Farkhana Khan

• Financial Control & Governance: Execute end-to-end month-end and year-end closing schedules
for a diverse portfolio of sites and functions, ensuring 100% accuracy in payroll, revenue, and
complex balance sheet reconciliations.
• Strategic Business Partnering: Act as a key finance liaison for site operations teams and Finance
Business Partners, providing deep-dive commercial insights that support data-driven decision
making and operational efficiency.
• Asset Management: Oversee fixed asset accounting and reporting, maintaining rigorous control
environments across multiple high-value customer contracts.
• Process Excellence: Drive adherence to standardized finance processes while identifying and
implementing continuous improvement opportunities to streamline reporting workflows and
system accuracy.
• KPI & Performance Management: Consistently deliver financial outputs within strict KPI
frameworks, managing individual workflows to meet the demanding deadlines of a fast-paced
logistics environment.
• Change Management: Provide financial expertise and support for organizational change
programs, ensuring seamless transition and financial integrity during system or structural shifts.

• Ensure all weekly and monthly costs incurred are accurately recorded and reported to senior management in a timely manner.

• Producing weekly Flash reports to highlight KPI’s to both transport and warehouse departments’.

• Conducting core financial analysis and taking corrective action when variances are identified and escalating issues appropriately.

• Using Oracle to upload purchase orders for the depot as well as posting monthly accruals and cross-charging journals.

• Using the SMART system to download weekly reports for the completion of absence/ payroll reports. Utilising Concur to trace card payments to assist in credit card reconciliations.

• Part taking in various adhoc tasks such as approving agency timesheets, completing fortnightly depot banking

• Compliance: Prepared IFRS-compliant reconciliations and schedules to support error-free
statutory audits.
• Efficiency: Re-engineered vendor invoice processes, reducing the payment cycle time by 40%.
• Reporting: Designed automated financial dashboards that provided senior stakeholders with real
time visibility into departmental spends. 2nd (£30bn+
• Commercial Control: Managed end-to-end financial reporting for high-value product categories,
influencing trading and pricing strategies through data-led insights.
• Investment Analysis: Modelled capital investment and promotional scenarios, improving ROI
tracking accuracy by 30%.
• Business Partnering: Collaborated with cross-functional category managers to align financial
targets with long-term operational growth.

• Financial Oversight: Led analysis and reconciliation for transactions exceeding £100M+ annually,
ensuring 100% compliance with international audit and corporate governance standards.
• Process Engineering: Reduced month-end close timelines by 35% through the development of
automated Excel-based reporting models.
• Working Capital: Analysed and cleared aged GRNI balances, reducing backlog by 25% and
significantly improving cash flow visibility.
• Strategic Insight: Delivered robust forecasts and variance analysis to senior leadership, directly
influencing multi-million-pound budget allocations.
• Systems Leadership: Championed SAP optimisation initiatives, improving reporting transparency
and data reliability across the UK operation.

• Commercial Control: Managed end-to-end financial reporting for high-value product categories, influencing trading and pricing strategies through data-led insights.
• Investment Analysis: Modelled capital investment and promotional scenarios, improving ROI tracking accuracy by 30%.
• Business Partnering: Collaborated with cross-functional category managers to align financial targets with long-term operational growth.

• Accomplishing work requirements by orientating, training, assigning, scheduling and coaching employees.

• Meeting work standards by following quality and customer-service standards. Resolving operational problems and identifying work process improvements.

• Meeting cost standards by monitoring expenses, implementing cost-saving actions.

• Enhancing department and organization reputation by accepting ownership for accomplishing new and different requests. Exploring opportunities to add value to the job.

• Multi-Site Management: Managed AP/AR and reconciliations across 30 regional branches,
ensuring rigorous financial control.
• Audit & Control: Conducted internal branch audits and assisted in the preparation of monthly
management accounts.
• Debt Reduction: Reduced aged supplier balances by 20% within six months through aggressive
reconciliation improvements.

• Approving branch cash, credit and debit card transactions as well as approving branch petty cash expenditure.

• Posting accruals and prepayments for financial statements and further conducting asset, liability and expense schedules.

• Month end bank reconciliations. Month end income reviews for various sites as well as branch overhead analysis.

• Utilising Sage 50 for bank reconciliations, credit control and vat returns.

• Approving branch cash, credit and debit card transactions as well as approving branch petty cash expenditure.

• Posting accruals and prepayments for financial statements and further conducting asset, liability and expense schedules.

• Month end bank reconciliations. Month end income reviews for various sites as well as branch overhead analysis.

• Managing an area of branches and carrying out area reviews based on financial performance.

• Dealing with customer queries for various sites.

• Weekly bad debt analysis for senior management.

• Conducting Account pack credit and paperwork reviews.

• Oversee CRS and banking.

• Preparing and submitting Journal entries

• Monthly branch visits and internal branch audits.

• Various ad-hoc projects