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Cambridge, Gb

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

Immingham, England, United Kingdom

Company under new ownership. Same job as below

Immingham, England, United Kingdom

Prepare maintenance tenders and negotiate contract extension on favourable terms and conditions, as a Commercial Manager. Serve as a Cost Saving Manager for site and streamline long-term strategic and budget planning processes for maintenance costs. Review and complete multifaceted work to control spend on maintenance contracts and key CAPEX projects. Analyse root cause of variances to budget and forecast and arrange expenditure prioritisation meetings by coaching budget holder. • Maintained relevancy of the contracts and monitored the progress of contractor’s performance by evaluating and reviewing audits and contractor KPI’s.• Improved the KPI to ensure better contractor performance as well as enhanced cost transparency by rewriting the commercial terms and conditions.• Provided quality leadership and supervision to a team of two site cost controllers and supported the team in attaining common shared goals.• Advanced the processes to devise better control over the billing for services of different contractors.• Examined and processed invoices by introducing the deployment of new automated systems.• Controlled daily spending efficiently by authorising team to be autonomous and taking lead in designing new automated systems.• Executed negotiations of two long-term contracts worth over £3M per year and with estimated £300K saving over five years in an efficient manner.• Secured savings of over £100K by developing an overbilling risk matrix in a successful manner.

Immingham, England, United Kingdom

Built MCV model for budget and long-term strategic tactics for refinery based on Linear Program output. Liaised actively among Refinery, Refinery optimiser, Local accounting, Brussels and Paris Group Finance headquarter, Back-office, and Performance control.• Facilitated Central Finance department within Paris in making smart business decisions by evaluating and presenting monthly, quarterly, and yearly results by focusing on refinery gross margin performance and working capital control• Generated optimal results by standardising calculation methods and removing environmental effects, such as exchange rate effects out of refinery performance.• Decreased unexplained variance from £300K to under £1K by augmenting reconciliation between accounting and management result, amplifying the reporting quality.• Earned appreciation by head office for demonstrating contributions in upgrading reporting systems.• Corrected the accounting and reporting of the hedging result in line with company rules.

Brussels Region, Belgium

Led different tasks, such as creating executive presentations to Total Board, forecasting, budgeting, coordinating the long-term plan, and conducting benchmarking studies and strategic project analysis. Maintained reporting standardisation across all production sites (10 sites on 3 continents: Europe, US, Asia). • Drove business success by overseeing a budget round and continuously attaining top-quality reporting throughout different Business unit’s mergers, where usual reporting lines changed significantly.• Evaluated and presented quarterly, monthly, and yearly results to the senior VP of a large customer orientated business on metrics, such as market growth and share, competitor analysis, sales margins, individual sites performance and capital employed • Coached and trained a team of junior controllers through an organisational changes series in an open and motivational environment.• Directed a team of two Finance controllers and a placement student to improve their performance.

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium

* Detailed cost follow up of the polyethylene production plant * Budgeting, benchmark studies * Consolidation and analysis of costs and budgets of all European polyethylene plantsKey figures: variable costs 480M€, fixed costs 40M€ and logistics 20M€.

Antwerp, Flemish Region, Belgium

* Stock management raw materials * Product costing * General cost follow up of the plant Key figures: variable costs 68M€, fixed costs 25M€.

Master, Maritime Sciences

Master, Commercial Engineer

Chartered Management Accountant (Cgma), Finance, General