Gavin Smith Email & Phone Number

Hatfield, England, United Kingdom

Welwyn Garden City, England, United Kingdom

• ERP Implementation lead – documentation, testing, implementation, continual improvement of Microsoft Dynamics Business Central across 3 companies
• Management Reporting – Sales, Profitability & Stock analysis for B2B & B2C companies. Developed suite of Excel & Power BI reports to identify trends.
• Royalty reporting – analysis of sales information to allow accurate, timely reporting to license holders.

Welwyn Garden City

• Finance Manager for 12 Head Office Functions (£700m + budget)
• Production of periodic Board reporting
• Analysis of spend trends across support functions to identify risks & opportunities
• Manage and consolidate Head Office budgets centrally
• Development of reporting methodologies in new Finance System
• Business case analysis for cost saving initiatives

• Supplier of high-tech systems & equipment in the Aerospace & Defense markets.Business Partner to engineering division, interface between Finance & Project teams
• Management accounting and reporting of all Research, Technology, Development and Industry income & expenditure
• Provision of project financial reporting and forecasting
• Consolidation, review and presentation of budget & 5 year plan information for RTDI across multi-national, multi-location project teams
• Subsidy reporting – analysis of Research & Technology spend to allow effective utilization of available subsidy resources from national government organisations

Luton, United Kingdom

Defence & Space consulting business. Business Partner role across multi-project business operating in the UK & Europe.Project accounting - analysis of revenue & spend against budget / forecastMonthly management accounts - reporting of KPI's to parent companyBudget & reforecast - detailed analysis & commentary of rolling reforecastFinancial controls.

Welwyn Garden City

Process improvements to ensure bills/payments made to agents/clients to tight time-scales.Major achievements: Introduction of on-line billing – reduction of 4 hours per week in manual processing; on-line workflow approval ensuring correct bills sent on-time Reconciliation improvements – removal of manual entry into client billing process to significantly.

Harlow

Defense & National Security business. Business Partner on £100m+ contract for radar replacement contract. Support to Project manager / team incl. analysis of sub-contract spend & production of significant customer bills following milestone achievement.Major achievements: Scenario planning analysis of inputs (manufacturing, sub-contract and billing) to.

Harlow

Provider of global e-Commerce solutions; Business Partnering across key Sales areas.Major achievements: Monthly Actual & Forecast reporting on key business drivers Booked to Billed Sales Reconciliation – ensure bills raised & tracked effectively Trend analysis – including Revenue per meter to aid decision making.

Watford, United Kingdom

Aug 2005 – Sep 2010 KPMG LLPMulti-national Professional Services company. Business partnering role across UK business and the newly formed European practice.Oct 2009 – Sep 2010 Senior Finance Analyst, European Corporate Controlling Development of aligned SAP reporting – as a result of the merger of practices in the UK, Germany & Holland – formalized.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Oct 2001 - Aug 2005 Abbey National PLCBusiness Partnering of Central Support areas.Jun 2003 - Aug 2005 Finance Professional, Account Level Profitability Commercial analysis, using large volume transaction data, of new product offerings and joint ventures to understand the profitability impact at customer, product and branch level. Analysis of customer.

Bachelor’S Degree, Accounting And Finance, 2:2

High School, A & As Levels; Gcses, A-Level Business (C); A-Level Media (C); As-Level Statistics (D); 11 Gcses