Samantha Day is a qualified accountant seeking a management accounting role. She has over 20 years of experience in accounting, financial planning, budgeting and forecasting. Her experience spans industries including mortgage lending, low-cost airlines, health resorts, and defensive weapons systems. She is proficient in accounting software such as SAP, Excel, and financial planning tools like Hyperion.

1. Samantha Caroline Day (ACMA)
3 Celtic Mead,  Tel: 01462- 234160 Mobile: 07966 075324
Shefford, Bedfordshire, SG175GS  E-Mail: samcaday@outlook.com
Key attributes:
• Commercial awareness
• Ability to manage and delegate
• Build relationships throughout the business at all levels
• Attention to detail
• Excellent communication and organizational skills.
• Ability to adapt to multinational and SME businesses.
• Identify and change systems and processes.
Key Skills:
• Preparing Management Accounts, statutory accounts, branch accounts and Tax Computation with overseas
withholding tax.
• UK FRS102 and US GAAP exposure.
• Analysing and producing month end commentary to highlight key variances.
• Managing key internal and external relationships within the business – HMRC, Auditors
• Experience of managing a transactional team, (accounts payable, accounts receivable, expenses, treasury)
• Treasury exposure –Bonds and letters of credit.
• Multi- currency cash management
• Budgeting Forecasting/analysis
CAREER HISTORY
Management Accountant – Moog Fernau Nov 2013- (Part time role) Current
Production of monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations. Duties included:
• Daily cash management and quarterly cash flow forecast.
• Preparation of annual budgets and quarterly re-forecasts.
• Assisting with the preparation of annual statutory accounts and tax computation and monthly tax
reconciliations.
• Monthly management accounts and production of internal monthly reports.
• Completion of national statistic forms.
Achievements include:
• Assisting with the preparation of tax computation previously carried out by an external company.
• Communicating with HMRC to ensure certificate of residence documentation is valid.
• Reducing the month end by re - engineering management account spreadsheets and process.
Management Accountant –Champney’s Health Resort (Henlow)- Mar 2013- Nov 2013
Production of monthly management accounts for two Health resorts and 7 retail outlets. My duties included:
• Producing a weekly and monthly revenue and payroll reports.
• Preparing monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations, accruals, prepayments and
intercompany net downs, sales forecasts.
• I assisted in the preparation of the annual budget and Audit.
Accounting Services Manager- Selex Galileo (Defensive weapon systems) - 2009-Feb 2013
Managed the transactional team (6), looking after cash forecasting, accounts payable, expenses and card
Management. My duties include:
• Produced weekly, monthly and quarterly cash forecasts in conjunction with project accountants.

2. • Month end reporting incl. cash forecast, foreign exchange analysis, debtor and creditor re-alignments.
• Ensured suppliers were paid within terms and good relationships are maintained within internal and external
customers.
• Maintained and reviewed the expenses system to ensure compliance with Italian internal audit laws.
• Management of fixed assets, fixed asset verification and fixed asset reporting.
My achievements include:
• Assisting in the implementation of a new electronic approval system for capital applications.
• Winning team of the month for investigating and clearing a large volume of invoices on the new SAP system.
• Undertaking a feasibility review for a project to scan invoices.
Management Accountant- Selex Galileo (Defensive weapon systems) 2007- 2008
I worked within the management accounts team which was at a site level undertaking management accounting and
forecasting within the central finance team. I had responsibility for an assistant accountant and graduate. My duties
included:
• Producing monthly managements accounts packs, commentary and analysis on sales, orders and margin.
• Producing overhead schedules and reviewing variances and budget and forecasts with commentary
• Supporting the business by scheduling, preparing and consolidating overhead and fixed asset budget packs.
• Attending monthly project progress meetings to identify project scheduling.
My achievements include:
• Assisting with the planning of a new internal database called white pages as part of a project team.
Management Accountant- Bradford & Bingley (Mortgage lender) - 2004- 2007
I worked within the Lending Division of Mortgage Express which covers the whole of the UK, and was responsible for
providing management accounting and forecasting services to head office. My duties included:
• Producing monthly management accounts, providing insightful commentary on operations and performance.
• Managing the planning, preparation and execution of short and long term forecasts for the lending operation.
• Monitoring and implementing feedback from heads of business to continuously improve planning processes.
• Supervising, training and supporting an Assistant Accountant.
Financial Planning Analyst-Easyjet (Low cost Airline) -2003-2004
key responsibilities were to gather, critically review and produce quarterly forecasts and annual budgets. My duties
included:
• Collating, reviewing and producing annual budgets and quarterly forecasts for review by CEO and MD.
• Producing and presenting budget guidelines via a meeting for heads of departments.
• Critically reviewing inputs and outputs within the forecast leading to more accurate information.
• Producing financial analysis to determine route profitability, reviewing and identifying changes to variable
and fixed costs.
Various Management and Financial accounting positions-1996-2003
• Production of Management accounts, budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis. Branch accounts,
statutory accounts, head office intercompany reporting.
QUALIFICATIONS:
CIMA qualified member (2001),University of Wolverhampton 1991-1995- BA (Hon) Business Studies 2:1,Chartered
Institute of Marketing.
TRAINING:
FRS102 course, corporation tax course, management training course, anti-fraud course, Export Finance, time
management course and a project management course. Updating web pages for the finance section of the company
intranet. In house course for accounting updates.

3. SYSTEMS:
My IT skills include: Dream, SAP, Excel, Access, Word, Powerpoint, Hyperion, Millenium, Sage version 2. Mainframe
accounts systems AS400, ROI, CODA, Cognos and TM1 (Planning system), Bespoke Financial services software.
Winman.