Experience

Semperian Infrastructure Group

• United Kingdom
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Manager

  • Nov 2019 - Present



First Data Corporation

• Financial Controller EMEA Application Development

  • Jan 2017 - Oct 2019

• Finance Manager - Strategic Projects and EMEA Core Operations

  • Feb 2014 - Dec 2016



Cardtronics

• Financial Reporting Manager

  • Nov 2013 - Jan 2014

  Interim Role Interim Role



Bupa Home Healthcare

• Finance Manager

  • Jul 2012 - Nov 2013

  Create sustainable MI that Management can use to make key decisions in what is a very important time for Bupa Home Healthcare within the Healthcare industry. This includes the reports that analyse the key cost and revenue drivers of the nursng area as well as adapting the forecast models to ensure accuracy and reliability in the numbers we are basing our future on.Main Duties:- Accurate and timely management accounts, including commentary.- Build and maintain rolling forecast model.- Establish and maintain strong controls over expenditure (both capital and operating).- Financial modelling to assess the viability of substantial cost saving, and revenue generating projects and seeing these through delivery while tracking benefits.- Weekly and monthly dashboards including financial and commercial KPIs (cash collected to operational efficiency), Balance sheet and Cash flow to Group.- Preparation of Annual Statutory Accounts including Tax computations.Key Achievements:- Improved and streamlined processes – automated reports and cut non-value-adding activities to reduce the month-end process by 2 working days.- Enhanced MI – changed the financial reporting to match the business’ regional structure to create accountability for the Regional Managers and allow them to make informed decisions appropriate to their region. This resulted in ownership of budgets and appropriate target setting.- Commercial Awareness –created a report to show the profit/loss drivers by allocating all profits to customers in order to identify, understand and reduce losses as well as encourage new revenue generating packages. This lead to the exit of a large loss making customer £50k per month.- Operational Initiatives – partnering in key projects to challenge ideas and implement better ways of operating, such as improved training programmes, quicker mobilisation of new business and how to combat attrition. These projects aimed to save £1m annually.



Euromoney Institutional Investor

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Aug 2009 - Jun 2012

  Main Duties:- Review the work of the management accountants, challenge and shape them, and consolidate all UK, US and HK businesses so that it can be distributed to Management without error and on time. - Continuously monitor, develop and interpret appropriate and timely KPIs for the business to aid key decisions.- Communicate trends, risks and opportunities, and the performance outlook to management.- Assist in target setting for the sales staff and creating bonus/commission structures to best incentivise.- Monthly Review of bad debt with Management, setting action points to clear including the claw-back of sales commissions.- Assist with the integration of new businesses and disposal of old businesses.- Aid Business Managers in creating new business plans as well as assisting them with the preparation of timely budgets and forecasts for review at Board Level.- Represent finance at regular business management meetings with a view to educating the business management team and increasing financial awareness.Key Achievements:- Lead implementation of new invoicing system – Worked with system designers to adapt a programme to meet the needs of the Business to create a structured invoicing system. Project took 6 months (within plan) to be fully integrated and teething problems minimised.- Finalised sale of business – involved in final negotiations for the sale of a business unit including in-depth reconciliations of final costs to charge to clear down and close the ledger. - Integration of a disordered Business unit – Tasked with the tidy up of a Business in disarray. Reviewed all balance sheet items and processes and established better controls and clearer balance sheet reconciliations to give clarity to Management of assets and liabilities held as well as current sales performance.

• Senior Management Accountant

  • Oct 2007 - Jul 2009

  Main Duties:- Prepare the monthly Management accounts including commentary for the UK, US and HK businesses without assistance and present these to the Business Manager.- Calculate the sales staff commissions. - Prepare and present the weekly sales report which involves liaising with Business Managers.- Prepare balance sheet reconciliations, including Intercompany and bank reconciliations.- Carry out internal controls e.g Rate Card analysis by comparing published sale price to the actual sale price achieved. - Collect information from business to monitor yields across businesses to analyse best developed practice. - Prepare the Statutory Accounts for 3 subsidiary companies. - Being the main point of contact, liaise with, and provide relevant information for Auditors.



Waterlow Legal & Regulatory Ltd

• Senior Management Accountant

  • Oct 2006 - Oct 2007



Wilmington plc

• United Kingdom
• Information Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Management Accountant

  • Sep 2004 - Oct 2006