1. Barrie John Baker Curriculum Vitae
Address for correspondence: 28 Llanbedr Road, Fairwater, Cardiff, CF5
3BW
Contact telephone numbers: 07966 650 577, 029 20214 199
Email: barrie.baker@gmail.com
Personal Profile
Highly motivated individual with considerable experience within the
Financial Services industry. Extensive experience of the preparation of a
wide range of management accounts, and audited statutory accounts, AAT
qualified and qualified by experience (QBE). Works to tight timescales
and within budgets. A strategic thinker, with the ability to develop and
implement processing procedures to improve the functionality of a team
and or process to ensure efficiency. Has a confident and informed
leadership style.
Made redundant due the consequence of an in sourcing strategy by one of
the companies major clients.
Skills and Key Achievements
● Extensive experience of working in many different industries and
public practice.
● Strong analytical and reporting skills.
● Excellent written and communication skills.
● A strong and confident manager, resourceful, innovative and
outcome driven.
● Able to motivate and focus the performance of others.
● Improved efficiency of dealer commission and debit-back posting
process to the purchase ledger, resulting in the saving of
approximately 14 man hours and the increased productivity of a
department.
● The reduction of the time taken to prepare group monthly
management accounts. Streamlined the preparation of supporting
documentation. This enabled a reduction in the time and complexity
when consolidating in to group accounts of an international banking
group.

2. ● Played a key role in the successful preparation of financial data
ahead of migration from Sage to AS400.
● Prepared analysis of the impact of the introduction of changes to
accounting standards.
Career History
Finance Manager
Smart Solutions Recruitment Limited Group (March 2013 - February
2016)
Smart Solutions is a group with many varying subsidiaries and connected
companies. The group turnover of £92m, employees over 250 permanent
staff as well as over 4,000 temporary workers daily. Each of these
businesses presented different challenges and learning opportunities from
high value low volume transactions to low value high volume transactions
through to accounting for a publically funded training company for the
first time.
My role was Finance Manager within the finance department. The team
consisted of 10 members reporting to me, either directly or indirectly.
● Part of my duties were a supervisory role within the finance
department and completion of adhoc reporting and reconciliation
requests for the financial controller and finance director.
● Also, included was the assisting with credit control duties which
required the contacting of customers, arranging payment dates,
supply of copy invoices etc.
● Together with the temporary cover for the Training & Development
Company which included the processing of sales and purchase
invoice transactions, together with the review, authorisation and
payment of staff expenses and purchase ledger items.
● The liaising with further education facilities to enable the
preparation of sales invoices.
● The preparation of balance sheet backup information in the
preparation of monthly management accounts.
● The daily processing of a large volume of low value purchase
invoices and sales invoices for Nationwide Waste Solutions Limited
a new start company to a turnover of £2m pa within two years.

3. ● Debt collection duties and the posting of bank transaction within the
main ledgers.
● Preparation of monthly management accounts for presentation to the
board with a full balance sheet reconciliation being completed.
● The completion of an audit file with full balance sheet backup for
presentation to auditors.
● Successful handover of duties to a finance assistant with regards the
processing of the above daily transaction, and the transfer of the
preparation of monthly management accounts to a third party.
Senior Finance Executive
Target Loan Servicing Limited (Feb 2009 to January 2013)
● Continued preparation of Park Finance Group management accounts
and associated duties (noted below) due to company and employees
being transferred under the TUPE regulations to Target Group.
● Preparation of additional service user management accounts and
supporting backup reconciliations and analysis.
● To ensure the reporting of client information within a time critical
deadline on a daily and monthly basis with regards a number of
lending portfolios.
● Preparation of daily bank reconciliations and the associated cash
receipt waterfall summaries between funders and banking
institutions for a number of clients.
● Preparation of monthly service user reports, portfolio performance
analysis (cash split, arrears analysis etc) and reconciled monthly
cash totals.
● Ensure efficiency and cost effective administration to reduce
operational cost and provide a superior service to our clients
● Developed a considerable knowledge, experience and understanding
of the operation of the servicing industry.
● Active member of the company forum to ensure the continued
adherence to the regulatory policy of Fair Outcomes for Consumers.
Group Management Accountant Park Motor Finance Limited (April
1998 to Jan 2009)
● Prepare the management accounts for the Park Finance Group of
four companies, with a group turnover of up to £24million a year

4. within a strict timescales with direct reporting to the Group Financial
Controller.
● Prepare monthly key performance indicators and the comparison of
actual with budget values with variation explanation.
● Liaise with various corporate funders on internal audits and
drawdownof funds.
● Preparation of statutory audited accounts and liaising with the
companies’ auditors and tax advisor.
● Regular contact with the company’s financial investor.
● Responsibility for management and development of a team of four.
Senior in Charge
PWC ((formerly Coopers & Lybrand) July 1988 to March 1998)
● Preparation of a wide range of accounts for clients ranging from a
sole trader, partnership and limited companies with a turnover of up
to £4 million requiring statutory audited accounts.
● Completed assignments either on own or as an in-charge of a team
of auditors.
● Liaise with clients who were practicing solicitor’s and held client
monies with the preparation of reports to the Law Society in relation
to their obligations under the Solicitors Accounts Rules.
● Preparation of weekly and monthly payroll calculations for a number
of clients including filing of year end returns with HMRC and
quarterly VAT returns.
Accountants Assistant
Deloitte Haskin & Sells (April 1982 to June 1988)
● Preparation of accounts for a range of clients from sole traders,
partnerships,
political and non-political social clubs and limited companies.
● VAT returns for a number of clients and the maintaining of their
sales, purchase and general ledgers. Dealing with practicing
solicitor’s and the preparation of returns to the Law Society with
regards their obligations under the Solicitors Accounts Rules (now
Solicitors Regulatory Authority).
● Preparation of a client’s quarterly management accounts which led
to the education of the client to produce their own accounts in due
course.

5. Educational qualifications and training
● AAT qualification (Association of Accounting Technician)
● O level: English language, English literature, Geography, Physics,
Chemistry, Computer studies and Mathematics.
● Experience of using the following software packages :- Sage Line
50, Sage payroll, CODA, CAAP (Contract Administration and
Accounting Programme), Centrac, MS dynamics, Microsoft outlook,
excel (intermediate), word and PowerPoint.
References upon request