Edwin graduated in 2001 (Accounting and Business Management with specialism in business and company law).
3 years at PriceWaterhouseCoopers working in Assurance and Business Advisory Services, Public Sector & Business Recovery.
2 years at Larking & Gowen Chartered Accountants as a Senior Auditor.
3 years at Aviva Plc as a Senior Financial Consultant.
2 years in industry as a Management Accountant, then Senior Management Accountant up until redundancy at the end of 2009.
Edwin was introduced to Excel in the mid 1990s on an IT course. He developed his Excel skills to a high level and started working with VBA in 2004, writing macros for the Aviva Plc accounting function; automating processes to reduce staff time spent on repetitive tasks, to improve internal controls (cash management, document/deeds handling, staff holidays).
He then took a VBA course 04/2005 and then set to task on reducing monthly reporting timetables through report automation and providing stronger financial controls.
Edwin is now considered to be a specialist in his field as he combines a sound financial background of audit & advisory work with the ability to write bespoke code to create processes and procedures that will match client requirements.