Experience

OSTC Ltd.

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Group Finance Manager

  • May 2019 - Present

• Interim Group Accountant

  • Feb 2019 - May 2019



Independent Growth Finance (IGF)

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Financial Controller (contract)

  • Jan 2018 - Dec 2018

  Daily update of the accounting system (SUN version 5) from trading systems and application of associated controls, including integrity of interface and SUN mapping tables and completeness checks.Daily reporting of client balances, incorporating facility size, collateral, current account and availability, and reconciliation to collateral reporting with banking partner. Weekly and monthly debtor reconciliations, involving manipulation of high volumes of accounting data.Included within the above tasks is a project element to deliver improvements to processes for time saving and accuracy needs whilst developing scalable solutions commensurate with the short term business plan. For the weekly and monthly debtor reconciliations I worked with IT to develop a new reconciliation profile resulting in the automatic matching of circa 80% of postings.Production of monthly management accounts, including quarter on quarter analysis and sales volume against income trends.Monthly external bank reconciliations for payables (client and business operating costs) across all entities and currencies.Calculation of monthly accruals and prepayments, fixed asset additions and depreciation. Also monthly client income review, including review with the head of risk on deferred income provisions and challenge of business assumptions.Monthly broker commission calculation, self billing invoice generation and payments. Also monthly sales staff bonus calculation and sales performance reporting.Ad-hoc analysis reporting and analysis for Finance Manager and CFO, and providing cover for client payments where required.



Commerzbank AG

• Germany
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Traded Balance Sheet Controls Team Lead

  • Feb 2014 - Sep 2017

  Maintained and enhanced controls surrounding the London booked traded balance sheet on a daily and monthly basis.Management of the clearing of Internal and Control accounts for the London Branch and subsidiaries on a monthly basis.Liaison with key stakeholders; Finance Management, Revenue Controllers, Admin Expense controllers, Operations and IT Support teams to ensure timely clearance of breaks.Managed a team of 3 staff (2 qualified) to meet month end control deliverables.Support for departmental projects - legacy system clean-up and testing of enhancements to source systems.

• Financial Process & Controls Team Lead

  • Jan 2013 - Feb 2014

  Produced and presented monthly Key Risk and Performance Indicators report to the regional finance heads and distribution of the report to the Global Investment Bank CFO.Production of a monthly Internal Audit status report, including liaison with directors of divisions within finance (Price verification, Management Information Systems, Hierarchy Management, Revenue Control) to deliver insight on progress to meet Finance audit points.Administration and support of the Internal Controls Database application and monitoring completion of regularly performed controls and issues reporting.Manage a part qualified member of the Financial Process and Controls team, including coaching and guiding.Implement improvements to the timeliness and quality of production of the KPI and Audit Report packs.Establish a timetable for review meetings with revenue controllers to monitor progress on KPI statics and where necessary establish action plans to clear breaks.

• P&L Team Lead

  • Jul 2010 - Jan 2013

  Timely and accurate production of monthly London P&L Financial and Segmental submissions to head office on an IFRS and German GAAP basis, including review of income trends against expectation.Reporting of Financial Reporting flash P&L to Head Office and subsequent monitoring of movements to actual Financial and Segmental P&L later in month end process.Reconciled monthly Financial to Segmental P&L and resolved breaks.Reconciled and reviewed monthly Segmental actual P&L results to daily P&L submissions.Produced and reviewed the London P&L Revenue Report for London Branch and Subsidiary Groups.Liaison with key stakeholders; MIS, Financial Control and Revenue Controllers in the course of delivering financial and segmental P&L reporting requirements.Developed a semi-automated process for the upload and reconciliation of P&L balances into the Head Office financial reporting system.Developed a process for recording and reconciling cash settled Intercompany P&L balances and their translation to GBP equivalent values for Flash and Actual reporting purposes on a Financial and Segmental reporting basis.Managed a team of two qualified staff.



Dresdner Kleinwort

• Consolidation Accountant

  • Sep 2006 - Jun 2010

  Ownership of the consolidation of Subsidiary and SPV groups. Developed an automated journal creation process from the consolidation working files to establish a more accurate and complete set of consolidation adjustments.Board reporting of London Branch, Consolidated Subsidiary and SPV groups.Segmental review reporting and liaison with product controllers to address accounting issues prior to ledger closure.Ownership of the group structure chart. Ownership of the consolidation of Subsidiary and SPV groups. Developed an automated journal creation process from the consolidation working files to establish a more accurate and complete set of consolidation adjustments.Board reporting of London Branch, Consolidated Subsidiary and SPV groups.Segmental review reporting and liaison with product controllers to address accounting issues prior to ledger closure.Ownership of the group structure chart.



Commerzbank AG

• Germany
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• London IT Cost Controller - Finance - Management Reporting

  • Nov 1999 - Sep 2006

  Finance business partner to London IT. During the period Nov 1999 - Feb 2001 held responsibility for IT Infrastructure. After a 2 month secondment to the projects team in March - April of 2001 then managing the relationship across all of London IT.Regular review of IT contractual costs with the business and updates to accruals and prepayments.Support for the annual budgeting process and quarterly forecast expenditure exercises.Monthly Financial Accounting flash review reporting with review co-ordinators.Adhoc investigations into costs and recovery of duplicated payments to Suppliers.Developed and produced IT Summary reports for business heads.



Lloyds Bank

• United Kingdom
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• IT Transfer Pricing Analyst - Central Finance

  • Oct 1997 - Nov 1999



Lloyds TSB General Insurance

• Management Information Analyst - Finance

  • Aug 1996 - 1997