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Auckland, New Zealand

The Pride

Commercial partner to the Beverage Operations Leadership Team as a trusted advisor, sought out for advice and support. Provide sound, relevant advice and direction to increase quality and robustness of BPs decision making and improve business performance.Business PartneringBuild and maintain strong relationships with Commercial Manager, business partners and their teamsDevelop an understanding of business partner’s goals, processes and people.Ensure Commercial Manager and BPs are provided with relevant, timely and insightful information to facilitate quality decisionsSeek out opportunities to link commercial objectives to business partner’s strategic and operational plansAccelerate capability build and grow business acumen within business partner’s team through sharing knowledgeProvide analytical insight to BPs that anticipates their needs and demonstrates in-depth understanding of those needsPartner capital project managers to provide robust cash flow forecasts and ensure reporting requirements and deadlines are met.Planning and ForecastingDevelop Annual Budget for Beverage Operations (Capital, Production volume and overheads)Complete monthly forecasting process integrating insights and trends identified through performance management processIntegrate feedback from BPs into relevant planning and forecasting outputsPerformance Management (& Governance)Complete monthly business unit performance reporting and analysis process to agreed timeframesIdentify and communicate insights, risks and opportunitiesContribute to formulation of risk mitigation strategiesAdvocate compliance of LN defined governance practices for internal processesCONTEXT / SCOPE:Partner Beverage Operations Leadership team at The Pride (x4) & Speight’s (x1) As well as provide ad hoc support to dept. Team Leaders and members (45-50 people)

The objective of the role is to support the Head of Financial Planning and provide on-going consultation to the executive leadership team on various projectsMy key accountabilities as a financial analystProvide comprehensive financial reportingModelling and data analysis for all business units within the companySupport by providing guidance and advice for product development through price propositions, business casing and product life cycle forecastingSupport the Financial Planning Analysts in providing in-depth analysis on monthly revenue results and contribute to the compilation and presentation of the monthly Board Report, annual budgets and regular re-forecastingProvide effective, accurate and transparent reporting to Finance and other business units that identifies key trends and allows early intervention and ensures full business benefits are realisedSupport the provision of insightful business analysis at various levels including, Product analysis, Channel analysis, Profitability analysis and Pricing analysisContribute to Business Cases and provide in-depth financial advice and support to help the business achieve its strategic and growth objectives where necessarySupport the provision of analysis and insight to Senior Management to assist in strategic decision makingOverseeing pricing governance across the entire suite of products, coordination of pricing process and tools for the pricing committeeSuccessesChosen as the financial project lead on the PPCR (Pricing, Package, and Customer Rationalisation) project, with the implementation of the key finds from the analysis which uncovered less than financially desirable products and processesI am coordinating my findings from the PPCR the highlighted business opportunities within the pricing structure across the product suite resulting in the initiation and delivery of the pricing framework currently being implemented

My main purpose was to facilitate the provisioning of business intelligence for GeoOp. This included providing on-going reports to support the business and its decisions, measuring initiative effectiveness, and providing indicators of territorial and product performance.My key responsibilities whilst at GeoOp wereProvide analysis and insight across the business to assist in strategic decision makingDetailed monthly management reporting for provision to the senior management team and the boardDesign and develop reporting tools to further enhance the value of existing datasetsProducing monthly analysis and commentaries on sales activity for both New Zealand and Overseas OfficesLiaise with management to design and model new commission schemes to help motivate and drive salesProducing industry based sales analysis and commentary as requiredAnalysing and commenting on monthly and developing trends in the market place based on findingsProvide transparent reporting to management that identifies key trends and allows early intervention and ensures full business benefitsCalculate commission on a monthly basis across GeoOp and ensure all documentation is accurate and timelyDevelopment Team’s timing and cost analysis for Management and Financial reporting purposesCollaboration for the implementation of data heavy systemsSuccessesDeveloped, designed, and implemented a new commission structure which saw an increase in direct increase in sales and engagementA reporting structure was put in place to complement the new commission structure allowing visibility from the reps through to the executive teamRedesigned the pricing structure allowing the company to gain exposure to larger entities looking to implement job management solutions whilst retaining attractiveness to SMEs

Developing sales reports, forecasting models, financial models, sales dashboards, sales tracking reports and commission calculators for various business units within the company with reporting ranging from board level to individual sales rep, adhoc to daily reporting, and revenue to seemingly simple customer counts. During my time at Yellow® I have worked with all business units within the company forging strong relationships with a wide range of people to develop my knowledge of internal processes and products to ensure the accuracy of my reporting and to help streamline current and new processes where possible.Successes include data mining of Christchurch customers to help settle Yellow's Christchurch earth quake claim, successful implementation of a new commission scheme and sales reporting, Worked with IT to capture and implement requirements for new CRM, BI, OMS and systems upgrades not only for my team but all business units with the end to end process knowledge I have acquired during my time at Yellow®.

Placement for my bachelors degree,As I had no daily responsibilities my role varied from photocopy, data entry, and filing, to eventually developing reports, improving reporting processes for departments and helping others with daily reporting responsibilities. Had an awesome opportunity to optimise the ATB reporting for the business so I taught myself Microsoft Access and went about reducing the report processing time from 1 day down to a couple hours whilst adding additional data points and removing redundant processing steps.I was then offered a full time role within Yellow's Financial Planning team as a Commissions Reporting Analyst

Bachelor’S Degree, Accounting, Finance

Full time study at AUT specialising in accounting and finance. Under my accounting major I specifically excelled in management accounting.

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