Jonathan Cousin

ACCA qualified, experienced and driven finance professional.

Senior Management Accountant/Controller - EGGER UK - Hexham

(2022-11)

Promoted and handed over financial controlling responsibility for Hexham plant, which is one of the larger plants in Egger group. Full responsibility for all controlling activities for Egger Forestry ltd and Egger Timberpak ltd. In addition to above, responsibility for various Egger UK Hexham Cost Centres.

• Standard pricing calculation/checks and analysis
• Business partner providing strategic information to key stakeholders
• Month end closing procedures
• Deviation analysis/ various supporting reports
• IFRS to management accounts reconciliation
• Audit commentary
• Review/maintain standard costs
• Commercial awareness regarding products, services, markets etc.
• Continuous process improvements and project work
• Present financial information to management and challenge cost and revenue deviations
• Budget creation and maintenance on a rolling 3 month basis
• Developed KPIs – with monthly presentation and analysis
• Bespoke project and analysis work
• Staff training
• Provide financial information for process and procedure changes
• Implementation of Financial dashboards
• Maintain subsidiaries transfer price ensuring various stakeholders objectives are met.
• Ongoing cost saving projects

Outsourcing Senior/ Management Accountant - RSM UK

(2021-11 - 2022-11)

Work in FDI (Foreign direct investment) sector. Responsible for client portfolio. Ensuring daily in-house finance tasks are complete and full management accounts preparation.

• Ensuring companies payrolls were effectively processed/managed.
• VAT return preparation/submission
• Financial control i.e. funding level transfers to and from parent company.
• Supervise team of assistants.
• Review and approve payment files.
• Preparation of Audit information
• Gather information for statutory accounts.
• Bespoke reports depending on client requirements
• Good use of task and time management.
• Overseeing monthly payroll and cash flow management.

Accounting Senior - Armstrong Watson

(2018-11 - 2021-11)

Producing cash flow analysis and management accounts. This involves investigating and discussing variances as well as providing advice on capital investment.

• Third highest work utilisation across the firm for all staff.
• Training of junior and senior members of staff.
• Accounts production for larger turnover clients (£1m to £10m).
• Complex assignments such as - good will calculations, company purchase of own shares, complex year end journals, cessations accounts, sales of shares (use of Indexation allowance), chargeable gains, losses allocations for Partnerships and Ltd companies.
• Dividend and Directors loan account remuneration planning.
• Farmplan software expert for Hexham office. Also, provided support for other offices.
• Tax calculation for companies and partnerships – utilising CA's, losses, QCD's, terminal loss relief, tax effective profit splits (involving corporate partner preparations).
• Accounts preparations of LLP's.
• Agriculture – use of tax treatments around agriculture, such as herd and flock basis, allocation of turbine income and other income, partial exemption VAT calcs and Farmhouse treatment.
• Ensuring all company accounts are appropriately disclosed.

Assistant Accountant - Armstrong Watson

(2016-04 - 2018-11)

• Responsible for the preparation of accounts for sole traders, partnerships and companies from start to finish.
• Corporation tax returns preparation and submission.
• Production of personal tax liabilities.
• Company secretarial duties.
• Liaise with clients and build trusting relationships.
• Creation and monitoring of budgets.
• Health and safety representative.
• Manage portfolio of VAT clients - which involves bookkeeping and production of VAT returns.

Procurement to Payment Administrator - BT Shared Services

(2014-07 - 2016-04)

Heavily involved in co-ordinating the development of the procurement to payment process model, with system and process testing.

• Responsible for organising the data migration of customer and supplier data to the Agresso software from the customer legacy systems.
• Processed and signed off daily third party payments including schools and colleges.
• Construction industry tax recording.
• System Reconciliation/control including.
• Bank reconciliations.
• Raising and posting credit notes.

Accounts Administrator - Bodycare Clinics Ltd

(2012-06 - 2014-07)

Sales Assistant - Peggs and Cookes News

(2011-10 - 2012-06)

Newcastle Falcons Senior Academy

(2009 - 2010)

ACCA - Kaplan Financial

MAAT - Kaplan Financial (2017)

BSc Second Class - Applied Sport and Exercise Science - University of Northumbria (2011)

A Level - PE - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2008)

A Level - History - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2007)

A Level - Biology - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2007)

AS Level - Geography - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2007)

GCSE - History - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2006)

GCSE - Geography - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2006)

GCSE - Science (Dual award) - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2006)

GCSE - PE - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2006)

GCSE - English Literature - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2006)

GCSE - Maths - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2006)

GCSE - English language - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2006)

GCSE - German - Queen Elizabeth High School, Hexham (2006)