jacqui foster

assistant finance manager - balance sheet control

About

I am CIMA/CGMA qualified and ACT part qualified with a useful range of commercial accountancy skills alongside experience of strategy, operations and people management In addition I have strong excel skills as previous roles held have required the manipulation and analysis of large volumes of data and have recently picked up the reins in terms of learning Web Intelligence report writing skills Specialties Cost Management Forecasting and Financial Analysis Project accounting Financial modelling/appraisal Mortgages Regulatory Reporting

Country

united kingdom

City

bradford

Industry

financial services

Skill

finance, forecasting, financial analysis, management accounting, financial accounting, budgets, financial modeling, process improvement, financial reporting, strategy, managerial finance, business analysis, team management, strategic financial planning, account reconciliation, financial audits, cima, management, stakeholder management, project accounting, microsoft excel, tax, credit, mortgages regulatory reporting, web intelligence

Experience

assistant finance manager - balance sheet control

lloyds banking group

2018-10 - Present · 8 yrs

trainee management accountant

hammonds

2000-2 - 2003-11 · 3 yrs 10 mos

legal cashier

hammonds

1997-11 - 2000-1 · 2 yrs 3 mos

project accountant

gardiner & theobald llp

2010-6 - 2010-7 · 2 mos

One off project to complete a complex performance measurement and reporting model using advanced Excel skills

management accountant

parabis ltd

2011-1 - 2012-7 · 1 yr 7 mos

* Management and financial accounting inc production of monthly management accounts and annual statuatory accounts for the Claimant division * Cashflow forecasting * WIP reporting * Balance Sheet analysis * Intercompany reconciliations * Production of supporting MI, KPI’s etc

finance manager

hml

2008-1 - 2010-4 · 2 yrs 4 mos

* Responsible for profit and loss budgeting/forecasting for HML and its subsidiary divisions. * Management of the Finance Business Partnering and Project Accounting teams * Finance business partner to the Operations Director and Operations Executive team * Lead the process to identify and replace current budgetary/forecasting software including the preparation of financial models to assist in the delivery of proof of concept demos.

management accountant

hml

2005-3 - 2007-12 · 2 yrs 10 mos

* Implementation of Project Accounting function to ensure project costs and benefits were seperately identifiable * Development of financial models and improvements to finance processes to improve efficiency and effectiveness of the Finance team * Part of Benefits Realisation project team tasked with ensuring that project benefits were accurately measured * Production/maintenance of commercial pricing models re new service offerings and contract renewals * Production and provision of key monthly KPI data * Involved in the implementation of budgetary software * Assisted in the quarterly forecasting process * Client profitability analysis

assistant financial accountant

skipton building society

2003-11 - 2005-3 · 1 yr 5 mos

* Assisted the Financial Accountant in the preparation of statuatory and regulatory reporting * Managed the purchase ledger team * Co-ordination of the monthly profit and loss process including production of the monthly Finance board pack * Margin analysis, Capital adequacy and Sale and leaseback related reporting

business analyst

virgin trains east coast

2010-8 - 2011-1 · 6 mos

* Budgeting and forecasting over the short and medium term * Appraisal of investment proposals (capex and opex) * Financial modelling and analysis * Period and year end reporting * Continuous improvement activities * Facilitation and support of business change. * Providing line management to the Revenue and Retail Finance assistant