Perry Webster Email & Phone Number

Hemel Hempstead, Gb

Hatfield

Put together the Non Food Gross Profit, Marketing, Head Office and Operations budgets in first three weeks and helped present them to the board. Report regularly on sales and margin plus helped develop and regularly prepare various Management Information slides, as well as prepare period accounts and act as a business partner for the Non Food management team.Improved reporting and management of aged stock as well as developing processes for the opening of the Non Food Distribution Centre and new Destination sites

Project managed and developed the Group 5 year plan (integrated P&L, B/S and cash flow by business unit, that could flex based on various cost drivers) This allowed the Group to do scenario planning helping secure the £311m placing and rights issue.Analysed and prepared the trading announcement information as well as Group working capital, cash flow, quarterly strategy update reports and macro economic packs.Elected as a Partnership Group representative for Finance and mentored a colleague

Project managed and developed the Commercial Plan, One Group reporting and Tech Guys planning and reportingProvided training, support and maintenance for all Cognos Planning and Reporting software usersManaged, recruited and trained permanent team and regularly presented to senior management

Developed of all the Profit and Loss planning applications, from central costs to P&L summaries for all UK entities and provided training and support to all users

Organised, wrote and ran in-house training courses for various Financial software systems (Lawson GL, AR, PO, Cognos Consolidation, Business Objects)Implemented new reporting for Mastercare Services, Distribution, was part of the Divisionalisation project team and supported users of Lawson Financial software

Analysed, forecasted and reconciled the trading account as part of a small team as well as improved the regular processes and reports

Analysed, forecasted and prepared the accounts of an overseas company and UK property reportsProject managed and developed the improvement of the Capital Expenditure form (ease of use, sensitivity analysis, payback etc. as agreed by all interested stakeholders)

Stood in as the Finance Manager; attended Senior Management meetings, cocoordinated and finalised the short term forecast accurately and on time in addition to my normal roleAnalysed, forecasted and prepared an array of regular reports and presentations to thoroughly understand the business, as well as various ad-hoc analysis and reportsImproved systems and processes for both regular analysis and reporting as well as short term forecasting, budgeting and the 5 year plan

Analysed, forecasted and prepared the PC Service accounts, Group credit card commissions, key ratios as well as Central Cost budgeting along with various ad-hoc analysis

Sales Assistant in several departments gained backroom experience as well as an NVQ Level 2 in Retail Operations and was Employee of the Month.

Cima

B.A.(Hons, Mathematical Sciences

A Level, Mathematics, Chemistry, Physics & Biology, All A-C

High School, 8 Gcse'S, All A-C Including English And Maths