Wetherby, England, United Kingdom
Finance & Investment Management Bachelor of Arts graduate. A highly motivated, goal-orientated and ambitious individual currently working within the Finance Department at Propensio Finance. I possess excellent communication skills and creative intelligence with the ability to establish good relationships with clients and colleagues. My financial experience and skills are exceptional. I also enjoy recording and analysing statistics, using numbers, problem solving and keeping up to date with the stock markets. I consider myself to be competitive, with a desire to complete tasks on time to the best of my ability.
Remarketing Sales Reporting and Support: • Regular monthly and weekly Sales Reporting against forecast, budget and prior year volumes and revenues • Manage the Remarketing volume forecasting and target setting process • Rebates - Volume rebate calculations, accounting and payments • Sales Commissions - Calculation and payment of Sales team commissions across all Sales Teams • Budgets - Involvement in constructing and collating the sales volume and revenue budgets each year • Perform profitability analysis for existing and prospective accounts and provide tender support to the sales team
Strategic Projects: • Preparing and maintaining detailed financial models, including profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow containing key driver information to support strategic projects. • Financial analysis and appraisal of information received including the verification of assumptions and making improvement recommendations. • Assisting in the preparation of detailed, compelling business cases to support the senior management and US sign off of strategic projects. • Management of project plans and liaising with business managers and project stakeholders. • Creation and management of a database to hold the information obtained on the UK, European and International markets. Strategic Planning: • Assist the Business Intelligence Manager in the creation, maintenance and storage of information on relevant industry areas. • From the information obtained on relevant industry areas, applying them to our business model and assessing the impact. • Desk based research into new countries, territories and potential strategic partners. • Regular monitoring of strategic action plans with plan holders and preparing an overview on status on a regular basis. • Preparation of presentations for strategic planning sessions. Competitive Environment: • Creation and maintenance of a competitor schedule identifying the filing dates of statutory financial records. • Analysis and interpretation of the financial statements of competitors and reporting to senior management in a concise and structured manner. • Obtaining the vehicle entries information on a daily basis and regular consolidation of information for Senior Management based on available criteria.
• Visit a number of Persimmon regional operating companies to carry out internal audits. • Tasked to prepare and complete audit work programmes, debrief managing directors and write up findings in a final report presented to the board. • Involved in a great deal of meetings and interactions with high level members of staff including; Managing Directors, Finance Directors etc. • Responsible for implementation of monthly, bi-monthly, half year and full year financial reports given to the Board, Audit Committee and Risk Committee.
• Responsible for compiling weekly/monthly reports for Board Members. • Account and consolidate budgets, management accounts, forecasts and trading accounts for 24 regional operating companies. • Promoted to Group Risk after 5 months.