Production Finance Manager

• Mar 2022 - Present

Assistant Accountant

• Jan 2022 - Mar 2022

Assistant Accountant on the “Napoleon” feature film. Worked on Accounts Payable function using Digital Purchase Order, PSL. Helped build purchase order reconciliation process to ensure all costs were captured accurately. Assistant Accountant on the “Napoleon” feature film. Worked on Accounts Payable function using Digital Purchase Order, PSL. Helped build purchase order reconciliation process to ensure all costs were captured accurately.

Senior Payments Manager

• Sep 2016 - Dec 2021

**Winner of the September 19 award for "Do The Right Thing" mentioned in the CEO Quarterly report for this achievement** Line manage a team of 5 Onshore & 5 Offshore Payment Analysts Prepare monthly end journals, accruals and variance analysis reporting for Group Finance. Ensure accurate intercompany postings are completed at month end. Ensure management reporting is produced on a scheduled basis to show KPI measures, payment trends & analysis. Managing the preparation of Balance Sheet accounts, and commentaries and reporting packs Consult with external and internal auditors for preparation of interim & year end audit. Held sole responsibility of 10-year reconciliation of cheque refunds which resulted in £1.7m contribution to profit (2018/19) through writeback of uncashed cheques. Project managed TV store billing reconciliation and incident identification processes. Ensure strong internal control environment identifying weaknesses in current controls and recommending and assisting implementation of new and improved controls. Ownership for reporting, including incident impact assessments, audits, and action any observations and non-compliance. Created new payment policies & processes to streamline the workflow and make it more accurate and efficient. Ensured these were documented and approved by Leadership Team and comply with GDPR. Show less

Finance Manager Productions and Planning Global Content

• Apr 2013 - Sep 2016

Responsible for the co-ordination of all financial operations of the Global Content division and providing management and production accounting support for productions.Reporting to the Head of Finance I also work closely with the business managers and their teams as well as providing a link between them and the other finance areas both internal and external to Worldwide.Coordinate and plan the Global Content forecasting and budget process to enable delivery of results as per Group reporting requirements. This involves conducting meetings with business leaders & working with the Finance Team to prepare timetable, review sap uploads and perform variance analysis. Work with Finance Director & Head of Finance to prepare reporting packs and papers as required for all planning cycles including budgets, forecasts and 5 year plan.Provide Management and Production Accounting support for the productions e.g. Musketeers, From Darkness etc. This includes the review and analysis of costs reports ensuring variances are analyzed and communicated to stakeholders, the creation of bank accounts, reconciliation of production accounting systems to SAP, bank reconciliations and timely recognition of costs and revenues in SAP.Responsible for JV Reporting including variance analysis, posting of accruals, net asset reconciliations. This includes responsibility for Treasury transactions in relation to JVs and other production partners, ensuring receipts and payments are transacted and recorded accurately in SAP.Providing analytical support to Finance Director & Head of Finance as required including staff cost reconciliations.Worked on a project to redesign the reporting of 2 business areas i.e. Format Sales & Production. Constructed the KPI’s for these areas and implemented it into the monthly and quarterly reporting packs.A key contact for external/internal auditors for all Production and JV related queries.Communicating key financial terms and controls to non finance staff. Show less

Finance Manager - Content & Production

• Jan 2010 - Mar 2013

£94 million turnover for the 2009/10 financial yearResponsibilitiesManage the delivery of month-end results including providing direction to the overseas offices and the central management accounting team (BIS) in order to ensure accurate monthly results in a timely manner. Key month-end tasks include:a. Managing the preparation of P/Ls, Balance Sheets, and commentaries and reporting packs and reviewing the BIS/International team output, analyzing and interpreting results ahead of FC/FD review.b. Analyze and deliver month-end reporting to the Global Brands Division.c. Prepare monthly cash flow reporting for Treasury/GFC.d. Review of monthly Content and Production Balance Sheets.e. Exchange Rate Difference (ERD) analysis for Treasury and Group Finance..f. Co-ordination of the French production office to ensure timely submission of monthly accounts for interpretation and upload into SAP (currently no Finance staff at French office.)Co-ordination of multiple departments to ensure the accurate delivery of annual budget/quarterly forecasts/year-end results as per the corporate timetable. Preparation of budget/forecast packs for presentation to MD/CFO of BBCW. Manage relationships and interface with finance - BIS, IT, FAS and provide direction where required to ensure Content & Production transactions are properly recorded.Communicating key financial terms and controls to non finance staff.One of the key contacts for external auditors, facilitating/managing the interim and year-end audit preparation work and reviewing with the FC/FD ahead of the visits from external auditors.Internal Audit work as required.Undertake the training of accounting support staff where requiredAssist in strategy, cost reduction and 5 year planning processes as required.Adhoc duties as required.NBC Show less

Assistant Financial Controller

• Apr 2009 - Dec 2009

Responsibility for nominal ledger entries including accruals and prepayments, reviewing budgets and forecasts, and liaising with the rest of the finance team to drive timetable through and ensure integrity and accuracy of information. Maintaining the integrity of, and suggesting improvements to management accounts files and processes used during the management accounting cycle. Using initiative and innovation to provide reports which will be of most benefit to managers of the business and pro-actively manage own schedule and organise own workload when not working on specific projects or in the management accounts cycle. Key contact within the Accounts department for any divisions assigned to them. That will involve providing constant proactive advice and support as well as regular management information and accounts. Managed the end to end accounts payable process. Liase with the outsourced Accounts Payable Team in India. Any other ad hoc duties in order to support the management accounts department and line manager as required and requested. . PULSE 24 Show less

Management Accountant

• Jan 2009 - Apr 2009

Undertake the day to day accounting for Energy Services including balance sheet analysis and reconciliation. Ensure the accurate and timely production of Energy Services financial reports Liaise with all areas of the business to understand the data being produced and to facilitate new methods of reporting and controlling business performance. Maintain/develop financial spreadsheets/systems to accurately model current and future business activities. Work on Ad-hoc reports and projects as and when required. Show less

Financial Accountant

• Mar 2008 - Oct 2008

Month end consolidation and accounting for several entities. Financial Statement preparation under IFRS standards. Processing journals, prepayments, accruals. Creating invoices and conducting intercompany recharges. Reviewed bank reconciliations Reviewed Balance Sheet reconciliations Intercompany Reconciliations VAT Return preparations GL Analysis: Managing, reconciling and analysis of several general ledgers. Conducted Internal Controls and policy compliance management and training. Conducted variance analysis with commentary for each entity. Performed trend analysis for entities and reported to Finance leader with action plans. Working Capital Management Conducted Internal Control management for the UK & Nordics Office. Show less

Financial Accountant

• Nov 2007 - Jan 2008

Responsible for month end reporting of all local ledgers into consolidated reporting system. Provided support & finance control to all departments through month end processes. Efficient processing of journals in SAP. Responsible for maintaining and developing the chart of accounts, cost and profit centres. Responsible for closing the accounting system at month end. Ensuring compliance with group policies and GAAP. Responsible for ensuring SOX compliance. Responsible for creating and uploading financial spreadsheets into database. Responsible for ensuring financial controls are maintained to minimise business risk. BUSINESS IN THE Show less

Financial Accountant

• Jul 2007 - Nov 2007

Oversee Sales Ledger, Purchase Ledger, Payroll & respective controllers Daily Sales, Purchase & Nominal Ledger Daybook checking & posting. Had 3 employees directly reporting to me. Monthly Bank Reconciliations Monthly Treasury Reconciliation Monthly Base rate Tracker Reconciliation Monthly Control Account Reconciliations Monthly Head Office Petty Cash Reconciliation Monthly Debt List production/distribution/upload to Intranet Monthly Payroll checks and journal entries processed Monthly Office Business Rates input/payment/maintenance Monthly non-staff parking cost claims Quarterly Barclays Bank Commission checks/confirmation Sales Ledger Database control/maintenance Purchase Ledger Database control/maintenance Electronic banking system (Barclays Business Master II) update/maintenance Liaison with Business Master administrators as required Company Barclaycard: control/maintenance/reconciliation of 13 accounts Show less