Experience

Pragmatic

• United Kingdom
• Semiconductor Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Finance Manager

  • Sep 2022 - Present



WILLINGHAM AUCTIONS CAFE LIMITED

• Finance Manager



R H Partnership Architects

• United Kingdom
• Architecture and Planning
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Manager

  • Sep 2017 - Jan 2022

  - Responsible for all financial Aspects of both studios and the practice as a whole entity. - This includes a very hands-on approach dealing with all manner of everyday tasks to high-level presentations of the monthly finance packs to the board of directors and subsequently the whole management team. - In Severe times creating various scenario plans for how the practice would reduce its costs to meet its expected revenue, suggesting appropriate cost reductions such as pay-cuts and possible levels of redundancy required to bring costs down to the level of revenue which was secured and presenting this to the board. - Typical tasks include Producing the payroll and payroll reporting for both offices including year-end returns. - Producing Monthly management accounts for both studios, this included departmental profit and loss statements for both studios and balance sheet reporting, processing all monthly journals, accruals and prepayments to ensure they are as accurate as possible. - Working alongside Directors to Business partner with them to produce greater efficiency and cost savings. - Being the focal point for R&D tax credits and liaising with external experts to try and establish the greatest benefit the company can receive. - Analysing individual project profitability monthly to be able to foresee any dips in expected profits and bring it to the relevant Directors attention to understand what has happened and take corrective steps if possible. - Preparing Annual budgets for both studios and feeding this into a rolling 3-year budget, speaking to the appropriate budget holders to obtain the exact information needed to create the most accurate budgets. - Dealing with All VAT returns and any dealings with HMRC. - Taking care of all aspects of the year end accounts including liaising with the auditors, managing the yearly audit to prepare the final statutory accounts for the company. - Being responsible for the finance Team. Show less



Enterprise Residential Development Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Financial Controller

  • Mar 2016 - Aug 2017

  - Responsible for the reconciliation and production of the Statutory accounts for all the Enterprise property group companies (ranged from 10 to 15 companies). - This included reconciling fixed asset registers and any work in progress for each company, as well as preparing balance sheets and Profit and loss statements for each company. - Producing all relevant journals for the preparation of these accounts, including the use of accruals and prepayments where needed. - Liaising with the company’s external auditors to secure material findings for the statutory accounts. - Reconciliation of the inter–company transactions on a quarterly basis, ensuring transactions are represented correctly in all entities. - Setting up new companies when required with Companies house and HMRC, registering these companies for all the relevant taxes needed such as VAT and PAYE. - Setting up bank accounts for all companies and registering them into the company’s online bank portal which I solely brought on-line and became administrator of. - Preparation of the quarterly management accounts for the finance director. - Nominated to head up the finances for the Retirement living side of the business. - This included creating 12-year forecasts for the retirement living business, creating one spreadsheet which contained a 12-year cash flow, Profit and loss and balance sheet statement. - This was presented to the CEO and senior management to enable a greater accuracy of decision making for the company’s future. Show less



Mettler-Toledo Safeline X-ray Ltd

• Royston, England, United Kingdom

• Accountant

  • Feb 2012 - Feb 2016

  -Carrying out my role as the Accountant for Mettler-Toledo Safeline X-ray. -Reporting directly to the Financial Controller of Safeline X-ray -I was responsible originally for managing a single person, in October 2015 I became the direct line manager for the Finance team, managing the complete team of 3. -Responsible for producing the monthly management accounts to be submitted to HQ. -Compiling Monthly management reports to highlight any performance variances. -Liaising with external auditors to manage and complete the Safeline X-ray Statutory accounts. -Responsible for preparation of the annual budget to be reviewed by the Financial Controller. -Regular performance forecasting and performance evaluation, Flashes / Variance analysis. -Migration of the payroll system from an in-house system to an online payroll which would be outsourced. -The implementation of an internet-based expenses system (concur). -Implementation of an auto-enrolment work-based pension scheme in the company. -Working with the organisations internal auditors to put SOX controls in place throughout the company. -Responsible for the reconciliation of stock monthly, working on variances with other departments -Responsibility for the reconciliation of Sales and Cost of sales each period. -Supporting the migration of the company's move to an entirely new ERP system (SAP). -In October 2015 Safeline X-ray went live with SAP, this resulted in the finance operations being centralised to India. I carried out my remaining responsibilities with Safeline until February 2016 aiding in the migration until the local function was no longer required. Show less



Semitool Europe Ltd

• Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

• Accountant

  • Jul 2003 - Jan 2012

  -Working my way up from accounts assistant to becoming the accountant for Semitool Europe. -Responsibility of managing a small team of 2. -Oversaw and implemented the rollout of 2 new accounting systems in Semitool Europe. -Implemented the Syteline system in other European locations and Asian territories within Semitool. -Became the central focus point for any accounting queries relating to the new system globally. -Responsible for all banking activities, such as payments, day-to-day reporting and month end reconciliations. -Responsible for maintaining all debtors, creditors and general ledger accounts. -Handling day to day queries internally and externally. -Completing Intrastats, EC Sales and VAT Returns. -Creating Excel Spreadsheet queries for needs within Semitool. Account enquiries, pivot tables etc. -Completing the month end close down process and all reconciliations for relevant accounts. -Creating monthly P&L and balance sheet management accounts for the UK entity. -Creating combined European monthly accounts for all Semitool European territories. -Payroll, all duties from input to sending out the payslips. -Reporting Directly to the Finance Director of Semitool Europe. Show less



SCOTAIRWAYS GROUP LIMITED

• Accounts Assistant

  • Jul 2002 - Jul 2003

  -Processing of all purchase ledger invoices. -Preparing weekly and monthly payment runs. -Getting the required authorization for all the relevant invoices, Navigation charges etc. -Dealing with all Creditors Queries regarding invoice issues and payment dates. -Processing of all purchase ledger invoices. -Preparing weekly and monthly payment runs. -Getting the required authorization for all the relevant invoices, Navigation charges etc. -Dealing with all Creditors Queries regarding invoice issues and payment dates.