Gary King Email & Phone Number

London, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• Business partner to the Hardlines licensing sales team, I conduct financial analyses to support and influence strategic and commercial decision-making. I have developed an exceptional awareness of the fast-paced global.
• Significantly advanced my commercial acumen through my client-facing responsibilities including attending client pitches, business reviews, and forecast and business plan discussions.
• Analyse client business plans and make commercial recommendations to the sales teams which have resulted in increased contractually guaranteed revenue for Disney.
• Played a key role in supporting the decision to change licensee for a crucial part of the business, and successfully increased the new licensee's business plan by presenting an analysis of the current business and.
• Raised awareness of the foreign exchange rate risk following the recent devaluation of the euro. Presented my findings to senior finance stakeholders and my analysis was included in the EMEA forecast presentation to.
• Contributed to the post-acquisition integration of LucasFilm; conducted a post-investment review of the European licensing rights purchase, worked with the largest licensee’s accounting team to align its royalty.

London, United Kingdom

- I worked in the Emerging Markets (EM) Financial Planning and Analysis team of the Consumer Products division. - Provided financial information to various stakeholders in the EM region (Middle East, Turkey, South Africa, Israel and Greece), and prepared financial budget and forecast presentations for the EMEA leadership team. - P&L management: forecasted.

London, United Kingdom

- Developed my project management skills to coordinate a key Board submission, the ‘Final Application Pack’, to Lloyd’s of London regarding the company’s compliance with the incoming Solvency II directive. - Demonstrated time-management skills by planning and communicating internal deadlines to various business owners, ensuring sufficient time for internal.

London, United Kingdom

- Liaised with senior management to build the annual budget and quarterly forecast presentations. - Updated, maintained and improved revenue reports held on the SharePoint, for use by employees across EMEA. - Became the main finance contact for the franchise team, something unprecedented at my level. - Following the acquisition of Marvel, I worked with the.

1St Class Ba (Hons), Accounting And Finance, 1St

IBM Universities Business Challenge 2010/11 - 1st place Institute for Securities and Investment prize 2010/11 - awarded for highest mark.

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