Liz. Cottle

Business Administrator at Caliba Group

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Business Administrator at Caliba Group
    Jul 2022 - Present · 4 yrs

  • Business Administrator at FJD Consulting
    Jan 2019 - Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 7 mos

  • School Governor at none
    Jan 2010 - Jan 2019 · 9 yrs 1 mo

  • RWE npower (8 yrs 1 mo)
    • Finance Manager
      Oct 2007 - Dec 2009 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Manage the relationship with the client departments for the Finance change management activity. Manage the dependencies with RWE systems and other business change frameworks Direct responsibility for the managing to authorised budgets for finance change Manage projects of a large scale Line management of Staff and performance of appraisals, development reviews etc.

    • Development Accountant npower Retail
      May 2006 - Oct 2007 · 1 yr 6 mos

      To gather the business requirements and translate them into requirement documents that the IS community can then use in-order to deliver the correct IS solution. To prepare and collate the capital budget submission for RWE group for the Finance area. During this time I was the Business Project Manager for the upgrade of Oracle Financials and the underlying database to the next version 11.5.10.2/9i Creation and subsequent approval of the funding paper Creation of a Business process mapping pack and regression test pack Business communication / training Co-ordinating the Go-Live Remotely managing the business resource across numerous sites Management of the business team on a day to day basis.

    • Development Accountant Shared Services
      Jan 2006 - May 2006 · 5 mos

      Account Management role for the Finance arena including Corporate Finance, Generation and Renewables, Shared Service Finance and Central Finance. Liaison between the Business and IS departments and therefore had regular contact with both areas.

  • Midlands Electricity plc (14 yrs 5 mos)
    • Budgetary Control Assistant
      Jun 1998 - Dec 2001 · 3 yrs 7 mos

      Preparing Budget and Forecasts for the departmental managers within the supply directorate. Preparation of the monthly overhead accruals. Seconded to implementation of new financials system Oracle Financials which also combined with the merging of 4 businesses that had been acquired. Responsible for Creation of new combined Chart of Accounts (COA) encompassing all 4 new legal entities Mapping of old COA to New COA for MEB entity Configuration of the new General Ledger within Oracle Configuration of Cross validation rules within the system Liaising with Business at all levels Delivering training to all GL and AR users across the business Migration of opening balances and previous periods balances Reconcilation of all migrated balances Configuration of Accounts Receviable module.

    • Clerical Assistant
      Aug 1987 - Jun 1999 · 11 yrs 11 mos

      Various clerical positions within the Electricity Board in departments such as Finance, Accountancy, Cash Management, Personnel.