BBC for talent and top talent * Analyse trends and provide statistical information used by the pan BBC Talent Group and Head of Talents Rights Key Achievements Before I stated in this job talent spend was not forecasted or reported pan BBC so it was difficult to know if the BBC would fulfil the talent strategy set out by Mark Thompson in 2009. Actual spend was only reported on an annual basis. * Successfully set up processes pan BBC to enable accurate reporting of talent spend on a quarterly basis including Top Talent (over £100k), actual talent spend and forecast. * Created reports and templates used pan BBC to report actual talent spend, forecasts and top talent. * Provided the pan BBC Talent Group with statistical information on talent spend to enable decisions to be made. Show less

• Finance Analyst - Drama

  • Jan 2007 - Apr 2010

  Key responsibilities:• Providing analysis where needed on ad hoc projects• Maintain and manage relationships with the finance team in Cardiff• Monitor and manage development spend• Monitor and manage efficiency savings• Deliver ad hoc financial reports to a range of stakeholders, including finance and non finance staff• Review of month end/year accounts and budgets.• Responsible for accounting of World Wide Dividend (pan Vision Project)Key Achievements• Although I work for Drama I also work part time as a Finance Analyst in Multiplatform as they had no financial support. Since taking on this role I have successfully worked with the Head of Production and put in processes to ensure accurate forecasting going forward. I have produced reports which are now used by the team in Cardiff and the management team in Multiplatform so that finance is managed more effectively. I worked closely with the Production teams, as all forecasting was offline and not feeding into accounts to ensure that forecasts are robust and accurate on the system to ensure month end accounts are accurate.• I successfully worked on a project involving writers advance payments. The process which was in place meant that cash was a big issue so I made a decision to manage all advance payments centrally and maintain a forecast going forward to alleviate any cash issues.• I work closely with the Business Accounts team in Cardiff and have designed forecasting tools which are used by the Business Accountant to ensure accurate and robust forecasting of cash. I also designed reporting tools to enable the Finance Partner to review the accounts easily.• I worked on the Funding Model for Drama and pan Vision to understand the complexities of it. I reconciled the funding model to accounts in 2006/7 when the funding model was created and highlighted and corrected any errors found. Success of this is measured by extra cash being available in the Business for errors in the model. Show less

• Process Consultant

  • Oct 2005 - Dec 2006

  Key Responsibilities• Design & deliver new process: programme finance feeding into month end/year end accounts. Calculating WIP, accruals, losses/supluses & fed into the accounts when no income is reported.• Design reports to monitor costs/forecasts on projects. Working collaboratively across the BBC to ensure all needs were met.• Produce detailed DOM’s for use within the Business.• Provide training on new forecasting tools • Implemented the ‘go live’ of the new system .• Responsible for the migration of programme projects • Managed a team who were responsible for the management of programmes and month end postings pan BBC.• Led month end meetings with stakeholders to discuss and rectify issues• Responsible of transition of DEC project accounting. Managing relationships.• Produce training material for new processes.Key Achievements• Successfully led April transition of project accounting. Worked collaboratively pan BBC to ensure all needs were met & projects migrated correctly. Responsible for ensuring projects were migrated correctly. Ensured that postings of WIP, etc were correct pan BBC. Led monthly meetings for the first 3 months of transition with key stakeholders pan BBC to address issues. The success of this was measured by the accurate posting of accounts.• Designed & delivered complex reports for use by finance to enable them to monitor costs effectively. Success of this was measured by the use of the reports by the Business & finance team in Cardiff.• The DEC transition showed resilience on my part. Responsible for the transition of programme finance from the embedded teams, to smaller embedded teams & a SSC in Cardiff. Many of the embedded teams were being made redundant so had to use influencing & persuading skills to ensure a smooth transition to ensure that knowledge was transferred. Success of this was measured by a smooth transition & understanding of the work to Cardiff embedded teams. Show less

• Management Accountant, Drama

  • Jan 2003 - Oct 2005

  Key ResponsibilitiesResponsible for compiling & producing month end/year end accounts, forecasts & budgets for Drama. Key responsibilities include:• Manage one member of staff – this included managing poor performance of a particular member of staff.• Other responsibilities as above (Management Accountant Children’s) Key Achievements• When I started in Drama I was responsible for BBC Films. After six months I was given the responsibility of compiling & checking three other profit centre groups which fed into Drama Production. This meant managing relationships with other Management Accountants to maintain effective working relationships. I was the key contact with Group & DEC HQ & responsible for compiling & the commentary for the whole Drama pack.• Drama had little understanding of Results Analysis & the way in which projects were forecast when I started. I was responsible for ensuring that accurate forecasts were input & maintained by Production Accountants to enable Results Analysis to run efficiently. I worked with the SAP team to ensure that projects were set up correctly & maintained going forward. This enabled correct calculation of WIP, Accruals & loss provisions going forward & therefore more accurate accounts.• I introduced formal closure processes of projects with Production Accountants & Production Executives. This ensured that projects were accounted for correctly & any accruals were highlighted.• I produced forecasting tools for cash & internal spend so that it was easier to forecast & less time consuming. Show less

• Management Accountant, Children's Programmes

  • May 2001 - Dec 2002

• Assistant Management Accountant, Childrens Programmes

  • Sep 1997 - May 2001

• Admin Assistant, Children's Programmes

  • Aug 1994 - Sep 1997



BBC Radio

• London, United Kingdom

• Secretary, Various Departments

  • Sep 1988 - Aug 1994