Experience

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  Alka financial services limited

  Oct 2009 - Mar 2010

  Junior assistant

  Assisted the investment analyst in fund management, ISA Campaign, maintaining client portfolios, databases and unit prices. Assisted the financial controller with bank reconciliations, supplier payments, credit control, payroll and petty cash. Organised and attended meetings with fund managers and seminars in order to produce an evaluation on future investments. Produced presentations and reports for clients and management. Aided in the integration of Advisor Office and data migration.Performed clerical duties, such as faxing, filing, taking minutes and office maintenance. Show less

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  Gondola holdings

  Mar 2010 - May 2010

  Branch cash assistant

  Maintain and reconcile branch cash for over 100 restaurants on a weekly basis. Investigate discrepancies between declarations of banking statements against restaurant accounts. Liaise with restaurant and operation managers to identify and rectify discrepancies. Liaise with American Express, Barclays, Alliance & Leicester and Diners in regard to transactions. Post journals and manually process payments.

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  Subsea 7

  Jun 2010 - Aug 2011

  Accounts assistant

  Assist in month end, quarter and year end accounts.Manage accounts payable and receivable for intercompany. Manage short term cash flow including funding and payments.Manage intercompany cash settlement process from implementing payments to credit control.Assist in long term cash flow analysis liaising closely with treasury department.Treasury back office duties such as trade confirmations and reconciliations.Investigate intercompany differences for month end. Execute payments for external supplier payments including posting to general ledger.Ensure the daily upload of intercompany postings for all entities.Monitor all corporate and treasury bank accounts. Show less

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  Cicero group

  Aug 2011 - Apr 2016

  Assistant accountant

  - Produce monthly profit and loss statements for group and departments with variance analysis.- Balance sheet reconciliations on a monthly basis.- Bank reconciliations for three entities including EUR, USD and SGD bank accounts. - Revenue reconciliation including managing internal splits within departments.- Inter-company reconciliations, ensuring all inter-company loan accounts reconcile.- General ledger including prepayments, accruals plus preparing and posting journals.- Payroll including processing starters, leavers, setting up payments and submitting PAYE.- Corporate credit card reconciliation for two entities. - Preparing and posting month end journals include managing journal logs.- Producing and sending out all client invoices.- Assist in budget preparation for eight departments including entering them onto accounting software.- Yearly revenue forecast management for all eight departments. - Manage fixed asset register including posting depreciation.- Reconcile and submit VAT returns for three entities. - Review, enter and process all employee expenses on a monthly basis.- Manage purchase order log and reconcile against budgets.- Manage timesheet system including producing monthly reports on clients.- Manage employee holidays for group.- Cash flow forecast over 13 week period updated daily with bank balance including funding of entities.- Accounts receivable for three entities including credit control. - Accounts payable including managing supplier invoices and setting up payments. Show less

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  Moneycorp

  Apr 2016 - Mar 2018

  Wholesale management accountant

  Month-end responsibilities:• Management of profit and loss statements for two divisions including variance analysis and commentary.• Balance sheet reconciliation for two divisions for group reporting and presentation purposes.• Produce KPI reports including comparison of previous year for two divisions.• Responsible for producing monthly balance sheets for Wholesale department.• Management of monthly cash flows and working capital schedules for Treasury.• Assist in the preparation of group management pack, executive team pack and board reports.• Bank reconciliation for Wholesale and Moneycorp Bank.Project work:• Management of data validation for Wholesale division with IT.• Management of Wholesale division separation to two units.• Creation of balance sheet reconciliation process for Wholesale and Outsourcing division.• Assistance in the data migration for Wholesale division to new department within Moneycorp.Additional responsibilities:• Lead year end audit for Wholesale and Outsourcing divisions.• Daily reporting for Wholesale and Outsourcing divisions.• Daily reconciliation of Explorer card sales on 10 different currencies. Show less

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  Vccp

  Mar 2018 - Sept 2019

  Management accountant

  Month -end responsibilities:• Producing the monthly management accounts for a number of companies in the partnership, including commentary on all material variances.• Preparation and posting of all month end income, cost accruals, prepayment and re-classification journals. Including subsequent reconciliation of management accounts to Paprika.• Monthly reporting of actuals, forecast, KPI’s and commented movement analysis to group via the TM1 consolidation tool.• Review of forecasts with MD, CEO and CFO.• Full Balance Sheet reconciliations including the preparation of monthly balance sheet reporting packs for FD review and submission to parent company.Other responsibilities:• Liaising with Managing Directors, Heads of Departments and Business Directors to ensure forecasts are up-to-date and income and costs expectations are accurately reflected daily.• Authorising all overheads, including the review and authorisation of monthly payroll and staff costs as well as staff expenses.• Ensure the business is adhering to all financial processes and controls such as income is being recognised correctly, currently following IFRS15 and IR35.• Continual development of financial processes and controls.• Ensuring costs are being managed in-line with budgets.• Coordinate and prepare the annual budget including reforecasting after every quarter.• Liaising with external auditors in accordance of providing support for recognised income, accruals and prepayments.• Timesheet analysis on employee’s vs client accounts for client audit.Project work:• Assisted with the migration of Finance from in-house servers to cloud servers.• In process of creating a documented manual for management accounts that can always be referred to for assistance. Show less

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  Cbre global workplace solutions (gws) emea

  Sept 2019 - Jul 2022

  Regional finance and contract manager

  Achievements:• Successfully coaching Facilities Coordinator to get promotion to Regional Facilities Coordinator.• Clearing of aged debt amounting to $80k from 2017 upon joining.• Initiating and managing the split between two entities from Profit and Loss Statements and Balance Sheets.• Full reconciliation of client books in year of joining.Core Responsibilities:• Partnering local Facilities Management and Operations team to create efficiencies in site management.• Ensuring all aspects of finance responsibilities are within the contractual agreement.• First point of contact for finance related queries over my regions (Nordics, Middle East, Netherlands and Ireland).• Regularly liaising with client Finance Lead to ensure good cash flow management by resolving aged debt concerns.• Manage and help develop local contract support team across countries including training sessions and weekly calls.• Identify Risk and Opportunities early to mitigate any impact to the bottom line by regularly and periodically forecasting.Month-end responsibilities:• Management of Profit and Loss statements including commentary and analysis on variances for senior management.• Management of Client Reporting including journals, commentary and analysis on variances for client presentation.• Assist in preparation of Client Report File covering all 29 countries globally.• Reconciliation between Corporate Books and Client Books with commentary on all analysis.• Balance Sheet reconciliations.Other responsibilities:• Annual budget building and analysis at Corporate and Client level. • Management of revenue billing, ensuring client is billed and captured correctly including out of contract tasks.• Lead for audit queries over my regions Show less

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  Iss facility services uk

  Aug 2022 - now

  Finance business partner

  - Develop and maintain a professional and proactive business relationship with all levels of client’s representatives; promoting the Company and development of services and understanding the changing needs of the customer.- Build partnerships and strong relationships with all senior managers, key stakeholders and their teams providing financial support to commercial decision making.- Provide effective commercial procedures, or initiate change, to ensure key operational, commercial and financial targets are delivered.- Ensure timely and accurate forecasting of financial performance including month end and management of the budget planning process. Highlight all key risks and opportunities across accounts and ensure action to mitigate and maximise respectively.- Alongside the Senior Finance Business Partner develop and execute actions to improve financial performance. Working closely with other ISS business units in order to ensure alignment of the divisions and an overview of the whole portfolio.- Drive growth and ensure commercial control of projects delivery process e.g. supplier selection; projects sign off process; financial performance of variable works; scope change sign off and reporting.- Pro-active management of the billing process and cash collection as well as all balance sheets for the portfolio.- Ensure that processes are consistently followed and challenged to maintain financial control.- Supply chain governance including working closely with the account team and Procurement to align to business objectives and optimise supplier maintenance agreements.- Advise the Finance Director and Account Directors of all key changes which affect Commercial performance and work closely with the Senior Management team on the accounts.- To perform any ad-hoc duties at the discretion of the Finance Director and Sector Director. Show less