Mitali Jain

Focusrite Group is a listed music and audio products group. It trades under 8 brands. They manufacture and distribute their products. They have subsidiaries based all over the world.

• Leading the production of monthly Financial Accounts and managing the entire month end process.
• Leading monthly Intercompany Consolidation ensuring compliance & accounting standards in accordance with IRFS and GAAP.
• Liaising with local accounting providers to ensure financial statements are produced and submitted on time for Group Consolidation.
• Responsible for Group Recharges and Transfer Pricing.
• Managing Interim Audit as a direct point of contact with EY.
• Managing the VAT audit.
• Monthly filing of EC Sales, OSS returns, UK, Swiss & German VAT

Globe Locums is a recruitment company specializing in the healthcare sector for the NHS in UK & Australia. Working within the senior leadership team, I manage all Financial Functions which include accounting & reporting, AP, payroll & cash management comprising a team of 7 including offshore team

• Leading the production of monthly financial accounts, monthly & weekly payroll, weekly GP reports & commission.
• Leading monthly intercompany consolidation ensuring compliance & accounting standards in accordance with IRFS and GAAP.
• Liaising with local accounting providers to ensure financial statements are produced and submitted on time and managing their AP & AR function
• Streamlining financial operations, controls, and automation for efficiency by reducing the month end close by average 5 days.
• Managing and producing 13 weeks rolling cashflow, collections & cash forecasting to maintain the financial stability of the Group.
• Preparation of annual budgets & Forecasts and working closely with Sales & Operations teams to align business goals.
• Managing relationships with the Bank, Auditor, HMRC & External Stakeholders
• Owned the filing of VAT, PAYE, P11D, PSA and other statutory filings for HMRC
• Acting as the primary contact for external auditors across the Group and leading the audit process
• Preparing the monthly board pack for the monthly Board Meeting.
• Lead the implementation of the accounting system Sage 200 and Timesheet System Merit
• Managing Group’s Insurance Policies.
• Managing training & development of the Finance team ensuring alignment with company financial processes, systems, and compliance standards.
• System Used: Xero, Sage 200, Merit, Timesheet Portal, Microsoft Power BI

Empowering Learning Ltd is a recruitment business specializing in Education sector for Private and Public Schools across UK, Ireland, Netherlands, Germany & France. Reporting to CFO, I managed a team of 9 across accounting & reporting, credit control, AP & payroll in both UK and India.

• Managed the production of management accounts, weekly payroll and cash collection
• Led monthly intercompany consolidation and Balance Sheet Reconciliations in accordance with IFRS.
• Liaising with the Local accountants to ensure financial statements are produced on time.
• Streamlined and automated month end tasks which resulted in meeting monthly deadline
• Managed cashflow forecasting and liquidity planning, ensuring financial stability.
• Prepared and presented weekly financial reports & KPI analysis to the senior management team.
• Supervised and reviewed staff payroll.
• Submitted quarterly VAT returns, HMRC PAYE filings, and responded to external stakeholder queries.
• Prepared monthly board packs for the CFO and Board.
• Led and managed the year-end audit and statutory accounts filing.
• System Used: Sage 200, Intime, Sales Force

DDD Ltd was a Manufacturing & Distributing business of Toiletries and OTC medicines. I was reporting to Group FC and evolved immensely in my role here. I was managing the 3 entities of the group based in UK, Ireland, Germany & Netherlands.

• Preparations of management accounts and consolidation of intercompany accounts in accordance with IFRS & GAAP across multiple sites.
• Managed AP and Bank Reconciliation Team of 4
• Filed Quarterly VAT, EC sales & Intrastat filing and liaising with HMRC including P11D, PSA, PAYE
• Supported FC and CFO with reporting and ad hoc tasks
• Supported the FC with year-end Audit
• Prepared 13 weeks rolling cashflow forecast
• System Used: SAP, Sage 200, Microsoft Power BI, NetSuite

Staffing Match is a recruitment company specializing in the Industrial, Aviation & Driving sectors across UK, Germany, & France. I was reporting to FC, and this was my first role in the recruitment industry. I started as accounts assistant and progressed on to become a Management Accountant. I worked across various functions of Finance & Payroll. Supported the migration of accounting system from Xero to Sage 200 and Implementation of CRM- Sales Force system and Pay & Bill- Intime system