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PATIENCE ANGMOR

Summary

Motivated finance professional with over 13 years experience across retail, oil and railways, recognised for assessing operational needs and developing solutions to save costs, improve revenues and drive customer satisfaction. Resourceful and well-organised with excellent leadership and team-building record.

Key Skills and Achievements: Personable personality in building excellent working relationships with key stakeholders in the Business and finding an efficient and effective work-around for any problems.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience

Work history

Finance Business Partner

Network Rail
Bletchley Delivery Unit
07.2023 - Current
  • Embedding Financial mindset across route - clearly demonstrating influence, challenge and impact of financial challenge to avoid surprises in the results; positive stakeholder feedback, Clear demonstration of financial savings through own challenge and insights, continual improvements of reporting and communications
  • Development of FY25 Efficiency Plans and ensure robust processes in place to track them Periodic reviews with stakeholders of efficiency tracker, periodic review with WCS Finance of efficiency tracker, supporting stakeholders by providing insights to unlock efficiencies, top quality efficiency reporting.
  • Provided strong management of finance team, meeting high-quality service standards, KPIs and deadlines.
  • Built and maintained collaborative working relationships with non-financial colleagues.
  • Highlight all risks and opportunities within opex: Includes but not restricted to: Quality periodic commentary which clearly articulates drivers of variances (including what is controllable vs what is uncontrollable so can influence spending decisions), Clear articulation and quantification of risk and opportunities within the portfolio during RF Reporting at DU Level
  • Delivering against the CP7 SBP: Provide clear support, insights, challenge to business partners to deliver a cash compliant outturn for FY25 and build strong and aligned budgets with stakeholders for FY26/remainder of CP7

Finance Business Partner

Network Rail
London Euston Delivery Unit
08.2021 - 06.2023
  • Prepared consolidated monthly management accounts and flash reports for Euston DU and Westcoast Mainline HR.
  • Business Partnering producing financial slides with our final numbers and present the results to my key stakeholders. I also update the MA packs which splits costs by Cost Centre to discuss and look in detail at the Business reviews each period.
  • Produce balance sheet commentary for any transactions sat against it each period. This needs to be precise and to the point
  • Update both the Flash and consolidated Flash files on Sharepoint so these periodic numbers are readily available to the team and feeds into FC periodic pack
  • Period end activities tasks such as COOM and NSC accruals, RRV Underutilisation, Possessions and Cleaning accruals and further clean up journals transferring costs from one account to another ensuring all costs are in the correct accounts.
  • Participate in the Rolling forecasts throughout the year. I ensure we are working towards budget or better for the year and have clarity on what headcount we have and when they will be in the be in the team if they aren’t already.
  • Working collaboratively with the PMs/Commercial to align all financials such as COWD, Budgets and ensuring robust Forecasts are in place.
  • Raise and uplift all procurement PO’s such as the call off orders for new financial years. Along with this completing all IPA’s to submit to commercial once agreed with my stakeholders.

Finance Business Partner

Network Rail
Business Planning - Group Finance
09.2019 - 07.2021

As part of the business planning team, I assist in setting out guidance on RF processes and budgets, consolidate and review submissions to report to the ELT, Board and our external stakeholders (e.g. DfT and ORR)

  • Assisting in reviewing and writing up guidance/assumptions to set expectations for the RF process
  • Setting out targets for the RF process by consolidating budget flexes within the period under review including any known operational transfers that needs to be adjusted for
  • Liaising between the business and hyperion team to develop system requirements for each RF to build a fit for purpose system to drive the right level of input to ensure data quality
  • Proactively reviewing RF submissions against targets and flagging issues within the submission by communicating effectively and constructively to my business partners correct the errors in time for reporting purposes
  • Constantly engaging regions and functions prior and during RF cycles to provide support the process as much as possible
  • Continuous improvement within BAU to ensure efficiencies within the processes
  • Writing and issuing guidance for the budget process
  • Liaising with regions and functions to set budgets that reconciles to RF11 and update hyperion with the finalised numbers.
  • On a periodic basis, I process budget flexes in hyperion with operational changes in the organisation. Also, any other adhoc requests and analysis when requested.

Management Accountant

Network Rail
Business Review Team - Business Planning
10.2017 - 08.2019
  • Volumes reporting at KVL/KCL level to support the business in decision making
  • Co-ordinating with the business to set budgets
  • Processing budget flexes submitted from the business and ensuring the system is updated to reflect the current funding levels
  • Liaising with the business to produce the delivery plan
  • Acting between the business and hyperion team to develop system requirements for each RF to build a fit for purpose system to drive the right level of input to ensure data quality
  • Proactively reviewing RF submissions and flagging issues within the submission and correcting them for reporting purposes
  • Liaising with routes and functions to set budgets and update hyperion with the finalised numbers among other adhoc requests and analysis.
  • Continuous improvement within BAU to ensure efficiencies within the processes

Intercompany Accountant

B&Q PLC
10.2016 - 09.2017
  • Streamlining and improving processes to be ready for the Offer and Supply Chain as part of a new Kingfisher Strategy
  • Managing direct reports and their development in the role with one coached and progressed into a qualified role
  • Preparing intercompany budgets & forecasts
  • Prepare a monthly balance sheets reconciliation with Opcos and matching reports
  • Improving efficiencies in reporting into HFM (Hyperion) by mapping reports from SAP to BPC allocating ICPs to feed through to HFM as part of system changes in B&Q
  • Improving communication of deadlines regarding intercompany relationships with all other operating companies and HQ
  • Investigating recharges claim queries for refunds and making decisions to refund
  • Liaised with auditors through audit process and supplied schedules as requested for sampling
  • Ensuring stock auto postings are timely, accurate, and correct without any manual adjustment
  • Improved SAP auto uploads into BPC and then into HFM without much need for manual allocation of ICPs.

Assistant Supplier Funding Accountant

Homebase LTD.
09.2014 - 09.2016
  • Process and system change undertaken and launched successfully
  • Tasked to migrate supplier funding through signed commercial agreement which used to be carried out in an excel model unto SAP
  • I partnered with IS to trial test rebate model in SAP
  • Once that was successful, I set up over 400 suppliers up SAP in according with the commercial agreement between our company and the suppliers to collect rebates on a monthly basis changing the process from using a spreadsheet model to SAP model
  • Processed year end reconciliations for each supplier and provided a back-up report to the turnover
  • Supporting trading teams to understand the rebate process and helped them to understand the dynamics of the change in process and system
  • Improved the processes around communication to suppliers by setting up different shared emails to categorise queries and log them
  • Also relevant for audit trails when employees move roles or leave the business
  • Changed the process of printing and posting debit notes to suppliers by setting them up in SAP to receive copies electronically
  • Responding to queries and managing supplier queries in a professional way
  • Accessing queries of refunds and making decisions on these claims
  • Liaised with external/internal auditors through audit process and supplied schedules as requested.

Assistant Retail Finance Analyst

Homebase LTD.
07.2012 - 08.2014
  • Successfully worked with Essbase team to migrate publishing of stores P&L reporting from running a macro unto Essbase and making analysis more easier - process and system improvement
  • Liaising with Retail Ops team to set store expenses budget and Forecast
  • Period end processes - Accruals & Prepayments
  • Inter-Company Recharges and transfers
  • Producing and publishing Greenbook - (Regional and Divisional Performance - Management Report) for senior managers
  • Producing and publishing stores P&Ls by improving processes
  • Supplying data for scorecards reporting to business partners
  • Carrying out variance analysis and explaining the variances
  • Store Cost Analysis and Investigation
  • Balance sheet reconciliations.

Financial Analyst

Dram Oil and Trading
05.2011 - 04.2012
  • Successfully assisted in setting up structures for a start-up company and securing a credit line to commence operations
  • I coordinated with the Administration head to develop the org chart and recruited into specified roles
  • Building relationships and providing relevant information to enable us to secure a credit line with major banks in Ghana to enable us commence operations
  • Liaising with the parent company on all finance matters
  • Preparing board papers and presenting to the board
  • Supervised the team to create a comprehensive trading model, profit and loss template under various scenarios in oil trading
  • Monitored platts prices to forecast expected government prices of petroleum products based on the bi-weekly pricing regime used
  • Reviewing platts price forecasts with actual prices to work out variances and probable explanations for variances
  • Accurately forecasting buying and selling platts as an essential trading tool
  • Liaising with our bankers to establish Letters of Credit for our suppliers
  • Track expenses and revenues against budget and forecasts and analyse variances for management discussions and decisions
  • Managing the finance team and being responsible for the team's development.

Education

CIMA (UK) Management Case Study -

CIMA

University of Leicester Master's in business administration (MBA) Finance - undefined

GIMPA Bsc. Accounting and Finance - undefined

Skills

  • Hyperion
  • SAP Accounting
  • Oracle - ADI
  • Essbase Reporting
  • Intermediate Excel

Custom

  • Meticulous eye and attention for details
  • Excellent numerate and strong analytical skills
  • Excellent interpersonal skills
  • Good communication skills
  • Good organizational and presentation skills
  • Able to identify key points among wealth of information quickly, self-motivated, innovative, hardworking, goal oriented and a good team player

Timeline

Finance Business Partner

Network Rail
07.2023 - Current

Finance Business Partner

Network Rail
08.2021 - 06.2023

Finance Business Partner

Network Rail
09.2019 - 07.2021

Management Accountant

Network Rail
10.2017 - 08.2019

Intercompany Accountant

B&Q PLC
10.2016 - 09.2017

Assistant Supplier Funding Accountant

Homebase LTD.
09.2014 - 09.2016

Assistant Retail Finance Analyst

Homebase LTD.
07.2012 - 08.2014

Financial Analyst

Dram Oil and Trading
05.2011 - 04.2012

CIMA (UK) Management Case Study -

CIMA

University of Leicester Master's in business administration (MBA) Finance - undefined

GIMPA Bsc. Accounting and Finance - undefined

PATIENCE ANGMOR