Homebase, part of Home Retail Group, is the UK's second largest DIY retailer, serves over 1.5 million customers each week: over 40,000 products available in 341 stores throughout the UK, turnover GBP 1551m, Operating Profit GBP 48m as at FY 2011. Salary GBP 42,000 plus benefits. * Collecting information from 13 trading teams ( 35 FTEs) on all levels up to the trading directors to ensure budgets and forecasts are robust * Monitoring new products performance (several times a year) heling traders to explain the variances * Reporting to the trading Finance Manager and liaising with the Trading Director and Trading Buyers Achievements and ad-hoc projects: * Creating a trading performance user friendly tool allowing all trading teams predict the performance with 95% accuracy and improving week end reporting efficiency. * Reducing Debtors position from GBP 550k to GBP 30k by correctly organising and motivating the relevant stakeholders in 3 days. * A voted by whole company finance community representative on the forum for the executives. ;

* Reporting to the Group Commercial Director by presenting finance details of new initiatives focusing on the added value * Preparing Balance sheet, PL and variances reports for the Asia branch as well as ad-hoc commercial reports. * Created and implemented new packaging benefits capturing system. * Costs control over 14 UK based Group Commercial Cost Centres by collecting data from the CC managers and explaining the variance to the top management. ;

* Managing Finance department (5 staff directly): recruitment, training and oversight. * Communicating directly with the top management of the customers: P&G, Ashan (the biggest network of food supermarkets) , etc. in contract negotiations and monthly results presentations. * Supervising Monthly preparation and analysis of financial and management accounts, cash flow and executive summary reports to DHL Head Office; Switzerland. Turnover of Euro 20M+. * KPI analysis, * BCA, investment proposal evaluation. ; * Cost control implementation: improvement of efficiency and net profits by 60% and 7% respectively. ; * Working capital monitoring: detailed analysis of debtors days, creditors days, stock turnover and recommendations for the working capital position improvement ;

* Preparation of monthly P&L, sales and margin analysis and cash flow reports of four countries: Kazakhstan, Georgia, Armenia, and Mongolia. * Stock movement analysis (15000 lines) ; * Analyzed FA movements and depreciation charge in PL ; * Performing intercompany payable and receivables reconciliation * Implementation of new accounting systems in Georgia and Armenia, which combined local and IAS, reducing submission time for financial statements and management reports. * Implemented stock control procedures, reducing stock misallocation and shortages by 12%. ; * Frequent international travel to crisis-manage. ;

* ; * Reconciling 6 accounts, increasing to another 11 within 2 years. * Investigated and eliminated the several years backlog of unreconciled items accumulated on ISA and PEP accounts. ;

* Personally lead implementation a treasury accounting system which reduced reporting times by 50%, enabling a reduction of head-count by 1 accountant. * Timely and accurate weekly working capital management reports and * Treasury reports to the Central Bank of Russia. ;

Retail banking sector. Main achievement was a new accounts chart implementation introduced by the central

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