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Munich, DE

Collaborating with the Heads of the Bogie Service Center, Procurement, Engineering and Materials departments within Siemens Mobility rail division and Identify opportunities within the budget to reduce project costs. Designing control frameworks to ensure the successful realisation of cost savings over the life-cycle of the project. Setting up governance.

London, GB

• Projects: Commercial Improvements | Finalise Design of Target Operating ModelCollaborated with heads of finance operations to manage best practises for D365 forecasting, accounts payable, accounts receivable, cash.
• Implemented TOM's components, including D365, data migration, process automation, and performance analytics.

New York, NY, US

• Conducted weekly meetings with manager to discuss project details in relation to four main categories of process standardisation, automation, centralisation, and core technology. Verified realistic plans with necessary.
• Established standardised working setups and structures for the Fiduciary and Claims workstreams.
• Monitored and resolved financial and resource issues in Fiduciary projects.
• Ensured integration of standardised communication and change activities into end-to-end project plans.
• Contributed 25% benefits across global operational excellence portfolio by managing two programme workstreams.

London, GB

• Projects: Centralisation of Operations to Centres of Excellence | Process Improvements/Automation | Implementation of Target Operating ModelLed worldwide delivery of Diageo's 24-month financial forecasting solution.
• Interacted with users to determine needs for costing model automation.
• Launched global programme for Diageo's budget planning in Anaplan by implementing S&OP process rollout.
• Initiated Anaplan's financial model for long-term forecasting at Diageo internationally, such as implementing processes and influencing behavioural shifts.

• Projects: SAP Integration | Total Acquisition Cost (TAC) | Transfer Pricing (TP) | Contract Management Systems, including BVT, UAT, and Regression Testing | Capitalisation of Inventory CostsCoordinated with departments.
• Offered users with thorough test scripts for UAT, tracked progress, and removed roadblocks.
• Provided operational businesses within Kingfisher Group with proper transfer pricing.
• Reduced costs by consolidating 200 positions from high-cost locations into regional COEs.
• Streamlined fiduciary systems from 64 to 18 platforms globally.

• Analysing large sets of data and suggest various cost saving options to management
• Influencing, shaping and driving cost transformation of operating cost lines across the organisation
• Capturing risks and issues, and putting in place comprehensive mitigation plans
• Leading financial analysis and planning of the total company costs
• Forecasting financial performance in UK market over 3 and 5-year periods.
• Build bottom up planning models to include cost drivers and trend analysis

Johannesburg, Gauteng, ZA

• In 2008, joined CNBC Africa as Head of their Digital Business tasked with developing a project plan for the introduction of a digital platform, including cost saving initiatives and business plan for execution. The.
• Plan and implement digital strategy for CNBC Africa, working closely with IT and business providing a link between the two parties to ensure systems meet business requirements
• Ensure digital platform is fit for purpose and followed stringent approval process for BVT and UAT testing
• Partnering with various business units to provide insightful analysis to understand the overall product base
• Performed business analysis on high volumes of product data
• Understood the various cost drivers of the products and the % of margin added to each

ZA

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