Leicester, England, United Kingdom
- A highly skilled and motivated finance professional with over 15 years of experience, progressing through core finance operations into more commercial and strategically focused roles. - Expertise in project management, reporting automation, business partnering and forecasting, with a strong ability to influence decision-making and building trust with key relationships. - Proven track record of working with blue-chip employers across multiple and diverse industries; including: IHG Hotels & Resorts, General Motors, Vodafone, and The Walt Disney Company where I managed multi-million-pound accounts and led complex financial analysis and modelling that drove productivity and business growth. - Adept at conducting in-depth research, dashboard, and financial modelling, forecasting and trend analysis, and delivering actionable insights to senior leadership.
• Develop and deliver dashboard on Oracle Analytics Cloud analytics with a deeper forward-looking analysis that focuses on growth and automation. • Worked cross functionally with teams including Finance, Operations, IT, Marketing and HR to gather, design and visualise dashboards. This led to successfully delivering on key projects but not limited to: 1. Headcount & Positions: Designed and implemented dynamic dashboard to track headcount and position changes, providing real-time insights into workforce trends and enabling more effective workforce planning and resource allocation that became pivotal and time saving during budgeting process. 2. Capex/Opex Expenditure: Created dashboard to monitor and analyse capital and operational expenditures, offering detailed visibility into spend patterns and ensuring alignment with budget forecasts and financial targets that can be tracked on a project level basis. 3. System Size & Pipeline: Provided a dashboard that shares real-time insights into hotel performance, occupancy, and regional market trends that shapes adhoc analysis and business cases for FBPs. 4. Trading P&L: Built and maintained interactive dashboard for the Global Trading P&L, providing up-to-date financial data and visuals on Key performance metrics, enabling quick identification of trends and supporting decision-making. • Actively partnered with key business stakeholders, building strong relationships across departments to align financial strategies with organisational goals of transforming financial reporting to a self-serve platform via automated Dashboards. • Run weekly Oracle Analytics sessions providing guidance, tips, and tricks to colleagues. Facilitating continuous improvement and change through collaboration enabled the users to run and enhance working dashboards.
• Preparation and analysis of monthly/yearly financial reports and reconciliations, along with internal and external reporting ensuring data quality and accuracy in reporting as well as taking appropriate actions to mitigate discrepancies. • Support, present and deliver the budgeting and forecast planning process to senior FBPs, VPs and a CFOs • Drive process improvements and ensure best practice is implemented to help maintain reporting standards across teams. • Internal and competitor analysis to support strategies as well as conducting financial modelling that drive financial results and decision making. (Designed and led the development of a financial model that forecasts hotel exits in Americas and identifies underperforming properties 3-5 years in advance, enabling proactive decision-making and targeted interventions to optimize the hotel portfolio). This model was then taken on to be replicated for global IHG exits. • Presenting senior leadership with competitor and industry updates and analysis towards growth; providing actionable insights and recommendations • Developed and coached Analyst, providing mentorship that encouraged professional growth, enhanced skill development, and promoted continuous improvement
• Responsible for subscriber (volume) and revenue forecast for over 30 countries across Europe; reviewing analysis of operating results and evaluating new business opportunities. Solely in charge of managing rent, service charge and facilities of our call centre in Bucharest. • Initiated an analysis into the payment arrangement with Opel/Vauxhall relating to OnStar modules in produced vehicles which resulted in a change of payment methodology and generated OnStar €3.7m savings. • Working closely with the team in Detroit head office, ensuring monthly reports are delivered on time; and in the worst case inform the finance team with updates and clear expectations for deliverable. • Earned an international assignment to perform asset valuation in preparation for the sale of Opel/Vauxhall to PSA Group • Effectively took ownership and managed the transition of moving legal ownership of assets and contracts for services post the sale of Opel/Vauxhall to PSA Group – a portfolio over €1.5m
Managing various Indirect partners costing £50m annually; in relation to their commercial arrangements, monthly contractual payments, as well as managing budgetary responsibilities. • Management Reporting: Responsible for creating a monthly dashboard on the Indirect partner’s performance to aid in the strategic decision making of various senior management and account managers. • Project Management: Redesigned the Retail Hardware Loss report; with effective management of the BI team; resulting in a more efficient and effective process. • Business Partnering with the Account Managers to discuss key issues and contractual terms initiating any key strategic plans in the near future that impose risk and opportunities. This analysis resulted in an opportunity for me to lead an action to save £120,000 worth of payments. • Commercial Awareness: Taking initiative to attend trading meets as well as subscribing to external market reports to gain commercial insight on the market and performance; and an understanding of challenges faced with our partners. • Regular presentations with various stakeholders (ranging from team managers to head of departments), building effective networking skills to aid in business partnering capabilities. This enabled me to readily pivot my communication efforts to the chosen channels, platforms, and styles of everyone I encounter.
Assist in preparation of the seasonal branch cost budgeting for the controllable costs and maintenance of the quarterly Service Charge in compliance with RICS standards. • Provided accurate and timely completion of month end activities and budgetary responsibilities; highlighting and mitigating any discrepancies to expectations. • Responsible for allocated monthly balance sheet reconciliations to review and ensure all anomalies are raised with the controllable cost accountant. • Leading and Managing the finance team in Pune during monthly, quarterly and annual reporting and forecasting cycles. • Auditing/inspecting charges in compliance with RICS code; liaising with the Legal team and querying disputes where necessary. • Provided savings of £220,000 for the company through disputes from RICS code and incorrect charges.