Jonathan Sturdy Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, Australia

Dublin

• Responsible for the day to day financial management of the two largest Commercial areas
• Established and maintained strong relationships with Commercial counterparts to ensure the early identification of risks and opportunities
• Helped to drive company profitability by applying in-depth knowledge and experience to identify areas for cost cutting and improvement
• Worked closely with the Accounts Receivable team to ensure debt and cash were managed to target
• Through detailed analysis, reviewed business projects to determine profitability and financial viability (e.g. roll out of fuel save and move to every-day low prices)
• Detailed ROCE calculations to support investment proposals

Dublin

• Budget & Planning
• Responsibility for $4.5 billion Commercial Sales and Profit budget and quarterly/half yearly re-forecasts
• Submission of Long Term Plan to group, factoring in complex variables such as foreign exchange rate fluctuations and competitor impacts
• Balancing views of multiple stakeholders and achieving full buy in from Category Directors as well as the Commercial and Finance Director
• Complete overhaul of budget process, with new budget model, increased automation, greater insight and new executive summary. Resulting in time savings across both Finance and Commercial teams, greater controls and.
• Re-design and re-structure of existing management information (in tandem with automation) lead to a time saving within the team of 40 hours per week

Dublin

• Sole responsibility for analysis of the Ambient and GM Categories, including complex data sets and numerous data variables (including sales, costs, promotions, waste, stock, clearance and overall profitability for.
• Ensured the accurate weekly reporting of commercial profit
• Key ‘go-to-person’ for the development of business-critical ad-hoc reports
• Engagement with stakeholders to identify key business needs, maintaining close communication to ensure new reporting / analysis fully covered requirements
• Extracting data using Business Intelligence Tools, as well as manual data extraction by writing, editing and reviewing SQL queries
• Creation and maintenance of new Data Warehouse tables to improve reporting controls and speed up report delivery

Switzerland

• Reconciliation and payment of all suppliers, alongside regular bank reconciliations
• Sole responsibility for all cash management (50+ staff)
• Daily processing of invoices with corresponding nominal coding (SAGE)
• Control and reconciliation of inventory
• Preparing and reviewing weekly management accounts
• Highlighting and reporting financial trends to the Central Finance Team

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the modelling, production & distribution of existing financial reports
• Demonstrated the ability to identify areas for improvement by reviewing, redesigning and automating existing processes
• Through liaison with senior members of the equities team, identified new client needs and identified new, unique solutions to address these needs
• Direct reporting to senior members of the Merrill Lynch European Equities team including the Head of Equity Derivatives

Tanzania

• Quarterly budgets and forecasts with analysis and commentary on variances (Actual vs. Budget)
• Managing local staff, including issuing staff wages and expenses
• Managing all other logistical issues and ad-hoc tasks

London, United Kingdom

• Preparation of planning and strategy documents for audit engagements
• Developing recommendations for areas of improvement, writing reports, documenting findings, and following up on recommendations to ensure action points are implemented
• Re-design and re-structure of Work Programmes used for Audit Testing by reviewing, assessing and identifying the key business risks
• Leading meetings with senior members of the business to establish existing controls and then subsequent meeting detailing audit recommendations to further mitigate risk
• Managing and overseeing audit testing for teams of up to ten people, ensuring audit activities were carried out in a timely and efficient manner
• Complete audit reports for dissemination to management and ensure proper follow up of outstanding items and recommendations

London, United Kingdom

• Identification/calculation of fraudulent activity through analysis of fiscal and public records, asset identification and cash flow analysis
• Created and implemented databases, systems and forms to maintain consistency in financial profiles through the forensic unit
• Calculated forfeiture amounts and drafted civil forfeiture papers, which were used in the corporate conviction of crimes including money laundering and grand larceny