Experience

RKH Specialty
• United Kingdom
• Insurance
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Interim Project Accountant

  • Jan 2020 - Present

Applegreen PLC
• Retail
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Interim Management Accountant

  • Jan 2019 - Jan 2020
• Interim Project Accountant

  • Mar 2018 - Sep 2018

  Recruited to be the main RKH group resource to support for the Hyperion group wide project for reviewing (including challenging and improving) and documenting internal financial business processes as part of a drive to improve internal controls and the quality of internal financial information. A detailed review by Ernst & Young resulted in only a handful of minor improvement recommendations being made in their formal report to the RKH Group and Hyperion Group senior management. Recruited to be the main RKH group resource to support for the Hyperion group wide project for reviewing (including challenging and improving) and documenting internal financial business processes as part of a drive to improve internal controls and the quality of internal financial information. A detailed review by Ernst & Young resulted in only a handful of minor improvement recommendations being made in their formal report to the RKH Group and Hyperion Group senior management.



HOWDEN UK GROUP LIMITED

• Interim Project Accountant

  • Dec 2016 - Jan 2018

  Recruited to be the UK Retail division's member of the group project team for the design, build, testing and implementation of a new general ledger system for the whole of the Hyperion Group's UK operations. Unit 4 Financials had already been selected as the replacement for the SUN and Dataflow systems currently in use. The system successfully went live on-time on 1st October 2017. Recruited to be the UK Retail division's member of the group project team for the design, build, testing and implementation of a new general ledger system for the whole of the Hyperion Group's UK operations. Unit 4 Financials had already been selected as the replacement for the SUN and Dataflow systems currently in use. The system successfully went live on-time on 1st October 2017.



Sensient Flavors Limited

• United Kingdom
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interim Assistant Controller

  • May 2016 - Nov 2016

  Main responsibilities were: • Full process documentation for the Business Analyst month end processes that were handed over • Creating process documentation for Business Analyst processes that had not been handed over but which were required by the business • Training various temps that were subsequently recruited to cover the Business Analyst role (unfortunately a number of them did not work out) • Detailed sales and cost of sales budget work • Detailed salary budget workings • Departmental budget workings • Intercompany budget pricing • Assisting with the daily pricing requests coming in from sales managers and other group companies • Unravelling the significant intercompany balance discrepancies Show less



Global Pacific UK Ltd and other associated UK limited companies

• Interim Finance Manager

  • Dec 2014 - Mar 2016

  Originally due to be a three month job to provide additional resource for the existing company accountant, as the records for all companies were at least six months behind date. There was a very tight deadline as the Group FD was expecting year end audits to start in February. The business then restructured and I was asked to stay on to develop the newly created role of Finance Manager for 3 of the existing 6 companies (became 4 with the creation of a new company), with the main aim of taking the existing manually created month end reporting and replacing it with a system generated reporting pack with fully reconciled balance sheet within a reporting deadline of working day 10 for all companies. Also tasked with replacing the existing manual payment run process with a system led one, which required a full review and cleanse of all supplier accounts and balances on the ledgers in conjunction with the procurement team and the PL payment clerk. Key Achievements: • Developed and implemented a local internal month end reporting pack for each company’s General Manager, running from a downloaded trial balance • Scoped, trialled, developed (in conjunction with the software provider) and implemented a suite of crystal reports required to extract from the finance system the information necessary to be able to analyse P&L revenue and costs down to gross margin at a PO level as required • Implemented system done bank reconciliations • Developed and implemented full balance sheet reconciliations / supporting schedules • Implemented system generated supplier payment reports and process for supporting the authorisation of the generated report • Staff development of the existing credit controller to an accounts assistant role, to support her AAT studies and give more variety and responsibility to the role • A very much improved year end audit for 2015 compared to 2014. The management letter went from being five pages long to just two points, one of which was already in hand Show less



MICROS Systems UK Limited

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Interim Project Accountant

  • Mar 2014 - Sep 2014

  Recruited via agency to provide additional resource for the Finance team of a UK element of the business. This team was in the process of migrating computer systems from a number of bespoked packages to Oracle R12. The requirement was to migrate the data to the new system during the week commencing 31st March as quickly as possible to minimise the downtime for the other areas of the business in the UK already using Oracle R12. During the system migration testing and data transfer period I was responsible for the following: • Test and live data migration reconciliation for open accounts payable transactions and balances • Test and live data migration reconciliation for open accounts receivable transactions and balances, including the management of a sizeable amount of manual data entry for the live migration • Test and live data migration reconciliation for tangible fixed assets, including a full cleanse of the existing manual fixed asset register • Assisting in the test data migration reconciliation for general ledger for the months of August 2013 to February 2014, in both GBP and USD Post completion of the implementation I was asked to stay on to perform a trouble-shooting role, helping out accounts payable, general ledger and cash management teams with process issues/changes and workload backlogs. Show less



Specialist Fleet Services Limited (SFS)

• Motor Vehicle Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interim Business Integration Accountant

  • Sep 2013 - Jan 2014

  In October 2013 the company purchased the trade and assets of an owner managed business down in Gloucester and TUPE transferred the staff in. The two owners were retained as local operational directors of the newly created business unit. However the principal activity of this company was the spot hire of refuse collection vehicles and the operation of an on-site repairs and maintenance workshop so, whilst complementary to existing operations, the acquisition required new procedures to be developed. I was initially employed on a three month fixed term contract. I then agreed to an extension to allow a handover period to the permanent management accountant, whose recruitment I had been involved with. Key activities during the period of employment were: • Develop, document and communicate the necessary internal procedures for the Gloucester division • Develop the general ledger chart of accounts • Collate the necessary migration data on customers and suppliers to enable automated upload to the accounting system • Perform the management accountant role until the permanent staff member joined During this period I also helped review and update existing documented procedures and performed a number of audits for the business in support of their existing ISO9001 registration (I am a trained ISO9001 auditor), as they were behind on their internal audit program and had lost a number of a auditors through staff leaving the business. Show less


St Andrew's Healthcare
• United Kingdom
• Mental Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee
• Interim Project Accountant

  • Apr 2013 - Aug 2013

KAB Seating
• United Kingdom
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Interim Financial Controller

  • Nov 2012 - Mar 2013
• Interim Senior Management Accountant

  • Aug 2010 - Sep 2012


Corporate Occupier Solutions

• Facilities Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interim Accountant

  • Jan 2009 - Apr 2010

  Via agency, initially on a six month term, key components of my role were: • project management and assist with the reconciliation of a large client bank account for the period of May 2008 to date including the recovery of any overpaid amounts • cover vacant roles of first a Client Finance Manager and then, in addition, a Group Management Accountant, whilst also supporting the Corporate Accounting team with balance sheet and inter-company work Key Achievements: • with respect to the bank reconciliation work we successfully accounted for circa £6m of unrecorded payments to suppliers • delivered consolidated management accounts on time for both October and November 2009 (the first time it had been achieved) Show less


Waste Recycling Group
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Interim Financial Planning Analyst

  • Jul 2008 - Dec 2008

Alfred McAlpine Business Services
• Senior Sector Commerical Accountant

  • Mar 2007 - Jul 2008

Helius Energy
• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• Finance Director

  • May 2006 - Mar 2007


Monteray

• United States
• Public Relations and Communications Services

• Director of Finance and Business Assurance

  • Oct 2002 - May 2006

• Business Manager

  • Aug 2001 - Oct 2002

  Design and implementation of a quality management system across a head office and eight regional service providers and achievement of registration to the ISO9001:2000 quality standard.


ThyssenKrupp Automotove Chassis Products (previously Krupp Camford)
• Financial Controller

  • Sep 1998 - Jul 2001

ThyssenKrupp Automotive Chassis Products (previously Krupp Camford)
• Finance Manager

  • Jul 1996 - Sep 1998

Volkswagen Financial Services (UK)
• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee
• Management Accountant

  • Apr 1994 - Jul 1996

Volkswagen AG
• Germany
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Accounts Administrator

  • Jan 1994 - Mar 1994

Alpheus Environmental
• United Kingdom
• Environmental Services
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Project Accountant

  • Sep 1993 - Nov 1993

Neville Russsell Accountants (now part of Mazars)
• Graduate Trainee

  • Aug 1990 - Aug 1993