Interim Financial Controller £500 per day

CPA-Qualified Accountant with ten years of experience with global industry leaders across sectors and Big Four

Expert in managing core finance processes, including spend approvals, budgets, forecasting, financial reporting, month-end close activities, and variance reporting.

Strong track record of process improvement through streamlining and automation.

Industries include: Real Estate, Saas Technology, Retail, ecommerce, and Logistics

Experience:

• Review of monthly closing prepared by third party accounting service provider.
• Met statutory financial statement deliverables across 50 entities in compliance with US GAAP, IFRS, and local GAAP (UK and Germany), managing end-to-end delivery, including third-party accounting provider.
• Headed a remote, global team of ten that prepared monthly financial statements for 150 enterprise software companies in ten countries across Asia, Europe, and North America.
• Led corporate simplification activities, such as post-acquisition financial integration and dissolution of entities.
• Built online library of process documentation that improved processes, trained new staff, and ensured consistency across entities, halving finance backlog within three months and preparing for automation of finance processes.
• Automated accounting workflow for data import from bank and payment gateway, reducing human effort by 60% and eradicating errors through analysis and process improvements.
• Reduced custom invoice generation time by 50%, partnering with B2B sales teams to reduce invoice complexity and introduce automations.