Neil Smith Email & Phone Number

Bournemouth, England, GB

Bournemouth, England, United Kingdom

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

o Delivered the company’s first OPEX budget within 2 months of joining.o In order to achieve that, I quickly developed good relationships with the key stakeholders within the business. This has enabled me to gain a detailed understanding of the company’s operational expenses.o Implemented business partnering meetings with all the department heads to track.

Bournemouth

o Support the Procurement function by providing analytical insight.o Prepare spend reports highlighting trends and variances.o Provide insightful analysis to support the leadership team in decision making.o Ensure the timely compilation and regular delivery of performance management analysis.o Produce monthly Procurement dashboard highlighting metrics.

o Provide help, support and advise to the Life Business relating to all aspects of controls, risk and process improvement.o Built complex reports, in Business Objects, to help customer experience mitigate potential issues and risks.o Drive change in the business through designing and implementing various new automated procedures to help the business, such.

o Designed, developed and maintained a Unit Pricing process for LV’s range of Insured Pension funds.o Performed a daily valuation of over £1bn of AUM across 20 fund managers.o Improved daily unit pricing to reduce the time from 6 to 3 hours, due to automating manual processes using macros and driving system changes to enable a seamless upload of data.

Hitchin

o Continued as P&L Analyst for the group, as per previous role.o Selected to be part of the team which transferred to LV and was subsequently asked to undertake cross training with the Investment Accounts team who looked after all the Unit Linked Pensions investments.o Established myself within the team and was soon able to undertake the pricing roles.

Hitchin

o Assisted with the preparation of budgets throughout the annual planning cycle.o Provided analysis of current and past trends in key performance indicators including all areas of revenue, cost of sales and expenses.o Monitored performance indicators, highlighting trends and analysing causes of unexpected variances.o Provided monthly variance analysis, of.