Fina Watson's Linkedin Analytics

Accountancy and payroll professional with over 30 years’ experience across diverse sectors including horse racing, contractor payroll and offshore finance. Main tasks and responsibilities have included the production of monthly management accounts, balance sheet reconciliations to cash management within challenging commercial environments and beyond. In addition, proven ability of producing profit and loss reports, analyzing variances, improving profitability and liaising with auditors. Focused analyst with keen attention to detail to ensure accuracy and quality of information, and a commercially astute mindset. KEY SKILLS • Qualified to NVQ level 4 (Technician) in accountancy awarded by the Association of Accounting Technicians. • Hands on experience working with Sage 50, Sage Payroll, ZOHO CRM and Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, including Vlookup formulas and Pivot Tables, Outlook), and google sheets. Quick to learn new technologies. • Managed client on-boarding processes, including ensuring compliance with anti-money laundering (AML) and know your client (KYC) requirements. • Excellent organisational, time and stress management skills. • Strong interpersonal, oral and written communication skills, confident to converse at senior and board level and communicate with non-finance stakeholders. • Comfortable working as part of a team or independently. • Strong negotiation and client management skills. • A solution focused approach to work. As a keen artist, I enjoy spending my free time creating fine art, inspired by my lifelong passion for motorbikes and motorsports, capturing your favourite motorsport memories as watercolour paintings to be enjoyed for a lifetime. Give me a call on 07483 869439 to find out more about commissioning a painting, or to have a chat about motorsport, or visit finawatsonart.com for more information and to view the gallery of my paintings.