Melaine Ingram Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

Remote

Remote

Remote/London

Senior Business Partner to the IT, Digital Transformation, Operations, Strategy, Change and Facilities functions. Development and refinement of Portfolio reporting, which included Costs and Benefit tracking of several large Programmes and projects within Directorates. Assure the realisation of the planned benefits for the initiatives and the incorporation of these into budgets and forecasts.Managed 2 Finance Business Partners.

Primary contact between the business and finance functions for International, Human Resources, Strategy and Membership business units.Support heads of Department and Directors to produce budget and quarterly forecasts for their business units including executive summary reporting. This includes managing the International Revenue budget of circa £200m, involving 12 currencies and FX analysis.  Stakeholder in the development of the refreshed International 5 year plan led by… Show more Primary contact between the business and finance functions for International, Human Resources, Strategy and Membership business units.Support heads of Department and Directors to produce budget and quarterly forecasts for their business units including executive summary reporting. This includes managing the International Revenue budget of circa £200m, involving 12 currencies and FX analysis.  Stakeholder in the development of the refreshed International 5 year plan led by Strategy.Driver for cost management including identifying tactical and long term cost saving initiatives. Influence key decision makers and provide analysis and insight to make financial based recommendations.Identify potential risks and opportunities to the business units to encourage appropriate actions to be taken. Responsible for the management and personal development of a Finance Analyst. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Management and creation of monthly Service accounts including deferred revenue and margin.Reporting and analysis of monthly accounts to senior finance and service heads.Accountable for accurate entry and reconciliation of UK entity payroll and recruitment overheadsPartner with key stakeholders to ascertain future expenditure requirements and build budget in line with needs identified and within the business parameters set.Collaborating with business partners to… Show more Management and creation of monthly Service accounts including deferred revenue and margin.Reporting and analysis of monthly accounts to senior finance and service heads.Accountable for accurate entry and reconciliation of UK entity payroll and recruitment overheadsPartner with key stakeholders to ascertain future expenditure requirements and build budget in line with needs identified and within the business parameters set.Collaborating with business partners to identify revenue opportunities through comparing year on year variances and investigating under utilised resource. Show less

Main finance support for Intelligent Life Magazine to support growth of new magazinePrepared and consolidated global Intelligent Life accounts, book accruals and reconcile accounts on a monthly basisPrepared variance analysis and commentary for the global publisher and the UK Finance DirectorPartnered with the publisher, circulation and advertising teams to prepare monthly rolling forecasts. Identifying and then proposing recommendations for cost savings and potential… Show more Main finance support for Intelligent Life Magazine to support growth of new magazinePrepared and consolidated global Intelligent Life accounts, book accruals and reconcile accounts on a monthly basisPrepared variance analysis and commentary for the global publisher and the UK Finance DirectorPartnered with the publisher, circulation and advertising teams to prepare monthly rolling forecasts. Identifying and then proposing recommendations for cost savings and potential issuesAligning annual budget process with key stakeholders to develop challenging yet achievable targets. Updated and issued global Intelligent Life advertising bookings to key stakeholdersCalculated bi-monthly commissions for advertising bookingsPartnered with the Intelligent Life sales team. This included solving booking queries, helping them understand the monthly accounts and regularly attending their weekly meetings. This in turn helped me become further commercially aware and forecast accurately.Collaborated with publisher in commercial and strategic planning activities including the decision to go bi- monthly. Main finance support to publisher for the Rights and Syndication business, including preparing month end accounts, forecasting and challenges such as bad debt and risks related to the use of the brand Show less

London, United Kingdom

Worcester, United Kingdom

Queenstown, New Zealand

Basingstoke

Acca

Business Studies, Business/Commerce, General, Ba Honours