Finance Manager
Education Consortium
Total years of experience :11 years, 0 Months
Finance lead for financial operations of organisation. Developed investment proposals, new business models, and budgeting plans. Strategic planning and innovation governance.
Freelance Management and Financial Consultant across Retail, Logistics, Manufacturing, Oil & Gas and Education Industries.
- Establishment and design of Accounting Systems, Financial Procedures, Chart of Account and SUN Accounting System Specifications for the MAG project, ensuring compliance with the Production Sharing Contract (PSC), the Joint Venture Agreement (JVA), Corporate Requirements and Sarbanes Oxley Requirements.
- Development and implementation of commercial systems, procedures and processes to enable a project to meet all requirements including internal project and cost management objectives.
- Integration of the Finance and Accounting models with the Projects Cost and Planning information and models
- Roll out of new accounting system. Migration of data, procedure redesign, and establishment of reporting requirements. Implementation of financial system and procedures. Translation of historical data from new to old system. Access and Security. Development of organisational specific reporting requirements. Development of financial structure and reporting analysis levels. Post implementation maintenance.
- Implementation of significant cost savings and rigid cash management for a manufacturing company
- Business Process Redesign for an Oil & Gas Project, resulting in improved visibility and significant efficiency enhancements and turnarounds in reporting requirements.
- Financial control and management of treasury, payroll, accounts receivable & payables, and accounting functions and staff.
- Preparation of Budgets, both internal and external, monthly reviews and monthly forecasts.
- Management of the budget processes across groups and co-ordinated budget allocations
- Responsible for the maintenance and continual improvement of the colleges financial management systems
- Management of the team responsible for the financial and accounting services
- Management of cash and appropriation arrangements
- Management of end of month and other regular accounting processes
System consultant and project management for system implementations.
- Implementation of CODA Dream at a Charity - Establishment of management and resulting system requirements. Implementation of financial system and procedures. Translation of historical data from new to old system. Access and Security. Development of organisation specific reporting requirements. Training across organisation, in particular roll out of training and subsequent use of purchase order module, whereby budget heads directly raised orders on interactive system. Budget heads also trained to use management reporting information. Development of financial structure and reporting analysis levels. Post implementation maintenance.
- Implementation of SUN Business for an Oil and Gas Joint Venture, including design of system to meet contractual, management and statutory requirements of partner. Budgeting, Reporting and Accounting for the Joint Venture in the pre-ratification phase of project.
- System testing for SME accounting software house.Roll out of new accounting system
- Migration of data, procedure redesign, and establishment of reporting requirements. Implementation of financial system and procedures. Translation of historical data from new to old system. Access and Security. Development of organisational specific reporting requirements. Development of financial structure and reporting analysis levels. Post implementation maintenance.
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