Mita Bhattacharjee Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

Luton, England, United Kingdom

Challenging of cost base, ensuring correct business decisions are made by the Marketing, eCommerce & Distribution teams whilst aligned with Tour Operator margin expectations.Providing financial support and analysis (including budget and forecast) to commercial teams.Providing finance business partnering for the Stockton Online Travel Agent business.Leading the 5YP and Budgeting cycle, ensuring an efficient process is in place and having input into overall Sales & Marketing plan.Leading the monthly LTS (left to sell) process, working with the Distribution leadership team in setting monthly targets.Working with the accounting team to ensure the accuracy and integrity of the P&L, balance sheet and cash impacts of forecast changesSupport for the monthly Sales & Marketing reporting process covering, month end Flash, actuals and forecasting through to production.Driving continuous improvement of processes/ controls within the area.Review and challenge commentary of the Sales & Marketing KPI dashboards.Providing business case support to the eCommerce, marketing, customer platform and business systems teams, ensuring financial rigor around costs and benefit delivery.Providing leadership and support to team of five.

Execution and delivery of all commercial reporting and systems changes to comply with new revenue recognition requirements under IFRS 15.Revenue accounting lead for strategic projects such as the replacement of the existing Revenue Interface.Accountable for maintenance, development and improvement of the control framework for revenue recognition across all streams and direct revenue related costs such as airport commissions and merchant fees.Responsible for the robustness and accuracy of statistics on passengers flown, aircraft capacity and load factors reported to the City on a monthly basis. Responsible for accurate monthly recording of all revenue streams and S&D costs in P&L and supporting balance sheets and variance analysis.Ensuring the accurate recording and timely payment of all passenger related taxes, including Air Passenger Duty and VAT to applicable governments across Europe.Accountable for the calculation, true up and payment of revenue related royalty agreements and brand protection licences. Accounting process design and implementation of new commercial products and initiatives. Including the introduction of Auto Bag Drop Machines, Hands Free initiatives and Digital Acceleration changes.Internal stakeholder management / partnering with Commercial teams to understand and support business processes and develop reporting to aid decision making.Business owner for Revenue Accounting and related systems Providing leadership and direction to Revenue team of five, involving talent management and development of existing members.

Design and delivery of reporting and performance measurement framework for newly created Business team. Led the bottom up budget process for the Business, Sales and Distribution team. Setting annual budgets and targets for business products and central and european sales teams with the BSD Director.Evaluation of new business opportunities through preparation of business cases.Forecasting monthly performance and statistics to ensure on target performance, explaining key deviations to plan.Provision of financial insight, analysis and appraisal on business related products and streams.Setting pricing for Inclusive and Flexi products through analytic review to achieve optimum margins.Development of a standard monthly reporting pack and presenting final numbers to the BSD team, providing insight and analytics on reported numbers.Design and delivery of financial models on business products, competitor pricing and reporting for use by the Central and European sales teams.In depth analysis of booking trends / patterns specific to the business traveller to identify opportunities.Reviewing and refining algorithm used to determine the number of business passengers.

Delivery of a brand new revenue reporting tool enabling multi-dimensional, detailed analysis of the major revenue streams (project value £10m) Responsible for managing all financial, month end and year end accounting for ticket, ancillary and partner & inflight revenues as well as the marketing and sales & distribution cost lines.Delivery of smooth year end and annual audit for revenueForecasting revenue numbers to manage expectation of key internal stakeholders.Development of MI dashboard for CFO to measure current month booking performance.Review and sign off of variance analysis and balance sheet reconciliations produced by the team.Five direct reports

Managing the month end accounting, production of corporate accounts and group consolidations.Presenting monthly financial results to executive board and board of directors.Responsible for preparing annual budget and quarterly forecasts for all entities.Responsible for managing cash flow and treasury function.Ensuring all local country corporate governance, statutory and reporting requirements are met including tax and VAT issuesResponsible for producing deal proformas for Wholesale business in order to assess profitability prior to committing to each deal. Three direct reports.

Responsible for all corporate financial controls, risk management and financial reporting of company’s management accounts, including group consolidations.Ensuring compliance with statutory, external and Group control procedures and reporting requirements.Managing weekly and monthly financial activity against budget, identifying variance issues to Finance Director.Responsible for producing corporation tax analysis and liaising with external tax accountants.Set up and maintenance of management information and controls system to control deal accounting for core business.

Managing day-to-day financial operations for Medtronic Ireland.Production and analysis of management accountsCalculation of incentive for credit controller and days sales outstandingCompletion of statutory accounts and audits for Medtronic IrelandExperience in US GAAP statutory reporting.

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Ba (Hons) Accounting And Finance