Ira Thompson-Price

Notable responsibilities to date include the following:

• Working as part of a site finance team to deliver weekly and monthly cost reports and resolve finance queries involving functions such as accounts payable, fixed assets, projects, payroll, and procurement
• Preparation of bottom-up annual budgets and monitoring of adherence through weekly and monthly reports, as well as periodic forecasts
• Monthly product costing variance reporting for multiple sites. This involves liaising with business analysts and site FBPs to resolve complicated queries under strict time pressure
• Business partnering with multiple manufacturing roles including Network Lead, Engineering Manager, Manufacturing Manager, Opex Lead, and Automation Engineer
• Analysis of opportunities to save costs within manufacturing

Highlights:

• Delivered a 2025 site budget to UK manufacturing heads. I received extremely positive feedback for the way the budget was structured and conveyed
• Received an internal award for my expertise and teamwork during 2024

Key responsibilities in this role:

• Overseeing the finance department and ensuring the veracity of financial reports
• Preparing year-end financial accounts for multiple foreign entities, including the New Zealand and United States subsidiaries
• Completing and reviewing monthly balance sheet reconciliations, deferred revenue spreadsheets, VAT returns, and journal submissions
• Supporting others with the improvement of outdated processes
• Managing external supplier relationships, e.g. with EOR representatives and ERP implementation consultants

Personal Highlights:

• Utilised predictive modelling and other methods of financial analysis to form the company’s annual budgets and forecasts. This was an internal process that I introduced, and one which was well-received by senior members of the company, including the CEO
• Initiated and managed the company-wide implementation of Sage Intacct
• Completed the financial processes involved in onboarding the company’s first Canadian employee

BladeRoom Data Centres, ModuleCo Limited and BladeRoom Residential

Responsibilities in this position included:

• Payments to suppliers
• Credit control and treasury reporting
• Cash flow forecasts
• Raising sales invoices
• Recording daily bank transactions in multiple currencies
• Managing the fixed asset register and prepayments
• Monthly balance sheet reconciliations
• Job costing
• Revenue analysis
• Project cost analysis
• Business partnering with Procurement, Operations, and Sales

Personal highlights:

• I produced an Annual Carbon Emissions Report, in line with UK Government GHG Reporting guidelines
• I devised a system for tracking and reporting Carbon Emissions and outlining variations to element-specific targets on a monthly basis
• I also devised a set of reports which tracked business-partnering budgets and displayed several metrics for analysing projected and actual monthly costs
• Produced economic reports for board members, encompassing technical analysis of commodity prices; building materials and components statistics; inflation figures; and recent industry information
• I was a member of the Select Sustainability Committee

During this work placement, I gained experience through:

• Processing and completing monthly payroll returns
• Preparation of information for a set of Statutory Financial Accounts
• Preparing and completing a complicated VAT return
• Inputting data from Financial Statements
• Filing Confirmation Statements
• End-of-year payroll filing and distribution of P60 forms

Responsibilities in this part-time role included:

• Manual inventory counts
• Quality checks
• Product classification and grouping
• Input of subsequent product lists into Excel

Duties within this role included:

• Administrative tasks on Solicitor’s Own Software (SOS)
• Identifying the status - and subsequent treatment - of virtual and physical files
• Managing the physical file storage system
• Liaison and communication with senior partners and fee earners