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Helen Cryer
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Arborfield Cross, United Kingdom
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2010 - ?
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EMEA Finance Operations Integration Lead
IBM UK Ltd.
Integrated assets, liabilities and employees for over 30 acquired companies during their integration into IBM across Europe and MEA. Invested time with the team, supporting the culture change and fostered self-belief in their abilities in a new environment to ensure retention.
Job accomplishments:
• Successfully managed the secondary control process from acquisition completion, through to liquidation of the companies acquired.
◦ This was a very sensitive topic that had to be handled with trust.
◦ Applied effective clear, tactful interaction with the acquired companies during these times.
◦ The result was hundreds of staff being smoothly transitioned into IBM across Europe, the Middle East and Israel.
• Collaborated with the legacy team reviewing the end-to-end process and checking controls, through to the collection of the final legacy Accounts Receivable debt to ensure there was no bad debt impact to IBM.
• Managed banking operations during integration, ensuring additional IBM controls in place by being appointed a bank signatory and disbursement approver. Efficiently oversaw the settling of all legacy invoices (including intercompany).
• Ensured all payroll, statutory payments and returns were completed accurately.
• Planned and effectively executed closure of legacy benefit schemes and migration to IBM employee benefit policies and schemes.
• Partnered with IBM Procurement on termination or migration of suppliers to IBM terms and conditions at Transfer of Business.
• Held regular meetings to work through issues with external firms or legacy Finance to ensure timely filing of their statutory accounts and liquidation of legacy entities.
• Ensured IBM and the acquired companies were fully compliant with GDPR.
Job accomplishments:
• Successfully managed the secondary control process from acquisition completion, through to liquidation of the companies acquired.
◦ This was a very sensitive topic that had to be handled with trust.
◦ Applied effective clear, tactful interaction with the acquired companies during these times.
◦ The result was hundreds of staff being smoothly transitioned into IBM across Europe, the Middle East and Israel.
• Collaborated with the legacy team reviewing the end-to-end process and checking controls, through to the collection of the final legacy Accounts Receivable debt to ensure there was no bad debt impact to IBM.
• Managed banking operations during integration, ensuring additional IBM controls in place by being appointed a bank signatory and disbursement approver. Efficiently oversaw the settling of all legacy invoices (including intercompany).
• Ensured all payroll, statutory payments and returns were completed accurately.
• Planned and effectively executed closure of legacy benefit schemes and migration to IBM employee benefit policies and schemes.
• Partnered with IBM Procurement on termination or migration of suppliers to IBM terms and conditions at Transfer of Business.
• Held regular meetings to work through issues with external firms or legacy Finance to ensure timely filing of their statutory accounts and liquidation of legacy entities.
• Ensured IBM and the acquired companies were fully compliant with GDPR.
Operations, Procurement, GDpr, Finance, Integration, Banking, Retention
1995 - 2010
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Financial Controller/ Director / Company Secretary
ILOG Ltd.
Produced the management accounts and payroll for multinational UK software company. Managed a skilled team of professionals to handle the back-office functions.
Job accomplishments:
• Revenue recognition approver for all customer contracts and purchase orders up to $100K.
• Set budgets and reviewed monthly expenditure for variance analysis of cashflow, forecasts and budgets.
• Wrote and implemented internal control procedures and SOX controls.
• Managed all facility issues including negotiating building lease, relocations and dilapidations.
• Produced monthly salaries and ensured statutory payments and returns were completed accurately.
• Administered the pension scheme and managed the employee benefit schemes.
• Managed complex employee relations including hiring, dispute resolutions, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, dismissals and redundancies.
Previous careers
Various roles including Accountant Bookkeeper, Office Manager and Bank Clerk in sectors including banking, pharmaceuticals and data storage.
Continuous professional development
Intermediary AAT
Job accomplishments:
• Revenue recognition approver for all customer contracts and purchase orders up to $100K.
• Set budgets and reviewed monthly expenditure for variance analysis of cashflow, forecasts and budgets.
• Wrote and implemented internal control procedures and SOX controls.
• Managed all facility issues including negotiating building lease, relocations and dilapidations.
• Produced monthly salaries and ensured statutory payments and returns were completed accurately.
• Administered the pension scheme and managed the employee benefit schemes.
• Managed complex employee relations including hiring, dispute resolutions, disciplinaries, grievances, absence, dismissals and redundancies.
Previous careers
Various roles including Accountant Bookkeeper, Office Manager and Bank Clerk in sectors including banking, pharmaceuticals and data storage.
Continuous professional development
Intermediary AAT
Contracts, Cash Flow, Management, Banking, Bookkeeper, Accountant, Development, Storage, Office, Software, Data Storage, Pension, Contracts, Manager, UP, AAT
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