Experience

McKeever Hotel Group
• United Kingdom
• Hospitality
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Group Financial Controller/Head of Finance

  • Sep 2019 - Present


Bemis Company, Inc.

• Switzerland
• Packaging and Containers Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• BRM/R2R Financial Controller/SSC manager

  • Sep 2017 - Present

  • Day to day running of GL/R2R team responsible for 8 business units and the monthly close process • Day to day management of finance team and training of junior team members • Review of monthly P&L, BS and all reports for Europe and the US for 8 business units • Review and sign off of all Balance Sheet and Intercompany transactions • Responsible for transformation of European business units in to shared service environment with project accountant • Review of all processes and controls to ensure alignment and best practice is adhered to • Liaising with finance business partners at sites across UK and Europe gaining good understanding of the financial and operational results providing insightful commentary and variance analysis of actuals vs outlook, plan etc. • Work closely with the US team to develop systems, reports and smart working and liaising with internal audit to ensure compliance • Support the implementation and measurement of KPI’s conducive to the company’s goals • Oversee year end audit for 8 business units Show less



Verint-Systems

• United Kingdom
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Finance Manager/revenue controller

  • Nov 2016 - Jun 2017

  • Manage and coach a team of 8 in both Belfast and London • Responsible for all revenue recognition checklists and all recognition and forecasting for Verint UK and KSIL and compliance to all SOX controls • Ensure compliance with US GAAP revenue recognition policies • Manage the EMEA audit both externally and internally for all entities • Responsible for all Quarterly analysis reviews, BvA reports and any ad hoc revenue reporting • Production of VSOE reports for services, managed services and support • Review all bonuses and commission for services within EMEA • Supporting business systems integration (Rev Pro and Oracle R12 – US GAAP revenue reporting) Show less



Dixons Carphone

• United Kingdom
• Retail
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Finance Consultant

  • May 2015 - Nov 2016

  • Worked one to one with CFO on budget and forecasts to ensure financial and commercial relevance as well as presentations to board. • Manage the monthly reporting cycle ensuring that flash and actual management accounts and associated reports have sufficient commercial insight and commentary as well as containing accurate numbers aiming to add value to the business. • Control the short-term forecasts bi-annually ensuring that the commercial plan; which is understood by FP&A is interpreted correctly throughout the other business units. • Managed the risk and opportunities across the business on a weekly basis vs plan/STF. • Business partner with commercial, logistics and GNFR directors and their teams to ensure all ad hoc analysis is accurate to ensure financial support in these departments. • Manage the budget timetable to ensure that the timetable is well constructed and communicated and ensure this assists with the consolidation of the budget; creating the basis for the Board budget pack. • Create and present the budget executive pack for the board challenging the financials and collating financial insight in to the results for each month, quarter, H1 and H2 to ensure effective phasing for the group and each channel. • Assist the Directors with the three year plan and run this with the CFO and the wider business units to ensure the groups objectives are challenged upon consolidation • Manage synergy reporting to the IMO and internally within each individual synergy stream across the whole business Show less



Addison Lee

• United Kingdom
• Transportation, Logistics, Supply Chain and Storage
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Head of Finance

  • Jan 2014 - May 2015

  • Work with the GFC and CFO to ensure that we create a robust and accurate budget and forecast; with clear documentation in and around the key assumptions formed. • Business partner with the relevant senior managers in areas such as Operations, Fleet, Sales and Marketing, IT etc. • Operational financial lead on all acquisitions and projects.• Present 13 week cash flow to the PE board.• Produce operational and financial strategic analysis for all areas of the business as and when necessary. • Review monthly management reporting and all MI produced to assess variance to budget and the impact of these results on the business. • Review the weekly flash reports and forecast the month end position; producing trend analysis as and when required. • Project work reviewing the B2B and B2C trends, effects of loyalty schemes, discounts offered etc. on the revenue streams within the P&L to ensure competitive advantage is maintained. • Extensively involved in acquisitions becoming heavily involved in due diligence (legal and financial) and analysis of the targets current business and potential value to the company. • Presented to potential buyers during sale process illustrating key financials and answering all relevant business questions as and when required. • Assessed the operational effect of the acquisitions and managed the transition period ensuring the best fit to the existing model was achieved in order to sustain the added the acquired revenue.• Work with CFO in all areas of group financial and strategic planning.• Liaise with tax advisors to ensure US and European projects are compliant. • Project operational finance lead on various projects such as commercial credit card project (ensuring fees and fraud are kept to a minimum to protect the credit card revenue stream of the business). Show less

• Group Financial Controller/Head of FP&A

  • Jun 2010 - Dec 2013

  • Responsible for overseeing a finance floor of 30 people (with three departmental supervisors assisting) in different departments including pricing, credit control, litigation, finance and management account• Responsible for the consolidation of the group financials across car, leasing and coach businesses. • Responsible for lender relationships to ensure that asset finance and acquisition finance is achievable in order to facilitate the growth of the business. • Project managed and drove forward the implementation of a new finance and stock system (CODA financials) as well as change management around this. • Sign off and review payroll reports and procedures for five companies within the group after payroll production by the group payroll co-ordinator.• Responsible for the roll out of the auto-enrolment pension scheme for the general employees and the administration of the Aegon managerial pension scheme. • Ensured appropriate CAPEX and OPEX procedures were in place to meet the requirements of the group. • Overview the year end procedure – reviewing the lead schedules and the year-end process by the accounting team and am the main point of contact with the external auditors before being part of the audit sign off meeting to discuss and finalise the group accounts. • Statutory compliance in regard to pension fund Guernsey• Review of 13 week cash flow to ensure no cash flow issues and effective working capital. • Review the financials and prepare discussions with key members of the management team to suggest areas of risk/opportunities • Responsible for all VAT, tax and statutory reporting and compliance. • Liaise with the off shore captive Insurance provider to verify the valuations are accurate and continued compliance for the group. • Daily point of contact for the CEO and shareholders of the company, providing them with financial updates and general information as and when required. Show less

• Finance Manager/Assistant Financial Controller

  • Sep 2008 - May 2010

  • Produced the monthly management accounts for the group reviewing all the journals, balance sheet reconciliations and consolidation adjustments.• Liaise heavily with the HR department ensuring that payroll and finance procedures are compliant and are aligned with HR. • Manage the finance team – AP, AR and pricing. • Responsible for managing the credit checking procedure (involving tenders with D&B/Experian etc), debtor days, litigation and bad debt policies. • Responsible for signing off the VAT, PAYE, Corporation Tax etc. • Heavily involved in the year end process with the external auditors.• Responsible for all treasury management of funds. Show less

• Finance Manager

  • Mar 2008 - Aug 2008



Mabey

• United Kingdom
• Construction
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Manager/Company Accountant

  • Feb 2007 - Feb 2008

  • Reported directly to the FD with a team of six reporting to myself. • Responsible for all day to day overview of processes – accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, HR. • Responsible for reviewing the management accounts and providing detailed analysis around the figures presented to the FD. • Worked with the Financial Director and Commercial Director on contract costing to ensure that all contracts were accurate and up to date. • Maintained the stock system and accounting system that were not integrated and implemented a new expenses system – “XpenSys” and was heavily involved with the IT manager to ensure this worked and was tested thoroughly before going live. • Responsible for reviewing and paying both the weekly and monthly staff ensuring all staff reporting their hours on times sheets were adhering to working time regulations. • Required to produce all operational, financial and ad hoc analysis as and when required by one of the directors or another director from a subsidiary company. • Responsible for all HR procedures and communicated all new policies to all department managers throughout the business. Show less



Pendragon PLC - Mercedes Benz North West

• Market Area Group Accountant

  • Sep 2004 - Jan 2007

  • Jointly responsible with the other Market Area Accountant for five Mercedes Benz Dealerships and one Body shop within the North West region. • Based in the Head Office in Bolton where we had a team of twelve people based centrally who reported in to me. • Prepared the monthly Management Packs with the other Market Area Accountant for each of the five Dealerships which consisted of accounts for all departments within the dealership as well as unit statistics and analysis for each department all within a 5 day month end deadline. • Prepared weekly flash figures for the Dealer Principals, Market Area FD, and Market Area MD on a Monday morning and discussed and justified these with all concerned via a conference call. • Business partnered with the Departmental Managers of each Dealership (Sales, Parts,Service,Car finance), providing guidance and support on their reported figures to ensure that flash figures were obtainable and realistic. • Prepared the annual budget with the Group FD for submission to Head Office and then rolled these out to the dealerships and gave them guidance and progress reports when required. • Overviewed all the commission calculations for all salesmen to ensure that they were paid in accordance with the sales commission matrix. • Prepared all unit and financial information in relation to car bonuses to bonus providers such as Daimler Chrysler and controlled the stock ordering, stock checks and overall stock control of each dealership. • Reconciled and controlled all the finance commission for all five business managers across the dealerships to ensure that these were claimed correctly and in accordance with company policy. • Provided a breakdown and analysis of all the department’s accounts in a monthly meeting of each dealership’s Management Pack so that financial information was communicated to non-financial colleagues in an effective manner. Show less