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Dubai, Ae

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dubai

The group comprises of Emirates, the world’s fourth largest airline and dnata, one of the world’s largest combined air service businesses. Emirates Airline have an aggressive growth strategy with a fleet of over 220 and an additional 285 on order.Business Partner (Apr 14 – present) Working in Management Accounts and business partnering with Corporate Communications (CC), IT & MIS team focused mainly on Advertising and Digital Communications• Full consolidated & route P&L visibility of Emirates airline to deliver weekly, monthly & annual forecasting & budgeting.• Close working relationships with various teams in Operations & FinanceMain Achievements• Delivery of cost-of-sales analysis to Senior Management in Digital Comms for various digital channels• New reporting of CC & Commercial IT OPEX & Depreciation actual & forecasted costs at an application level by working with IT & Group Finance. • Reduced team month-end deadlines to enable increase non month-end workload• Scheduling and delivery of procurement system enhancements to assist in month-end reporting and easier to understand non Finance user workflows• Producing new forecast reports by working closely with various CC teams to highlight budget overspend

One Park Lane, Leeds

Managing 3 Commercial Analysts. Main responsibilities include:● Key player in 2 company sales to Venture Capitalists● Development of monthly board pack to help Senior Management understand sales planning gaps & pipeline opportunities to close gap;● Working closely with all Senior Management to produce yearly Sales Budget, Targets & Monthly Forecasts to be reported to all levels of organisation;● Key member of Sales Incentive Scheme working group. Responsible for costing & implementing all scheme plans, monthly payments, accruals & forecasts● Key role in deal closure of high value non-standard, highly structured and complicated deals to comply with IFRS, sales commission principles and long term growth goals of the business;● Key Sales contact in contract negotiations advising on revenue recognition, overhead and other miscellaneous issues such as debtor and unbilled calculations. Working closely with Legal & Sales.● Development & maintenance of Sales Price Book including implementation of automatic contract generator for Sales Team;● Key stakeholder in CRM, PriceBook & Customer Welcome projectsMain Achievements● Main forecasting contact for successful business revaluations & refinancing projects● Grow workload of team from one person to a team of 4● Proven delivery of rapidly increasing & complex workloads to a growing number of internal customers● Delivery of forecasts & budgets to Senior Management in a climate of high growth and change● Becoming a senior member of the Sales Incentive Scheme Working Group enabling the agreement of over 100 commission plans on an annual basis● Establish & maintain standard reporting delivered to Senior Management on a monthly basis● Delivery of most significant contract wins including the renewal of a major client Master Framework agreement● Establishing strong working relationships with all divisional Managing Directors, Sales Directors & Heads Of Sales

Leeds, United Kingdom

Working in a team of 3 the role’s main responsibilities included:• Production of over 110 P&L accounts to be presented to Senior Management as part of the monthly Board Pack involving calculation of over 20 separate costs;• Production of monthly accounting schedules for audit purposes;• Working with members of Commercial team to ensure reporting was accurate enough to aid decision making of routing decisions;• Production of weekly flash sales report;• Working with large amounts of data to solve complex data problems;• Performing key role in reporting ancillary revenue numbers to European base managers;• Product profitability reporting & analysis of Onboard Cabin Sales;• Significant amount of adhoc complex problem solving & reporting.Main Achievements• Reduce month-end reporting deadlines from 6 weeks to 2.5 weeks• Building a good relationship with the Commercial & Commercial Finance departments in order to deliver detailed cost & forecasting analysis• Developing ancillary revenue reporting with Spanish base managers to report to Senior Management

Leeds, United Kingdom

Working in Marketing in a team of 4 the role’s main responsibilities were:• Production of monthly sales reports for Monthly Board Pack;• Working with Marketing Director & Finance to produce Sales Budgets;• Maintenance & development of Sales Order Book;• Perform key role in Electricity Profitability Project;• Production of daily & weekly sales & market insight reports;• Significant amount of adhoc complex problem solving & reporting.Main Achievements• Delivery of robust forecasting models to deliver forecasts & budgets• Automation of weekly sales reports generating time savings• Building relationships with Senior Management