Project Management

Ashley Adewuyi ACMA CGMA, MAAT

** ****** *****, ******* ***** Gravesend, Kent

act9re@r.postjobfree.com 014**-****** mobile 078********

Finance Manager/Project Analyst

I am a motivated, analytical, hardworking, results-driven qualified management accountant and Prince 2 foundation holder possessing the required technical proficiency and knowledge of structured project management methodologies to excel in any project based role.

Core competencies include:

Financial/Management Accounting

Change Management

Contract accounting

Budgeting

Forecasting

Cost-benefit Analysis

Financial Analysis

Cash Management

Regulatory Compliance

Process Improvement

Career Experience

Cell Therapy Catapult Sept 2015 -

Project Accountant

Purpose: The purpose of this role is to be responsible for all project and commercial related accounting, monitoring and reporting for the Company

Provide accurate and timely financial information for clinical and operational projects

Work with business managers to prepare budgets and forecasts. Monitor performance against budgets on a regular basis and work with budget managers to ensure accurate forecasts are prepared.

Responsible for ensuring that the business is provided with financial support, information and advice to enable them to properly manage activities.

Carry out the financial modelling of new business and project opportunities including scenario analysis.

Ensure all financial terms of contracts are adhered to and evidence or supporting documentation is obtained.

Ensure all financial terms of contracts are adhered to and evidence or supporting documentation is obtained.

Finance Business Partner to the Clinical and Operational teams.

Warner Brothers Studios Leavesden June 2015 – Sept 2015

Project Analyst

Purpose: Preparation and completion of the capitalization of the three major capital projects I worked on previously.

Closing out the capital project, reviewing and analysing open commitments.

Liaising with contractors and vendors ensuring accounts are fully reconciled and balanced with internal project records.

Preparation and submission of the capitalization packs for head office review.

Dealing with and resolving all internal audit queries in regards to final project cost

Key Achievement

Projected completed to time and under budget

Significant budget control, resulting in budget savings of around £500k, as a direct result of good project cost control and effective stakeholder management.

Dentsu Aegis Network

Finance Manager February 2015 – June 2015

Finance Transformation Programme

& HR Information System Implementation

Purpose: Management of the FTP and HRIS (budget £22.2m) transformation projects through completion of month end activities, process improvement and documentation, budgeting, forecasting and reporting requirements, as well as day to day management of project costs.

Effective communication with outsourced partner to ensure efficient and accurate month end completion in line with global reporting timetable.

Ensure compliance with project policies and procedures is by being the first point of contact for project finance queries for both internal and external stakeholders.

Review of existing processes, recommend and put through process improvements as agreed.

Documentation of key processes within project, (e.g. Intercompany, Fixed Asset, Payables) for the training of outsourced finance department.

Completion of month end management reports including variance analysis and appropriate commentary in reports to cost centre managers, project leads and group finance.

Assistance with the creation of an equitable project recharging methodologies and subsequent recharge allocations, including liaison with Group tax.

Providing financial data to the FTP/HRIS project leads/team on a regular basis to allow informed decisions to be made.

Issue resolution to outstanding accounts payable matters, intercompany or recharge disputes, including secondary approval on bank payments.

Attend meetings and calls with senior management to explain the variances to project budgets

Ad-hoc reporting and presentation as required.

Key Achievement

Performed a complete review of internal processes, including project cost recharge methodology, fixed asset recognition and accounting and intercompany transactions.

Identified a number of process improvements, which were agreed with relevant stake holders and became part of the organisations procedures.

Provided training workshops to ensure outsourced partners had the required knowledge of new and improved processes.

Warner Brothers Studios Leavesden June 2014 – February 2015

Project Analyst

Purpose: The primary purpose of the role is to financially track the budget, actual costs, commitments and estimates to complete associated with three major capital projects

(Budget £30m) and effective stake holder management of the main partners on the project. Process review and Change management of the project.

Internal process review ensuring accurate documentation and improvement to processes as requied.

Ensure projects costs adhere to internal policy as well external accounting standards

Prepare weekly and monthly project tracking templates

Meet daily/weekly with construction company, Chartered Surveyors, QS, HR, Show company and compare actual costs in SAP with their numbers

Attend meetings and calls with senior management to explain the variances to project budgets

Ensure all purchase orders and invoices are routed correctly with correct back up, as prepared by the project administrator

Review the and approve all project related expenses

Ensure all actual costs are accurate and complete

Analyse, report and challenge all direct costs to projects

Project estimates to complete and track commitments

Prepare monthly accruals/prepayments of project costs

Weekly project reporting investigating and reporting any variances

Produce monthly project reports investigating variances with detailed commentaries

Review all timesheets to ensure they are approved by the appropriate managers

Ensure all payments to vendors are made in line with the contracts

Review and understand vendor contracts and translate into project forecast

Produce adhoc reports as required, using financial modelling and ensuring reports are accurate, and easy to understand

Key Achievements

Created a process of capturing and tracking all labour costs, including contractors as well as staffs recharges costs. This allowed the labour cost to be correctly forecasted during the delivery of the project, eliminating one of the major risk of possible overspend.

Sport England July 2008 – June 2014

PMO/Project Accountant (Funding and Capital projects)

Purpose: To provide Regional business partners and Project managers with a comprehensive and quality management information reports and financial support for their portfolio of projects.

Due diligence and business case reviews of shortlisted grant applicants, including value for money analysis (public sector) and ensuring compliance with strategic plans.

Investment appraisal of grant applications (including NPV, IRR and Payback)

Financial management of approved projects, including review and approval of Change Issue Requests.

Raise purchase orders, deal with suppliers invoices and manage change control note process.

Develop and maintain budgetary control over the programme of works by reporting variances, utilisation and risks/opportunities to the various Business Partners and Managers in an appropriate format and in a timely manner.

Production of monthly accounts for live projects including accruals and prepayments and reporting on variances analysis(actual vs forecast)

Production and review of monthly WIP percentage calculations.

Update of forecast in line with actual cost trend and key project milestones.

Quarterly production of estimate at completion reports for all live projects for project manager review.

Work closely with Project Managers to track the financial targets against budget and forecast highlighting significant variances/risks.

Monitor compliance with corporate governance processes within projects

Liaising closely with construction companies, QS, Chartered surveyors, ensuring third party contracts are translated accurately into project financials.

Stakeholder management and relationship building with Project Managers, Regional business partners and external business partners.

Attend and input at regular meetings with Stream Leads and Board to analyse, evaluate and agree prioritisation of work requests based on cost, risk, resource, timeline and overall impact to the Business.

Embed corporate governance processes within projects and monitor compliance

Understanding of tax implications on financial decisions, and up to date knowledge of accounting standards (IFRS, UK GAAP)

Organise, support and attend progress meetings with suppliers and other Project team members

Work with HR to resource the projects as necessary with internal staff where available or recruit through the existing agency framework where required

Provision of ad hoc support to the Project Manager and team

Key Achievements

Put in place an effective financial management and reporting procedure of a building project that involved The Royal British Legion, Serco and several other third party contractors and spanned two years. The project was for the construction of the Battle Back Centre at Lilleshall National Sports Centre it provides sports and adventurous activities for wounded injured and sick Service men and women.

Ensure consistency in project reporting across all live projects as per organisation’s corporate governance.

Holland & Barrett May 2007 – July 2008

Finance Analyst/Management Accountant

Purpose: Support and challenge the buying and merchandising teams on all aspects of sales, margin and stock as well as delivering the planning and budgeting process.

Annual budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis

Monthly accruals and prepayments

Monthly production of working capital days schedule with relevant commentary

Monthly reporting on KPI’s includes, by store/product/promos and also recommendation and insights.

Financial evaluation and analysis of promotional activity and event performance

Consolidation of weekly performance indicators and financial accounts manipulation

Monthly KPI pack production for Strategic and tactical level review (Director, Regional Store manager)

Monitoring and understanding performance of new stores and products

Production of monthly management account from trial balance with a focus on revenue and margin for 18 subsidiary stores including commentaries – reviewed by operational managers’ i.e Store managers and Head of Accounting.

Preparing monthly management report packs, under US GAAP

Assist in ensuring SOX compliance in accounting department practices

Quarterly VAT and Intrastat returns preparation.

Key Achievements

Selected as a super-user, involved in the testing, deployment and implementation of the accounting system, onto the new ERP system implemented (S.A.P).

Consistently met deadlines while demonstrating strong analytical and problem-solving skills to achieve corporate objectives.

Mencap Royal Society March 2005 – May 2007

Assistant Management Accountant

Purpose: Responsible for assisting in the production of the annual budget, and monthly reforecast. Identifying areas of over/under spend within divisional budgets and raising this with the relevant budget holders.

Production of the full monthly management accounts for all divisions within the Charity

Annual budget production and analysis on a monthly basis

Responsible for month end closing activity of the ledgers

Ensure accurate monthly recharge of fixed costs to divisions as per agreed budget

Review and maintenance of the society’s fixed asset register ensuring compliance with UK GAAP and charity SORP.

Monthly prepayment and accruals for all Central division costs, including rents, rates, insurances etc

Production of monthly management report, including variance analysis budget vs. actual

Investigating variances and suggesting corrective action to departmental heads

Weekly cash-flow forecasting and daily monitoring of cash balance to update forecast.

Assist with the annual audit process, and liaising with external auditors on specific responsibility areas.

Administration of the fixed asset database, ensuring that the fixed asset values reported and carried in the statutory and monthly accounts are complete and accurate and properly recorded in accordance with the organisation’s accounting policies and GAAP and management accounts monthly timetable

Monthly finance checks and comments on payroll

Monthly meetings with head of departments

Weekly and monthly cash flow and movement analysis

Project Accountant, on three live projects within the charity. Statement of income and expenditure filed in a timely manner to the funding bodies, i.e ESF, and Lottery Grant.

Key Achievements:

Reduced monthly closing cycle by three days with identification and recommendation of enhanced closing procedures.

Created and put in place financial reports and processes for management information

LogicaCmg June 2001 – February 2005

Management Accountant (Estates & Admin Division) February 2005 – February 2003

Purpose: Responsible for the provision of accurate, timely and appropriate financial information of the division to Central office.

Preparation and presentation of the monthly management accounts

Annual budgeting of the department

Monthly forecasting

Variances analysis budget vs actual, forecast vs buget, with relevant commentaries

Balance sheet control and full reconciliation

Prepayments and accruals

Ownership and maintenance of group fixed asset registers. Ensuring that the fixed asset values reported and carried in the statutory and monthly accounts are complete and accurate

Intercompany Accountant June 2001 - February 2003

Purpose: Support corporate accounting team to ensure the intercompany transactions are properly recorded and eliminated at Group consolidated level.

Managing the quarterly group agreement process

Raising and issuing intercompany AR Invoices

Reconciling and matching payments for incoming AP invoices

Creating recharge invoices

Facilitate the timely settlement of intercompany balances

Dealing with multi currency transactions

Managing re-invoicing workload

Year end netting off intercompany balances

Key Achievements:

Resolution of a large volume of long standing intercompany queries

Nominated for the employee of the year award by my fellow colleagues, in my second year of employment

Development of financial reports that was used during the month to monitor actual spend against budget prior to the month end reporting schedule.

Maintained the tight deadline of management report production, 3days after the month end process.

Education

ACMA, CGMA 2014

Prince 2 Foundation 2010

MAAT 2005

Technical Skills: Proficient in the following

MS Excel advanced

MS Access

SAP

Hyperion

MS PowerPoint

MS Outlook

Business Objects

Aggresso

Dynamics Great Plains

Sage Line 50 & 200

Oracle

MS Project & EP

Contact this candidate