Candidate Summary:
This candidate is an ACCA qualified accountant with 15 years of experience in multi-national organisations and SMEs. They have a proven track record of streamlining and process improvement, reporting methods, and implementing analytical solutions to increase efficiencies. Their extensive experience includes financial reporting, management accounting, year-end audit, budgeting, and analysis. They possess exceptional analytical and problem-solving skills to achieve corporate objectives.
Recent Employment:
Senior Finance Manager: 2023 - Present
Overall responsibility for month-end and ensuring reporting timelines are achieved with a high degree of accuracy. Oversee treasury activities, including cash management, forecasting, and investment strategies to ensure effective management of working capital. They coordinate with stakeholders throughout the company to ensure financial management responsibilities are understood and financial goals are exceeded.
Fintech company (2018-2021)
Head of Finance
2022 - 2023
Re-designed the safeguarding processes of client funds to align with the FCA regulations and introduced in-depth analyses which provided a clear understanding of the daily cashflows.
Established financial processes and accounting treatments for a newly created Canadian subsidiary to ensure external framework and internal policies are adhered to
Built a successful collaboration with the Technology team to deliver automation for daily cash reconciliations of card processing funds
Identified discrepancies between the processing platform and the client settlement reports that created financial risks for the company by prefunding some of the clients’ activities
Finance Manager
2018 - 2021
Responsible for the ownership of month-end processes for two reporting entities, accurate production and detailed analysis of monthly management accounts pack for the board, and overseeing the monthly balance sheet reconciliations. They also managed the daily and weekly merchant settlements and accounts payable.
Education:
ACCA fully qualified (2011-2016).
Skills:
The candidate has a very good understanding of the technical aspects of accounting, experience of group accounting and consolidation, multi-currency experience, and experience of liaising with internal and external auditors. They also have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, the ability to work to tight deadlines in a very dynamic environment, and excellent verbal and written communication skills.
