Anne Keogh

- Management of £0.5bn of lending facilities (2 providers)

- Management of day to day banking across 13 hotels

- Management of all intra-group lending across 35 entities

- Implementation of cash concentration pooling facilitating improved interest income return

- Relationship management with banking and lending providers

- Financial accounting for group re-organisation and re-financing

Global Cloud IT consultancy operating in 10 countries.

T/O : £168m, 627 employees, cash throughput £422m (2021)

6 direct reports (2 Treasury, 1 Procurement, 3 AP & Expenses).

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic and hands-on ownership for end to end Treasury operational activities managing treasury team of two having responsibility for meeting daily liquidity requirements and cash positioning, S/T and L/T cash forecasting, banking relationships, credit card provider relationships, FX risk management and reporting, currency dealing, working capital optimisation, intercompany loans and reconciliations, bank reconciliations,.
• Management of £27.5m Revolving Credit Facility liaising with banking provider and PE-owner involving planning of drawings and repayments in conjunction with cash forecasting and quarterly covenant compliance reporting.
• Additional responsibility for Procure to Pay transactional cycle (Procurement, AP, Expenses, Credit Cards).

Key Achievements

• Remodelled and overhauled existing Treasury reporting of actuals and forecast by entity and currency across group over different time horizons leading to improvement in working capital.
• Developed consolidated group currency exposure reporting deck to identify areas of FX risk exposures and mitigate accordingly.
• Implemented Receivables Factoring in UK & USA with two major European banks, improving reported full year cash position by £6.8m.
• Spearheaded development and implementation of bespoke ERP system Procurement module - facilitating process digitisation, transparency and agile workflow approvals. Significantly reduced manual intervention.
• Implemented 6 cash pooling accounts in 5 currencies with automated sweeps.
• Set up of US lock box facilities post pandemic.
• Active participation in sale of business from Blackstone Private Equity to ATOS SE (French multinational).
• Management, tax compliance and cross-border settlement of multiple inter company loans and related interest.

Reason for leaving

• Role made redundant following purchase of business by ATOS SE in January 2022 and integration of Cloudreach to their processes and systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Managed 2018 and 2019 financial audit and preparation of UK GAAP statutory financials. Preparation of Board briefing papers.
• Acquisition accounting and financial integration of two US businesses purchased.

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Japanese owned print and IT services technology business. T/O : £230m (A$392m), 860 staff. Second in charge to CFO.

8 direct reports and 45 indirect reports covering Treasury, month end management reporting, tax, annual statutory reporting and audit, billing, FP&A, credit control, payroll, accounts payable.

Key Responsibilities

• Operational management of all of areas of finance.
• Day to day cash flow requirements and liaison with APAC regional division on cash pooling needs.
• Preparation of year end statutory IFRS accounts and associated audit.
• Implementation projects of IFRS 9, IFRS 15 and IFRS 16.

Key Achievements

• Successful completion of Australian Tax Office assurance review with no adverse impacts or issues found.
• Successfully restructured finance team to address team capability / skills gaps; significant improvement in quality and comprehensiveness of month end reporting, associated analysis and speed of close.

Reason for leaving

Relocation to UK.

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Australian Pay TV media group owned by News Corporation and Telstra, consisting of 49 statutory entities (7 operational).

T/O : £1.8bn (A$3.3bn) 2800 employees, 3.2m subscribers.

5 direct reports and 17 indirect reports.

Key responsibilities

• Hedge accounting and Treasury reporting both for statutory and management accounting purposes under both IFRS and US GAAP across complex derivatives portfolio (vanilla FX & interest forwards; cross-currency interest rate swaps and synthetic positions).
• Pro-active participation in Treasury activities and reporting : quarterly debt covenant reporting for syndicated loan / business investor update calls with US institutional investors and response to queries / facilitation of information for annual credit ratings review.
• Preparation of accounting & treasury policy papers to Audit Committee and Board,
• Liaison with JV shareholders, particularly News Corporation USA and Australia; Audit Committee members and senior executive team.
• Manage monthly, quarterly, half yearly and annual accounting close and quarterly audits in compliance with both IFRS and US GAAP.
• Managed preparation by team of annual group statutory accounts (2 group sets under IFRS and US GAAP) and 6 subsidiary entities (IFRS).

Key achievements

• Improved staff engagement score for team from 60% (2014) to 79% (2015)
• Early implemented IFRS 9 allowing risk mitigation through adoption of synthetic hedge positions.
• Assisted Group FD in refinancing of A$750m of syndicated senior debt.
• Initiated and led project to publish and roll out finance policy manual securing project backing and internal budget from CFO. Pro-actively provided training (and ongoing thereafter) on same.
• First time implementation of US GAAP group accounts; successful audit for SEC filing and associated Audit Committee papers.

Reason for leaving

Redundancy of role following business-wide restructure in response to impact of Netflix entering Australian market.

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Australasian operation of US multinational, First Data Corporation, a provider of high-volume electronic payment solutions. Private equity ownership under KKR.

T/O : £205m (A$349m), 550 staff, comprised of 5 matrixed operating businesses. Maternity contract.

Key Responsibilities / Achievements

• Project managed Finance work stream for major Supply Chain project (annualised cost savings cA$5m).
• SOX compliance testing - Treasury, Settlement, Close the Books.
• Implemented time sheet logging system for Finance and developed associated suite of productivity reports identifying cross-training and workload restructuring opportunities.
• Post-implementation review of Oracle i-Expenses with improvement opportunities identified and reported to management.

• Responsible for all aspects of Finance, reporting to offshore owner.

Australian arm of US multinational owned by KKR Private Equity. Leadership responsible for 7 staff. Contract role.

Monthly US GAAP compliance and management reporting.

Corporate reporting - 10K and 10Q packages, half yearly and quarterly requirements.

Monthly balance sheet review.

Annual IFRS statutory reporting and audit (9 Australian and 1 NZ entity).

Led legal entity simplification programme where 6 entities were voluntarily wound up resulting in efficiency savings of 2 working days per month.