Business Unit Finance Leader
• Coordinated the preparation and upload of departmental reconciliations.• Reconciled and analyzed tax and benefit costs to determine and assess cost centre allocation.• Generate Profit and Loss Statements and conducted monthly variance to budget analysis for product lines and customer groups, monitoring financial performance through cost allocation.• Analyze relationships between financial and non-financial data to establish business unit cost drivers and communicate these to… Show more • Coordinated the preparation and upload of departmental reconciliations.• Reconciled and analyzed tax and benefit costs to determine and assess cost centre allocation.• Generate Profit and Loss Statements and conducted monthly variance to budget analysis for product lines and customer groups, monitoring financial performance through cost allocation.• Analyze relationships between financial and non-financial data to establish business unit cost drivers and communicate these to senior leadership members and sales team.• Develop and maintain Financial Analysis Tools that provide Key Performance Indicators/ Business Metrics to support the decision making process and provided insight into the progress of the business plan.• Determine appropriate levels of asset investment with Retail Marketing and the Sales Division to forecast fixture capital and merchandising support, ensuring investment is consistent with the sales plan/forecast.• Develop and analyze revenue projections to calculate terms and cost of product details, using this information to develop departmental non product cost budgets.• Establish and monitor cost tracking mechanisms to support program post mortem analysis and combine “lessons learnt” into building and evaluating future programs.• Performed in-depth financial analysis for sales staff over management forecasts and budgets by researching industry trends and economic factors, analyzing financial ratios and investigating budget-to-actual variances, in order to gain an understanding of business dynamics and ensure proper forecasting. • Lead the budgeting and forecasting for all departments and cost centers on an annual basis and set performance goals. Created budget to actual variance reports on a monthly basis to follow up on issues.• Assisted with ERP system upgrades and conversions.• Liaising with US counterparts ensuring reporting standards was met. Show less