Peter Jacobs Email & Phone Number

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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