Jake Soanes

Experience

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  Smith & Williamson LLP

  Aug 2009 - Jun 2013

  Chartered Accountant

  Chartered Accountant working in the Salisbury office of Smith & Williamson LLP.Specialised in providing compliance and advisory services to companies, partnerships and trusts with a particular expertise in owner-managed businesses (SMEs).

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  Sony Electronics

  Jul 2013 - Aug 2016

  E2E process design and implementationProcess efficienciesVolumetric analysis and executionBusiness partnering (Accounting & reporting, Controlling, Procurement, HR, Credit Control, IS)External sister entity on-boarding onto global finance platform (Sony Canada, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)Management of BPO (day to day running, SLA ownership, team structure, shift patterns)Project management Month end closingVariance analysisBalance sheet reconciliationsAudit evidence submissionsInternal corporate compliance submissionsInternal corporate training / presentingBusiness partnering (Marketing, Credit control)Project work / UAT (Legal absorption of smaller Sony Entity) Month end closingVariance analysisBalance sheet reconciliationsAudit evidence submissionsInternal corporate compliance submissionsBusiness partnering (HR, Facilities, Procurement)Project work / UAT (SAP ERP implementation)

  • Accounting Process Expert

    Jun 2015 - Aug 2016

  • Variable SGA Specialist

    Sept 2014 - Jun 2015

  • Fixed SGA Specialist

    Jul 2013 - Sept 2014
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  ISS Facility Services UK

  Aug 2016 - Aug 2017

  Finance Manager

  Budget and forecast management and consolidation for private sector divisionCash management focus, maximising receipts whilst controlling spendManagement of statutory ledgers and balance sheet reconciliationsMonth end consolidation and review of divisional results with divisional FDs

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  Elliott Group, Ebara Corp

  Aug 2017 - Aug 2019

  UK Financial Controller

  Head of the UK ledgers and controls finance function, managing a team of sixUK turnover of circa £50m and headcount of 100Overall responsibility for compliance with all internal and external financial reporting and controlsFull company secretarial responsibilitiesChairman of the board of trustees for the company DB pension scheme

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  Verizon

  Sept 2019 - now

  • Senior Manager

    Dec 2023 - now

  • Transformation Accounting Manager

    Sept 2020 - Dec 2023

  • Transformation Accountant

    Sept 2019 - Aug 2020