Four areas. All from real work.

Audit preparation

Getting a set of accounts ready for audit, or working through the auditor's questions once it starts. I spent four and a half years on the other side of that table.

• Audit readiness review
• Financial statement drafting
• IFRS presentation checks
• Lead schedules & supporting files
• Internal control walk-throughs
• Tax audit preparation

Reconciliation & data checks

Ledgers that don't tie, ERP extracts nobody trusts, balances that drift between cycles. I trace the difference and leave a check that catches it next time.

• Bank & ledger reconciliations
• ERP extract cleaning
• Completeness & consistency tests
• Anomaly and duplicate checks
• Intercompany matching
• Repeatable check workbooks

Financial analysis & reporting

Turning the numbers into something a manager can act on: what moved, why it moved and whether it matters.

• Variance analysis
• P&L and margin review
• Management reporting packs
• Budget vs actual
• KPI definitions
• Plain-language commentary

Dashboards & automation

Replacing the monthly copy-and-paste with something that refreshes. Excel and Power Query where that is enough, SQL, Python or Power BI where it isn't.

• Power BI dashboards
• Power Query models
• SQL & BigQuery views
• Python data cleaning
• Automated reconciliations
• Reporting workflows