Experience

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  Centurion

  • Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia

  • Management Accountant

    • Jan 2024 - Present
    • Brisbane City, Queensland, Australia

    • Ensuring the weekly and monthly financials are produced in a timely and accurate manner to enable consolidation & publication of Group financials• Assist the FP&A Manager provide analysis on weekly and monthly financials to the EGM Operations & GM Finance• Multi-site P&L reporting, KPI reporting and variance analysis• Preparation of utilisation and fleet performance reporting• Preparation of monthly general ledger reconciliations• Provide support with contract tender modelling and performance review• Assist with the preparation of forecasts and budgets• Provision of ad-hoc support to the General Manager and operations staff• Develop, implement and manage financial and economic models for the Centurion East business• Completion of administration duties as and when required by the department• Ensure journals are processed in timely manner• Assist the FP&A Manager investigate tools to enable the better reporting of weekly and monthly financials, working with the GM Finance using MS Excel and Power BI• Refining the current weekly process with the aim of making it efficient, working with the FP&A Manager

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  Ford Motor Company

  • Dunton, England, United Kingdom

  • Information Technology Financial Analyst

    • Jun 2020 - Nov 2023
    • Dunton, England, United Kingdom

    Monthly review and monitoring of the IT team budgets.Work with the central finance team to setup budgets for the forthcoming year. Ensure balance is maintained for project finance and department budgets.Appraise the leadership team with the status of Finance budgets.Raise revenue requests IT spending agreements and raise spend requests through SAP.Work with teams that raise Purchase Orders to determine when costs will be incurred and ensure billing schedules are captured;Follow-up with teams to amend purchase orders with changes in services required.Work with teams to determine unspent funds to be returned to central finance for diversification.Work with Project Managers to resolve projects or people forecast over funding limits in budget.Maintain special accounts tracking of external supply contracts;Maintain the department tracking sheets and also maintain the departments record retention matrix;

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  Debenhams

  • London, England, United Kingdom

  • Finance Analyst (E-Comm)

    • Feb 2019 - Mar 2020
    • London, England, United Kingdom

    • Prepared the P&L account for the E-commerce business with updates to individual period’s performance vs forecast, budgets and pervious years.• Prepared the monthly P&L pack with commentary for movement in Sales & Margin, Operations, Marketing and Payroll costs on a detailed level.• Updated the Balance Score Card detailing the performance of the non-financial factors to assist with trade performance review.• Communicated to the treasury, latest cashflow forecast based on recent trends and new promotions on offer. • Supported the reporting processes for E-Commerce business generating weekly performance reports that include previous week’s performance vs budgets, forecast and previous year.• Supported the month end process by posting accruals, prepayments and completing balance sheet reconciliations.• Performed variance analysis and updated commentary on the underlying drivers to each divisional area’s performance.• Producing yearly budgets and detailed periodic forecast with management commentary explaining reasons to changes and updates.• Provide ad-hoc reports to key stakeholders by analysing company promotions to assess profitability and understand the effectiveness of various offers.

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  Ford Motor Company

  • Laindon, Basildon

  • Finance Analyst

    • Aug 2014 - Dec 2018
    • Laindon, Basildon

    • Designing advanced models to replicate GMCF outputs.• Analysing revenue, cost, investment, volume and exchange rates for future models.• Reporting profitability and cash flow using numerous currencies.• Preparing detailed variances reporting and commentary.• Influencing board decision making processes.• Consolidating status of major programmes and contribution margin impact.• Realigning programme Business Plans for senior level review.• Assisting with Budget and Business Plan by Product Line.• Merging business plan data bi-annually for GMCF.• Profitability modelling including income statement for a van from Turkey.• Forecasting van profits over a 5-year period.• Communicating with staff and managers in Vehicle Finance and Purchasing.• Presenting output related to individual vehicle lines.

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  Wonga.com

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Reconciliation Analyst

    • May 2014 - Jul 2014
    • London, United Kingdom

    • Notifying debt management companies/debt collection agency of aged exceptions.• Transitioning from single to bulk payments. • Clearing an un-reconciled bank transaction backlog.• Clearing receipts/payments in suspense account.

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  The Portland Hospital for Women and Children

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Accounts Receivable Supervisor

    • Nov 2011 - Feb 2014
    • London, United Kingdom

    • Working for a private hospital dedicated to women’s and children’s healthcare.• Managing a small payment cycle of 7 days.• Delivering details to patients, doctors and insurance companies.• Adeptly assisting the Management Accountant with reviewing prices.• Formulating prices for new procedures using market research.• Completing regular audits to review quality of work.• Investigating and resolving complaints from patients. • Meticulously reviewing all advances.• Reducing credits over 60 days.• Preparing weekly status reports and bank reconciliation daily for all funds collected. • Providing aged debt report for credit control daily.• HR tasks including feedback on performance, career plans and probation reviews. • Achieving results at a hospital with a high employee attrition rate.

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  Aegis Limited

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Team Leader

    • Feb 2010 - Jul 2011
    • Mumbai Area, India

    • A senior role with a global outsourcing and technology services company.• Processing invoices and preparing monthly expenses reporting.• Reducing aged creditors prior to promotion in Jun 2010.• Monitoring creditor aging reports.• Providing weekly creditor updates for the senior management team.• Reducing creditors exceeding the normal credit period.• Gathering information to measure the performance of group companies against KPIs.• Tracking compliance of SOPs for purchases/expenses.• Clearing advances paid to vendors.• Updating general ledger and producing detailed revenue analysis.• Converting outputs to BI reports.

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  Reliance Industries Limited

  • Mumbai Area, India

  • Associate Accounts Payable

    • Nov 2007 - Jan 2010
    • Mumbai Area, India

    • Ensuring compliance with local laws and regulations.• Processing all invoices for material purchases and services received from vendors.• Investigating vendor and auditor queries.• Highlighting outstanding payments and reconciling vendor balances.• Efficiently maintaining MIS for advances paid.• Clearing payments and approving online vendor payments.

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  Sanpada College of Commerce

  • Asst. Lecturer

    • Jun 2006 - Oct 2007

    Teaching Under Graduates

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  ASK Engineers

  • Accountant

    • Mar 2001 - Dec 2005

    Assistant Accountant