Kettering, England, United Kingdom
A qualified Commercial Finance Business Partner (CIMA) with over 20 years of commercial experience, the majority of which were in a FTSE100 and 250 company, providing commercial advice to CEO & board level directors within retail, financial services, travel and luxury sectors. Key strengths are building relationships with non-finance personnel, identifying efficiencies and opportunities through financial and non-financial data analysis, and developing financial reporting & simple to use versions of difficult and complex models.
Senior Finance Business Partner
Responsibility for Sales, Marketing, Race and Support teams. Revamping the monthly Opex reports and driving improvements in the forecasting process. Training two management accountants in effective and efficient report building.
Production of Monthly Retail Trading Report for JV Board. Design of simple to use trackers for marketing personnel, giving accurate and instantaneous reporting of committed spend. Responsibility for management information for £1bn+ turnover retail foreign exchange business. Working with all levels of the business from FE Executive Director to Regional Sales Managers, providing improved regular reporting and ad hoc information to allow managers to manage. Production of annual FE budgets as well as monthly rolling forecasts. Monthly reconciliation of daily/weekly MI to ledgers. Analysis of variances to key KPI's. Modelling of promotions and pricing strategies to aid management decision making. Instrumental in introducing trading margins into management reporting vastly improving ability to measure accurately profitability by product and currency and individual. Began working in Thomas Cook as commercial analyst for the commercial relations team, winning an individual Outstanding Achievement Award in 2005.
Production of weekly management accounts and weekly site pack. Periodical reconciliation of weekly management accounts to general ledgers. Investigation of weekly material and labour variances against Annual Operating Plan. Redesigned weekly management report following start-up of new production line Production of budgeting deck to assist managers in budgeting process Presented weekly results to Operations Managers to tight deadlines, briefing them for weekly cost meeting. Period and year-end reconciliations. Production of period KPI and management reports to Head Office and parent company.