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Bristol, Gb

London, Gb

Providing financial direction, control and support to the FinOps, Data & AI and Architecture teams to ensure delivery of robust financial plans and benefits whilst maintianing governance and reporting. Specifically,supporting the FinOps team to produce an accurate annual plan which will underpin the critical Digital and pan-BT objectives. Throughout the year responsible for working with the Digital teams and CFU FinOps champions to ensure relevant stakeholders understand and are held accountable to this plan and the benefits in the business case are met or exceeded.

Perth, Perthshire, Gb

Manager of three teams: the IT Cost Reporting, FinOps and Apptio System team. Delivering spend insights for cost centre managers and Delivery Leads. Identifying and acting on cost-saving opportunities as well as influencing best practice cost management across the IT Group. Managing strategic direction for the Apptio systems team to enable reporting in-line with customer requirements for both Opex and Projects. Managing the Central Forecast and Budget cycles through Apptio including implementing best practice and improvements based on “lesson learned” feedback. Accountable for driving FinOps within SSE by identifying, implementing and influencing best practice across the IT Group. Ensuring Reporting team deliver monthly reporting for Projects including transaction reports, commitment reports and general queries. Supporting Delivery leads in best practices around reporting and finances.

London, England, Gb

Working in the IT Business Management and Governance Team and accountable for performance dashboards and global IT insights, including owning the cost transparency agenda and leading a small reporting team that drives continuous improvements in performance and transparency utilising Apptio.Key Responsibilities● Leading a small team focused on providing IT Performance transparency and insights● Driving the Total Cost of Ownership agenda for IT, providing insights on cost verses performance to the global IT teams to take action on.● Be the Apptio system owner and Technology Business Management lead for Rolls-Royce● Lead the execution of Technology Business Management (TBM) efforts, including identifying key use cases, establishing data acquisition processes. Supporting Apptio configuration and continuous improvement of TBM office processes● Leveraging Apptio to evolve overall technology and lead the global implementation programme● Collaborating across IT to establish data supply chains, build processes, and develop models to implement TBM and consumption-based allocations to drive transparency and decision making● Defining, developing and maintaining a global IT balanced scorecard, including performance measures, reports and business insights for the IT leadership team to take action from● Conducting ongoing data quality reviews and work closely with source data owners ensuring that data quality processes are in place to provide on-time delivery of the global reporting across the IT teamsDeveloping and communicate cost models to key IT and business stakeholders● Cost Management & Reporting● Forecasting & Budgeting, managing and communicating variances● Business Consumption based costing and chargeback● Management and reporting of ‘Total Cost Of Ownership’ across products and services

London, Gb

• Business Partnering and Cost Control of investment projects and BAU transaction cycles.• Working with the lead Finance Business Partners to provide support and information.• Servicing inward facing Finance requests, and Outward facing support for functions partnered.• Partnering with sub functions supported in all aspects of Finance Management, being their partner and controller.• Month end reviews – inward facing for Finance, and outward facing with Clients.• Planning – Budget / Forecast / Outlook of sub functions partnered.• Monitoring flow of actuals, and actively managing month end landing position and flash.

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

• Finance consultancy support to the Executive team, on strategic cost management and provision of insight into BAU and investment costs, reporting to the Head of Finance Germany• Worked with the Executive team to identify strategic opportunities for cost reduction/efficiency and supports the launch of the corresponding initiatives• Held monthly reviews on cost performance with each member of the Executive team, providing insight and challenge into performance via cost driver analysis and agreeing follow-up actions• Supported month-end process by preparing monthly estimate figures and appropriate commentary for management reporting to the UK• Responsible for the preparation of all cost information feeding into the financial planning (Q1F, Q2F, Q3F) processes and stress testing including the development / improvements of the existing planning models• Monthly review of project costs with Head of Change and Project leads via tracking costs and benefits• Provided financial support/modelling for implementation of new projects (developing/reviewing business cases, assessing scenarios)• Proactively identified and managed opportunities and risks to 5-year plan

London, Gb

Project Wolf was setup to manage the separation of AXA Wealth from AXA UK. AXA Wealth was sold to three separate acquirers (Standard Life, Phoenix Group and LCC Group) as well as having a retained element in Architas. Responsibilities:• Oversight and control of £16m project budget, including processing supplier payments, providing monthly management reports, payroll reconciliation and posting journals.• Reviewing and validating legacy costs before processing for payment.• Setting up governance and controls as well as implementing process for invoicing acquirers under the transfer service agreement for services provided by AXA.• Reviewing and validating any new contracts before being passed for payment to ensure service is required by acquirers and can be recharged or understanding stranded cost impact to AXA UK.• Supporting procurement team by setting up process for them to capture management information sent to acquirers. Including validation, reconciling and formatting before distributing to the acquirers.• Setting up process to provide AXA UK VAT team with input and output VAT data to enable VAT to be reclaimed for contracts renewed and recharged to acquirers.

Paris, Fr, Fr

Responsible for handling the Transversal IT function operations and finances, including cost centre management.Responsibilities:• Oversight and control of £20m BAU budget, including contract processing and payment of over 100 IT contracts.• Oversight and control of AXA Tech budget a third party AXA owned company. Managing staff BAU budget of £3m. • Responsible for managing the delivery of cost savings targets of at least £1m pa for the next 3 years. • MI and reporting associated with Transversal IT Governance in order to meet risk, security and compliance commitments to AXA Wealth, AXA UK and AXA Group. • Significant amount of data gathering, tracking and reporting of all IT activity across five business Units, support functions, three major IT suppliers and multiple minor IT suppliers.

London, Uk, Gb

Working as part of the Divisional cost team for Consumer Finance (Consumer Finance consists of the Group’s Asset Finance, Consumer & Commercial Cards, and European Retail businesses) and responsible for oversight of total cost base, including Direct (BAU and Investment) and Indirect costs. Responsibilities;• Responsible for reporting to senior management on significant risks or deviation from agreed business requirements plans or costs.• Work as a team to manage the Consumer Finance (CF) Cost Management Unit (CMU) planning, budgeting and forecasting and reporting processes, ensuring that all the Group requirements and timescales are met providing guidance and support to the business unit finance teams as appropriate. • Support agreed change projects to deliver continuous improvement.• Delivering accurate and timely financial cost control, insight and analysis suitable for direct use by senior management in supporting the business.• Responsibility for production of Monthly Divisional Cost pack which is sent to the Divisional Finance Director.• Working with business units on the quarterly forecast.

London, Uk, Gb

Working as part of a project team to transfer the planning & forecasting finance function for Consumer Finance (Consumer Finance consists of the Group’s Asset Finance, Consumer & Commercial Cards, and European Retail businesses) from Edinburgh to Cardiff. Role involved working from Edinburgh for the first two months of the contract and then transitioned to Cardiff Bay office.Responsibilities;• Running the forecasting and planning cycles and improving them where necessary.• Identifying process improvements in the forecasting and planning process.• Assisting in the production of packs for Finance Director of Consumer Finance and Group Planning.• Helping to bring the install the new Consumer Finance consolidation planning system.• Ad-hoc requests from Group Planning and business heads.• Understanding the key business drivers, through in depth analysis of key indicators.• Process improvement and identification of streamlining processes.

London, England, Gb

Reporting to the Financial Director of the Fire Service College and working closely alongside line managers, this role manages the evolution and development of management information and associated reporting to enable business decision making in a fast paced dynamic environment.Responsibilities, • Work closely with the Senior Management Team to interpret strategic objectives and define associated kpi's and kpi owners • With kpi owners develop and implement mechanisms for kpi reporting, review and management • Refresh the course costing book and support commercial negotiations as appropriate • Lead project to progress the definition and implementation of SAP project accounting • Support the finance team in ad-hoc activities to enhance the use of SAP reporting and forecasting • Support the sales team in the implementation and adoption of salesforce.com

Global, Oo

The role involved working within the Finance Transformation Project Team for a two-month period reporting to the project lead. I was responsible for developing the 2014 planning pack, which would be used for 46 countries under Action Aid International (AAI) federation. I was also responsible for documenting ways to simplify the planning process and eliminate duplicate income being recorded on consolidation.

London, Uk, Gb

May 2012 – June 2013 (temporary contract)The role reports into the Senior Finance Business Partner. The role involves providing financial support and explaining financial concepts to non-finance people as well as communicating with key decision-makers.Responsibilities:Business as usual:• Five year forecasting, working with embedded business support to agree forecast at sub business unit level. Working with cost management units (CMUs) to ensure forecasts are aligned to target. Loading forecast into budget and forecasting system (Essbase).• Headcount reporting including contractors and creating a five-year forecast trajectory. Working with embedded business support to agree full time equivalent (FTE) targets and align these to both financial and HR targets.• Month end cost centre control under a cost management framework, ensuring analysis and reporting of direct costs, cost base of £45m a year. Working with embedded business to agree monthly accruals and pre-payments and producing monthly flash reports. Creating monthly management information packs for use at Director level.• Monthly balance sheet substantiation for Group Finance, this goes up to executive level for sign off and has asset/liabilities of £bn’s.• Dealing with ad hoc general queries throughout the month.Project Work:• Working with various project teams to agree financial positions against projects and forecasts. Complete various monthly templates for the project teams.• Loading financial benefits and operating costs against various projects into Oracle Financial Analyser (OFA).• Providing audit information against the project to support the £13.5m of annual benefits claimed. • Supporting business on project centralising FTE into business. Involved co-ordinating with differing finance teams to agree budget transfers. Attending weekly calls to update the project team on progress. Creating a RAG tracker to highlight progress.

London, Uk, Gb

Responsibilities:• Headcount control for the Sourcing business unit with outputs reported at board level as part of the £2 billion Integration project.• Month end cost centre control under a cost management framework, analysis and reporting of the Sourcing Investment spend.• Month end cost centre control, analysis and reporting of BAU expenditure across some key cost centre areas including Group Sourcing Director.• Control and analysis of rebates associated with the £2 billion cost saving initiative implemented under the Integration project.• A high volume of ad hoc queries throughout the month.• Production of a salary cost model to support finance business case funding approval for investment project.• Simplification of headcount reporting, reducing the number of monthly reports produced.

The role provided support to the head of margin optimisation in developing a process to enable the firm to automate reports showing custmer project profitabilty through SAP.Responsibilities:Reporting/Documentation• Produced a process to create a report of the top 50 customers at CWW using current systems and documenting the process.• Delegrated the monthly production of the top 50 customer report to a member of staff in India using video conferencing, having fully documented the process, validated the data and provided procedure notes.• Promoted efficiency by identifying problem areas and developing process improvements.• Production of MI packs/key reports for senior management, showing top 50 customers revenue (circa £1bn) and profit to EBITDA level.Project Work• Supported the Business Project Manager leading the Project Profitability project, including contributing to stakeholder meetings in the implementation of SAP time recording.• Laise with various stakeholders to highlight high risk areas in relations to their areas i.e MI, data integrity, data migration and user output.• Provided finance expertise in relation to implementation of the SAP time recording project including performing user acceptance testing.

Gb

• The role of project accountant sits within the Infrastructure and Procurement (I & P) team and reports directly to the Deputy Head of I & P finance. I am responsible for reporting on the largest building works project in PwCs corporate history (circa £106million) as well as other smaller building works projects and business as usual works. • As project accountant I am responsible for the analysis and integrity of the fixed asset and project accounting across PwCs I & P function. • Ensuring compliance and controls, policies and procedures across fixed asset accounting, project accounting and other balance sheet areas are maintained.Responsibilities:Fixed Assets• To maintain and reconcile I & P fixed asset register.• To provide specialist help and guidance to I & P for the depreciation of assets and to promote consistent fixed asset accounting policies across PwC.• Responsible for ensuring that proper capitalisation and depreciation policies are adhered to for I & P projects.• Hard close reporting to management on fixed assets, commitments and work in progress.• Undertake quarterly impairment reviews of I & P assetsProject Accounting• Ensure capital and revenue distinction are maintained across project reporting.• Monthly management reporting for project expenditure including variance and decision analysis.• Provide support to the I & P project managers for forecasting and budget setting. Other Balance Sheet Areas• Prepare monthly cash movement on asset additions reports.• Provide information and support to Tax department on capital goods scheme and capital allowance.• Liaison with internal audit on best practice on systems and controls.• Quarterly I & P Balance sheet reporting.

London, England, Gb

• Responsible for BBC capital project accounting including; - Support for business case development.- Medium Term budgets and long and short term forecasting.- Monthly management account reporting.- Providing a project support function to the Project Management team embedded in the BBC divisions.• To prepare depreciation and balance sheet information and supporting commentary.• To provide ad hoc business financial analysis support for projects and fixed assets.

Professional Qualification, Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Management And History (Joint)