Daniel Collison Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

● Responsible for business partnering the customer, marketing & digital functions, delivering financial support including budget setting, cost forecasting, tracking of deliverables, and long-term planning.● Produced and presented monthly reporting packs to senior management on the financial position and outlook of the business area, and performance of core marketing activities.● Drove understanding of the effectiveness of spend to ensure an optimal mix of ATL & digital marketing spend.● Established efficiencies in payment and tax processes including alignment with partner media agencies.● Provided monthly detailed analysis and insight into marketing costs to drive business performance and improve the cost base, including challenging cost with business partners.

● Business partnered the ancillary teams and provided core finance support to multiple ongoing projects.● Led weekly ancillary trading forecast discussions with senior business partners, producing subsequent forecasts and supporting commentary for central consolidation.● Conducted project appraisal, modelling potential and actual benefits of project deliverables, and managed project financials throughout, providing business challenge on spend and resources.● Modelled impact analysis on business initiatives and provided support to strategic decision making.● Supported RFP process across majority of partner products, producing financial analysis on competing vendors to identify the best commercial solution.

● Assisted in production of results presentations, regulatory news services, and supporting documents.● Presented initial drafts of the CEO and CFO presentation materials.● Managed analyst consensus model, identifying areas of focus for IR team to discuss with analysts.● Developed competitor results reporting to analyse competitor performance (distributed up to PLC board).● Managed production of a cross-functional proposal to win highly contested slots at Lisbon airport.● Attended investor conferences and meetings with senior management (up to CEO & CFO).

● Completed full month-end reporting, including the preparation and posting of journals, managing monthly accrual and forecast figures, and liaising with various stakeholders to ensure accuracy.● Conducted variance analysis and wrote commentary for month-end reporting vs budget and prior year.● Completion of balance sheet reconciliations whilst understanding the balance sheet position and supporting with identifying risks and opportunities with the business.● Identified areas of improvement and implemented automation to improve efficiency of processes.

Zhuhai, Guangdong, China

● Conducted research and analysis on the ongoing Sino-US trade war, with an emphasis on currency trends.● Researched the growing electric vehicle market in China for opportunities to invest in a car-sharing scheme.

Leicester, United Kingdom

● Business partnered the franchise area, creating all financial statements and forecasts for the area, which had a £50 million annual turnover.● Built a reporting dashboard for all international branded orders.● Managed the production of a weekly trade reporting pack, informing management upto C-Suite.● Performed analysis into product trading trends, identifying and explaining weak performers.● Conducted and presented the appraisal of PR and marketing campaigns.● Produced timely KPI reports and daily trading analysis for senior management.

Ashford, Kent

Ashford, Kent