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Skills Summary
PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS
ACMA Qualified
TPG Academy Professional Project Management Accreditation
BA (Hons) Finance
SKILLS
A Qualified Accountant and experienced Project Manager, previously having worked within Finance and Marketing in highly business focused roles for major blue chip companies. An able communicator, adept at liaising with all levels of the organisation both internally and externally with experience of working on multi functional teams including Sales, Marketing, IT, and Technology.
Financially astute and highly analytical combined with experience in quality process management, change management and in best practice audit. Including improvements to the planning process, and changing the reporting process to ensure accuracy and the removal of risks in the decision making process
SAP UK Limited, Bedfont, Middlesex
The world’s third-largest independent software provider, SAP delivers business solutions to more than 36,200 customers in more than 120 countries around the world.
Apr 2007 - present AFIT Financial Controller
Recruited as the Controller for: Finance, Legal, Commercial, Facilities, IT and Support
- Ownership of P+L’s from a finance perspective for all departments within responsibility area
- Modelling maintenance revenue including taking account reductions due to maintenance at risk
- Modelling other future business issues and the financial impact of them in the monthly rolling forecast
- Preparation of close management reports for each responsible area & reviewing them with the area Heads
Achievements
- Rewrote the Facilities and IT assessment process for £15m to be correctly allocated between UK operational lines of business and Global until based in the UK
- Created close reporting pack which had previously not existed
Orica, Fairfield Avenue, Staines, Surrey
Australian listed consumer company with four divisions: Explosives, Paints, Chemicals, Fertilisers
International project team brought together for the global integration of Dyno Nobel into Orica Explosives
Jan 2006 - Mar 2007 Business Finance Support Manager
Recruited to Orica Limited to support the CFO & Integration project manager on Finance & Synergy reporting
- Created budget process for 53 countries and worked closely with global CFOs to complete on time
- Budget v. Actual variances following through any large variances to understand and close the gap
- Developed synergy process & model to monitor and report the performance of 450+ initiatives
- Worked with project managers and AT Kearney Consultants on the identification of synergies leading to potential EBIT improvement of A$400 million over four years
- Prepared cash flow statement and NPV analysis to 2014
- Scoped a cost model and wrote business case for the closure of the Oslo head office
- Prepared an internal audit programme for the three operating regions (Asia, Europe and Latin America)
- Maintained the Balanced Scorecard and KPIs for the project team
Achievements
- Created budget process and model for 53 countries to a total value of A$140m in 2007
- Created a synergy performance reporting tool, replacing the complex model built by AT Kearney
- Part of the team which identified A$80m synergies in 2007 growing to A$115m in 2010
- Prepared board slides on progress of synergies and budgets
O2 UK Limited, Bath Road, Burnham, Berkshire
Aug 2003 - Jan 2006 Data & Reporting Process Improvement Manager (within Marketing)
Promoted to manage data and reporting improvements initiatives to achieve a complete control environment
- Identification & quantification (benefit/ cost/ capability) of process issues which had risks or opportunities
- Project Managed business wide initiatives to improve quality and accuracy of data and reporting
- Wrote processes for initiatives and trained others to take these improvements forward
- Developed Business Cases and costing for data and reporting improvement initiatives
- Identifies the resources required to support the initiative, and gaining approval from resource manager
- Developed reports for Sales, Marketing and Finance on Business and Consumer KPIs
- Worked with highly multi-functional teams including: Marketing, Sales, Technology, Networks and Care
- Presented to stakeholders on progress of key initiatives including progress against budget and milestones
Achievements
- Built a data repository which became the single source of truth for all consumer reporting within Sales, Marketing and Finance, this improved financial accuracy for Board level decision making
- Removed 42 percent of consumer reports which were duplicated & were using the wrong assumptions, this reduced the workload of Sales, Marketing and Finance reporting teams
- Part of the team which identified 40 processes which when corrected would create £5m EBIT
- Project managed 3 projects to a benefit of £500k
Jun 2000 - Aug 2003 Business Analyst
Recruited to O2 to be the Finance representative on Business & Consumer proposition project teams
- Worked on Prepay revenue generating and retention initiatives from inception to completion
- Presented detailed impact assessments on all new initiatives affecting Finance looking for risks or issues
- Provided financial input (costing and pricing) into Business Cases and Initiative Documents
- Co-ordinating the capture of reporting requirements across Finance, Sales and Marketing
- Wrote processes for all new reports and trained others to take these improvements forward
- Developed, analysed and interpreted performance evaluation data and KPIs
- Worked within cross functional and cross directorate project teams including: Sales, Marketing and IT
Achievements
- Produced a suit of reports for all new consumer prepay propositions
- No Finance issues with data and reporting on any of the projects
- No financial risks evolved following project implementation
- Negotiated & generated alternative solutions for non-compliant requirements, avoiding any no-goes
- No project slippage due to Finance
EDS, Globe Park, Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Nov 1999 - Jun 2000 Project Accountant
Selected to work on the implementation of a new Problem/ Asset Management system
- Created project plan and cost model for a new problem and asset management system
- Investigated best practices by auditing a number European entities
- Carried out training sessions & workshops to communicate best practices to entities
- Established problem escalation protocols to levels of the organisation where they can be resolved
- Created & controlled the project documentation - benefits, risk assessments, assumptions, plans & issues
Aug 1998 - Oct 1999 European Financial Analyst
Promoted to European Financial Analyst to carry out analysis of European results to the US and project work
- Consolidation and analysis of country month end results including KPIs of key Infrastructure categories
- Budgeting, planning & variance analysis at the framework & country level ensuring full financial analysis
- Evaluating the progress each country against budget, following up and closing any gaps
- Presenting results to the CFO, Vice President and Framework Manager ensuring full financial transparency
Sep 1997 - Aug 1998 UK Financial Analyst
Recruited to UK Financial Analyst to create monthly reporting and forward planning for 7 UK business units
- Defining their business strategy and ensuring no surprises at month end
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