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London, England, GB

London, England, GB

London, GB

• Lead the annual budgeting process and work with the executive team to produce monthly rolling reforecasts of the five-year integrated financial model.
• Support the Sales and Customer Success teams with pricing strategies, business cases and margin analysis for prospective and existing clients, helping drive an increase in ARR and retention. Including developing a new.
• Provide the business with periodic KPI reports and benchmark analysis.
• Supported the financial and commercial due diligence for a broad range of fundraising and acquisition events.

London, GB

• Maintained and regularly reforecast the group financial model, including the headcount and hiring model. Distributed team budgets and monthly variance analysis to keep key budget holders accountable to their targets.
• Led both long term and weekly cashflow forecasting across the different businesses. Managed day-to-day cash and trade facilities and provided working capital analysis to management, banks and shareholders for the.
• Produced monthly board and analysis packs for various operational areas.

London, GB

• Provided the founders and executive team regular analysis for all commercial areas, while managing two analysts.
• Pivotal to the annual planning process and quarterly reforecasts, maintaining the cohort model while setting financial and commercial targets as the business scaled rapidly.
• Managed the development and adoption of the business’s third-party data warehousing and analysis platform.
• Contributed to both fundraising and M&A projects, providing data for potential investors and conducting commercial due diligence on acquisition targets.

London, London, GB

I provided business, financial and economic analysis across a range of commercial areas. I was the editor of a regular analysis market outlook report and led commodity price forecasting for 60+ countries which was utilised across the business. Financial modelling, DCF calculations and forecasting were important parts of my role.

Toronto, Ontario, CA

Three month contract exploring for new copper-gold prospects. Work included collecting and interpreting historical data as part of a desk study exercise and fieldwork, which included geological mapping and sampling of new prospects as well as those at an established mine site.

Four weeks work experience over the Christmas vacation managing a geochemical sampling programme and mapping project of mine tailings. Duties included running and managing the exploration camp

Six weeks work experience over the summer holidays where I managed a small soil and channel sampling team in the Surinamese jungle exploring for gold mineralisation.