ASSISTANT FINANCE MANAGER CV

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Highly adept, goal-orientated, and solutions-focused, with more than 25 years’ experience leading financial management portfolios, primarily in the energy and construction sectors. Control finances for multiple subsidiaries of a five-company Group holding. Career Include four years’ self-employed consultancy. Use record of accomplishment to significantly impact company operations. Areas of Expertise include:

Professional Experience

PACSON.CO.UK.  Mar 20 to May 20

Leading Manufacturer of Onshore and Offshore of Valve Solutions for the world’s Oil and Gas sector.

ASSISTANT FINANCE MANAGER

Supporting the finance office with the day to day running of the business. Making sure all the various spreadsheets relating to cashflow and aged debtors are up to date daily.  The software in use is dynamics 365 for manufacturing.

Key Accomplishments:

                Brought in specifically to simplify some of the bookkeeping procedures that would assist the current assistant who has just returned from maternity leave.

                Put in place some new, easier to follow spreadsheets as some were currently very out of date.

                Supported the CFO on other various tasks and reports regarding stock and to gather some general day to day information from the system as required

NORTHERN TOOL & GEAR CO LTD (NTG)    May 2018 to Feb 20

Manufacture gearing components, diesel engines, and agricultural machines for defence, marine, and automotive.

FINANCE /OFFICE MANAGER – WORKING WITH THE COMPANY MANAGEMENT, AND THE COMPANY BANK MANAGER

Coordinate all daily, monthly, annual, and periodic general accounts and financials. Use various software on a bespoke basis to control management accounts, payroll for forty staff, and pensions’ administration. As Management Supervisor, oversee accounts office staff – streamline and simplify processes and procedures, improving productivity.

Key Accomplishments:

                Key to rollout of Tensor (clocking-in system) and Opera, to automate payroll and pensions processing, respectively. Payroll incorporated absences, holidays, etc.

                Reviewed holiday request logging system, and fully modernised.

                Supported introduction of ELO software to create a completely paperless office.

D.C. THOMSON & CO. LTD.   December 2017 to May 2018

Scottish publishing and television production company best known for producing papers, comics, and periodicals.

SENIOR FINANCE MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTS ASSISTANT

Supported senior finance management team to organise budgets. Directed posting of POs and invoices for a new radio business venture within the AX Dynamics accounts programme.

Key Accomplishments:

                Brought in specifically to clear a data analysis 10-month backlog caused by long-term office absence. Turnaround guaranteed accuracy of data reported monthly by the senior finance management team to the Board of Directors.

NRG HOLDINGS LTD    2008 to November 2017

Five umbrella oil and gas well examination companies specialising in well integrity services globally.

GROUP FINANCE MANAGER, CULTS ABERDEEN / MANAGEMENT SUPERVISOR – OPERATED ON ACCOUNTS FOR FIVE COMPANIES – INCLUDED WORK FOR CRAIGTON LODGE NURSERY SCHOOL (CLNS)

Applying forensic analysis skills, and using mainly Sage and Excel, controlled all management and project accounting, and staff supervision and IT training. Owned intercompany data manipulation and transfer (including balancing). Monitored high interest and foreign bank, and cross-country exchange rates (for work with foreign counterparts). Regulated all purchase, customer, and General Ledgers (GLs), nominal codes, invoice drafting, expense claims, and company credit cards. Accountable for month-end accruals and prepayments, as well as payroll (including absence and induction data), salaries (incl. cross-salary charges), and pensions (incl. auto-enrolment). Managed all PAYE, NIC, SSP, SMP, SPP. Organised all intercompany consolidation and finalising. Partnered with accountants and auditors.

Key Accomplishments:

                Migrated Sage 50 and over 250 projects from two companies to Sage 200, all with no downtime or interruption.

                Trained staff to operate bookkeeping.

                Co-established in-depth oil rig projects for two of the five companies.

CLNS – PARTIAL EXEMPT NURSEY AS A RESULT OF BEING PART OF NRG HOLDINGS LTD GROUP

Controlled, reconciled, and allocated individual children’s voucher statements, recording against each child to ensure uninterrupted term-time funding. Maintained individual fee-recording spreadsheets for two child groups, birth to age three, and three to five. Recorded and reported on all late fee payments, thus minimising bad debts. Completed quarterly-recorded part-exemption spreadsheet to make sure funds stayed within threshold at year-end. Allocated general % expenses splits to both age groups for the purposes of management accounts, e.g. nursery supplies from Asda at 40% birth and 60% for three-to-fives. Handled all general accounts and bookkeeping, as well as payroll and pensions. for over thirty staff.

Key Accomplishments:

                Delivered always-on-time, accurate, and transparent accounting results.

Earlier Career

FRAMEWORK PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS LTD    2004 to 2008 – FINANCE / PAYROLL MANAGER

VARIOUS CLIENT COMPANIES    2000 to 2004 – FREELANCE BOOKKEEPER / CLERK

HILTON HOTELS    1995 to 2000 – FINANCE MANAGER

Education & Training

HND Accounting and Finance

DUNDEE COLLEGE | UK