1. AMANDEEP BANGA
Contact No.: +44- 07917698460 E-Mail: singh_amandeep@hotmail.co.uk
OBJECTIVE
Seeking challenging assignments in the fields of Finance & Accounts with focus on Strategy,
Reporting, Budgeting and Business Performance. I can contribute to the growth of the
organization by converting strategic vision into budget and forecasting cycle whilst managing the
technical side of monthly group reporting and statutory reporting. At the same time ensuring the
monthly business performance targets are met and more
With a strong track record of delivering top performance as well as selected for the ACCA’s fully
funded Leaders of Tomorrow Programme; I have the ability to lead and work as a team,
undertake difficult mandates and meet tight deadlines. Also, I am willing to go the extra mile to
ensure employer’s best interest is always put first.
PERSONAL QUALITIES
Client Relationship: Through my various work experiences, I have developed good customer
serving skills and demonstrated my ability to build strong relationships.
Team Work: Working at various jobs has given me experience and knowledge on how to work
within a team and with different people.
Leadership Qualities: I have the ability to communicate my vision in terms that directs the team
towards the goal.
Achievements:Selected in ACCA “Aspire to Lead” advertisement across UK.
My article about my role and achievements was published in ACCA Accountancy
& Business Magazine February edition and ACCA Corporate Newsletter January
edition.
EDUCATIONAL & PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
ACCA Leaders of Tomorrow Programme March 14 – February 16
www.leaders.accaglobal.com
Certificate in International Financial Reporting August 14 – September 14
ACCA September.07 – December 12
Member
K & K College of London October 04 – September 06
Business Administration Certificate Level B
Business Administration Advance Level B+
GHPS School, INDIA 2000 – 2002
10+2 Commerce with Computer Science 70%
IT SKILLS
• Operating Systems: Windows 98/2000/XP/Vista
• Software: Microsoft Word, Advance Excel, PowerPoint, Access, SQL

2. • Tax & Financial accounting tools: SAP, Hyperion, SAP B1 Super User, Oracle, Spectrum
(EDI Software), Sun, Vision, Intacct(US GAAP), Sales Force, JBA, Workflow, IAS, Publisher
and Online Database, IRIS Personal Tax, Business Tax, Accounts production, Practice
Management, PTP Spreadsheet Planner, IRIS Exchequer.
• Hardware: laptops, desktops, Smartphones, PDAs, printers
EMPLOYMENT DETAILS
European Finance Manager May 2013 - Present
H J Heinz Ltd
The H.J. Heinz Company is one of the world’s leading marketers and producers of healthy,
convenient and affordable foods, with a growing global portfolio of leading brands in three core
categories: Ketchup & Sauces, Meals & Snacks and Infant/Nutrition. It has more than 32,000
employees worldwide and its Fiscal 2012 turnover was $11.6 Billion.
Key Responsibility Areas
• Timely and Accurate completion of monthly financial close of all European non trading
companies and EHQ cost management company as per US GAAP using SAP and Hyperion
• Responsible for monthly and yearly analysis of EBITDA, Adj. Net Income and Free Cash
Flow against Forecast, Budget and Prior Year.
• Supervision of European Financial Analyst and Finance manager on daily basis.
• Monthly power point presentations to EU Business Performance team on Consolidated cash
flow, EBITDA and Net income.
• Ensure all SOX Quarterly and Monthly requirements are met
• Responsible for creation of annual budget including cash flow.
• Preparation of annual Statutory Accounts of European Non-Holding (Investment) companies
in their local GAAP as per guidance from PWC. E.g.: Dutch GAAP, Gibraltar GAAP
• Successfully calculated and implemented all purchase accounting adjustments across all
European non trading and trading companies as per recent acquisition by Warren Buffett and
3G Capital of $28 Billion.
Financial Analyst January 2013 – April 2013
DHL Global Forwarding Ltd
DHL is Part of the World's Leading Logistics Group, Deutsche Post DHL. DHL offers integrated
services and tailored, customer-focused solutions for managing and transporting letters, goods
and information.
Key Responsibility Areas
• Intercompany In house bank reconciliation investigated and found £10million going back two
years
• Created the new Inter-company IHB reconciliation process in excel along with the how to
guide and successfully taught and transferred the process over to team in India
• Successfully removed the old inter-company IHB process and implemented my new
reconciliation process
• Completed analysis of company cars and car lease accounts (fixed errors worth £3million)
and implementing a process to ensure items get booked to the correct place
• Prepared and submitted last 3 years pending VAT EC Sales List Returns and also
implemented a new process in order to transfer to Chennai
• VAT – Review, analysis and correction of sales and purchase invoices on IC
• Employee expense analysis - ahead of annual PSA return in April
• Process improvement around some of the journal processes currently in use – Such as the
allocations of building costs
• Helped corporate tax team with calculation of capital allowances.
• Control of fixed asset process & review of fixed asset register

3. Accountant March 2012 – November 2012
Rank Interactive Development Ltd
Rank’s principal market is Britain, where it operates Grosvenor Casinos, Mecca Bingo and Rank
Interactive (online gaming and betting). In addition, Rank operates in Spain as Top Rank España
and in Belgium as Grosvenor Casinos. In 2010, Rank’s businesses received more than 22 million
customer visits and recorded the turnover of more than £600million; the Group employed around
8,000 team members and is listed on the stock exchange.
Key Responsibility Areas
• Assist in the preparation of monthly management and year-end accounts along with other
accountants.
• Responsible for calculating the revenue from white label 888 customers and post an accrual
• Calculating and posting the revenue, commission, fee etc. for Tote Pool, UK horseracing
pools product and Mkodo on monthly basis.
• Responsible for monthly overheads analysis and investigate the variances compare to
budget and provide a summary to Finance Director
• Reconciliations of all current accounts and all foreign denominated customer bank accounts
• Maintain the fixed asset register; responsible for creating and assigning new fixed asset
codes and monthly depreciation journals; Responsible for calculating and sending monthly
CAPEX Report to Head of Finance and other Directors of the company.
• Responsible for monthly reconciliation of inter-company balances with Rank Group Gaming,
Grosvenor Casinos, Rank Group Finance and other companies.
• Calculate affiliate variable costs and post an accrual via Netrefer system
• Calculate and post an accrual for IT development cost for the month
• Managing daily cash on all GBP and Foreign Currency Accounts and report to Group
Treasury
• Responsible for reconciling other balance sheet accounts on monthly basis
• Prepare monthly recharge invoices to Rank Group Gaming
• Responsible for monthly posting of capitalized labour costs journal to fixed assets register
• Assisting the Project Team in implementing new finance software and also providing
suggestions on improving the existing processes on Fixed Assets, Revenue Recognition of
small third parties
Financial Accountant March 2011 – February 2012
PLUM BABY LTD, Taplow
Plum is a leading premium baby food brand. It has pioneered the premiumisation of the baby food
sector; having witnessed dramatic year on year growth it was recently acquired by Darwin Private
Equity and recorded the turnover of approx. £10million
Key Responsibility Areas and Achievements
• Supervising the operational finance function of the business, including up to 2 junior
members of the finance team.
• Preparing detailed management accounts on monthly basis, down to product profitability
along with commentary and explaining cost drivers; reporting on a monthly basis to PE
investors and CEO/CFO.
• Assisted Financial Controller in the successful implementation of SAP Business One ERP
system and GXS (EDI Invoicing System) on time and on budget. SAP superseded 2 previous
systems (Sage & Charisma).
• Supported Financial Controller in 2010 year end audit process (including preparation of audit
file in line with auditors’ requirements, and worked with auditors to provide backup and
explanations as requested)

4. • Managing Fixed asset register, Intercompany account, Payroll and Pension payments on
monthly basis
• Preparation and submission of quarterly VAT returns and monthly Intrastat returns
• Supported in the in sourcing of the back office finance function to coincide with
implementation of SAP, including defining new business processes for the finance
department.
• Preparation of financial forecasts for approval by the board, updated quarterly.
• Preparing daily sales reports and weekly cash flow forecasts along with detailed projection of
cash receipts per customer
• Monthly meetings with Marketing Director to review the actual cost against core and NPD
budget
• Working with Financial Controller on key strategic finance decisions, e.g. FX hedging strategy,
invoice discounting/working capital management, marketing budgets etc…
• Management of the IT function.
• Being one of the key point of contact within the business for a number of key relationships,
including relationships with; Barclays Bank (the company’s Bankers), PwC (external auditors
and tax advisers), Insurance broker, IT service providers, in addition to trade suppliers and
customers
• Suggested Finance Director on the software section to convert statutory accounts into iXBRL
and submit along with Corporate Tax Return
• Adhoc help on projects as requested by Finance Director
IRIS SOFTWARE LTD, Datchet September 2008–February 2011
With 30 years' experience, IRIS is the leading provider of business critical software and services
to accountants and payroll professionals in the UK. More than 15,000 accountants and 30,000
small and medium sized companies rely on IRIS every day to run their business. In 2010 IRIS
recorded a turnover of £120million.
Assistant Accountant
Key Responsibility Areas
Providing assistance in preparation and reporting of company management accounts to
year-end.
• Completing weekly and monthly Bank Reconciliations on SUN and Exchequer software.
• Preparing weekly Cash flow forecast on Excel to monitor the inflow and outflow of funds.
• Preparation and submission of weekly Billings and Debtors report in Vision to Divisional
Financial Controller.
• Investigating complex corporate tax calculations and ensuring business is complying with
appropriate legislations in calculating tax liability.
• Preparing tax plans that comply with requirements of IRIS Software and ensuring timely
assessment and filing of corporate tax return and computation.
• Assisted interim accountant in the preparation of the year-end tax reporting requirements for
the IRIS Group in UK.
• Preparation of Accruals and Prepayments report on Exchequer.
• Updating Quarterly Sales Adjustment report in Vision and Excel on monthly basis.
• Maintenance of performance vs. budget report on monthly basis.
• Assisting in preparation & maintenance of statutory accounts for IRIS Group.
Achievements
• It recently came to light that the balance held in deferred revenue was not equal to the
proposed releases over future periods. I was tasked with compiling a report that would
identify invoices not releasing the correct amount in the future. Overall I discovered
£250,000 of errors on a current balance of £5.25 million.
• Got trained by Group Financial Controller to understand and prepare 3rd Party Revenue,
NPD Journals and KPI Collation Reports.

5. • I assisted Finance manager in creating new group sales commissions’ sheet, which
calculates individual’s commission on monthly and accumulated basis and will also flag
over and under payment of commission to sales agents.
• I created the spreadsheet showing the correct way of releasing revenue and cost per
period for new business. This report was highly praised by finance manager and group
financial controller.
Tax Consultant
Key Responsibility Areas
Liaising with Accountants and Tax Managers to solve complex tax issues as well as
guiding them about the tax rules and regulations for UK residents and Non-residents.
• Involved in setting up test cases and help guides on personal tax, corporate tax and non-
residence legislations.
• Review tax treatments to provide assurance on the way tax managers have prepared their
clients tax return.
• Advising on tax matters to office juniors to help them understand the tax treatments and up to
date with the tax legislations.
• Keeping up to date with tax legislations from Tolley or Simon’s weekly tax intelligence books
and giving monthly presentations to the team on the legislations.
Notable Accomplishment
• Recipient of best teamwork award
Assistant Financial Accountant December 2007 - August 2008
THAMES CASH & CARRY LTD, Reading
Thames cash & carry is a medium size limited company with an annual turnover of around £20
million.
Accounts Assistant January 2007 – Dec. 2007
BISRAM AND NOLAN, Reading
Berkshire accountants provide a full range of professional accountancy and book keeping
related services.
EARLIER EMPLOYMENTS
Permanent work for a wide variety of retail companies in the sales and retail sector
Retail Advisor ORANGE RETAIL September 2006 – March 2007
Deputy Manager CORAL (Bookmakers) October 2004 – October 2006
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date of Birth : July 21st, 1983
Linguistic Abilities : Fluent speaking English, Hindi, Punjabi and Urdu.
Interests and activities : Golf, Basketball, Stock Exchange.
REFRENCES
References of senior managers from current and previous organizations when required