John Sutcliffe Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

Lead ANZ development at TFE Hotels including; The identification and assessment of new hotel opportunities / Preparation of financial forecasts and feasibilities for new properties / Preparation of professional expressions of interest / Pitch presentations to key stakeholders / Development of commercial heads of terms / Legals including purchase contracts.

Sydney, Australia

• Commercial and Finance Operations Lead for hotel openings, closures, refurbishments and business efficiency projects across the TFE Network / Asset management for owned and leased properties / CAPEX expenditure / Head.
• Successfully led the tender process for companywide procurement and contract reviews and managed ongoing supplier relationships.
• Based on my success with energy procurement at TFE, I was invited to sit on a industry panel to address hospitality utility costs throughout Australia.
• Created BI reporting tool to enable value-add hotel performance review and benchmarking against both internal assets and the wider market.

Sydney, Australia

• Operational finance lead across 70+ hotels worldwide / Budget management - CAPEX, pre-opening and feasibility for new builds / Recruiting, leading and developing a team of fifteen direct reports / Monthly and quarterly.
• Led several successful projects that streamlined reporting and process improvements following the introduction of a new ERP system.
• Implemented end-to-end procurement process including sourcing, tendering, Master Service Agreements and supplier rebate scheme.
• Implemented the progressive purchasing of electricity - realising significant savings across the organisation.
• Led the solar energy installation project from tender to installation, to realising guaranteed ROI within 2.5 years.
• Implemented significant improvements to bottom line through ensuring focus on cost saving initiatives, flow-through and business efficiencies.

United Kingdom

• Operational Finance Lead for seventeen Tesco Distribution Centres with responsibility for: The commercial and statutory finance function of Oakwood Distribution Ltd / Annual operating budgets in excess of £520M /.
• Took the lead commercial operations role in a project team tasked to reverse a projected full year overspend. We achieved savings of £1.1m during a period of significant austerity and in challenging circumstances.
• Personally contributed £0.7m to the above savings through close control and review of expenditure, detailed review of Balance Sheets and close scrutiny of third party costs.

Belfast, United Kingdom

• Promoted to Finance Lead Commercial Operations with responsibility for: Producing and presenting monthly board reports / Preparation of annual budget and quarterly forecasts / The management and development of.
• Realised fuel savings of £1.5k per week by implementing tighter controls and improved driver training.
• Reduced weekly reporting time by three days through improved processes.
• Introduced full weekly reporting to understand costs and maintain balance sheet integrity at period end.

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