James Sleat Email & Phone Number

Poole, England, United Kingdom

Weybridge, England, United Kingdom

• Managed the month-end process for the UK teams, posting accruals and prepayments and analysing variances. I also worked with the international teams so have experience working with multiple currencies.
• Designed, created and implemented a new Excel-based system that allowed the company to adapt to a situation caused by the rapidly changing market environment the cruise industry found itself in. This was used by the.
• Reported directly into the International Finance Director responsible for Royal Caribbean Group’s ‘International’ business (which is all markets excluding North America).
• Business partnered director and leadership level budget holders in the UK to help manage budgets in excess of £1m each.
• Acted as a point of contact for the international markets, as well as the UK brands (Royal Caribbean International, Celebrity Cruises & Azamara).
• Forecasted costs for all markets as well as UK brands. This was done on a rolling monthly basis, as well as quarterly and annually.

Somerset, England, United Kingdom

• Business partnered with the Commercial functions to provide insightful reporting on sales and profit at different P&L lines as well as other ad-hoc support such as help with promotions etc.
• Introduced new control checks on all data that was being shared within the business to ensure accuracy in the reports that were being used to drive business decisions.
• Monitored and reported on KPI's to monitor costs and efficiencies in the business.
• Sent out various weekly reports to different stakeholders in the business detailing sales,margins and variances against budget.
• Maintained reports on gross and net profit margins on all online-only ranges;recommending products to keep and which to discontinue.
• Created a 'Performance Tracker' using Excel to monitor trends in promotions and theireffects on the business's overall margin rate, incorporating insight into incremental cash margin that is generated through.

London, England, United Kingdom

Managed a small sales team offering travel agent and concierge services to corporate clients. I left this role to pursue further education.

London, United Kingdom

I specialised in designing and selling custom made itineraries to Latin America for high net worth clients. I was often the highest performer both in sales targets and customer satisfaction reviews.

London, United Kingdom

Spain

I taught English as a foreign language (TEFL) to business people in their work place while I learnt Spanish.

Master Of Science (Msc), Accounting And Finance, With Merit

Received a distinction for my thesis.

Experto, Creatividad Y Planificación Estratégica, Apto

Ba(Hons), Business Administration

Top-up course for my HND to full BA(Hons) degree.

Higher National Diploma, Accounting And Business/Management, Merit