Dipesh S. Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Maidenhead, England, United Kingdom

As Senior Rebates Accountant/Finance Manager:• Owner of UK&I Rebate and Savings ‘BAU’ & ‘Transformation’ Programme across three legal entities, driving c.£40m of annual P&L benefit. • Responsible and accountable owner for process design through building Target Operating Model, supported by standard operating procedures, centralisation of activities from client facing Business Units into a UK Central Team.• Direct leadership of a team of 4, focusing on delivering transformation, BAU management, delivery of benefits, commercial and financial support for the UK&I Business.• Providing proactive leadership to design and implement change aligning functions directly related to rebate recovery in OtC, RtR and PtP.• Developing and executing change initiatives with a continuous improvement strategy• Providing leadership and effective business partnering to stakeholders; challenging savings presented to Group, ensuring financial governance, transparency/adherence whilst driving the need for change.• Providing partnering on commercial management adopting best practice to drive procurement activity agreeing operationally, and financially beneficial contracts and supplier terms.• Support on Central Risk and Controls matrix design and implementation, significantly reducing balance sheet exposure and risk of non-recovery.• Delivery of monthly savings results and key performance metrics along with risks and opportunity reviews against rolling forecasts to UK&I Business. Providing accurate and de risked cash flow forecasts, respective monthly balance sheet & P&L reconciliations, and completing restatements in line with IFRS.• Lead on Annual External Group and Statutory Audits (Covering 2018-2020 in year of joining), removing ‘high risk’ fraud risk & external audit status.• Visualising the development and creation of new and existing insights through E2E reviews, rigorous analysis by converging data sets and cubes

London, United Kingdom

As Senior Project Finance Analyst :Financial and commercial management of Back Office IT and Finance and Operations investment portfolio consisting of various projects totalling a value of £50m Cost, achieving process, people, service and ‘hard’ cash transformation benefits & Finance systems SME Key responsibilities and achievements:• Effective business partnering within Senior project delivery team, and to senior leaders, providing technical and commercial oversight with financial transparency. • Investment portfolio management, requiring business cases creation, modelling, cost tracking and investment appraisal.• Lead for benefits definitions through measurable KPIs, and benefit monitoring/tracking within Portfolios. • Implementation and adoption of financial, and change management controls across portfolio ensuring transparency at all levels and adherence to procedures. • Providing strategic vision to aid Portfolio Leads in existing and forthcoming business cases.• Introduction of portfolio financial management tools to assist Investments Team for waterfall and agile delivery• Effective contractual, financial, commercial challenge and management of current suppliers & partners, resulting in decisions that deliver monetary benefit and drive successful working relationships while optimising Opex and Capex cost bases. • Development of risks and opportunities realisation to define implications to investment funding and operational expenditure.• Finance technical lead on systems transformation• Finance lead on a number of procurement tenders from invitation to tender, negotiation, to contract signing and delivery.• Finance lead in Digital Workplace aiding re design in working practices, creating operational efficiency through use of introduction of digital tools.

London, United Kingdom

Senior Financial Analyst for CGI Major Programmes (Contracts/ areas below)Business partner on major contract wins, providing financial and commercial support including build and implementation of flexible modelling tools, developing and executing pricing solutions through deal lifecycle with other areas of business, senior leaders and clients enabling parties to achieve both business critical and strategic goalsOwnership of programme P&Ls and balance sheet for programmes; both internal and external inclusive of business unit transfer pricing, application of accounting treatment, aiding the mitigation of future risks and drive opportunities Feb17 - Aug 17 - Justice Sector - CPS & MoJOct15 - Feb 17- Public Sector Scotland - City of Edinburgh Council and Scottish Borders CouncilNov14 - Oct15 - Shell H3Jan14 - Nov14 - Smart DCCOct13 - Jan14 - Energy and Utilities Sector

London, United Kingdom

May 2012 - November 2012 - Financial Services SectorNovember 2012 - October 2013 - Telco, Media and Retail Sector & Utilities Sectors

Slough, United Kingdom

Slough, United Kingdom

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Accounting And Finance

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