Gerald Mcgrath Email & Phone Number

Gran Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido

Responsible for a team of 9, providing the Executive Team with accurate and timely management accounts, forecasts and budgets as well as advising on business cases to ensure the best value for money for our members.

Londres Y Alrededores, Reino Unido

London, United Kingdom

Finance Business Partner to Marketing and Membership Executive Directors as well as 14 other budget holders. I provide technical support (e.g. FRS 102) to the budget holders as well as helping them understand their monthly results and preparing the monthly Board pack. I also provide support with budgeting/forecasting and ad-hoc business cases.I provide finance and VAT training for budget holders which helps them take ownership of their budgets.

London Heathrow

Business Partner to and member of the Group IT Portfolio Board responsible for providing financial support to the delivery of the €200m IT Portfolio.Provision of monthly Capex spend data and working with the airlines to improve the quality of forecasting.

London, United Kingdom

Business Partner to IT, ECOMM and IT Finance Senior Management in UK & Europe.Financial Controller of ECOMM with annual spend of £25m and 245 FTEs. Supporting non-finance Budget holders with the preparation of forecasts and Budgets as well as providing analysis to help them better understand their monthly variances from Budget/Forecast.Responsible for the consolidation of the monthly Group IT P&L pack and providing insightful commentary. Annual spend: Opex £155m, Capex £60m. Providing support with monthly horizontal reporting, forecasting and budgeting.Regular review of the capitalization of labour policy as well as ensuring Assets Under Construction are depreciated in a timely manner.Provision of ad-hoc finance support on various projects.

London, United Kingdom

Business Partnering senior management in HR (part of the Transformation Project) to save £4m over 3 years from a baseline annual spend of £38m.

Hayes

Provided insightful commentary and detailed analysis on the periodic results of 4 business units across UK & Europe;Consolidating the Short Term Forecast and providing the Exec with insightful commentary;Worked closely with the business units to ensure a smooth forecast and budget process is achieved;Managed two direct reports

Maidenhead

Supporting 10 UK bakeries with weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting;Preparing periodic Reporting Pack by bakery and on Consolidated basis;Supporting Procurement team, reporting/tracking spend by ingredient, by supplier and ensuring savings targets are met;Tracking the bakeries' Capex spend of £50m pa, challenging spend forecasts and supporting bakery staff by helping with the preparation Capex proposals.

St Albans, United Kingdom

Integrated the Reporting of Bread and Grocery divisions;Simplified the Weekly Forecast and the Monthly Reporting Pack;Supported the Bread Management team providing commentary on trends/variances vs Budget/Plan;Business Partnered the Contract Manufacturing Business Manager;Provided ad-hoc analysis by Brand, by Customer.

Hemel Hempstead, United Kingdom

Supported the Sales and Marketing teams with NPD analysis;Evaluated promotions and fed back results to Brand Managers;Managed inventory identifying risk of slow moving stock and reducing value held from £1.3m to £0.8m for a major retailer.

High Wycombe

Beckman Coulter acquired Olympus' Diagnostics division.

Watford

Supported the Sales and Marketing teams by providing monthly detailed analysis of spend by dept and assisted with budget preparation (and challenged the numbers when necessary); Assisted the Commercial dept to ensure tenders and managed service contracts were sufficiently profitable but competitively priced;Raised the profile of the Finance dept. and became the person that non-finance staff consulted when preparing business cases.Sucessfully led the UK J-Sox implementation.

London, Rugby And Windsor

East Leake, Notts

Education record

Bachelor Of Engineering (Beng), Civil Engineering

BEng in Civil Engineering