Experience

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  Homerton university hospital nhs foundation trust

  Oct 2009 - Oct 2010

  Assistant management accountant

  • Completed financial reports including variance analysis, forecasts, and activity schedules, liaise with departmental budget holders to ensure all relevant recharges are calculated and invoiced within monthly deadlines.• Raised invoices and chased debtors for payments for the year-end in financial accounting after two days’ handover.• Attended meetings with budget holders on monthly basis to review their budget and make adjustments if necessary.Key Achievements:• Implemented new Recharge Register in Microsoft Access to make the invoice process efficient and quicker, replacing paper based register.• Developed Forecast spreadsheet that reduced the time by fifty percent.• Looked after six directorates compare to normal two directorates that I was initially responsible for.• Decreased the Nursery Debt from £65k to £35k by implementing reference number for parents that made it easier to allocate receipts to the individual accounts. Show less

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  British midland international

  Mar 2012 - Dec 2012

  Engineering management accountant

  • Responsible for the accounting of the direct maintenance costs (DMC) provision. This encompassed building a complex excel model that takes account of a number of variables in order to calculate a valid provision. • Prepared the DMC provision profit and loss account and variance analysis and ensure all variances are fully explained. • Prepared appropriate financial input to the annual budgeting and forecasting activity. This required a full understanding of the expected costs for the financial period and assisted in the month on month variance analysis.• Calculate maintenance payments due under leases on monthly basis and confirming the balances with Lessor's on quarterly basis. Key Achievements:• Successfully resolved historical differences ($450k) on account balances with lease companies. • Using my advanced excel skills, automated processes which generated significant benefits, namely reducing the possibility of human error resulting in more accurate reporting and allowing team members more time to take on additional tasks previously not possible because of time constraints. Show less

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  Avon cosmetics uk

  Jan 2013 - Jul 2013

  Finance analyst (revenue and returns)

  This role delivers vital information on a daily basis to senior decision makers within Avon. Responsibile for ensuring that the revenue is calculated and reported in line with GAAP principles, supported by thorough documentation. Complete the month end reconciliations, accounting and variance analysis for all revenue related items, including calculation of the return provision, Revenue Recognition, and Royalties.Track, report and reconcile the key source of sales KPI’s including units, orders and customers, providing insightful analysis across all indicators. Prepare all Plans and Forecasts for Revenue including returns, revenue recognition and CRM. Coordinate with key customers to ensure accurate and appropriately challenging plans are set. Communicate key information to internal finance associates to ensure alignment of all revenue related expenses.Maintain and develop analytical support to the operational returns team that proactively maximises the recovery rate of all returns.Adherence with Internal Control and efficiently dealing with audit queries/requests. Show less

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  Avon

  Aug 2013 - Jul 2017

  • Responsible for enhancing and consolidating the current Source of Sales (49 Markets) and Weekly Sales Trend process. Creating a set of reports that are easily understood, timely, accurate and assist in drawing conclusions that will help enhance business performance.• Provide meaningful and relevant Management Information, highlighting risks and opportunities.• Bringing North and South America into the Europe Revenue processes, Understand existing processes and close the gaps preventing alignment with Europe timetable. Provide support to American markets on changing internal processes.• Drive the Finance transformation agenda through enhancements, which will produce time savings, reduce errors, contribute to a faster close and enhance the forecasts.• Enhance Microstrategy Reporting– by testing and evaluating the BI solution and possible upgrades to overcome some of the obstacles to adoption – such as speed and flexibility.• Data quality – liaising with IT, the BI team and the business advocating the need for validation of the CBI data. This is a key enabler to greater automation and time saving, as well as to improving analytics capability.• Develop and manage 1 direct Associate.Key Achievements:• Reduced one day of consolidation process for monthly SOS Report by automation.• Reduced the Month End and forecast process by 3 days. 2 days were achieved via adjusting the Reporting timetable; however, 1-day reduction was purely achieved by streamlining Reporting’s month end processes.• Stopped monthly account level P&L and Balance Sheet commentaries for all the areas as it was not required under SOX controls and introduced Cash Flow commentaries to manage the Cash Flow better and designed Income Statement walk to adhere to SOX controls. Show less • Responsible for the consolidation process of all financial statements (P&L, B/S and Cash Flow) during the actual monthly closings and the planning processes (Forecasts & Plans).• Provide a stable Financial Reporting environment where results are robust and reliable and are also clearly understood by Senior Management through meaningful variance analysis.• Resolve queries from Local, Regional and Global finance teams and Auditors in an accurate and timely manner.• Prepare Financial Statements (P&L, B/S and Cash Flow) and assist wider group to understand variances. Prepare relevant action plans to avoid major surprises in the future to drive forecast accuracy.• Business Partnering finance team in their use and understanding of Finance systems, Month End Close and Financial Planning processes.• Lead Month End Actuals Review, Forecasts and Cash Flow Review meetings. Show less • Provide Business Partnering support to the Marketing team in enhancing strategies and initiatives.• Ensuring initiatives are cost effective and return maximum profitability.• Ensuring the right initiatives are used based on financial insight and analytics. Show clear impact on Company’s Income Statement, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow.• Ensuring initiatives are tracked and benefits captured.• Review performance of all discretionary investments and perform advanced but standardised analytics to draw out insight and recommendations.(Pre, During and Post Implementation Review)• Present insight and recommendations for future commercial direction and strategy to local and Board (Monthly Presentation to the Board).Key Achievements:• Assisted Head of Finance to complete the Returns project to highlight over £2m saving opportunity. • Played a key role in delivering £1.4m Incremental sales using advanced analytical skills in an Incentive and minimised Inventory risks. • Won Pride of AVON Award twice for my contribution to a project and driving £1.4m Incremental Sales. • Won Best Business Partnering Award for the Year 2014.• Built Presentation, Contracts, Negotiations and Business Partnering skills as part of the Business Partner Academy. Show less

  • Finance Manager Revenue and Systems

    Jan 2016 - Jul 2017

  • Senior Financial Reporting Analyst

    Jan 2015 - Dec 2015

  • Commercial Investments and Customer Analyst (Finance Analyst)

    Aug 2013 - Dec 2014
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  Barratt developments plc

  Aug 2017 - now

  • Lead the FP&A team in the production and interpretation of group financial information. • Provide executive support in producing succinct, relevant and timely information to both aid and challenge business decision-making.• Responsible for co-ordinating, consolidating and challenging the Groups monthly forecast, 3 years plan and budget.• Provide financial business partnership across Group functions including sales & marketing, operations, land, construction and customer care.• Lead the preparation and review information of financial information for City presentations and results announcements.• Lead a team of 8, including management of four direct reports.Key Achievements:• Assisted with the Redrow merger in 2024, including due diligence, calculating synergy savings, and leading working capital workstream. • Developed a financial model for the combined Group (Barratt and Redrow) to evaluate working capital (Financial statements, covenants, and headrooms).• Designed the monthly Management Reporting slides for the Board to provide better insight replacing Excel based Trading Report which was in place for over 10 years.• Amended the timing of 3 year plans to eliminate some monthly forecasts to avoid duplication of work at all levels. • Worked with 29 divisions and 7 regions to move the historical forecast cut-off from day 5 to day 3, this enabled to deliver the CFO report on day 6 instead of day 10.• Collaborated with Investor Relations to provide comprehensive Q&A pack to assist the Executive team in answering analyst inquiries.• Designed the market monitoring dashboard to provide better insight to Executive members given the change in market post Covid.• Presented to the Executive team an analysis of 2023 sales performance and actionable insight to improve sales rate. Show less • Be responsible for the Coordination, review and challenge of weekly and monthly reporting for the Executive• Be responsible for the Coordination, review and challenge of monthly numerical data from site to Group level to provide insightful analysis as required • Manage, prepare and review information for External City presentations and results announcements• Continually review and drive improvements in management information reporting processes and reports responding to changes in business needs• Work with the Head of F,P and A to review and challenge the monthly forecasting, periodic 3YP and budget results• Lead analytical based projects• Directly manage and develop three permanent and two temporary associates, ranging from Assistant Accountant to Senior Management Accountant • Deputies for the Head of F,P and A as and when requiredKey Achievements:• Worked as a finance lead to deliver external reporting as per the request by the Commissioning and Market Authority in relation to all leasehold properties, this involved hiring and training four temporary staff including two legal members. Delivered this project within six weeks covering more than 13 years of records.• Worked with Group Legal team and Legal firms to review all the leasehold apartments. Designed a model in excel to understand the financial implications to the lessee and updated Board members on a weekly basis.• Designed a pack to update senior management to understand the type of product on offer and trading in the period by Barratt and the key competitors, data obtained using web scraping tool.• Updated board on the business implication of the Help to Buy changes from 2021. Show less • Providing both regular and ad-hoc reporting and analysis to the business to highlight trends and drive performance.• Analysing external market factors and competitors to benchmark internal performance.• Challenging and reviewing business KPI’s, providing data and recommendations to drive business improvements.• Driving the use of existing management information within the business and the efficiency of production.• Developing business reporting, identifying underlying trends and drivers of business performance.• Business partnering with range of stakeholders including but not limited to Head of Legal, Head of Sales and Head of Marketing.• Providing support to Board Members for both internal and external reporting.• Management, coaching and development of one permanent and one temporary staff.• Promoted to Senior Business Role in July 2019. Show less

  • Head of FP&A

    Sept 2021 - now

  • Group F P & A Reporting Manager

    Jan 2020 - Sept 2021

  • Group Senior Business Analyst - Group Finance

    Aug 2017 - Jan 2020