Craig McIlveney

Experience

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  Company Reporting

  Jun 2001 - Jun 2003

  Financial Reporting Analyst

  • Analysis of all U.K. listed company annual accounts, reporting monthly on changes in financial reporting practice, in Company Reporting (monthly publication).• Design, development and construction of the company's first website, with a view to allowing real time reporting to replace the monthly magazine.

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  Alfred McAlpine

  Sept 2004 - Oct 2007

  Graduate Accountant

  • Full employment spent in financial shared service centre.• Various roles in central finance, purchase ledger and treasury.• Involved in design, development, testing and training of numerous new systems.

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  Clear Telecoms

  Oct 2007 - Jun 2008

  Financial Controller

  • Autonomy over finance function, reporting to Managing Director.• Preparation of monthly management accounts and analysis therein.• Responsible solely for: negotiation of new banking facilities; development of stock and invoicing database; securing payment of overdue commissions; arranging payment plans with creditors, including HMRC; bringing accounts up-to-date after over two years of mismanagement.• Supervision of junior office staff.

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  BA CityFlyer

  Nov 2008 - Mar 2009

  Assistant Management Accountant

  • Responsibilities included: management of overheads for all cost centres, including accruals and prepayments, variance reporting and analysis, assisting in month-end process, management of fixed assets register, management of stock system, procurement cards, direct operating costs and sales invoicing.

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  Network Rail

  May 2009 - Jun 2010

  • Assisting in preparation of four-weekly management accounts for Motherwell Maintenance Delivery Unit.• Acting as business partner, liaising with the maintenance department in all areas, from unit cost control to efficiency savings.• Assisting the Business Support Manager with business planning and forecasting. • Responsibility for multiple new and substantial balance sheet control account reconciliations, covering over two years of postings.• Development of systems to ensure control accounts more easily reconciled.• Cover for additional allocation work.

  • Delivery Unit Accountant

    Sept 2009 - Jun 2010

  • Assistant Financial Accountant

    May 2009 - Sept 2009
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  Life Technologies

  Jun 2010 - Oct 2010

  Financial Accountant

  • Assisted in organization and implementation of transfer of all finance roles based in Madrid, covering Iberian subsidiaries, to new shared service centre.• Responsible for all reconciliations and preparation of financial accounts for Iberian subsidiaries.

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  EY

  Jan 2011 - Mar 2012

  Financial Management Associate

  • Part of newly formed working capital team, tasked with ensuring monthly billing and cash collection targets were met.• Liaising with operational staff, up to and including partner level, to ensure all billing/cash risks provided for at the earliest opportunity.• Development of reporting and analysis tools.• Design and delivery of bespoke MS Excel training course.

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  National Australia Group

  Mar 2012 - Jun 2012

  Project Accountant

  • Liaising with project leads to ensure reliability of monthly forecasts.• Development of financial models for business cases.• Development of new analysis tools to provide ease of access to detailed project spend information.

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  Morgan Stanley

  Jul 2012 - Feb 2013

  BRM Funding Associate

  • Production of daily profit and loss account for North American OTC FID Collateral business.• Responsibility for all month-end processes for North American OTC FID Collateral business.• Development of system to increase efficiency of daily profit and loss account production.• Training of new team members.

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  Barclays

  Jul 2013 - Nov 2014

  Chief Operating Officer, Transform Master Data Programme

  • Management of financial and headcount reporting for bank-wide Transform Master Data Programme.• Management of financial and headcount reporting for Strategy & Change portfolio of newly created Data Systems & Insights Office.• Development of numerous business cases.• Development of numerous systems to aid month-end reporting.• Design and delivery of bespoke MS Excel training course

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  Poise Accountancy Ltd.

  Nov 2014 - now

  Managing Director

  For a fixed monthly fee, we offer a comprehensive and tailored service for new and small businesses, not-for-profit organisations and industry contractors.

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  SSE Renewables

  Oct 2015 - May 2016

  Cost Analyst

  My focus was on supporting senior management, as we progressed towards the final investment decision for the Beatrice Offshore Wind Farm project. This was achieved by way of: analysis of third party tender submissions; business case modelling; liaising with operational and engineering colleagues.Very much enjoyed what was a completely new sector for me.