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Southampton, England, Gb

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

• Financial oversight, management and partnering for The School of Healthcare, Enterprise & Innovation.

Southampton, England, United Kingdom

• Finance Manager within The School of Healthcare, Enterprise & Innovation.• Financial oversight, management and partnering for The National Health Coordinating Centre contract spend.

• Lead reporting, forecasting, analysis and insight for total company stock and end-to-end logistics costs, including home and store delivery.• Partner supply director and leadership team, supporting strategic initiatives including demand planning development and 3 year plan.• Lead & develop team of 5 qualified finance business partners & analysts.

• Lead planning & reporting processes for company sales, margin, rebate & new range investments.• Trading performance & insight, annual budget & forecast, monthly reporting & performance analysis.• Partner commercial leadership team, focusing primarily on trading performance & commercial strategy.• Lead and develop a team of 4 qualified analysts.

• Partner Décor & Surfaces Category Director & Team (£1.2b annual turnover).• Review, challenge, influence & improve trading plans / decision making to maximize sales & net margin performance whilst keeping a balanced view from a commercial & customer perspective.• Partner, advise & influence on all elements of financial management including future market strategy, new range performance (diagnosis & recommended actions), investment appraisal, budget & forecasting, new business tenders & supplier negotiations.• Manage and develop 1 qualified analyst.

• Analysis & performance insight for total company new range performance

• Performance analysis and insight for building categories (circa £1b annual sales).• Partner commercial category director, merchandisers and buyers to identify and influence on performance management, potential risks and possible opportunities.• Support commercial teams with a wide range of finance related subjects including investment appraisal, analysis and tracking of new ranges, forecasting / planning cycles and supplier income collection / recognition.

• Ownership of company wide sales, margin and supplier income planning & forecasting process, including inputs, consolidation process, outputs, analysis and delivery to deadlines.• Company performance analysis & insight, identifying underlying performance drivers having a material impact on company KPIs.• Preparation of weekly board papers providing company performance insight, key stories / themes and areas requiring attention / decision making.

• Responsible for the operation of c.£200m monthly payments made to domestic suppliers.• Responsible for merchandise creditor reporting, budgeting and forecasting.

United Kingdom

• Accounting, reporting & MI for the store delivery operation.• Investment appraisal & finance support on supply chain IT projects.• Creation and maintenance of net margin model allocating supply chain costs to product groups.

• Monthly consolidation and reporting to group.• Answering/supporting with questions/queries raised at group level.• Part of a team who re-mapped / re-stated P&L as part of an extensive accounting policy change.• Maintenance of SAP Master Data & Cognos Reporting Hub.

• Monthly preparation of P&L & B/S accounts.• Reporting to senior management as well as providing analysis / commentary.• Providing performance analysis to Retail Contracts Team on cost lines.• Responsible for the operation of store P&L queries.

Finance Analyst supporting UK & Ireland Mobile Devices.

Ba (Hons) Business Studies

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Education record