Samantha Ryan FCCA

- Lead in production of Exec and Board reports - Flash reports and commentaries - Group Performance Reports for board - BU/Goegraphical reporting - Lead in the deployment of dEPM (Consolidation and reporting system) across the group. Super User responsible for multi currency submission integrity - Half and Full year support - Project lead in the development of dEPM across the business to improve reporting/functionality/usage - Support planning/delivery of budgeting/forecasting across Spirent Businesses - External surveys

- Delivered timely, accurate, management accounts for 7 support services - Budget buddy to the same support services to compile, and upload their budgets/forecasts to COINS system, to include, review, variance analysis and causal tracks - Developed new management accounts packs - Preparation of group budget/forecast pack for director review - Compilation of consolidated management accounts pack - Upgrade/Improvement to KPI pack - Development of cash dashboards - Development of salary reporting by person for actual/budget/forecast - VAT returns - Monthly close for 2 sectors - COINS upgrade Finance lead and UAT coordinator - ABM reporting - Balance Sheet Reconciliations

Initial Role Group Financial Accountant moving to Airline operations Accountant following restructure of the Finance Department - Accounting for 19 fastjet companies including Aircraft leasing companies, Holding Companies and Dormants. - Intercompany accounting - Group Consolidation, P & L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow preparation for multi currency entities - Test Manager for Oracle upgrade as well as assisting with other areas in go live - Statutory Reporting, and Cell company reporting Airline Operations Accountant Role includes:- - Reporting on Airline Operating companies including Management Accounting, KPI's, - 1 Direct Report - Head of Finance team in Tanzania

• Developed streamlined UK reporting. Management concentration on significant variances rather than small differences. • Navision expertise used to develop and improve usage and reporting across the Finance Team. • Project leader to clear up historic inter company entries • Developed Navision to Consolidate US and UK accounts using the system rather than excel spread sheets. • Account schedules built within Navision to improve report accuracy, and uniformity. Provided management in UK and US with performance data, from areas of the business to make forward thinking decisions across the business. • Fixed Asset system based module installed producing accurate asset registers and depreciation calculations. Improvement on outdated excel spread sheets where calculations had gone wrong in the past. Process notes written and training given to the team. • Budget/Forecast uploads into Navision developed so that reports could be drawn from Navision which included actuals to forecast and to budgets with variance analysis. • Process notes written for VAT module and training given. The VAT returns are now system based within the UK entities. Minimal journals processed within VAT accounts. Less error and greater clarity resulted. Process notes and training given. • Reporting included:- o Cash Flow, Divisional Reporting, Capex Forecast and actuals, US Forecasting and Budgeting, Currency Exposure, Consolidated Accounts UK and US each under the relevant GAAP, Statutory Accounts, VAT returns, Variance Analysis across P & L and Balance Sheets, Bad Debt, Leases, Top 20 • Historic restatement work retrospectively restate accounts from 2004 onwards • Major role in Navision 6 upgrade project. Headed up the UAT. 150 scripts tested before implementation. Training of the new system given across the Finance Team. The system went in on time with minimal disruption. • Manager to 2 employees, tasks including treasury, fixed assets, I/Co

• Maintained Scout Group charity accounts for 3 years in spare time • Attended regular committee meetings • Reported annual position of scout group at AGM • Helped with fundraising, financial controls • Reported to external charitable bodies • Completed relevant statutory returns

• Monthly Management Accounts for UK (Multicurrency entities) • Accruals / Prepayments / Deferred and Accrued Incomes • Reconciliations of Balance Sheet and P & L Accounts • VAT Returns • Reporting for Audit • Reporting for Statutory Requirements • Budget and Forecast preparation • Cash Flow preparation • Expenses • Inter Company Reconciliation across Group hubs • Ensuring purchase ledger clerks, sales ledger clerks and accounts assistants meet their deadlines to enable reporting in a timely manner • Reporting on time

• Controlled Nominal ledger entries avoiding any spurious entries • Performed Reconciliations to ensure annual statutory requirements met • Developed/improved reporting to provide management with more KPI’s, Key ratios, notes and variance analysis with a view to improved decision making going forwards. Covering P & L and Balance Sheet • Liaised with management to produce solid bottom up budgets and Forecasts. Outcome gave the detail on drilldown from high level numbers. • Accruals / Prepayments / Salary / headcount controls • Manager to one assistant covering treasury, headcount, accruals, prepayments, reconciliations and various reporting. • Active member of the Training Committee coordinating all training across the Finance Team. Community Challenge Committee member and coordinating external charitable events using staff from across the business

• Control/Processing of Accounts for many clients in different sectors – inc. partnerships, sole traders and limited companies. This included all data entry for purchase/sales ledger, bank, accruals & prepayments, reconciliation of all balance sheet accounts and banks, maintenance of Fixed Asset registers. • VAT returns, monthly & quarterly management accounts, statutory accounts • Developed good relationships with all clients • Exposure to general Audit work • Assisted Payroll Manager to complete year end p11d’s • Additional reporting for clients including individual Job costing and working with clients to produce regular cash flow forecasts and annual budgets for variance analysis