Financial Systems Senior

Location:

Bristol, United Kingdom

Salary:

50000

Posted:

June 09, 2024

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Andrew R Hinge (Security Cleared Jan ****)

Senior Financial Systems/Analytical Controller-Accountant Mob:074*-******* Email: ************@*****.*** Loc: Bath-S/West Linkedin:http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-hinge/10/11b/a80 Summary

Whilst Andrew is a Financial Controller primarily responsible for all ledgers, reporting requirements and statutory returns, this includes Staff governance and working in a hands-on role. He also has experience within Financial Systems Project Accounting...

He has implemented quite a few differing Accounting Systems and is very much a pro-active hands-on Finance/Project Controller.

Of late He has used this knowledge to ascertain/re-engineer Board/Business Reporting requirements, Build Reporting solutions including Finance Data Integration; Dashboards, Reporting, Consolidations, and Review of Country and EMEA Dashboards, for the respective companies.(Often with considerable savings in time and costs to these companies.)

This includes all general methods of Financial Project Management/Re-engineering and delivery of requirements/deliverables etc.

He has an IT Head as well as a Finance background

Specialties:

• Highly advanced analytical and problem solving skills.

• Significant experience in a Fin Sys Reporting/Management environment

• Ability to communicate clearly (both written and verbally) at a level appropriate to the intended audience

• Proficient in Numerous Reporting/Accting Packages: Oracle /Agresso/Sap/Sage/Zero products and services.

• Highly Competent in Project Management techniques

• Advanced Access/Excel (to Macro, VBA, and Pivot) Tableau, Dynamics, Power BI experience.

• Financial Business re-engineering of systems and processes. Experience

May (23) Feb(24) Taking Time out (Medical problem -Resolved) and Holiday Feb (23)-April (23) Temp Revenue & Margin /Management Analyst. (Lovehoney) Via Hays.Com. *******.********@****.***.

Producing, Review and posting Management Accounts for all Group Entities using Xero: Sage 50 :Netsuite, and Advanced Excel.

Role covered:

Perform month-end close processes

Prepare and execute month-end accounting journals

Prepare Balance sheet/P&L account reconciliations and analyses Prepare documentation for month-end group reporting process-, also Compiling and distributing Sub P&Ls, including summaries for Websites and Overheads. (12 differing currencies, exchange rate conversions) Page2

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Senior Financial Systems/Analytical Controller-Accountant Mob:074*-******* Email: ************@*****.*** Loc: Bath-S/West Linkedin:http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-hinge/10/11b/a80 Submitting VAT and other Trading Analysis to HMRC and other Government organisations. Posting of related Journals to Sage and Xero

Role covering Gap during looking for a permanent replacement. Jan (22)-Feb (23) Taking Time out (Medical problem) and Holiday 22 Sept (21)-07 Dec (21) Senior Finance Offficer (Interim FC Role) - Business Management. Whitehall Garden Centres. Lacock, Wilts.

Initially to catch up Invoicing/Purchase Ledger/Reporting after previous FC and Management Acct left. Company had a twin system of separating Purchase and Overhead invoices which culminated in a large amount of O/head invoices not being posted for several months. To alleviate and integrate O/head invoices into those that could be posted direct to Purchase ledger cutting time down sorting invoices out.

Due to the new incoming Accounting system requirement all Accounts Balances in the old system needed to be verified ready to be transferred over. During this exercise it was found that a number of invoices that were posted twice (once by P/l input and once by O/head input) culminating in both invoices being paid. There for there was a number of Accounts that were overpaid (amounting to c£25,000.00) and needed being repaid back to WGC.

Additionally I covered all the below till we had an additional help from a temp Management Acct to cover some of the below with me.

• Be able to perform all task associated with sales ledger, purchase ledger and banking

• Support with preparing the monthly management accounts including calculating prepayments/accruals, bank reconciliations, balance sheet reconciliations and analysing cash-flow movements

• Assisting with statutory obligations including VAT, Wine Duty, ONS & RHI

• Liaising with external parties including auditors, HMRC and banks

• Produce sales monitoring reports to the management team and external parties

• Be confident in identifying and actioning system and process improvements

• Be conversant with ERP software systems and have advanced Excel skills

• Be part of a Professional accounts team recognising/providing cover for the cash office and stock-taking teams as and when required.

• There was also minimal cover required on 4 Integrated Companies, Bank accounts and subsequent intercompany transactions.

21 June (21)-30 Aug(21) Nato SHAPE, Mons, Belgium. Senior Assistant Finance (Interim))- Business Management.

The BM staff perform financial functions in support of the CIS service provision community both in Mons and around the CIS Support Units (CSUs) and in support of the external customers such as the NATO Command Structure, NATO Organizations and Nations.

The work undertaken is for the vast majority funded through Military Budget with some multinational funding as well. A key feature of the support provided from this BM Branch is the support to NATO Operations and Missions.

The BM scope of work also includes but was not limited to:

•Supporting financial analysis of Customer Requirements, coordinating the cost estimation and participating Page3

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•Managing SLA execution inclusive of management of contractual payment milestones;

•Producing financial management reports on SLAs and customer portfolios;

•Participating in Customer Reviews;

•Coordinating contract proposals for procurements;

•Contributing to the Cost-to-Complete exercise;

•Maintaining financial performance indicators and statistics;

•Representing the FC in external relationships with Customer's Procurement and BUDFIN staffs;

•Approval of POs;

•Approval that invoices can be issued to customers;

•Serving as a footprint and point of entry for all local financial matters;

•Exercising Financial Control over Agency units delivering Services to customers during the execution phase;

•Monitoring the evolution towards the full Customer Funding model assess the impact on CIS Service business model and implement decisions accordingly.

April (21)-18 June (21) Awaiting Clearance Due to Covit Restrictions 13 July (20)-27 Mar (21) MOD DESSpDir-SCG-IRP Inventory Management. Abbeywood. The Inventory Reconciliation (Inv Rec) Team is the Technical Layer across the Finance and Inventory Boundary. My role is to investigate Inventory differences and to define what is the problem, whether it is man-made or a system problem,

Resolve that problem and check the output agrees with the Inventory Financials. Specialising in resolving Reporting inconsistences and new reports out of Oracle’s Miranda Reporting medium. This generally revolves around working on a To Do list, investigating problems, then creating solutions, designing and testing all outputs to ensure that they match the base requirements. Liaising with Fijitsu, the Finance Function and the Finance officer within SpDir-SGC-IRP, to ensure that the scope of the appraisal has been met and how much more the developers within Fijitsu need to ensure completion and to publish the report. Apr (20)-13-Jul (20) Covid -19 Lockdown.

Jan (20)-31 Mar (20) Capita. Mendip DC and Hart DC. Shepton Mallet. Balance sht Reconciliaton Acct. Completing Daily, weekly and monthly reconciliations for both District Councils working out of Capita located in Mendip DC offices, Shepton Mallet. A full list of all can be provided on request. Aug (19)-Dec (19) looking for new assignment

May (19) -July (19) Meiyume UK Ltd. Trowbridge. Wilts (Via R. Half International. Swindon) Short term assignment fulfilling a Temp Management Accountant (Lornamead UK) role covering Hospitalisation.

During this assignment there has been two accountancy system changes (with another still outstanding), one covering the localisation of the Reporting structure for the UK entity, and one for the Global Integration/Reporting direct to Hong Kong.

Knowledge/Systems required: Oracle EPMS v11: Smartview for Oracle: Hyperion: QAD: MFG: Tagetik. Excellent Knowledge of Excel for reporting, ranging from basic data output to building Reporting Workbooks, upkeeping Forecasts and Actuals v Budgets, includes P&L reconciliations. Page4

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Senior Financial Systems/Analytical Controller-Accountant Mob:074*-******* Email: ************@*****.*** Loc: Bath-S/West Linkedin:http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/andrew-hinge/10/11b/a80 Working with VPs and Vice VPs of European Finance, for specific reporting of Forecasts v Budgets/Actuals. 15 Mar (19)-26 Apr (19) British Corner Shop. (Online Services) Yate, Bristol. Financial Analyst (Sage) Short term assignment to Analyse inconsistencies within the ledgers and postings to Balance Sheet and Trading accounts.

Knowledge needed. Excel and Sage Data sets

09 Mar (19)-14 Mar (19) looking for new assignment 15 Jan (19)-08 Mar (19) MOD DES Fin Ships. Abbeywood. Financial Analyst To Analyse and bring up to date Spreadsheets and Reports based around Ships Purchases and Consumption, also the same with Assets in Industry Spreadsheets and reports. Knowledge: Excel and Oracle data sets

13 Oct (18)-14 Jan(18)looking for new assignment

05 Sept (18)-12 Oct (18) R. Half International. Swindon Short term Contracts Managing BAU Practices

Bible Society, Swindon: Payroll support and Financial Management/Analysis. Wincanton Logistics. Wincanton: Milk Accountant/Analyst. Milk Invoicing and Analysis. May (18)-Aug(18): looking for new assignment

Mar (18)-Apr (18) Hitachi Information Control Systems Europe. Bradford on Avon/Derby. Contract Project Accountant/Analyst

Short –term contract To Assist/review/rectify and update various complicated Excel integrated Spreadsheets relating to the TMS/NR Contract (£8 m over 5 yrs) held by Hitachi Info-Con. These are based around the ongoing Costs and Invoiced amounts appertaining to the Project structure and Profitability Reports. Sage data, Primavera, and various other system extracts. Feb (18) Looking for next Contract

Nov (17)-Jan (18) C & J Clark. Street, Somerset: Interim IT Financial Analyst. (P/T) Nov 2017 – Nov 2017. Seeking employment

Jun (17)-Oct (17) Kennedy Publishing Co. Wick, Bristol. Acctg/Reporting Resource. Apr 2017 – May 2017. Seeking employment

Feb (17)-Mar (17)

MOD (Army HQ) Andover. Reporting Analyst. (Babcock) June 2016 – Jan 2017. Seeking employment

Jan 2014-May 2016 Snr Financial Officer (FC) at UKS GROUP LTD Dec 2013 – Dec 2013. Seeking employment

Senior MI Team Leader/Analyst at Integreon Resourcing, Bristol Jul 2012 – Nov 2012. Seeking employment

Jan 2012-June 2012 Project Financial Business Analyst at Agilisys Ltd, (North Somerset Council). Page5

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June (11)-July (11). Bath. MOD Foxhill. Babcock (Debut) Infra Services. Excel Bus Analyst. Feb 2011 – May 2011. Seeking employment

Business Reporting Solutions Consultant at Sopra Group (Annecy, France) Administrator at Bristol City Council, Health & Social Care May 2009 – June 2009. Seeking employment

Bus Systems Analyst at Bristol City Council, Parking Services Snr Financial Management Lead at Skills For Health. Bristol Business Forensic Analyst at W H Smith. Swindon. Results: £2.5 mil found in un-invoiced incomes. Business Reporting Specialist at Sony PLC

Temporary Accountant at Dyson Uk Ltd

Business Reporting Specialist at CFS Ltd

Business Reporting Analyst at Cramer, Amdocs OSS Division, Bath UKIT Business Expense Analyst at Axa Life & Pensions Business Analyst. Rewards and Incentives Consultant /Analyst at Axa Life & Pensions. Abbeywood Bristol. Human Resources

Financial Controller at CX Access Systems Ltd

Financial BA at Edu-Serv Ltd

Financial Project Officer at Bath and North East Somerset Council. Bath Allied Domecq Corp (SAP) IT Procurement

Emergency Accountant at OCCAM

Financial BA at NHS Southmead Hospital Trust

Skills & Expertise

Various Accounting Packages:, Oracle, SAP R/3(FI/CO/BW), Hyperion, Essbase, SSRS, SSIS, SSAS, Micro-strategy, OLAP, Informatica, PL/SQL, JD Edwards, Coda, Siebel, PeopleSoft, Sage (Single/Multi Versions).

OBIEE, SQL,VBA, Access, Visio, Visual Basic, Dashboards, SharePoint, MS Project. Business Intelligence Tools: Crystal Reports: Cognos: Business Objects: Business Process Analysis: Process Improvement: Process Engineering: Change Management Requirements: Analysis Requirements Gathering: Project Planning: Data Migration: Data Analysis: Data Mining: Data Warehousing: Data Management: Database Design: Database Administration. Education

Norton Radstock CFE/Sheffield University

Msc in Infomatics, Business IT, 1995 – 1998

AAT. 1995 – 1997

ACCA, levels I,II,III. 1996-1998 (Time Barred)

(Certs Included:Diploma in Accounting and Business: Advanced Diploma in Accounting and Business.) The University of Sheffield

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Bath Tech College

Ist yr of ONC Business Studies

Brunel Tech College. Bristol

Diploma, Print Finishing Processes

Activities and Societies:

Project Management. Japanese Language.