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Head of commercial finance, supply chain and property

Ownership of budgeting, forecasting and capex projects

Private equity - Financial modelling

Business partnering with the marketing and sales department

-Support development of contribution cost & investment targets -Support product benchmarking & teardown process -Develop affordable design cost targets -Develop business case for make vs. buy decisions-Play an active role in the trade-off process to balance functional attribute targets with profit objectives. -Cash flow analysis of alternative product proposals and cost reduction ideas.-Support a cross functional team in the target agreement process, including direct engagement with suppliers-Provide cost control and cost confirmation analysis-Support monthly material cost forecast & reconciling actual's on a quarterly basis.- Provide capacity planning analyses to support incremental volume and product mix enhancement proposals.-Managing my own minor program making sure it meets all financial targets and timings and producing financials that are approved by Product Development VP's.-Tracking vehicle cost from initial program approval through to mass production by liaising closely with engineers based across Europe.-Scenario planning for future projects.-Analysis of how external factors could affect a given program.

- Analysis of incentives and revenue reductions - Assessing effectiveness of marketing activities- Ad Hoc incentive profitability analysis- Calculating variable marketing spend per quarter - Extensive use of MS Access - Calculating, preparing and posting reserves using Oracle Peoplesoft- Preparing monthly reconciliations - Calculating anticipated contribution margin's by quarter - Process improvement using excel & access models

My Roles as a Profit Planning Analyst included:- Analysing vehicle profitability for both current and future models.- Creating and evaluating European income statements by market and car line.- Preparing and presenting financial snap shots of specific car lines.- Creating and maintaining profit models - Preparing budget and business plan inputs