Bryan Walker Email & Phone Number

Uk Wide

Promoted by DS Smith – a global provider of sustainable packaging, paper products and integrated recycling services – to execute financial/commercial transformations, and provide analysis, controls, and governance frameworks to key customers. I lead an invaluable team of BAs; providing tailored development plans and introducing and training on robust analysis, reporting and data quality best practice. People skills are at the core of my role, both collaborating with sales specialists to deliver customer meetings and business partnering with multi-functional internal/external stakeholders to establish a unified delivery approach, maximise collaboration, gather requirements and drive efficient project deliveries. I also continuously improve business processes, facilitate budgeting/forecasting and monitor pricing and costing KPIs. ◼️Data Subject Matter Expert, introducing processes, modelling and visualisation for data-led decisions. ◼️Track record of analysing business/financial data, delivering models for indexed contractual customer agreements based on volatile materials prices and reports on performance, risk, and opportunities. ◼️Rollout, support user-centred configuration, and deliver training on latest tools and technologies. ◼️Received praise from leadership teams for establishing a performant, fully integrated central analysis, governance, and reporting team that transformed commercial decision making and accelerated growth. ◼️Re-tendered for Europe’s largest packaging contract (c. €1.2bn), creating an interactive profit and cost model across 15 plants/6 countries to retain 100% of the business with minimal impact to profitability. ◼️Recovered roll out of a web-based pricing tool for the business’s biggest client following the challenging 1st of 13 country deliveries, rapidly recovering the initiative and seamlessly deploying to 12 regions, whilst retaining profitable pricing and providing a stable platform that exceeded customer expectation.

Uk Wide

I was initially recruited to fill a key position in the Finance and Commercial Divisions, acting as a Data Subject Matter Expert with responsibility for data generation, maintenance, and analysis, as well as developing, re-engineering and implementing streamlined processes to drive business-centric IT development programmes. I served as key POC for all analytics requirements, including programme monitoring, management reporting to senior leadership teams and training staff on best practice. ◼️Appointed as UK Development Project Lead and Trainer to maximise adoption of new best practice. ◼️Introduced, secured buy-in for, and implemented a commercial and sales analysis/reporting tool that facilitated highly profitable, information-led business decisions and strategy definition. ◼️Transitioned Plant Commercial Manager to a Business & Commercial Analyst role to drive the rollout of centralised shared-services, including completing a 12-month pilot whilst reporting to the FD and GM. ◼️Collaborated with Senior Accountants and Finance stakeholders across the organisation to devise and deploy a leading-edge, standardised UK FP&A template that increased efficiency by 50%.

Hook, Hampshire

• Working with the global business streams to ensure fully reconciled and aligned financial reporting through the main finance IT systems (SAP ECC, SAP BPC & Hyperion Enterprise).• Working with stakeholders across the division to ensure congruity of aims/deliverables.• Initiating the corrections and changes to all aspects of the mapping/COA variances identified through use of a controlled, fully governed change process.• Designing, developing & generating system ‘tools’, and then presenting and informing all key stakeholders of progress towards a fully congruent systems alignment, with a full set of auditable accounts and reconciliations.• Full management responsibility for the aligned data flow through the systems globally, with a direct report to the Group FD and all regional FDs as major stakeholders.• Major use of extensive systems knowledge, and accounting knowledge of both Serco and IFRS accounting to ensure fully compliant and effective reporting & planning data.

Hook, And Various Uk

Working to consolidate and improve processes across 80% of the Civil Government non-transport business. As an expert in P2P process and empowering and enabling consistent and effective working across all contracts, whilst ensuring that SMT information remains focused and accurate. Working at a wider level to instill Best Practise in both finance and commercial mechanisms.

Hook

Working across various contracts to instill Best Practise and ensure consolidation reporting at all levels. Also working on business unit special projects and transformations.

Various Uk

Working as part of the Civil Governnment Divisional Finance Team within a large contract providing services for the Home Office.

Hook

Working firstly as part of the central Divisional Finance Team in both Planning and Reporting Teams. Providing analysis of the full Company Accounts for the Executive Team and for external publications. Moving on to the Science & Defence Technologies Divisional Commercial Team as a Financial Bid Analyst, modelling future contracts and contract extentions.

Working whilst at University as a Project worker in various Homeless Hostels across Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire. Empowering vulnerable young adults through constructive support to enable re-engagement with society norms.

Mathematics, Problem Solving

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