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GAYATHIRI NADARAJAH

Summary

PERSONAL PROFILE Knowledgeable finance professional with background in financial forecasting, budget administration and cash-flow management. Uses analysis and research to develop comprehensive annual budgets. Drives continual improvement in department processes and workflows. Collaborative minded, and prefers working with like minded teams, experienced in financial statement review, auditing and reporting. Well-versed in producing reports, evaluating department operations and handling month- and year-end closings. Meticulous, conscientious and methodical in approach.

Work history

Finance Manager

04.2023 - 09.2023
  • Setting up of personal website
  • Review and Evaluation of business propositions for financial viability
  • Blogging and Writing

Finance Manager (Interim)

Pecan, Community Development
Peckham, Southwark
12.2022 - 03.2023
  • Charity
  • Reporting to the CEO, responsible for overseeing the Finance function
  • Staff management of two staff
  • Prepare and analyse summary P&L, variance analysis
  • Identify and make recommendations for cost savings, and make recommendations to optimise staff usage
  • Standardise certain manual processes
  • Effective cash management by maximising supplier terms
  • Identify opportunities for improving methods of collection by using the accounting software/system appropriately, as well as assist towards managing the predicted budgeted shortfall by identifying opportunities to optimise costings for grant funding
  • Costings for grant/donor reporting to optimise drawdown.
  • Monitored and reviewed financial controls, processes and procedures to enable best practice development.
  • Reviewed completed work to verify accurate completion of payments, credit card reconciliation and ledger maintenance
  • Assisted junior team members in collating monthly payroll information for processing.
  • Drove continual improvement in department processes and workflows.

Finance and Operations Manager

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
Vauxhall, Lambeth
04.2022 - 08.2022
  • Reporting to the CEO and overseeing the Operations, HR and Fundraising function
  • Staff management of four staff - Production of Management Accounts, working with budget holders to track performance against budget/reforecast
  • Finalising Annual Accounts, to incorporate the multiple changes required by the trustees and other senior management
  • Costings for fundraising bids - Maintain and update Risk Register
  • Managed daily finance services for smooth business operations.
  • Reviewed bookkeeping and management accounts to achieve clear and correct reports.
  • Coached and mentored junior staff to maximise finance department capabilities.
  • Reduced annual business expenditure through careful expense monitoring.
  • Collaborated with business management to set and control annual budgets.

Finance Manager

Southwest London Law Centres
Croydon, Surrey
03.2019 - 02.2022
  • A key member of the senior management team, for a charity that specialises in providing legal advice
  • Funded through a combination of grant income and legal aid
  • The lockdown years were extremely challenging, because of funding bottlenecks caused by COVID 19, whilst also catering to the increase in demand for new areas of need
  • Production of management accounts for bi-monthly Trustee meetings - Production of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, by using financial modelling techniques
  • Ad hoc financial analysis and business partnering, as necessary
  • Cashflow Management - Created new templates for the reporting, efficient tracking, and utilisation of unrestricted and restricted funding
  • Update business processes, procedures manual to ensure financial management was done in an efficient as possible
  • Manage annual audit process and produce statutory accounts
  • Scoping, due diligence, identification of new case management system, and assisting in the implementation
  • Costings for funding proposals - Oversee monthly processing of bank reconciliations, balance sheet recs, payroll processing
  • Identified areas for savings - an overpriced photocopier lease, - Identified areas for efficiency, via scoping and putting case forward for the elimination of unsuitable case management system off the preferred list, thereby saving time spent on manual manipulation of data as well as the risk of potential inaccuracies between two non- integrated systems.
  • Monitored and reviewed financial controls, processes and procedures to enable best practice development.
  • Managed timely and accurate reporting of various financial transactions and information for detailed analysis.
  • Assisted junior team members in collating monthly payroll information for processing.
  • Spearheaded and monitored end-to-end financial planning and analysis and balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Reviewed completed work to verify accurate completion of payments, credit card reconciliation and ledger maintenance
  • Acted as point of contact in support of end-to-end system audits.
  • Drove continual improvement in department processes and workflows.
  • Checked and evaluated allocation of capital expenditure.
  • Mentored department managers in budget forecasting and cost-reduction measures.

Management Accountant

Social Finance
Vauxhall, London
04.2018 - 12.2018
  • Social Finance - Vauxhall
  • A key member of a small finance team for a dynamic, young social enterprise
  • The enterprise was funded through a combination of grant and earned income
  • A busy pipeline of live projects along with a high volume of transactions, resulted in busy workload
  • Production of monthly management accounts, by tracking the movements and progress on projects, under each business sector
  • Business partner with project managers to track costs and timelines, invoicing cycles to enable accurate recognition of grant income
  • Review of balance sheet accounts, including tracking sizeable monthly movements on the deferred and accrued revenue accounts - Regular monitoring of project spends relating to restricted funding
  • Produce VAT Returns - Maintain Fixed Assets register.

Group Accountant

SES Water
Redhill
06.2017 - 04.2018
  • A challenging role, with multiple deadlines - Review, and produce consolidated monthly management accounts for group companies, with appropriate entries for the elimination intercompany transactions, minority interests, dividend payments
  • Upload results into the group reporting system - Reconcile and clear all intercompany balances
  • Liaise with subsidiary companies, towards the timely preparation and consolidation of the group forecasts/budgets to a very tight time scale. - Provide business partnering service, with the subsidiary companies via the review of the budget/quarterly forecasting process.
  • Investigated budget variances to identify causes and suggest corrective action.

Career Break (Personal Time & Studies)

N/A
01.2014 - 06.2017
  • Time to look after family

Financial Reporting Accountant

Legal Aid Agency, LAA
London
03.2008 - 12.2013
  • Key responsibilities
  • Manage and own the production of the Financial Accounts for interim and year-end, for the admin side of the organisation
  • Preparation of audit files with relevant documents/backup to support accounts
  • Manage the relationship and respond to queries from National Audit Office in a timely, accurate and effective manner
  • Part of the IFRS transition team, which transitioned the Agency's accounts over from UK GAAP to IFRS reporting, which included a particularly challenging task of valuing and discounting debtors' balances
  • Produce monthly management accounts and variance analysis, for the Fund side of the organisation, a challenging task, since the LAA operated complex billing schemes for a lot of different areas of law
  • Production of reports for Whole Governmental Accounts (WGA)
  • Implemented improved and efficient processes, to streamline the reporting cycle
  • Interpret and comply with National Audit Office and Government standards (FREM) on reporting.
  • Created periodic reports comparing budgeted costs to actual costs.
  • Liaised with and managed relationships with external auditors to prepare excellent audit reports.
  • Accurately documented all cash, credit, fixed assets, accrued expenses and line of credit transactions.

Controller/Finance Business Partner

DHL Global Mail UK
02.2007 - 02.2008
  • Business Partnering, Monthly reporting, Financial Analysis, Budget preparation.
  • Analysed variances in sales, margin and cost centres and identified potential problems with line managers.
  • Prepared consolidated monthly management accounts and flash reports.
  • Provided profitability promotion analysis based on business requirements.
  • Liaised with budget holders with monthly reporting to understand variances.
  • Supported budget holders and other operational managers to improve financial efficiency.
  • Undertook regular forecast variance analysis in conjunction with budget holders.
  • Built and maintained collaborative working relationships with non-financial colleagues.
  • Managed budgets and cashflow, income and expenditure accounts, financial ratios and statutory accounts.

Senior Management Accountant

Claranet
Holborn, Camden
02.2005 - 02.2007
  • Internet Service Provider
  • Monthly management reporting, managed a successful Vat Inspection, Staff supervision and recruitment, Systems transition.
  • Liaised with external auditors to ensure complete compliance to UK GAAP regulations.
  • Prepared departmental budgets, financial forecasts and variance analysis using Navision
  • Supervised accounting department operations and team of 4[Number] employees.
  • Maintained cash flow by monitoring bank balances and cash requirements.
  • Compiled monthly journal entries into general ledger system.
  • Reviewed work of accounting team meticulously to maintain consistent standards.

Management Accountant/Business Partner

Black & Veatch - Engineering Consultancy
Redhill, Surrey
10.1999 - 02.2005
  • Produce monthly P&L by business unit, Variance analysis, collaborate in the preparation of monthly reporting pack, review and produce budgets in conjunction with budget holders, preparation, and review of balance sheet accounts.
  • Reconciled opening balances, performing and reviewing all balance sheet reconciliations.
  • Calculated and posted month end journals in full compliance with UK GAAP regulations.
  • Proactively analysed data, trends and reports to improve data accuracy by % in order to support operational processes.
  • Prepared and maintained appropriate financial controls, including balance sheet reconciliations and settlements, prepayments and accruals.
  • Prepared and developed monthly management packs, accounts and key KPIs.
  • Collected and collated information and data to prepare annual budgets and forecast projections.
  • Reconciled control accounts monthly, investigated variances and initiated corrective action.
  • Provided accurate monitoring information to budget holders on monthly basis.
  • Investigated budget variances to identify causes and suggest corrective action.
  • Analysed monthly balance sheet accounts for corporate reporting.
  • Prepared monthly bank reconciliations with [Number]% accuracy.

Education

Master of Finance and Business Management - Finance

Kingston University
Kingston upon Thames
07.2016 - 06.2017

Skills

  • MS Excel, MS Word, MS PowerPoint, Xero, Sage, Oracle Financials, Canva, Software (SOS), Navision
  • Statutory accounting
  • Balance sheet reconciliations
  • VAT returns
  • Financial reporting and analysis
  • Financial policy creation
  • MI reporting
  • Cashflow forecasting
  • Xero proficient
  • Written communication
  • Exceptional communicator
  • Management accounting
  • Reporting and documentation
  • Financial analysis
  • KPI management
  • Methodical strategist
  • UK GAAP knowledge
  • Margin analysis
  • Accounting

Websites

Affiliations

ACMA - Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants

MSc - MSc in Finance and Business Management

Languages

English
Fluent

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Quote

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire

Timeline

Finance Manager

04.2023 - 09.2023

Finance Manager (Interim)

Pecan, Community Development
12.2022 - 03.2023

Finance and Operations Manager

Holocaust Memorial Day Trust
04.2022 - 08.2022

Finance Manager

Southwest London Law Centres
03.2019 - 02.2022

Management Accountant

Social Finance
04.2018 - 12.2018

Group Accountant

SES Water
06.2017 - 04.2018

Master of Finance and Business Management - Finance

Kingston University
07.2016 - 06.2017

Career Break (Personal Time & Studies)

N/A
01.2014 - 06.2017

Financial Reporting Accountant

Legal Aid Agency, LAA
03.2008 - 12.2013

Controller/Finance Business Partner

DHL Global Mail UK
02.2007 - 02.2008

Senior Management Accountant

Claranet
02.2005 - 02.2007

Management Accountant/Business Partner

Black & Veatch - Engineering Consultancy
10.1999 - 02.2005

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