Senior Business Analyst - External Manufacturing July'08-Jan'10World Wide Customer Fulfilment (WCF) Senior Analyst Nov’06 – June’08Costing Analyst Mar’06 – Nov'06 Key Responsibilities:• Business support for a wide range of areas within supply chain, manufacturing and logistics business.• Support forecasting, budget planning and goal setting process.• Develop key management reporting packs on performance, KPI's, trending and strategic areas of potential opportunity or risk.• Provide analysis and support on vendor risk, supplier tendering, contracts, dynamic bidding events, and claim liabilities.• Develop cost planning process, reporting, measurement and focus areas.• Fiduciary responsibility for close within business unit, ensuring reconciliations, process and controls in line with SOX requirements.• Projects – involvement in various projects as either Project Manager or as Finance support in preparation of ROIs, finance and costing information, systems implementation, presentation of results, communication of updates and driving to agreed deadlines.Achievements:• Award for ACES project which involved learning and transitional acquired companies computer system to transition data and maintain records for stock into Sun Oracle system• Finance support for £125.8m budget for World Wide Customer Fulfilment team to success accept tender for 3PL provider ensuring cost savings of 10% with enhanced service levels controls

Responsibilities:• Production of weekly/monthly accounts and presentation to senior management and head office.• Reporting to group with evidence of key trends and variances• Liaising with production managers and provision of information in concise manner • Responsibility of weekly stock take and implementation of new control process.• Implementing new reporting model for site and group to provide more accurate and effective information for strategic decision making• Management of 4 personnel

Various positions held over 7 year periodFirst position after graduating with Honours from AberdeenGained CIMA qualification in addition to FT roleKey Responsibilities• Preparation of annual budgeting and interim review, including assisting the Corporate Officer with Group reporting. • Preparation and presenting reports for senior management on Model costing and profitability analysis.• Responsibility for various sections within Finance and Finance department as a whole during maternity cover.• Responsibility for the monthly management accounting pack for Management review ensuring all reconciled and tied to lead schedules.• Financial audit – liaising with auditors for pre and year end audit• Treasury – had responsibility for cashbook transactions and reconciliations including responsibility for payment runs to suppliers, inputting the payments onto the banking system, creating any templates; production of weekly cash flow forecasts; credit control; booking fx deals. • Fixed Assets & Capital – maintenance of capital projects budgets and actual costs; recording all fixed assets transactions and maintenance of register.• Various returns, Monthly VAT returns, deferment statement, national statistics.Achievements:President Awards from Mitsubishi for• Developing new standard costing system & its implementation – from getting management buy in, design, process, policy, implementation. Involved trips to Japan and Thailand plants, liaising with all areas of the business and reporting directing to Vice President on updates and adherence to timelines• Completion of Fixed Asset audit – NBV of £19.2m getting management buy in, developing win-win process and implementing new process to record all existing assets in the register and ensure maintenanceCost savings & tighter controls by changing deferment account management