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So EnergyFinancial Controller
Jan. 2025
Allergan AestheticsSenior Finance Manager
Jul. 2021 - Jan. 2025MarlowProgression from UK affiliate to Regional FP&A, to International FP&A UK affiliate
- Statutory and month end accounting for UK affiliate
-Ownership of promotional spend budget, working with marketing team to understand key risks and opportunities in this area FP&A for WEC region
- Navigating integration onto Abbvie software, converting all reporting to the new software and training affiliates on this
-Month end management reporting
-Planning FP&A for International
- Plan '24- liaising between global and area teams, providing guidelines/models and loaders to create efficiencies and consistency
- Detailed SGNA analysis
- Long range plan - 10 years
CentricaFinancial controller - investment entities
Jul. 2019 - Mar. 2020Ownership of the accounting and control for investment entities in Centrica finance structure
CentricaTechnical Accounting Manager
Nov. 2018 - Jul. 2019
Anna Lloyd LtdDirector
Sep. 2018 - Jan. 2021Built my own practice up to 47 clients.
Mixture of month end, statutory and FP&A work Sold my practice in January 2021
- BSM Group -Group Financial Controller
Aug. 2018 - Oct. 2018London, United Kingdom
On Maternity LeaveMother
Jun. 2017 - Aug. 2018
RECKITT BENCKISERSenior Finance Project Manager
Nov. 2015 - Jun. 2017Responsible for providing technical accounting expertise for restructuring projects
Project managing the Annual Report process: creating detailed timelines for the delivery of the report, holding stakeholders accountable to delivery times, liaising with internal senior stakeholders as well as external auditors and graphic design agency.
Project managing the planning, preparation, review audit and filing of 106 sets of Statutory Accounts for the Group
Ad hoc accounting project involvement both in a commercial and technical capacity.
CentricaLead Auditor
May. 2015 - Nov. 2015WindsorResponsible for scoping; planning; overseeing and reviewing fieldwork; and reporting on audits
Cultivated excellent relationships with stakeholders, to ensure that they are aware of audit timings, are consulted throughout the audit and made aware of findings as they arise
Responsible for coaching team members and providing constructive feedback
Employee engagement, review of annual employee engagement survey and follow up to ensure that key items identified are addressed to the satisfaction of the department
CentricaInterim Finance Business Partner
Aug. 2014 - Mar. 2015WindsorResponsible for generating a number of asset valuations for a proposed sale of power stations. This involved working closely with a number of stakholders to agree upon technical, financial and operating metrics. On completion of the valuations detailed analysis and breakdown of the value was required in order to illustrate which areas drove key changes to value.
Virgin MediaInterim Finance Business Partner
Dec. 2013 - Aug. 2014HookPrimary finance contact for the Faults and Care Contact Centres in order to help them perform as efficiently as possible. Key responsibilities:
Month End Reporting, Financial Analysis, Forecasting and financial scenarios modelling for Cost Reduction Projects
CentricaInterim Accountant
Sep. 2012 - Aug. 2013Key Competency framework project
Project managing the creation and implementation of a framework of the key competencies required across the finance function throughout Centrica.
Key responsibilities
Liaising with key stakeholders to create buy in for competencies
Creating a usable framework that is meaningful to the business
Source and manage appropriate hosting platform for the framework Interim Statutory Accountant
Assistance with the preparation of the statutory accounts for one of the main legal entities (BGT)
Key responsibilities:
Ensuring the timely preparation of the stats, including balance sheet reconciliations, disclosures, posting UK GAAP to IFRS adjustments. Interim LER Project Accountant
Project managing the due diligence process around selecting companies to be made dormant, in order to simplify the group structure. This provided cost savings across the company with regard to audit fees, statutory filing fees and freeing up resources involved in month end preparation so that they could add further value to the business.
Key achievements:
Identifying 24 possible entities to be made dormant.
Creating excellent relationships with key stakeholders in order that information may be easily collated.
Key responsibilities:
Creating clear due diligence documentation which is easily accessible to a multitude of stakeholders
Creating accounting schedules to give clear visibility of each step required as part of the hive up.
Ensuring that all legal documentation is prepared and signed within designated timelines
Ensuring that all relevant entries are posted into the SAP system by each entity accountant
Yum! BrandsSales and Marketing Financial Analyst
Jun. 2011 - Aug. 2012WokingSupporting the KFC sales and marketing function as a business partner, frequently inputting into management decisions. This includes working to a lot of tight and ever changing deadlines, so organization and time management has been tantamount.
Key roles:
Developing excellent relationships with marketing function.
Instrumental in aiding the management team prepare the breakeven model and tracking models for new breakfast test, included close partnering with the operations team in order to work on labour models and oven capacities, and also with product development team in order to understand product builds and new costs for each of the new breakfast items. Test currently active in Scotland
Creating forecasts for promotions and test markets using retrospective data as well as current knowledge of micro and macro factors
Developing a variety of complex financial models to assess progress of various different products and menu layers
Providing post promotional analysis and recommendations this includes a variety of different techniques, in order to assess whether various promotions should be repeated in the future, or where performance has been below expectation, making recommendations as to why this may be so that we avoid repetition of a miss in the future
Margin analysis for products to ensure that robust margins are maintained across the product line.
Other:
Cultural champion
WFP ambassador
KPMG UKAssistant manager
Sep. 2007 - Jun. 2011Audit assistant manager 2007 – 2011
Key roles: Running statutory financial statement and pension audits from planning to conclusion, including completion of all relevant documentation and developing more junior members of the team. Involves wide variety of skills including organisation, working to tight deadlines, coaching, working as part of a team, creating strong working relationships with clients, managing client expectations.
Awarded encore awards for excellent client service, having been complemented by a financial director.
Completed secondments with Forensics (three months) and Tax teams (six months) to broaden experience.
Key clients include:
Philips: Conducting Group Audit in accordance with IFRS and Sarbanes Oxley regulations. Led Statutory Audit for Philips Lighting entity.
Honda: Finalisation of Statutory Accounts under tight filing deadlines
Genesis Housing Association: Audit of statutory accounts for a number of the company’s 47 subsidiaries
Sharp: Led Audit of pension scheme and investment products Prudential: Participated in Audit of a number of pension schemes
Bunzl: Led interim Statutory Audit
GfK Kynetec: Led Statutory Audit through from interim to final
Rawnet LimitedSales Consultant
May. 2007 - Jul. 2007Windsor, BerkshireRawnet is a digital communications and web design agency. Key role: Cold Lead generation for potential clients, consistently hitting required targets, creating and managing client database on CRM
LogistixJunior Account Executive
Jun. 2006 - Mar. 2007Gerrards Cross, BuckinghamshireLogistix is a promotional marketing agency.
Key roles: liaising with clients to receive specifications for work to be completed and communicating this to the creative team to ensure the correct end product, liaising with press to ensure that adverts went out on agreed dates, organising and ensuring the smooth execution of the Peartiser launch, attendance at brainstorming meetings to generate promotional ideas.
Key clients included Appletiser, Capri Sun and Nesquik.
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