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Nottingham, Gb

London, England, Gb

Senior Finance Manager for Supply Chain & Inventory, responsible for all financial matters regarding stock position/purchasing across multiple brands and end to end supply chain finance.Working alongside supply chain and commercial colleagues to ensure we have the right level of stock to fulfill our sales, whilst ensuring we are cash/working capital conscious. Ownership of all EMEA inventory reporting to Exec level.Finance lead for the Excess Inventory sales channel. Covering sales reporting, Budgeting, forecasting, stock provisions, margin outlooks, risks & opportunities, and rolling forecasts.Business case lead & ownerships of actuals reporting, forecasting / Budget for Supply Chain Finance.Covered demand planning manager role for one year, alongside existing responsibilities. Line management of a team of 4.

London, England, Gb

Business partnering the Global Supply Chain function, providing financial management on a variety of areas including budgeting, forecasting, cost control and stock.Working cross functionally in a matrix organisation and internationally, across a variety of sport, lifestyle and footwear brands.

Nottingham, Gb

Working within Supply Chain Finance for Boots UK as the Finance Manager - Distribution. Responsible for an annual cost base of over £100m. Supporting the delivery of products to over 2,500 Boots stores across the UK. Line management of 2 finance analysts.

Nottingham, Gb

Alliance Healthcare Netherlands-Financial Planning & Analysis, based in The Netherlands -Cash reporting and forecasting -Pharmaceutical Wholesale and Retail experience, within a Group structure-Month end KPI reporting-Long Range Plan (3 year forecasting)-Budgeting (one year planning)-Weekly forecasting and variance analysis-Market analysis and forecasting-Cognos and TM1 experience

Nottingham, Gb

Alliance Healthcare UK-SOX (Sarbanes-Oxley) experience, testing of financial and non financial controls-Pharmaceutical wholesale knowledge-Updating of a Risk and Controls Matrix-Helping to improve the control environment and culture-Interaction with a variety of stakeholders including senior finance -Risk register knowledge-Supporting internal and external audit teams

Nottingham, Gb

Walgreens Boots Alliance- Daily cash reporting to the Global Finance Director. - Significant experience of variance analysis for both budgets and rolling forecasts.- Involvement in forecasting and budgeting for a wide range of companies worldwide.- Exposure to FX transactions, funding, hedging, debt management, factoring and day to day management of Alliance Boots cash positions.- Management of a central register of the companies financial facilities worldwide.The placement coincided with the merger of Walgreens & Alliance Boots to create Walgreens Boots Alliance & the Treasury department were highly influential in this transaction. This has led to me gaining experience of a large global merging of companies.Program experience:-SAP-Cognos Planning-Excel

Nottingham, Gb

- Investment appraisal of acquisitions- Cost monitoring (SAP) - Working under confidential and challenging time constraints. - Business partnering the Estates department- Adding value pre and post acquisition- Involved in two significant acquisitions (multi million £ deals) of pharmacy chains for Boots UK (19 pharmacies in total)

Qualified

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics