Michael Prime

Experience

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  Morgan Sindall

  Oct 2007 - Sept 2009

  Payroll Administrator

  Worked as a Payroll Administrator in a varied and challenging role to ensure 500+ weekly paid employees were paid accurately and on time.My duties included collating the information from sites across the UK, keeping accurate records of new employees and leavers, sick records whilst adhering to the strict turn arounds and cut offs.Maintained accurate records of costs associated with the various contracts within my remit.Ensured that all accounts balanced on a weekly basis with the General Ledger accounts.Ensured Tax and National Insurance contributions were recorded accurately and ran weekly reports to ensure all figures agreed. Administered court orders, union fees, Student Loans, Family Tax Credits and ensuring where necessary, these were paid over to the relevant 3rd parties. Monitored pension contributions and AVC’s with appropriate providers and making the necessary payments. Provided reports throughout the company as and when requested. Show less

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  Morgan Sindall

  Jun 2010 - Aug 2012

  Assistant Accountant - Fixed Asset Manager

  Worked as the Accounts Assistant reporting directly into the Financial Controller. Duties included dealing with Capex and Operating Lease Authorisation, Administration and Control. Maintained a complete and accurate Asset Register. Ensuring that all asset additions and disposals are entered on the Asset Register in a timely manner and in line with Magnor Plant Financial Polices. Prepared and issued all Weekly / Monthly Reports (Asset Utilisation Report, Available Assets, Non-Depreciating Assets, Authorisation Summaries). Asset Ledger to General Ledger reconciliations. Assisted Management Accountant and Operational Manager with compilation of Budgets and Forecasts. Controlled the monthly billing process through liaison with departmental managers / administrators with specific responsibility for Workshop & Operated Plant Labour and Material charges. Costing and re-charging Internal Timesheet for control / Cost Transfers.Ensured all Asset Disposal administration and invoicing was competed timely and accurately. Dealt with all site invoice queries and ensured they were cleared in a timely manner. Kept accurate records to ensure that all crossed Hired Plant / Transport cost was recharged correctly. Supported in the preparation of all weekly / monthly reporting. Periodically visited sites across the UK to help stream line processes and clear issues on site .Headed the credit control process ensuring any outstanding cash is being pursued. Assisted in the complete month end process, including trial balance preparation. Show less

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  J.M. Piling

  Aug 2012 - Jul 2014

  Costs Manager

  -Reporting in to the company director; solely responsible for maintaining and analysing the costs and allocations for J.M Piling and reporting to the Murphy Group.-Resolving suppliers to ensure all issues are resolved as quickly and efficiently as possible.-Raising and processing applications for payment and forecasting cash flow.-Allocation of all monthly costs and checking costs are apportioned appropriately.-Visited all sites on weekly basis to liaise with the site employees to pre-empt any cost issues relating to site issues to report to the business.-Weekly and Monthly reporting at group director level.-Manage the purchase ledger for the business unit, ensuring that all accounts are reconciled-Created and maintained a full asset register for the business. Show less

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  Keltbray Group

  Aug 2014 - Apr 2015

  Assistant Quantity Surveyor

  Headhunted, due to previous industry experience within my Cost Management role, I undertook an Assistant Quantity Surveyor role:My responsibilities were:-Managing costs on a project up to 10 million pound and producing periodic cost reports.-Administering agreements between parties on a traditional build basis as well as design and build.-Preparing early stage budgets and detailed cost plans and performing risk and value management and cost control.-Identifying and developing responses to commercial risks and providing advice on and producing contractual claims.-Preparing and analysing costs for tenders and operating cost and financial control systems.-Negotiating to ensure budgets are not exceeded and valuing completed work and arranging payment.-Liaise closely with Site Management team in respect of day to day matters.-Liaising with Clients / Quantity Surveyor’s to agree interim valuations and final accounts.-Ensure that interim valuations are submitted and paid on time. Show less

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  Lloyds Banking Group

  Jun 2015 - Oct 2020

  This role has been an amalgamation of Project Management and delivery of financial analysis:My responsibilities are:-Identifying potential cost savings and over spends, tracking and detailing the financial reports against monthly / annual budgets and forecasts ranging between £ 5-10 million per platform.-Maintaining the Time, Materials and Resources of multiple projects.-Defining and drive KPIs and Metrics for each project to ensure successful delivery utilising Tableau and Power BI software-Researching and writing business cases for potential projects within the business platforms scope.Creating and distributing management packs that allows clear and real time information to be available to the management and stake holders.-Updating and maintaining the Risk Log, Action Log, Decisions Log, and Issue Register tracking to closure.-Tracking project progress using Microsoft Project and enforcing deadlines where needed.-Identifying defects and issues in project, using JIRA to log, track and find resolutions within the project team to avoid delays within program.-Lead Scrum and deputise to Product Owner as required.-Analyse Epic documentation and stories for Feature and Product Delivery teams-Lead offshore team of 5, based in India for project administration and financial reporting support. Show less After being in my previous role as Technical Specialist for a year, I was promoted to Team Lead:My responsibilities were:-Line managed a team of 5 Content Managers. Including Recruiting and On-boarding and resource management and delivering high calibre training to wider content team.-Built a new time management system that fed into Microsoft Project for the wider content team, saving time and money by streamlining the process using automation.-Delivered the impact assessments and estimations for each project to ensure adequate resources are in place for the multiple projects within the frameworks.-Accountable for the quality of content delivered by my team, always being the point for contact for escalations/interventions.-Prepared and managed the 24/7 Business Release implementations and managing the Content Code Release Testing and Live Launches.-Documented and escalated support cases to higher levels of support when unable to resolve issues using available resources.-Researched, Proposed and led where needed the design and build of new software module to effectively deliver the project in scope. Show less This role provided exposure to transformation project work, client and stakeholder interaction and measuring deliverables:My responsibilities were:-Responsible for creating and loading the content items to the CMS on projects spread across Lloyds Bank, Bank of Scotland, Halifax and TSB for the continued transformations of the Internet and Mobile Banking applications.-Ensuring the content is delivered accurately and complete and working through defects arising from changes to the application to the solution to resolve as quickly as possible.-Working on multiple projects at times needed excellent prioritisation and organisational skills.-Completed design projects to meet budget, equipment, performance and legal requirements.-Validated code for proper structuring, security and compatibility with different browsers, devices or operating systems.-Gathered, defined and translated client requirements into product stories and actionable tasks.-Received consistently positive feedback for exceptional service, continually working with energy and enthusiasm. Show less

  • Content Specialist / PMO Analyst

    Oct 2017 - Oct 2020

  • Technical Specialist - Team Lead

    Jun 2016 - Oct 2017

  • Content Manager

    Jun 2015 - May 2016
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  ClaimLion Law Ltd

  Oct 2020 - Mar 2021

  Data Analyst

  Defined and collated industry relevant standards and data sets to create KPIs and Metrics for statistical analysis and comparisons.Created BI Dashboard and reporting process to allow real time reporting of claims.Completed the data analysis of 90,000 claims to set a valuation point for senior management prior to acquisition.Performing initial analysis to remove corrupted data and assess the quality of the data setsPreparing reports based on analysis and presenting to management and stakeholders Show less

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  Wesleyan

  Mar 2021 - May 2022

  Data & Insights Analyst
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  National Grid

  May 2022 - now

  • Analyst Technology Operations and Service

    Jan 2023 - now

  • Senior Associate Analyst

    May 2022 - Jan 2023