KW Special Projects Ltd , Silverstone KW Special Projects is a high-performance design and engineering solution provider at the heart of the Silverstone Technology Cluster.
Financial Controller April 2024 – current
Responsible for providing management reports on a daily and monthly basis:
- Monthly bank reconciliations for all company bank accounts;
- Assisting with weekly cashflow reporting;
- Responsibility for ensuring the accuracy of quarterly VAT return and submission to HMRC;
- Processing accruals and prepayments;
- Ensuring monthly stock checks and postings, and the annual review, annual stock take;
- Completing monthly Balance Sheet and P&L reconciliation;
- Monthly payroll review and posting, and year-end review;
- Month end reporting;
- Monitoring Company recharges;
- Reporting on Fixed asset and depreciation;
- Completing year end accounts, Year-end Audit supporting;
- Arranging and monitoring company insurances;
- Ownership of new customer/project/supplier set up including where required credit worthiness assessments with group policy;
- Monitor and maintaining the internal policies process;
- Support with any funding requirements;
- Managing and support AP team, control AP/AR debts;
- Ad-hoc analysis as required.
Prodrive Composites Ltd , Milton Keynes The company design and manufacture advanced lightweight structural and non-structural composites for a wide range of applications across the automotive, motorsport, aerospace, marine, defense and other specialist sectors
Finance Manager Assistant & Production Accountant October 2022 – November 2023 Responsible for providing a management reports on daily and monthly basis:
- Sales report;
- Bank and cash report; Cash Forecast preparation; assisting with budgeting and forecasting;
- Debtor’s and Creditor’s report ;
- KPI report - development and updating;
- Current account and sales ledger reconciliation weekly and monthly ;
- Communication with customers on regular basis to minimize debts;
- Balance sheet reconciliations and analysis of the balance sheet;
- Posting invoices and credit notes in IFS system;
- Participation in the month-end closing procedure: reconciliation of the General Ledger, preparing GL analysis, posting journals at the end of the month, participation in the inventory, etc;
- Provide to Finance Director and Finance Manager ad hoc reports and information;
- Implementation of new program ‘Shop Floor Data Capture’, to improve the production process, efficiency of working hours and, as a result, increase profits;
- Assisting with ad hoc projects
HIPRA RUS Ltd, Moscow
Subsidiary of Laboratorios Hipra S.A., Spain – the world’s 5th largest company producing veterinary vaccines for the agriculture’s sector. Russian subsidiary had a turnover of circa £17 million.
Financial and Administrative Manager February 2019 – April 2022
Responsible for managing a team of 5 accounts and administrative staff and 6 outsourcers engaged in monitoring and reporting on the financial performance of 21 Sales Representatives
- Prepared annual forecasts and budgets for each department and for the company as a whole
- Produced detailed monthly, quarterly and annual accounting reports and Tax declarations, submitting to company management for review.
- Produced and issued monthly financial reports to Group HQ in Spain
- Monitored payments from customers and to suppliers, and chased any outstanding or overdue payments to maximize cash flow
- Produced contracts for all new customers and updated them as required
- Managed the procurement and disposal of 14 company cars,
- Carried out annual audits in compliance with Russian tax law
- Processed various accounting documents on SAP, such as invoices, sales and purchase orders
- Managed the Financial and Sales teams to work together and maximize bottom-line profit.
- Calculated performance against KPIs for the Sales department.
- Worked closely with the Finance and Accounting teams and met with them on a quarterly basis to discuss progress towards KPIs and identify any actions required
- Had additional responsibility for HR and Health & Safety, including recruiting, interviewing and onboarding new employees, performance management, maintaining employee records and managing the outsourced HR function
Key Achievements
- Implemented SAP from scratch, saving the Company at least £40,000.
- Developed improved financial forecasts to enable managers to more accurately determine budgets, expenses and funds required.
- Trained the team in the whole cycle of accounting (costs, taxation, salaries and bonuses calculations, etc.) so that each member of staff was competent in all aspects of their work
