London, England, United Kingdom
FP&A Professional | London Business School MBA Candidate Hi, I'm Shannon, a finance professional with 6 years of FP&A experience in the US. I will graduate from London Business School in July and am looking to continue my Finance career in London. My background includes: - Budgeting & Forecasting - Data-Driven Insights - Cross-functional Collaboration
Eliminated 24-hour Analytics turnaround time on Finance reports by learning and creating queries that enabled the Finance team to do real time self-service reporting on four key financial models and ad hoc analysis Completed sales commission process on time and without errors for 12 quarters; paying a 120-person salesforce $1M per quarter; used Callidus SAP to add and test modeling for 6 new commission components, contributing to high seller retention Improved Expedia cash flow during the pandemic by reducing aged AR $11.1M (39%) in 9 months by creating and distributing an AR report that enables sellers to track AR from their accounts
Ensured seven departments followed their expense budgets of roughly $100M by creating an easy to read monthly expense report to give visibility into monthly actuals Diligently tracked and managed over 200 invoices monthly and improved invoice submission process, reducing past due fees and eliminating unforeseen P/L fluctuations, which enabled better decision-making
Previously Alcoa Inc. Analyzed and reported acquisition performance to the CEO and CFO, specifically differentiating business drivers from purely acquisition accounting driven performance Led a capital planning initiative that resulted in a 30% improvement in project data quality by deploying key performance indicators and automation Developed a regression model that quantified the value of capacity utilization for underperforming businesses at the request of Arconic’s Board of Directors Trained new FP&A directors and managers on Arconic’s proprietary capital portfolio management process Updated new hire onboarding training and documentation to decrease ramp up time for Arconic employees