Experience

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  Sainsbury's

  Jun 2007 - Jun 2015

  My role was a sales assistant (weekends); the main objective of this role is to provide a quality service to customers alongside stock replenishing. Throughout the time spent at Sainsbury’s I have worked in many different departments to further my knowledge and experience of the company.• Developing rapport with customers and discussing needs to ensure the customer is completely satiated before dealing with another.• Providing an exceptional level of customer service, communication skills, and liaising with individuals of all levels and cultural backgrounds.• Effectively managing teams- I have trained and supervised staff whilst delegating tasks to colleagues to ensure that all work assigned is completed to a high standard, and ensure that colleagues were complying with health and safety laws whilst working.• Use of computers in an office environment using Excel and Microsoft office to manipulate data.• Assisting colleagues with aims of reaching daily store targets.• Answering telephones and dealing with client/customer enquiries.• Creating visual merchandise. Ensuring all sale products are displayed to company standards, whilst being entrusted with the responsibility of making changes to suit the company’s interests.• Working individually, but as part of a team, to complete company objectives.• Reducing and disposing of products using a handheld device and printer.• Time-keeping, communication and numeracy skills enhanced through different situations that occurred within the working environment.• Working exceptionally hard under pressure during night shifts to swiftly replenish, ensuring the store is set to a high standard and ready for opening the next day, consistently liaising with the Night-Shift Manager. Show less

  • Retail Assistant

    Oct 2005 - Jun 2015

  • Human Resources (Work Experience)

    Jun 2007 - Jun 2007
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  Nva management

  Jul 2008 - May 2009

  Talent scout (work experience)

  The main responsibilities of this role were to source potential clients to generate new business for the company.• Talent scout, this involves sourcing the best candidate for the business and promoting them. I took part in arranging live performances for musical artists, and catwalks/ photo-shoots for the models. I was able to source new talent and complete given tasks successfully.• Arrange client visit to company offices in an attempt to build rapport with the client and encourage future business.• Cold calling prospective clients and selling services. • Interviewing potential clients to develop their career within the entertainment industry.• Develop a relationship with new clients and being the point of contact to represent the company.• Increase company awareness.• Use of initiative, critical thinking, and organisation skills.• Modelling, partook in urban photo-shoots and catwalk shows.• Worked closely with the owner of NVA management to delegate tasks and suggest any new creative ideas for the company. Show less

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  Hackett london

  Oct 2013 - Feb 2015

  Accounts payable clerk

  Analysis:• Assist with the preparation of the monthly management pack including commentary and insights for operating costs across the group.• Conduct monthly cost control and review meetings with marketing team and in depth variance analysis of some project costs.• Monitoring, control, analysis and feedback of cost centre performance.• Help produce the overhead cost centre budgets and half year forecast preparation, inclusive of analytical review.• Assist with group budget presentations.• Assist with special project business plans and feasibility studies in new territories and new business partnerships.• Business partner for the assigned cost centre managers Accounts Payable• Matching, coding and processing invoices for Hackett ltd of non-stock vendor invoices, samples and credit notes within SAP, for vendors relating to allocated departments.• Creating and reviewing fixed assets.• Processing inter-company recharges.• Creating a monthly report in Excel to analyse any outstanding credit or debit balances, and promptly reconciling these with clients.• Reconciliation of supplier statements including resolution of queries with suppliers and the business. This involves exporting items off SAP into Excel to complete supplier reconciliation.• Investigating invoice discrepancies.• Monthly due date analysis.• Dealing with client and colleagues queries promptly and effectively.• Liaison with department heads to obtain timely approval of invoices and resolve invoice queries with clients of Hackett Limited.• Preparation of Bi-Monthly vendor payments in various different currencies, including creating online beneficiaries where necessary.• Creating new suppliers.• Answering telephones and dealing with client/supplier queries.• Requesting credit and debit notes where required.• Purchase Order and invoice matching for departments using the purchase order system to control expenditure.• Process offset entries for clients where needed. Show less

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  United perfumes

  Feb 2015 - Sept 2015

  Assistant financial control

  • Bi-weekly business performance reporting for Sales vs Budget, Cire Trudon and Fornasetti Profumi reports.• Construct a new budget forecast for CT & FP sales, production, and the overall sales budget for the 2015-16 financial year, and verifying the figures with the Finance Director.• Management Accounting• Build a new componentry stock take report, analysing and investigating variances in the figures with the production team.• Weekly updates of the Sales by Client, and Sales by Country reports, and distributing it across the company’s directors including the CEO and managing director. Created new reports utilising the MS Query data for the reports mentioned for the new 2015-2016 financial year.• Analysing and releasing sales performance by individual products and client level to the sales team along with commentary on the data.• Business partnering the Company Directors. Sales and data reporting, relaying complex data to an easier comprehensive understanding whilst obtaining feedback on variances.• Ensure allocation of accruals and prepayments to the correct account period.• Balance sheet Reconciliations: GL’s including purchases ledger, bank, creditors, and debtors.• Regular review of all open purchase orders. Ensuring all purchase orders are updated on the cashflow, and timely recording of monthly accruals and costs in relation to open purchase orders, prepayments and journal entries to ensure accuracy of the income statement at month end.• Reconciled the regular physical stock takes of component and finished goods to the underlying books and records, and investigating any variances in the levels of stock with the production & supply team.• Ensure all bank and cash accounts are reconciled weekly (GBP, EUR, USD).• Processing inter-company recharges, and posting correct journal entries.• Processing of company credit cards.• Multi currency invoicing (USD, GBP, EUR) including matching purchase orders to invoices ensuring correct coding. Show less

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  Igt (formerly gtech), a subsidiary of international game technology plc

  Jan 2016 - Jun 2016

  Finance analyst

  Working for the Vice President in the Lottery division I was responsible for 7 regional sites, which has their own separate Finance Directors, Analyst, and Finance Managers.• Consolidate and analyse the International & International Finance forecast & month end close, liaising with CFOs and their teams as necessary• Prepare the meeting materials used in the monthly actuals review with corporate• Assist in the preparation for board meetings, earnings releases, conference calls, and other presentations on an ad hoc basis• Support management with the detailed analysis of balance sheet actuals and forecast• Create various financial analysis and schedules in support of forecasts• Report and analysis for all aspects of the financial plan including sales, revenues, costs, capital and free cash flows• Performance variance reports, and not limited to monthly management reviews, and SVP offsites• Prepare ad hoc reports as requested by SVP and CFOs Show less

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  Tns uk

  Jun 2016 - Sept 2016

  Finance analyst

  • Prepare revenue recognition files (PP) for the finance team • Production of monthly wins and losses• Submission of Project information to Global (PIP)• Upload of data into Cartesis for Global Reporting for month-end, P&L, forecasts and budgets and resolving queries raised by Global team on data• Production and distribution of weekly Sales and Pipeline reports• Production and distribution of weekly Exception and Timesheet reports• Prepare client commentary file for variance feedback• Assist in the preparation of the quarterly forecast review presentation• Assisting with the preparation of month end P&L and balance sheet including posting of journals. • Prepare month-end balance sheet recs for central divisions• Maintenance of TM1 financial data (Euro Job Report, upload of forecast/budget data)• Assist in the finance team’s adherence to SOX by performing monthly and quarterly checks• Prepare and update Orderbook growth file and Orderbook adjustments• Provide cover on salary database related tasks• Undertake ad hoc reporting, and requests for information and participate in projects / initiatives Show less

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  Quintilesims

  Oct 2016 - Jul 2017

  Finance analyst

  • Produce and send weekly, Revenue, Project Timecard, Temporary code, Utilization and Compliance reports to key stakeholders and senior management of the business• Produce accurate and timely reporting of UK revenue actuals and forecast financials on a monthly basis, including reconciliation of SAP to Hyperion• Assist the team in the accurate and timely reporting of UK revenue annual Plan and strategic planning financials, including assisting Senior Finance Manager, UK&I with the preparation of the 2018 annual Plan• Produce, send, and consolidate quarterly forecast to senior management and cost center owners.• Support in preparation of the bi-weekly roadmap for the Technology & Services business • Help ensure correct revenue recognition in the Technology & Services unit, in particular for parts of the business that have been acquired • Support Senior Finance Manager with calculation of the annual billing & cost rates for the UK business• Running reports in Salesforce and completing Proof of Delivery checks• Activating projects within Project Central and being the first point of contact for queries which may arise.• Assist management in preparation of operating review meetings, strategic planning review meetings and budget review meetings• Building, improving, and implementing new reports and procedures, and reducing time spent on existing reporting• Assume responsibilities for any other related departmental ad-hoc requests and Business Unit finance projects (60% of time allocated) Show less

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  Excel london

  Oct 2017 - Mar 2019

  Finance analyst
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  Karen millen

  Apr 2019 - Aug 2019

  Senior finance analyst

  • Main point of contact and responsible for maintaining TM1 (financial reporting system) and Board• Proactively identify system enhancements and work with external stakeholders to implement• Own the TM1 processes to ensure that data is correctly loaded, versions are controlled and appropriate comparatives used• Assist with the preparation of the monthly, forecast and associated board papers• Assisting senior stakeholders with analytical requirements, main person responsible for weekly sales, margin and company KPI reporting• Monthly cost analysis to senior management and querying variances• Putting together the monthly P&L reporting and providing commentary on variance to budget• Develop a rigorous sales and margin budget with the merchandising teams• Work with business partners to build a regular forecast, challenging assumptions and reviewing current trends.• Provide insight and recommendations that facilitate business decisions• Review the effectiveness of promotional activity• Identify areas of improvement and improving the financial reporting and turnaround process• Providing company information for insurance cover• Assist in providing information to Deloitte and Barclays bank• Taken on the weekly & monthly reporting responsibilities of the junior FP&A analyst• Taken on the reporting aspects of the Retail Finance Business Partner• Assisting on building financial models including the monthly forecast model for the finance manager• Training and transitioning month end tasks to the finance team in Stanton Show less

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  Office concierge

  Oct 2019 - Mar 2020

  Finance analyst