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    Sara Hailes

    Sara Hailes

    Financial Modelling / Budgeting & Forecasting / Cost Management

    Naxxar, Malta

    I have extensive experience in building financial models, utilising my skills to deliver cost reduction, restructing and outsourcing programmes within the telecoms, manufacturing...Read moreI have extensive experience in building financial models, utilising my skills to deliver cost reduction, restructing and outsourcing programmes within the telecoms, manufacturing and financial services sectors. During my 20 years as an accountant, I have implemented budgeting and forecasting, management reporting and project management procedures and documentation.

    I really enjoy working with small businesses, taking away the strain of bookkeeping and other financial and administrative work to allow the owners and staff to concentrate on what they do best - running their business!!

    I'm very flexible, having worked on very small projects - reconciling a year's worth of subscription banking transactions back to to the sales ledger - to very large projects - managing a 960m operating cost budget. My strength lies in my ability to quickly assess what's required and get on with it.

    At the end of the day, you are my customer and I want to you to be delighted with the service I provide.

    Area Covered: All UK - remote working


    Work Experience
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    Summary: Extensive Excel skills - building detailed models for budgeting, cost control and strategic planning
    Bookkeeping - qualified accountant with over 20 years experience, through to Profit & Loss Statement, Balance Sheet and Cashflow
    Payroll - both manual and computerised payrolls, used to train others in this discipline
    Budgeting and Forecasting - for all sizes of business, annual, quarterly and strategic medium and long term planning
    Reporting - statutory and management reporting, development of senior management reporting and dashboards
    Business Plans - complete service
    Sage 50, Coda, SAP, Oracle
    MS Office - Excel, Word, PowerPoint
    Job Title: Freelance Accountant
    Company: .
    Description: Financial modelling, accounting services, business plans, consulting
    From:01/Dec/2010

    Job Title: Head of Planning
    Company: T-Mobile (UK) Ltd
    Description: Delivering financial reporting and planning to UK Board and German parent
    From:01/Jan/2010 To:01/Aug/2010

    Job Title: Corporate/TIC Finance Manager
    Company: T-Mobile (UK) Ltd
    Description: Delivering UK Opex budget, benchmarking and cost optimisation programmes.
    From:01/May/2005 To:01/Feb/2010

    Job Title: Accountant
    Company: Comau Estil
    Description: Contract accounting, financial reporting and planning.
    From:01/Jan/2001 To:01/Jan/2004

    Job Title: Management Accountant
    Company: Garban Icap plc
    Description: Business partnering, planning/forecasting and business cases
    From:01/Jan/1998 To:01/Jan/2001

    Education Summary: CIMA qualified 1997

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    Training for advanced financial modelling
    • Paulby Paul D.
    • Started: 19 Nov 2012
    • 12 Jun 2013 Paul D.
      Paul D.
      Didsbury, GB

      Sara provided financial modelling training for me and was fantastic overall. She is clearly an expert in this field and provided detailed and relevant assignments and constructive feedback every time. She also sent me additional examples and templates to help me going forward. Can't recommend enough and would definitely use again in the future.

    Business Financial Modelling
    • Philipby Philip A.
    • Posted: 21 Jan 2013
    • 0
    • 06 Feb 2013 Philip A.
      Philip A.
      London, GB

      A challenging task - which was our idiosyncracies , but we got there in the end, & Sara was v.patient.

    A straightforward financial model for a business plan and investor presentation
    • Mirandaby Miranda G.
    • Posted: 9 Jul 2012
    • 1
    • 28 Sep 2012 Miranda G.
      Miranda G.
      Wandsworth, GB

      Sara has done an exceptional job for us in producing a masterpiece of a financial model with everything we require for our investor presentations and for our own business management. Sara's accountancy background and track record in senior management means she has commercial acumen which is invaluable - she totally understands how businesses run. We look forward to working with her in the future.

    5 Year Forecast
    • Julienby Julien C.
    • Posted: 27 Jul 2012
    • 0
    • 06 Aug 2012 Julien C.
      Julien C.
      London, GB

      Sara did a fantastic job. She is very thorough, detailed, able to adapt and a pleasure to deal with.
      Not only did she manage to turn my task around in no time but she also gave me great tips and superb recommendations. I will definitely be using expertise again and cannot recommend her enough.
      Julien

    Preparation of Financial Projections
    • Absby Abs S.
    • Posted: 17 Jan 2012
    • 2
    • 26 Jul 2012 Abs S.
      Abs S.
      Bishops Stortford, GB

      Sara did an excellent job and was always on hand to make
      modification as an when needed.

      Her knowledge of various accounting practices is first hand.

      Will be reusing her again

    • 19 Jun 2012 Abs S.
      Abs S.
      Bishops Stortford, GB

      Great work so far

    SQL Database Interrogation through Excel Macros
    • Raffyby Raffy K.
    • Posted: 5 Dec 2011
    • 0
    • 15 Dec 2011 Raffy K.
      Raffy K.
      London, GB

      Super quick and professional. Really knows her stuff and adds tangible value to our processes and organisation. Very lucky find for us...

    Financial Assistant
    • Gailby Gail M.
    • Posted: 20 Jul 2011
    • 3
    • 17 Oct 2011 Gail M.
      Gail M.
      London, GB

      Met all our requirements.Very skilled, helpful and knowledgeable

      Sara H.
      Sara H.

      Interesting work with clients who gave concise instructions and had a clear idea of the required end product. A pleasure to work with.

    Clean up and expand MS Excel Files
    • Jamesby James V.
    • Posted: 3 Jul 2011
    • 2
    • 16 Aug 2011 James V.
      James V.
      Chicago, IL, US

      Good work on this job

      Sara H.
      Sara H.

      Thanks for the feedback, James. It was a pleaseure working with you.

    Excel Modelling / SQL Databases / VBA / SQL Queries
    • Jamesby James M.
    • Posted: 23 Mar 2011
    • 2
    • 29 Mar 2011 James M.
      James M.
      Bristol, GB

      Fabulous job. Exactly what I wanted.

      Sara H.
      Sara H.

      Thanks James, it was a pleasure working with you. Clear, concise instructions and a really interesting project.

    Whistler Chamber of Commerce Database
    • Steveby Steve J.
    • Posted: 13 Dec 2010
    • 1
    • 16 Dec 2010 Steve J.
      Steve J.
      Whistler, CA

      Sara did an excellent job. She fulfilled all of the requirements in a timely manner and I would not hesitate to work with her again

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