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London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for process governance and performance management of Procurement at Pladis Global.
• Successfully established a clearly defined governance process on Procurement savings, including a roll-out of a complete training programme to all end users in the UK and Turkey.
• Stringent audit and validation of top priority savings projects (combined annual value £7m), ensuring all savings are capable of standing up to external scrutiny.
• Finance Lead for annual budgeting and monthly full year forecasting of UK and Europe Procurement performance (annual spend £0.4bn).
• Identified £0.8m of redundant balance sheet accruals; subsequently tightened the accounting discipline around the monthly reporting cycle.
• Re-designed the monthly financial reporting suite to ensure increased legibility for non-Finance personnel.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for financial business partnering with Supply Chain at Adelie Group.
• Successful provision of financial expertise to Heads of Procurement and Distribution and their teams (21 people) to enable business-critical decision making.
• Key player in all joint Commercial/Distribution business tenders; full costing of all delivery proposals and associated investment requirements.
• Facilitated full transition of 3 direct reporting roles from the Shared Service Centre in New Delhi, India back to the UK, maintaining reporting accuracy, efficiency and speed of delivery.
• Continued supply chain performance reporting, including actuals, budgeting and standard costing.
• Achieved significant reduction in Procurement month-end reporting time of 1 week, improving information veracity.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for execution of the strategy management process at Rexam Group.
• Effective resolution with the Executive Leadership Team of immediate and longer-term strategic issues affecting the business.
• Ensured rigorous alignment of business-critical KPIs to the company’s strategic objectives to safeguard sustainable performance and significantly strengthen discipline around KPI performance evaluation.
• Effective cultural change agent for the business; provided coaching to KPI owners and communication to the rest of the business to provoke greater strategic thinking and enhance understanding of the company’s vision.
• Piloted the implementation of the i-nexus software tool to support Group-wide strategy management.
• Provided analysis on Rexam’s markets, customers and competitors to assist with strategic planning.

Luton, United Kingdom

• Responsible for cash and business risk management at Rexam Europe.
• Handled all aspects of cashflow reporting and assorted areas of risk management, including the sector’s hedge accounts (commodities and currencies) for Rexam Europe.
• Managed the financial relationship with Rexam Europe’s two largest metal suppliers (annual spend £0.5bn).
• Sought additional responsibility in the sector’s strategy management process, including preparing reports and participating in strategy review meetings of the Executive Team.

Luton, United Kingdom

• Responsible for administration of Rexam UK’s management accounts.
• Successfully managed all aspects of Rexam UK’s management accounts reporting, including sales numbers, rebates, logistics costs, financial bridges and balance sheet reconciliations.
• Initiated numerous improvements to reporting processes and tools, resulting in a 1-day reduction in reporting time and greater integrity of the data.
• Supervised all mandated data submissions to outside parties (Office for National Statistics, Valpak Ltd) in compliance with government regulations.

Luton, United Kingdom

• Responsible for financial consolidation and cost centre reporting at Rexam Europe.
• Consolidated the financial accounts for all 27 Rexam plants throughout Europe, Asia and Africa, providing insightful commentary on key performance drivers.
• Handled all aspects of cost centre control for the sector’s SG&A accounts.
• Covered all areas of account management, incl. budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.

Paris, France

• 6 month secondment at Rexam Plastics, responsible for business intelligence analysis for the sector.
• Reviewed market trends and the competitive landscape for the sector’s consolidated strategic plan.
• Provided guidance on Rexam’s £0.9bn acquisition of O-I Plastics through due diligence analysis of the target company’s assets in the virtual data room (VDR).
• Developed a business intelligence database on competitors and potential takeover targets in the pharma packaging industry.
• Published monthly snapshot newsletters chronicling the latest developments in the industry.
• Greatly improved my understanding of French language and work culture.

Luton, United Kingdom

• Responsible for financial consolidation and cost centre reporting at Rexam Europe.
• Consolidated the financial accounts for all 27 Rexam plants throughout Europe, Asia and Africa, providing insightful commentary on key performance drivers.
• Handled all aspects of cost centre control for the sector’s SG&A accounts.
• Covered all areas of account management, incl. budgeting, forecasting and variance analysis.

Master Of Science (M.Sc.), International Business And Management

Joint Bachelor Of Science, Chemistry With Management