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Graham Wesson
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HUNTINGDON, United Kingdom
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Having worked in sales, and finance I have a bredth of experience. Over the last five years I have been part of the management teams running business, I have being temporay MD for a transport company.
I enjoy protecting businesses, as well as helping them move forward. Internal audit, strategy work as well as big contract analysis.
I enjoy protecting businesses, as well as helping them move forward. Internal audit, strategy work as well as big contract analysis.
Markets
United Kingdom
Industries
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Ongoing relation / part-time
Available
My experience
2020 - ?
job
Financial Controller
IPE.
£10 million turnover, studio installation BBC, ITV, Parliament. Accounting software Sage.
Achievements
• Identified over payment to pension provider £13k
• Collected two-year-old debt £40k
• Manage account assistant and warehouse manager
• Improved reporting for the business, providing management with relevant information
• Improved reporting of projects and WIP, helping to make better decisions
Achievements
• Identified over payment to pension provider £13k
• Collected two-year-old debt £40k
• Manage account assistant and warehouse manager
• Improved reporting for the business, providing management with relevant information
• Improved reporting of projects and WIP, helping to make better decisions
Management, Software, Pension, Manager
2020 - 2020
job
Financial Controller
Malary.
£10 million turnover, waste management. 80 employees. Accounting software Xero.
Achievements
• Improved sales invoicing process
• Removed month end work, to make month end process quicker
• Developed sales analysis tool, which help Malary understand weekly sales target
• Re-structure finance department to align with business needs
• Reduced head count to save Malary money
• Quickly worked with the MD to apply and receive a loan to support business through Covid 19
• Managed Cash, and paid suppliers at key times to manage liquidity of Malary
Responsibility
• Full finance function, including Management Accounts, Purchase Ledger and Sales Ledger
● Part of the Management team running the business reporting to the MD
Achievements
• Improved sales invoicing process
• Removed month end work, to make month end process quicker
• Developed sales analysis tool, which help Malary understand weekly sales target
• Re-structure finance department to align with business needs
• Reduced head count to save Malary money
• Quickly worked with the MD to apply and receive a loan to support business through Covid 19
• Managed Cash, and paid suppliers at key times to manage liquidity of Malary
Responsibility
• Full finance function, including Management Accounts, Purchase Ledger and Sales Ledger
● Part of the Management team running the business reporting to the MD
Management, Finance, Sales, Xero, Support, Software
2018 - 2019
job
Financial Controller
Whippet Coaches/Ascendal.
£10 million turnover, public transport business employing approx. 150 employees. Accounting software Microsoft NAV.
Achievements
● Through staff changes, progressed to running Whippet Coaches with the Operations Manager
● Directly responsible for direct reports, and 100 members of staff
● Reduced payroll costs by providing analysis of where the issues were
● Reworked National Express contract, and identified how profitable to contract was
● Implemented payroll change to save the organisation circa £10k, and reduce risk
● Migrated and setup new payroll and accounting systems and functions
● Worked with IT contractor to migrate IT systems away from Tower Transit to Whippet & Ascendal
● Created and produced new route analysis for the business
● Generated additional revenue through Nat Ex through open book policy
● Tightly managed cash flow, due to loss making business and requiring owners investment
● Worked with the MD to implement a strategy to improve profitability of the business
● Implemented new controls to better manage the cash expenditure within the business
Responsibilities include
• Finance, IT, business development, Contract, Insurance, Leasing
• Finance included payroll, Sales ledger and purchase ledger
• IT included managing licenses, contractor and implementation. First contact for any issues
• Contracts, re-working and analysis the key contracts to understand profitability and how they operate
● Implementing various strategies including sales, IT and profitability
● Management Accounts for Ascendal and Whippet including foreign subsidiaries
● Financial analysis for the whole business, including various cost centres
● Cash flow, and cost control for the entire group
● Ensuring the financial systems are robust, and information is available and dependable
● Managing the audit process for the group and with our external auditors
Achievements
● Through staff changes, progressed to running Whippet Coaches with the Operations Manager
● Directly responsible for direct reports, and 100 members of staff
● Reduced payroll costs by providing analysis of where the issues were
● Reworked National Express contract, and identified how profitable to contract was
● Implemented payroll change to save the organisation circa £10k, and reduce risk
● Migrated and setup new payroll and accounting systems and functions
● Worked with IT contractor to migrate IT systems away from Tower Transit to Whippet & Ascendal
● Created and produced new route analysis for the business
● Generated additional revenue through Nat Ex through open book policy
● Tightly managed cash flow, due to loss making business and requiring owners investment
● Worked with the MD to implement a strategy to improve profitability of the business
● Implemented new controls to better manage the cash expenditure within the business
Responsibilities include
• Finance, IT, business development, Contract, Insurance, Leasing
• Finance included payroll, Sales ledger and purchase ledger
• IT included managing licenses, contractor and implementation. First contact for any issues
• Contracts, re-working and analysis the key contracts to understand profitability and how they operate
● Implementing various strategies including sales, IT and profitability
● Management Accounts for Ascendal and Whippet including foreign subsidiaries
● Financial analysis for the whole business, including various cost centres
● Cash flow, and cost control for the entire group
● Ensuring the financial systems are robust, and information is available and dependable
● Managing the audit process for the group and with our external auditors
Implementation, Manager, Contracts, Audit, Organization, Software, Development, Express, Insurance, Business development, It, Sales, Finance, Management, Operations manager, Audit, Contracts, Operations
2016 - 2018
job
Finance Manager
OCSL (IT).
£80m turnover, IT Solutions Company, employing 200. Accounting Software Sage.
Achievements
● Moved Kerridge from 80 individual invoices to one consolidated invoice
● Improved all invoicing to customers, saving the business a week of manual work, and potential errors
● Provided the analysis to ensure the Inhealth renewal contract was signed
● Improved the data input information to make it relevant to MS, and to provide better analysis
● Developed and maintained better auditable processes, through inbox's and linking files
● Automated part of the month-end processes meaning more time for analysis of business
● Showed Credit control how to email from Sage, saving a day of manual email of statements and invoices
● Created the FY17-18 budget, manipulated to IT business information
● Identified £177k of revenue, through OPF analysis that had not been invoiced
● Prevented commission payment being entered on MS balance sheet, due to not been signed off by COO
● Identified Tech data invoices that were paid but not signed off by MS
● Identified that I could make a payment to myself, without sign off, highlighted it to HQ, and safe guards in place
Responsibility
● Month end management accounts, including sales Analysis, Commission, prepayments and accruals
● Ensuring billing data and information is correct and up-to-date ready for invoicing
● P&L a
● Payment runs, and banking
● Visiting customers to build relationships and improve processes between business
● VAT Return
Achievements
● Moved Kerridge from 80 individual invoices to one consolidated invoice
● Improved all invoicing to customers, saving the business a week of manual work, and potential errors
● Provided the analysis to ensure the Inhealth renewal contract was signed
● Improved the data input information to make it relevant to MS, and to provide better analysis
● Developed and maintained better auditable processes, through inbox's and linking files
● Automated part of the month-end processes meaning more time for analysis of business
● Showed Credit control how to email from Sage, saving a day of manual email of statements and invoices
● Created the FY17-18 budget, manipulated to IT business information
● Identified £177k of revenue, through OPF analysis that had not been invoiced
● Prevented commission payment being entered on MS balance sheet, due to not been signed off by COO
● Identified Tech data invoices that were paid but not signed off by MS
● Identified that I could make a payment to myself, without sign off, highlighted it to HQ, and safe guards in place
Responsibility
● Month end management accounts, including sales Analysis, Commission, prepayments and accruals
● Ensuring billing data and information is correct and up-to-date ready for invoicing
● P&L a
● Payment runs, and banking
● Visiting customers to build relationships and improve processes between business
● VAT Return
Budget, Management, Finance, Sales, Banking, Safe, It, Software, Processes, UP, Manager, Cotton wool
2016 - 2016
job
Assistant Financial Accountant UK & European Accountant Benelux
Domino Printing.
£350m turnover, highly regarded in the printing industry. Accounting Software Oracle.
Achievements
● Added more detailed to FA clearing account reconciliation, and cleared old items dating back to Jan-13
● Fixed asset invoices and Bank reconciliation to PDF - saving money and the environment
● PO Accrual reconciliation - automated converting to excel using Macro's
● Sending communications out regarding FA using macro's to split data, and send out
● Automated part of the bank reconciliation
● Changed OPEX report to include all ledger details for full review of OPEX expenditure
● Adding total order margin to margin analysis to make analysis more efficient
● Replicating commission report to save time completing commissions work
● Updated Holland payroll file, to be more efficient and easier to follow
Responsibility
● Budgeting and partnering 14 departments, £6.1m
● VAT and intrastate - UK, Holland, Spain, Germany, including making more efficient
● Training of AP team to take on Financial Accountant tasks
● Monthly management accounts including sales, margin and expenses analysis
● Aged debtor review, bad debt review and debtor KPI's reporting
Achievements
● Added more detailed to FA clearing account reconciliation, and cleared old items dating back to Jan-13
● Fixed asset invoices and Bank reconciliation to PDF - saving money and the environment
● PO Accrual reconciliation - automated converting to excel using Macro's
● Sending communications out regarding FA using macro's to split data, and send out
● Automated part of the bank reconciliation
● Changed OPEX report to include all ledger details for full review of OPEX expenditure
● Adding total order margin to margin analysis to make analysis more efficient
● Replicating commission report to save time completing commissions work
● Updated Holland payroll file, to be more efficient and easier to follow
Responsibility
● Budgeting and partnering 14 departments, £6.1m
● VAT and intrastate - UK, Holland, Spain, Germany, including making more efficient
● Training of AP team to take on Financial Accountant tasks
● Monthly management accounts including sales, margin and expenses analysis
● Aged debtor review, bad debt review and debtor KPI's reporting
Excel, Oracle, Training, Management, Sales, PDF, Accountant, KPI, Software, Dating, Cotton wool
2015 - 2015
temp
Management Accountant
Uniting Care (Healthcare).
£800m turnover, employing 50 people, contract to the NHS to improve the care of over 65's. Accounting Software Sage
● Analysing trust data and reporting trends to senior management, along with variances between data sets
● Developing financial forecast with justifications and rational supporting the forecast
● Undertaking monthly pay cost review, and commentary to feed into CFO's report
● Forecasting acute spend using acute data and national data
● Reconciling data from trusts to national database and working with the trusts to reconcile variances
● Reviewing departmental costs, and breaking down for more structured management accounts
● Analysing trust data and reporting trends to senior management, along with variances between data sets
● Developing financial forecast with justifications and rational supporting the forecast
● Undertaking monthly pay cost review, and commentary to feed into CFO's report
● Forecasting acute spend using acute data and national data
● Reconciling data from trusts to national database and working with the trusts to reconcile variances
● Reviewing departmental costs, and breaking down for more structured management accounts
Forecasting, Database, Management, Accountant, CFO, Software, Forecast
2013 - 2015
job
Assistant Management Accountant
unknown.
Management, Accountant
2013 - 2013
temp
Temp Purchase Ledger Clerk
Spicers.
2012 - 2013
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Wholesale Manager
Lotus Cars.
Wholesale, Manager
2010 - 2011
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Sales Manager
Fila.
Sales, Manager
2008 - 2010
job
Sales and Stock Co-ordinator
Firetrap.
Sales
1998 - 2001
job
Warehouse Assistant
Currys.
My education
GNVQ Leisure and Tourism School
Unspecified, Selling and Business
Unspecified, Selling and Business
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