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• Support the management, development and maintenance of the Council's financial ledger, payables and procurement matters as super-users of Oracle R12.
• Assist the Principal Accountant with administrator tasks and the management of the Council's suite of financial and management reports in SplashBI.
• Undertake a range of projects/areas of work ensuring outcomes are delivered on time and to a high standard. Example projects: Accruals, Accounts Payable and Cash ledger clean up tasks on behalf of other units with Finance.
• Assist with strategic planning efforts leading to sustained growth; attend CIPFA technical updates.

• Temporary role, for the festive period, as part of the Invoicing and Implementations team to clear backlog of Aladdin Client queries.
• Update Aladdin for any new mandates, financial or fee impacting changes to BlackRock and Client funds and assets.

This was a temporary placement, within the Finance team, to lead design and implementation of a financial literacy project and an "Efficiencies/benefits" reporting project.

• Designed and implement group reports to enhance governance and tracking of resource investments. This introduced better KPIs and KRIs.
• Completed gap analysis, build training needs framework and guidance for implementation of financial literacy project.
• Reviewed pilot run of completed business cases and passed Better Business Cases Foundation course.
• Documented process notes for current payroll and pension process, capture points for transformation. This reduced operational risk.

I worked as a Business Analyst on a US factsheet migration project; from internal delivery to external vendor.

• Liaised with internal and external third parties to ensure provisioned services meet business requirements.
• Drafted options for decision making and transformed requirements into data sourcing functions for external development work.
• Successfully delivered testing, go-live of US factsheets and Global exchange traded fund (ETF) reports.

As part of Financial Planning and Analysis teams, I delivered budget analytics and cost reports to Finance Business Partners, using SAP and Planning Analytics, TM1.

• Performed monthly Ledger Review as required by Finance Business Partners for month-end reporting.
• Reconciled project costing for various finance stakeholders.

I worked as a Cash Business Analyst on Standard Life's custody migration project.

• Documented Cash and Banking ‘AS IS' model for Standard Life, Standard Life International, including custodial and fund manager interactions.
• Co-ordinated progression to 'TO BE' process, identifying opportunities for automation.
• Collaborated with others to capture overlays for accounting and reporting requirements for testing.

I analysed, automated, re-engineered a suite of bespoke US client reports including fund performance, risk, characteristics and NAV reports, as part of client reporting migration project team.

• Analysed data sourcing inputs and created bespoke, dynamic client reports within BlackRock's investment platform, Aladdin and Excel (ATX, SQL).
• Documented and implemented report-building processes for the production team.
• Led engagement with non-reporting teams, contributed materials for stakeholder/senior management communications.

I owned 6 client accounts; supported Clearwater's Investment Management clients in reporting of day-to-day fund activities on Clearwater platform.

• Trained and assisted clients on fund reporting and accounting functions on Clearwater platform.
• Managed assigned projects, client inquiries and requests for timely, accurate information regarding monthly reporting, financial statements and analytics.
• Completed in-house investment accounting certification and trainings.

I was part of the team that provides data needed to model and price financial instruments in Aladdin.

• Completed MiFID II reporting for OTC trading, improved and documented the process.
• Interacted with Aladdin clients; provided daily data and system support across various asset classes.
• Liaised with market data vendors and market dealers.

I supported team of Equity portfolio managers as an investment analyst and research analyst.

• Produced detailed, equity reports that identified risks and opportunities that contributed to investment decisions.
• Conducted multifarious research and uncovered turning point information, including conflict of interest.
• Reviewed and assembled data for client reporting and presentations.

For the Sub-Saharan region, I ran mWomen Project as the on-site consultant at MTN Uganda on behalf of the UK GSMA team.

• Drafted unique, data-driven, women-specific reports and presented plan and case study to multiple stakeholders.
• Led workshops with internal and external shareholders to build and documents business framework for operators to use to create telecom product targeting women at bottom of pyramid (i.e. Living on less than $2/day).
• Built project plan and deliverables for remaining half of project.

Early career in which includes PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and telecommunication conglomerate, MTN Group among others.