Gary Cheung Email & Phone Number

Crawley Down, GB

Leatherhead, England, United Kingdom

· Targeted to save €470m net Opex savings across the Group· Working closely with senior leaders across the Group to understand the status of savings and initiatives and risks to delivery, liaising with OpCo finance teams to reconcile P&L impact of initiatives, align supplier cost reporting to IAG MC and understand/analyse future risks to the cost base

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

· Lead the Company three year budgeting and forecasting process, providing structure, governance and strong communications to key stakeholders· Owning and developing the central three P&L, capital and cash flow models and associated sensitivity models. Managing all input models and stakeholders that feed in to this process· Worked closely with the.

Crawley, England, United Kingdom

· Managing £800m Budget (£400m Opex, £400m Capex)· Seen as the 2nd in command under Senior Manager, ensuring BAU process is upheld, standing in and being a point of contact for leadership teams· Full delivery of building, challenging and presenting budget directly to the CEO, providing never before seen insight· Liaised with budget holders to evaluate.

Horley

• Direct Reports - 3 Staff Members.
• Directly supporting both Directors of Corporate Services and Stakeholder Relations, managing an OPEX budget of ~£28m and CAPEX budget of ~£30m.
• Full responsibility in creating monthly budget review packs and presenting to the CEO and CFO on a monthly basis, acting on any board actions and giving analysis of the areas performance.
• First month I took on the role showed a Full Year overspend of £700k. By communicating with all departments on all levels, this was recovered in the following month through setting up many cost saving initiatives such.
• Investigated various processes and policies, providing data and analysis to see if savings can be made by implementing controls and streamlining/creating new processes.
• Managed all issues relating to SGN Fleet, including building a Vehicle Replacement Model, utilising TomTom Reports to drive savings and cultural changes across the business, implementing new processes giving.

Horley

• Southern Operations
• As a Finance Business Partner, I supported various Depot Managers providing strong account analysis and relevant MI in order to drive behaviour changes to improve efficiency.
• Being proactive, I saw a lack of MI for Senior Management. Therefore, I created a Monthly Southern Operations Pack for the Head of Southern Operations to use during their direct report meetings, focusing on KPI’s.
• Took an active part in a Project to update and implement TomTom’s Webfleet Tool across SGN, to manage ~2,100 Fleet.
• Utilising my strong excel and technical skills, I was specifically requested to create a complex Unit Pricing Model, which was used to determine whether the current Pricing Strategy was accurate.
• Being a Team Player, I took it on myself to provide system and excel training to junior staff members as well as supporting them in their Accounting Studies.Business Development & Commercial Services

• Responsible for the preparation and process of budgets and forecasting throughout the year across the International Divison, Sales & Central Finance and also Groupwide Finance Services. (~30 Cost Centre)
• Attend meetings, collecting and inputting data, creating MI to show the audit trail of the budgets and forecast, answering queries from cost centre managers and responding to any challenges from Directors
• Assist in the preparation of Group reports which feed directly to the Financial Directors
• Look after L&G’s UK Facilities and responsible for allocating all the building charges per head dependant on where that employee sits in the organisational structure of L&G as a whole
• Prepare monthly postings such as accruals in order to ensure the MI are as accurate as possible
• Established and embedded a brand new recharging process under my ownership and continue to refine the process monthly while also creating up to date useful MI which have had positive feedback from managers and Directors

• Accurate and timely preparation of detailed financial commentary for management on all balance sheet and revenue account movements
• Prepare and process journals into the general ledger to ensure completeness of financial information used for Companies Act and Regulatory reporting
• Complete quarterly Regulatory returns (including VAT and ONS) for submission to Group Tax
• Maintain and reconcile various balance sheet and revenue accounts (including reinsurance accounts) and bank account reconciliations
• Involved in project works to speed up current processes from start to finish
• Dealing with internal and external auditors providing back-up or explanations when needed

• Customers focused, promoting sales and building relationships with regular customers
• Achieved high sales associated with Insurance and commended by the District Manager

• Focused on reviewing cost centres and apportionment of expenses
• Posting high volumes of journals to transfer cost between departments on a daily basis
• Reconciliation of balance sheets
• First point of contact, dealing with client queries on any expenses related issues
• Creating monthly management reports for senior managers and other departments to carry out their forecasting and budgeting for the coming months
• Systems: SAGE LINE 50, MS Excel, Access and Word

Ba Hons, Accounting And Finance

2:2 pass. With a B+ in Cost Accounting and Management Accounting

Education record

Attained 260 UCAS points in total with a grade A in Business Studies

Education record

Attained 10 pass grades with 7 being A's including subject such as Mathematics, English and Science.