Jon Morrell Email & Phone Number

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

•Provided analytical and strategic analysis of actual business performance and involved in the evaluation and assessment of investment and other business projects. •Prepared budgets and rolling monthly forecasts and KPI targets. Responsible for reporting Sales, Brand & Product analysis to the Group on a monthly basis.•Monitored the performance of targets and communicated and intervened where targets were not being achieved and evaluated appropriate actions.•Provided financial support and guidance to senior management to assist in their interpretation and understanding of financial information and in identifying cost saving opportunities.•Identified and offered proactive solutions to resolve process inefficiencies. Implemented improved financial controls.•Provided detailed sales and gross margin analysis for sales team. Reporting brand and channel information to parent. Suggesting the most profitable designs to grow gross margin. •Assisted in business projects such as evaluating new customer opportunities.•Liaised with commercial team on profitability plans and projects.•Introduced key measures for analysing key areas of OPEX. This included strategic reporting on the analysis of different types of marketing promotions to help conclude the different mechanics that achieved the greatest incremental Sales and Margin growth.•Financial and commercial evaluation of all key new business opportunities. Evaluated the financial impact of all CAPEX, spend such as new manufacturing equipment.•Managed office relocation from out of town to city location. Liaised with solicitors, property agents, space planners and other professionals. Provided updates to the UK board and Group.

The key finance contact supporting Sales & Operations of a multi national cosmetic and healthcare company (£150 million turnover). • Managed project for implementing trade promotion analysis tool. The software was responsible for managing and controlling £45 Million spend with key customers. This allowed the business to plan promotions, automate product level accruals in SAP and match invoices against promotions easily.• Responsible for evaluating UK trade promotional spend to help make sure that the business maximised the £45 Million spend.• Good cross functional relationships established through liaising with departmental managers resulting in a thorough understanding of operations and challenges within the business.• Proactively highlighted areas of potential cost saving and efficiency gains within the business. • SAP trained in creating BI queries that provide the business with key information.• Managed project to implement BI reporting system. As part of this project made sure that all the necessary information was required for the end users. Also trained all users in the finance department how to use the SAP BI software.• Established and maintained business processes to make sure good internal controls were in place. This included developing a process to make sure the correct list prices were loaded into SAP and then controls were in place. This improved