Billy Nicholson Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Interim Finance Manager partnering multiple projects and their budget holders across the West Coast Partnership Development Franchise.WCPD is the 'Shadow Operator' for HS2: designing, developing and mobilising high speed service operations and associated conventional services.

London, United Kingdom

Working within the EMEA Regional Media Networks (Channels) team to support the Finance Director in preparation and production of the 5 year plan. Further extended to assist with FY21 Budget including impact and mitigation analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic.

London, United Kingdom

• Interim Finance Business Partner supporting the business teams and subject matter experts responsible for individual areas of two recent rail franchise bids. Duties and achievements include:
• Building strong relationships with the business teams, contributing to the robustness of the bid plans by providing timely and accurate financial analysis and management information including scenario costing and.
• Providing insight and challenge in the development of winning initiatives and business cases and supporting their articulation within the bid delivery plans.
• Working proactively to identify financial risks and opportunities for the target franchise, presenting back to the FD and Bid Director for their consideration against the overall investment.
• Working with business teams to develop inputs for the individual models that form part of the overall modelling suite. Assuming responsibility for the operation and outputs of those models and ensuring accuracy and.
• Analysing large data sets from the incumbent operator to prepare the ‘Business as Usual’ case or ‘Baseline’ for the target rail franchise. Developed a model to standardise this process, cutting preparation time for all.

• Initially a six month contract, an experienced analyst was required to cover the vacancy as well as grow and expand the role before training and handing over to a graduate in September. The contract was then extended.
• Quarterly Warehouse Capacity Plan: Using the 5-year strategic plan I modelled maximum warehousestockholding and throughput to highlight when they would breach capacity. I presented the findingsback to the Supply Chain.
• Customer Care Weekly Reporting: I enhanced the existing reports adding new metrics as well ascorrecting and streamlining erroneous formulas and adding automation to reduce the time taken toproduce the reports each week.
• Monthly CAPEX Tracker: Redesigned and streamlined a very large tracker model which was runningextremely slowly due to an unnecessary amount of repeating formulae. Restored usability of the trackerto ‘normal’ without.
• Designed, built and implemented a Monthly Financial Review deck for Customer Care to be used in thecost and quality review meeting with the Exec.
• Business partnering the Customer Care Director and his SLT as well as the Supply Chain Director andmultiple project managers.

London, United Kingdom

• Segment FP&A Analyst supporting the Compass Lexecon EMEA business reporting to the COO and Econ Finance Director. Compass Lexecon is a globally recognised market leader for expert economic consultancy services. $62m.
• Devised and implemented a standard cost card by billable resource, enabling margin by projectcalculations which were previously not visible.· Formalised and streamlined the quarterly commissions review process. Reduced.

London, United Kingdom

• As senior member of a team of 4 I provide FP&A support and finance business partnering to the largest of 4 UK Business Units (£50m turnover) working closely with the BU head and 10 client account managers. Reporting.
• Awarded recognition for playing a pivotal role in the SAP system implementation, which followed the integration of 7 legacy companies. I designed new models & forms, standardised and implemented business processes all.
• Lead and overhauled the fortnightly business unit forecast process. Re-engaged the client partners by simplifying their submission templates, which resulted in improved accuracy of the forecast.
• Built and implemented the business wide gross margin report, used for month end variance analysis and reporting to business unit leads & CFO (previously not visible following the SAP implementation).
• Supporting BU head with annual budget, making recommendations and influencing decisions.
• Supporting the business unit with commercial pricing and RFP’s including cost modelling, profitability analysis, rate cards, renewals, rebate modelling.

London, United Kingdom

• Production of Monthly Management Accounts, revenue accruals/deferrals and allocation of expenses below project margin.
• Variance analysis to forecast and budget including commentary for FP&A Manager.
• Client Management Packs
• Inherited a historic WIP balance sheet. Cleared down a large amount of reconciling items and then implemented a regular review process with the offshore revenue team.
• Supporting FP&A Manager with adhoc reporting and analysis required by the business and CFO.
• Acting as onshore escalation point for offshore finance teams (AP, AR, Billing, Contracts etc).

London, United Kingdom

• Monthly Management Accounts for 6 publications (10 P&Ls) within a 5-day deadline.
• Presentation and review of the Management Accounts with Business Managers (BM’s) and FD.
• Commentary of monthly accounts with quarterly outlook to be distributed to the BM’s, FD and CEO.
• Update, maintain and distribute the weekly sales forecast with commentary to BM’s, FD and CEO.
• Financial analysis and production of adhoc reporting required by the BM’s often at short notice.
• Monthly commissions calculations for sales staff.

London, United Kingdom

• Reporting to the Finance Manager within the Modis Business Unit (2009 Revenue £75m)
• Post month end journals, review and correct system journals where necessary(Accrue/Defer Revenue; Cost Accruals; Depreciation; Prepayments; Office Cost Allocations; Payroll; Intercompany; Cash Book; AP)
• Review month on month GM and GM% per contractor, client and department. Investigate variances, query with front office and journal corrections where necessary
• Full review of all below gross margin expenses accrue/defer variances where necessary
• Preparation of Monthly Management Packs to a strict deadline for delivery to the business by the FM.
• Weekly and monthly reconciliation of Sales and COS import into the company accounting & reporting tool (Peoplesoft 7.5)

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Certificate Of Business Accounting

10 A-C Grade Gcse'S (A In Maths & It)