Director of Accounting and SAP Implementation - Nilfisk Inc - Brooklyn Park, Minnesota
(2023-10)
- Managerial responsibility for 4 direct reports (Financial Reporting Manager, AR / AP Manager, Inventory Accountant, Indirect Tax Specialist). Total team of 12 including indirect reports.
- Led finance transformation, aimed at reducing the operating cost of the finance function. Led recruiting process in Mexico in order to move finance from the US to a lower cost country, whilst also establishing a future set-up to integrate the US and Mexico finance teams in a shared service function.
- Active involvement / leadership of the finance function during the SAP implementation (concurrently implementing our global Concur platform, Medius and Vertex; delivering a successful go-live in September 2024. Provided regular updates to the SteerCo on readiness at various stages of the project having a direct influence on whether to move forward or not. Responsibility for sign off migration / cut-over files including inventory and opening account balances.
- Collaborated with external service providers to ensure audit and tax compliance.
- Ongoing participation in Group improvement projects and standardisation within the entities falling under my control.
- Collaborate with Group Finance and global finance leadership to drive policies and processes.
Head of Operational Finance – UKI IMEA Nordic Sales and BeNeFrance - Nilfisk Ltd - Penrith, Cumbria
(2022-11 - 2023-10)
- Additional managerial responsibility for 3 x Controller based in France and Netherlands, and accounting team based in France.
- Participate in confidential finance re-organisation impacting employees based in the France organisation.
- Active involvement in EMEA hub setup in Budapest including recruitment of GL and AP specialists to be based in the Budapest location.
- Collaboration with Treasury function in order to set up factoring programme for 4 entities.
- Ongoing participation in Group improvement projects and standardisation within the entities falling under my control.
Interim secondment to support US HPW business - Nilfisk Ltd
(2023-02 - 2023-05)
- Support divisional controller on site to review full balance sheet for two legal entities (Pressure Pro and Hydrotek).
- Present findings to Group Finance and CFO to highlight impact to the P&L.
Head of Operational Finance – UKI IMEA Nordic Sales - Nilfisk Ltd - Penrith, Cumbria
(2020-05 - 2022-11)
- Additional managerial responsibility for 1 x Controller based in Denmark.
- Review cost centre structure within the Nordic region and eliminate all individual employee cost centres.
- Engaged with external partner to handle statutory reporting completion in order to increase accuracy and compliance.
Financial Controller – UKI IMEA - Nilfisk Ltd - Penrith, Cumbria
(2018-11 - 2020-05)
- Management of a team of 10 FTE's based physically in UK, Spain and Dubai (2 x controllers, 4 x credit control, 1 x payroll, 3 x general accountant)
- Managed the organisational change by spending time regularly on site with the team in Spain.
- Heavily involved in the migration of our monthly reporting consolidation tool from Hyperion to OneStream
- Prepare monthly management accounts for all entities within the Cluster and perform first stage review for all entities in scope and present to management in line with deadline.
- Early indications reports and management review presentations.
- Prepare annual group accounts and disclosures and statutory accounts for each respective legal entity.
- Ensure monthly audit and balance sheet reconciliations completed on time and signed off and reported and maintained appropriately.
- Provide back up for Weekly sales, 3 months Sales Forecast and Preliminary net sales (Finance Business Partner is primary contact for this)
- Process the quarterly forecasts for all entities within the Cluster in line with deadline ensuring quality input is gathered from the business.
- Process the annual budget for all entities within the Cluster in line with deadline ensuring quality input is gathered from the business.
Financial Analyst - Nilfisk Ltd - Penrith, Cumbria
(2015-05 - 2018-11)
- Controller for two legal entities; including monthly reporting, margin and overhead analysis; understanding and explaining variances. Year end and statutory reporting including managing the internal and external audit processes.
- Project manager for consolidation project for recently acquired satellite organisation, ensuring regular follow up meetings and visits to ensure compliance with implemented processes.
- Local finance business partner for the consumer division, regularly liaising with both local and global sales and finance management, liaising directly with sales managers during the weekly sales forecasts, quarterly forecasts and the annual budget process.
- Heavily involved in SAP implementation programme (previously using Scala), working with consultants and becoming a Finance and Business Intelligence Super user.
- Preparation of scorecards and financial comments for regular monthly and periodic Business Board Meetings which are attended by Group Management.
- 6 monthly reviews of Eurosox procedures ensuring internal departmental procedures are also reviewed regularly.
- Upon completion of my master's degree dissertation, the results were presented to the senior management team to implement improvements throughout the business and for future acquisition processes.
- Reduced none-moving stock by £200k by being pro-active across various sites and van locations; the reduction in stock was achieved with a nil overall profit and loss impact.
Financial Technician - Nilfisk Ltd
(2012-05 - 2015-05)
Tax Accountant - Hazlewoods LLP - Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
(2007-07 - 2008-08)
