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Karen Isacsson

Bishopbriggs,East Dunbartonshire

Summary

A skilled professional with expertise in process controls, data analysis and maintainance, adept at gathering and interpreting complex information to provide accurate forecasts and validate results. Demonstrates exceptional communication skills, ensuring complex data is documented and conveyed clearly and concisely. Proven ability to meet tight deadlines while managing multiple priorities, contributing to effective problem-solving and decision-making processes.

Overview

27
27
years of professional experience

Work history

Finance analyst

Petroineos
Grangemouth, Falkirk
11.2018 - Current

Create, manage and maintain SAP master data including vendors, ledger accounts, profit centres and cost centres.

Responsibility and control of month end and year end processes within a joint venture business structure.

Deliver accurate forecasts and actual financial reports by extracting and analysing complex data sets.

Calculate, prepare and post month end journal postings and maintain accurate logs.

Ensure payroll costs and liabilities are correctly reflected in SAP and recharged to related party and intercompany ledgers.

Assist in preparation of statutory accounts and year-end audit.

Maintain balance sheet reconciliations, highlighting and investigating variances.




Performance analyst

Petroineos
Grangemouth
09.2011 - 11.2018

Determine and provide robust and meaningful financial, operational and market information and KPIs.

Present findings clearly and effectively to colleagues, management and board members to enable future decision making.

Provide daily estimated margin and EBITDA reports though interrogation and maintenance of models.

Perform backcasting techniques to true values up at month end and detail out how the business performed in the current environment against plan.



Inventory Analyst

Petroineos
Grangemouth
11.2007 - 09.2011

Valuing, monitoring, analysing, reconciling and reporting on raw material and finished good inventories.

Calculating and analysing various inventory provisions for month end accounting.


Invoicing Analyst

Petroineos
Grangemouth
09.2006 - 11.2007

Revenues Assistant (Rating)

Falkirk Council
Falkirk
11.1998 - 09.2006

Education

BSC (Hons) Mathematics for Business Analysis -

Glasgow College of Technology
Glasgow

Skills

Clear communicator and adept problem solver


Providing forecasts, determining and validating results and reconciling variances by gathering, analysising and modelling data including KPIs


Documenting and communicating complex information in a clear and concise fashion


Meeting tight deadlines and juggling competing priorities


Proactively liaising with and identifying key personnel to align outcomes and expectations


Highly motivated team player, adept at establishing, cultivating and improving good working relationships and practises


Reliable, discreet and open minded


Skilled in procedure writing and training




Languages

French
Intermediate
German
Elementary
Spanish
Elementary

Timeline

Finance analyst

Petroineos
11.2018 - Current

Performance analyst

Petroineos
09.2011 - 11.2018

Inventory Analyst

Petroineos
11.2007 - 09.2011

Invoicing Analyst

Petroineos
09.2006 - 11.2007

Revenues Assistant (Rating)

Falkirk Council
11.1998 - 09.2006

BSC (Hons) Mathematics for Business Analysis -

Glasgow College of Technology
Karen Isacsson