Mamta Lal-Patel Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Head of FP&A and DS, managing a ~$5B budget, responsible for driving transformation programmes across expenses, capital, allocations, and financial systems. Led and developed a global team growing from ~27 to ~50 high performing employees, including transition of onshore roles to building a team in India. Business partner to Chief Technology Officer with focus on investment planning and cost optimisation strategies.• Drove significant savings, leading the finance transformation program, building and developing a team in India to partner with onshore stakeholders, setting up an effective onboarding and knowledge transfer process • Re-engineered processes across finance through centralisation, standardisation and automation • Developed dashboard reporting with KPI’s and metrics to refocus the business on criteria to achieve key outcomes • Defined job roles, skills and capability matrix, alongside finance activities roles and responsibilities (RACI) model to support build-out of new finance organisation

London, United Kingdom

Primary finance partner for the CFO. Responsible for all aspects of consolidated reporting, planning and analysis for costs to support internal and external reporting; allocations; ad hoc investment/cost optimisation; risk management; target setting. Managed a team of 7 reports and directed a wider team of 40. Drove agile ways of working across the entire finance team to accommodate ongoing fire drills.• Partnered with the deal team (internal and external stakeholders) leading to successful sale of the F&R business to Blackstone Group for ~$20B• Developed additional policies and processes for tracking one-time cost items relating to the divestiture• Created calendarized structure to ensure team was clear on timelines and requirements to support “Business as Usual” reporting and divestiture reporting prior to completion• Standardisation of procedures/processes enabling transition of repeatable activities to offshore Centre of Excellence, creating onshore capacity to provide more value add support to the business • Lead, managed and presented the quarterly financial reviews for Executive Committee

Canary Wharf - London

Central point of contact for the global Reuters news. Responsible for all aspects of consolidated reporting for Corporate and Quarterly business reviews with the President of TR. Presentations to TR’s CFO and CEO, providing outlooks for costs; revenue; allocations; ad hoc investment/cost optimisation and business risks and mitigation, directing a team of 7 finance leads and partnering closely with Corporate headquarters.• Established strong relationships with Corporate partners to support internal and external reporting requirements• Redesigned cost hierarchies to enable automated reporting, creating capacity to focus on more value add activities• Coached peers to ensure business outcomes were achieved to help and support partners• Lead FP&A simplification program for Allocations

Uk - Global Support

Business Partner to SVP for Global Editorial Operations and Site Leaders for 9 Operational Centres – delivering accurate, timely reporting and business cases that provided financial guidance, analysis, insight and transparency to maximise business performance and drive efficiencies. Managed Global team of 4. Successfully transitioned cost groups (Expenses $160M circa 3000 headcount) from business units into a newly created Global Operations, providing a fully consolidated financial view of the organisation and allocated costs. Drove business cases to optimise workforce costs and unprofitable products with annualised savings of ~$8.0M

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Ba (Hons) 2:1, Management; European Business & Finance

A Levels, Accountancy, Economics, Media Studies

Gcse

Acma, Accountancy