Experience

Hadron Group
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Cost Accountant

  • Dec 2022 - Present


Wescom Group

• United Kingdom
• Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Accounting Systems Analyst

  • May 2021 - Dec 2022

  Using my experience in Microsoft AX 2012 to explain the stock movements in the Financial results, and using the experience to revised the standard costs for the next financial year. Using my experience in Microsoft AX 2012 to explain the stock movements in the Financial results, and using the experience to revised the standard costs for the next financial year.



AvantiGas

• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Interim Accounts Assistant

  • May 2020 - May 2021

  A Maternity Cover role. I kept the management accounts reporting maintained, and helped with Data cleansing of the Fixed Asset Reports, and implementation of the systems upgrade. A Maternity Cover role. I kept the management accounts reporting maintained, and helped with Data cleansing of the Fixed Asset Reports, and implementation of the systems upgrade.



Aperture Group

• United States
• Advertising Services

• Assistant Management Accountant

  • Jan 2016 - Mar 2020

  Aperture manufacture products for the fenestration Industry, with a turnover of approx. £110 mil per year, working in a finance department of 20 people. My main responsibilities include. • Weekly stock reporting, and month end reconciliations, for £13 million of stock • Improvement of the stock system, to reduce out of stock and planning errors • Reporting and planning for the annual budgets and 5-year plans • Integration of new businesses into the companies costing systems • Regular updating the standard cost I costed the stock for 4 group Companies. 2 recently acquired, incorporating them into the existing costing systems. Working as part of a team to add in the Bills of material for the Glass office and helped to reorganise the reporting structures of the company following reorganisation of the company. I maintain the standard costing system of the resulting 25,000 material codes and the resulting finished products, explaining the changes to the standards as required. This experience and understanding lead me to deal with system based problems with processing transactions, in a timely basis as this generally lead to problems with processing payments to suppliers, or invoicing customers, ensuring that income and expenses match and were reported in the correct periods. During this I helped continually improve the Bills of material, by working with various production managers and supervisors to establish the correct components for the BOM and leasing with the planning and IT departments to amend the BOMS accordingly. The resulting data was fed into the monthly cost of sales, and the subsequent planning forecasts for the budget and 5-year plans. to explain the cost of sales base upon the various material groups and allow the various assumptions to be made in the forecasts for the future changes. I ended up introducing the new product ranges to the company and redesigning the systems processes as the various business units are consolidated into 1 unit.



CEVA Logistics

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

• Temporary Management Accountant

  • Sep 2015 - Jan 2016

  I worked at the Headquarters of the Logistics Organisation, where I managed the accounts for the newspaper contracts. Working with the established team on SAP systems, I was helping with the management accounts team in preparing for year end, and helping close down, within 5 working days of the year end date. My main responsibilities include; • Analysing the costs and revenues for 10 sites or contracts each week • Reporting the results weekly • Inputting the 2016 budget data • Helping implement improved balance sheet reviews I achieve an accurate explanation of the last quarter's results, in time for the consolidation into the groups accounts. I also helped with the documentation of the processes to allow more flexibility in the organistion in the future.



3M HealthCare Limited

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care

• Accountant

  • Apr 2013 - Sep 2015

  I worked for a factory in the UK who made Inhalers for the group's health care division. My main responsibilities include; • Analysing and controlling the manufacturing overhead (approx. £25mil per year). • Analysing and controlling and communicating the R&D spending (approx. £10mil) • Monthly balance sheet reconciliations • Preparation of the annual budgets for the Manufacturing Overheads and R&D • Preparation of the 5-year plan for the manufacturing overheads and R&D expense • Working out the annual R&D tax credit and communicating this to the auditors • Monthly EC sales list and reconciliation to the Intrastat and Vat report I maintained control of the factory overheads, meeting a tight 5 working day deadline each month, while working with the R&D director and managers to monitor and control the various projects being undertaken. This resulted in the costings for the annual budget and the annual review of the 5-year plan.



Rumenco

• United Kingdom
• Farming
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Management Accountant

  • Apr 2012 - Mar 2013

  A midlands animal feed company (Turnover £43 mil) who had taken over a Kent based animal feed business Nettex which had an annual turnover of £6 million. My main responsibilities include. • Creating a monthly management accounting pack, and the ongoing production. • Reconciliation of the Balance sheet Accounts • Reconciliation of the Invoice Discounting scheme • Preparation for the first audit of the new business • Start circulation of information to the managers of the business. • Production of the fixed Asset Register • Compiling the expenses receipts from the staff • Implementing foreign exchange revaluations, for the sales & purchase ledgers • Preparation of the annual Budget The company had just acquired Nettex and looked to incorporating them into the existing Rumenco accounting systems. This involved working with managers with no financial experience as the accountant had left. My key achievement was to turn a company who had gone through the uncertainties of a change of ownership, into a set of accounts with fully reconciled balance sheet, maintained the monthly profit and Loss reporting, and reconcile the Invoice discounting.



The Royal Crown Derby Porcelain Co. Ltd.

• Accountant

  • Feb 2009 - Apr 2012

  A fine bone China company, Turnover £6.8 Million, I was responsible for one employee. My duties included. • Production of the monthly management accounts, and balance sheet recons. • Reconciliation of the prepayments, Accruals, and Fixed assets register monthly • Production of the VAT return. • Production of the National Statistics and Intrastat returns • Preparation of the annual Audit, and a quarterly audit by the banks • Daily cash flow management • Preparations of the Annual Budgets The company had gone through a round of redundancies, which has led the 2 accountants to leave, I had to learn with no handover and help guide someone else to produce a set of accounts for the year, while keeping control of an extremely time cash situation.



H K Wentworth Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Accountant

  • May 2002 - Dec 2008

  A manufacturer of 2 brands. AF produces cleaning equipment for computer and communications equipment, and Electrolube, who produce Electro-chemicals for LED, Automotive and Industrial manufacturers. The group had a turnover of £12 million. My monthly duties included. • Production of the monthly management accounts. • Monthly balance sheet Reconciliations • Preparations of the monthly prepayments and accruals • Maintenance of the Fixed asset Register • Monthly intrastat and Office of national statistics returns • Preparation of the annual budgets • Maintenance of the standard costs • Costing of new products as part of the implementation process Part of a team of 6, and working with a Financial accountant, I was responsible at the end for the stock and costing system. My key achievements in my time, being the investigation and understanding of the company's stock system and the stock movements. Following the discovery of computer-generated errors, the subsequent upgrading of the computer systems. This was a role I developed as my own having started taking over responsibility of the foreign sales offices processing their transactions at first until I could integrate the processes into the regular UK systems.