Simon John

Immediately Available CIMA Qualified Accountant

United Kingdom

About

Highly numerate Mathematics graduate and self-motivated CIMA qualified accountant with over twenty years accountancy experience. Broad base and varied industry experience including over ten years at senior managerial level. Proven track record of improving financial reporting systems and achieving demanding deadlines. Utilise excellent interpersonal skills to develop effective working relationships at all levels up to board level, identifying goals and gaining sign up from key players.

Experience

  • Caregiver at Career Break
    May 2025 - Mar 2026 · 11 mos

    After a short career break supporting a family member through illness, I am now available for my next role

  • Group Financial Controller at Ricardo plc
    Jul 2024 - Apr 2025 · 10 mos

  • Project Accountant at Bromford Housing Group
    Nov 2023 - Apr 2024 · 6 mos

  • Senior Management Accountant at Trivallis
    Jun 2023 - Sep 2023 · 4 mos

    Prepared full monthly management accounts, including full commentary and presentation to the senior executive directors. Provided support to the finance business partners for the quarter 1 reforecast. Assisted with ad-hoc tasks as required, which included making improvements to the year-end statutory accounts and brought multiple balance sheet reconciliations up to date including cash flow, bank reconciliation, bad debt provision and rent reconciliation.

  • Group Financial Controller at Atradius
    Oct 2019 - Apr 2023 · 3 yrs 7 mos

    Multinational company where I used Oracle financials, Advanced Excel, Power Pivot, HFM and SAP BI Launch Pad. Prepared consolidated financial statements including balance sheet reconciliations for capitalisation, amortisation and bonus calculations for multinational legal entities. Project reporting for major Atradius Work Programmes including IFRS17. Communicated and presented this data via KPI packs to the senior executive team. Managed and developed relationships with project managers, internal and external auditors. This ensured processes were operated in accordance with the internal control guidelines to maintain strong financial controls across complex multinational governance requirements. Budgeting, forecasting and transfer pricing. Ran a process improvement initiative with my team to ensure all processes are fully documented and results presented to the board of directors.