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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:

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.
• 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.
• 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.

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.

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.

Blackfriars, London, GB

Blackfriars, London, GB

New York, New York, US

New York, New York, US

Houston, Texas, US

Bsc (Hons) Optoelectronics And Laser Engineering

Post Graduate Diploma In Business Analysis