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Chichester, West Sussex, Gb

Fixed Term Contract• Developed the 2024 Budget across all business functions. • Partnered and challenged budget owners on the quality of input data, outlined further savings opportunities across the business plan.• Supported the commercial team on new, existing tenders and customer growth strategies.• Worked alongside the continuous improvement manager on a number of capital investment programs to enhance business efficiencies.• Supported the year end and audit process including simplification of finances processes

Blackfriars, London, Gb

• Partnered the Customer Development Leadership team and provided core operational support, business strategy, financial planning and business controls.• Led the Customer Development Finance team, ensuring the ‘One Finance’ behaviors were rigorously followed and displayed, working closely with Business Partners to achieve customer targets.• Analysed customer investment proposals, while supporting and influencing the CD teams to make the best data led decisions for the business.• Developed the customer S&OP forecast - reviewing it against short and long-term customer targets and ambitions to identify areas where the team needs to focus.• I led the Finance team to provide value, ensuring good controls and audit support to meet Unilever control policies and UK laws.• Member of both the UKI Finance Leadership Team and Customer Development Leadership Team.Key Achievements:• Strong growth alongside gross margin and working capital improvement.• Delivered a program of cross-category strategic and commodity-based pricing opportunities for P&L management.• Built a Trade Terms Risk Assessment tool to optimise investment choices across key customer channels.• Led and developed seven CD finance team members into business leaders in their customer teams.• Embedded business transformation processes across finance and the customer teams for improved forecast accuracy and enhanced promotional end to end controls.• Introduced standardised and KPI focused monthly reporting packs and presentations across all customer groups leading to 50% time saving across the team.• Played a significant role within customer claims recovery.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Implementation of a new pricing and promotional planning system (2021 to 2022)Managed the team implementing a new long-term pricing module. This system facilitated the control of customer pricing and promotions in one tool, allowing end to end business planning and enhanced data led decision making.Key Achievements:• Key team member in the development of the new pricing system including core functionality, processing efficiencies and robust financial controls. • Key focus - supporting business cutover, system stability, organisational change and post go live end-to-end ways of working.• Delivered price matching system for accurate customer invoicing by highlighting and resolving product level under and over changes. This led to material savings for the business and reduction in customer price claims.Order to cash business transformation project (2019 to 2021)Managed the business transformation, outsourcing key order to cash and customer development support roles to 3rd party organisation. This resulted in enhanced business efficiencies and improved customer experience.Key Achievements:• Partnered with 3rd Party project team, to optimise and sign off key operating processes, team structures and hand over plan, prior to work movement. Included post go live support and KPI delivery.• Delivered significant savings across finance and customer development teams from the business restructure.• Business lead for the build of ‘High Radius’ deductions and claims management modules. This new system managed all customer invoices and delivered a reduction in processing time of 10%.• Acted as the key finance subject matter expert.Key Project Stakeholders:• UKI Integrated Operations Director, UKI Financial Controller, UKI Leadership Team.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

• Business partnered Food Solutions team, including Customer Development, Marketing and Supply Chain functions.• Co-ordinated the local financial reporting, strategic and operational planning processes, ensuring alignment and delivery of business targets.• Managed customer accounts to ensure payment compliance, deduction management and timely resolution of any payment issues. • Understanding of commodity prices and delivering pricing opportunities for P&L management.• Investment control of promotions, advertising and operational overheads.• Team leadership and development of employees, both qualified and part qualified accountants.• Acquisition, disposal and restructuring of key business divisions.• Business partner to the UKI Food Solutions MD.• Member of Food Solutions Leadership Team.Key Achievements:• Standardised and simplified food solutions process, to match the core UK business ways of working. This included business planning, balance sheet review, cost price increase tools and approvals.• Prepared the business case for restructure of the field sales and telesales teams. This allowed resource to be reinvested into key contracts, leading to significant growth in both out of home and in home business channels.• Supported the disposal of ‘Spreads’ business -including management - during the transitional period. This allowed new owner to establish structure, teams and processes and maintain business continuity throughout this 12 month transition.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

• Business partnered the UKI Homecare Clan VP Lead on Unilever's largest category.• Co-ordinated monthly forecast cycle, annual budget and long-term financial plans for the category. • Gross margin development in line with category strategies, included trade investment, product pricing, product costs and savings programs.• Partnered brand management, to assess commercial viability of large-scale innovation. • Supported category VP and commercial manager to set and update the promotional guidelines. • Proactively assessed trade and brand investment in relation to category dynamics and competitiveness.• Represented Homecare alongside the Category VP at the monthly board business review.• Line managed and developed the HC finance analyst and graduate placement.Key Achievements:• Local UK Finance project lead for Laundry Category LCBM trading margin improvement project. This encompassed a complete end to end approach to all aspects of the P&L and delivered 3 years of strong growth and underlying operating profit improvement.• Partnered brand management on the major launch of new concentrated liquids and capsules products. The focus was to match key competitor pricing index and grow premium sector. The launch achieved these goals and delivered the premium price index versus old formats.• Led the development of the Unilever Finance Apprentice Scheme building a 2-year rotational program to bring young talent into the finance function.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Blackfriars, London, Gb

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Bsc (Hons) Optoelectronics And Laser Engineering

Post Graduate Diploma In Business Analysis