Rajul Shah Email & Phone Number

Harrow, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Post Office is the largest retailer in Europe with an unparalleled network of 11,700 branches. A key member of the finance leadership and senior management teams, I supported the FD, CFO and Executive leadership team to achieve challenging budgets whilst supporting the transformation of the company through significant investments in Technology.▪ Led the annual budget process, managing a cost base of £500M per annum as well as oversight of monthly reporting and delivery of timely… Show more Post Office is the largest retailer in Europe with an unparalleled network of 11,700 branches. A key member of the finance leadership and senior management teams, I supported the FD, CFO and Executive leadership team to achieve challenging budgets whilst supporting the transformation of the company through significant investments in Technology.▪ Led the annual budget process, managing a cost base of £500M per annum as well as oversight of monthly reporting and delivery of timely accurate forecasts collaborating with senior stakeholders.▪ Oversight of Technology Change portfolio delivering company transformation at a rapid pace supporting cost control and risk management. Delivered insightful monthly reporting and analysis to the Executive committee.▪ Approved all contractual commitments including purchase orders and new hires.▪ Approved business cases and change requests.▪ Challenged and supported the business to deliver ambitious 10% annual cost reduction targets.▪ Recruited and built a high performing team of 7 reports (qualified and part qualified accountants).▪ Developed and maintained excellent relationships through effective business partnering with senior leaders▪ Led process improvements and efficiencies within Finance Show less

London, England, United Kingdom

Leading global data and software provider in the financial services sector that has recently merged with the London Stock Exchange Group. As a member of the finance leadership team and senior management, I supported the CFO and Executive leadership team within a c9,000 people division. ► Led preparations of annual budgets managing a cost base of $500M per annum and professional service revenue of $100M per annum, as well as delivering monthly forecasts working closely with senior… Show more Leading global data and software provider in the financial services sector that has recently merged with the London Stock Exchange Group. As a member of the finance leadership team and senior management, I supported the CFO and Executive leadership team within a c9,000 people division. ► Led preparations of annual budgets managing a cost base of $500M per annum and professional service revenue of $100M per annum, as well as delivering monthly forecasts working closely with senior stakeholders to meet deadlines consistently. ► Delivered day-to-day strategic and finance support by business partnering with leadership teams, enhancing management information through detailed insights and analysis to highlight spiralling costs. - Prepared business cases that contributed to increased revenues of more than $30M and cost-savings of $5M per annum through new product development and insourcing of core activities.- Benchmarked geographical variations in compensation costs, enabling the business to exit high-cost locations to drive recurring cost savings of $7M per annum.- Generated $5M per annum savings on third party vendor costs by supporting commercial negotiations and leveraging global spend, whilst ensuring a consistent global standard in services.► Established finance function processes with a team of 4 managers and finance analysts, leading recruitment and training and nurturing a high-performance culture.- Continually improved financial governance, strengthening processes and controls e.g. vendor accruals, contractor costs and revenue reporting through standardisation and simplification that restored management confidence and enabled a clean audit at year end. Show less

Hatfield

Technology division of the FTSE 100 company, Ocado Group, specialising in innovative warehouse technology that utilises artificial intelligence, robotics and cloud solutions. Member of the divisional senior management team and key business partner to the management board, CEO and CTO. ► Oversaw all management reporting, bi-annual forecasts and annual budgeting working with senior management to direct P&L cost base of £500M per annum and CAPEX investment of £50M per annum… Show more Technology division of the FTSE 100 company, Ocado Group, specialising in innovative warehouse technology that utilises artificial intelligence, robotics and cloud solutions. Member of the divisional senior management team and key business partner to the management board, CEO and CTO. ► Oversaw all management reporting, bi-annual forecasts and annual budgeting working with senior management to direct P&L cost base of £500M per annum and CAPEX investment of £50M per annum. ► Developed a high-performing team of 10 including qualified finance managers, leading regular performance reviews and establishing clear accountabilities and expectations.► Redesigned management information packs and dashboard insights to enhancing decision-making for client-by-client profitability increases. ► Achieved $10m savings on cloud computing costs by eliminating duplication and non critical back up data storage ► Contributed to rapid international growth of the company through financial modelling of new contracts and implementation of scalable processes to manage this growth. Show less

London, United Kingdom

New Zealand listed global healthcare software company enabling inter-operability amongst health systems to improve patient outcomes across c25 countries. Member of the EMEA board, responsible for £100M revenue and £10M CAPEX and playing a pivotal role in commercial and financial strategy. ► Supported board-level strategic objectives for European market penetration and expansion.► Directed a robust EMEA 2018 budget submission, coordinating 7 markets in Europe, challenging revenue… Show more New Zealand listed global healthcare software company enabling inter-operability amongst health systems to improve patient outcomes across c25 countries. Member of the EMEA board, responsible for £100M revenue and £10M CAPEX and playing a pivotal role in commercial and financial strategy. ► Supported board-level strategic objectives for European market penetration and expansion.► Directed a robust EMEA 2018 budget submission, coordinating 7 markets in Europe, challenging revenue plans and setting ambitious targets. ► Significantly improved profitability working closely with the executive leadership team to assess legacy projects and terminated loss-making ventures resulting in a £7m increase in EBITDA.► Simplified and standardised the monthly management information pack, providing monthly actionable insights and tracking progress of KPI’s which directly improved the speed of board decisions. Show less

London, United Kingdom

UK division for the global market leader in the payment processing industry. Financial leader for the SME business, working closely with the executive board, the CFO and sales executives. ► Implemented a significant team restructuring to refocus competencies and embed the commercial finance department as a core business partner. ► Prepared a detailed financial model to support the business case for an ambitious sales transformation programme that generated c£5M cost-savings per… Show more UK division for the global market leader in the payment processing industry. Financial leader for the SME business, working closely with the executive board, the CFO and sales executives. ► Implemented a significant team restructuring to refocus competencies and embed the commercial finance department as a core business partner. ► Prepared a detailed financial model to support the business case for an ambitious sales transformation programme that generated c£5M cost-savings per annum and achieved record 20% year-on-year revenue growth. ► Improved profitability by £2M per annum supporting investment and contract decision-making for profit-sharing partnership deals. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Key member of the global programme management team for one of the largest multinational investment banks. Regularly presented to the executive committee, programme directors, portfolio manager and central finance. ►  Influenced and drove one of the most ambitious and complex Operational Excellence programmes undertaken in the financial services sector from 2013 – 2016. - Contributed to significant annual IT infrastructure cost-savings through the evaluation of business cases and… Show more Key member of the global programme management team for one of the largest multinational investment banks. Regularly presented to the executive committee, programme directors, portfolio manager and central finance. ►  Influenced and drove one of the most ambitious and complex Operational Excellence programmes undertaken in the financial services sector from 2013 – 2016. - Contributed to significant annual IT infrastructure cost-savings through the evaluation of business cases and project priorities, presented updates regularly to the Executive board.- Supported more than €500M cost-savings and approved €500M CTA spend. ► Developed tools and processes to improve forecast accuracy by 20% e.g. standardised forecast templates, application savings trackers, people savings Show less

London, United Kingdom

Head up the Finance team within the Health Growth business. Revenue of c£100m p.a. with significant investment to grow business to £600m p.a. in 4 years.Capex approval from boardBusiness partenering on launching new products and business case approval. Interaction and regular presentations to Senior management.Influence pricing and commercial terms and conditionsInternational Growth and advising on business strategyControl of Reporting, Forecasting and… Show more Head up the Finance team within the Health Growth business. Revenue of c£100m p.a. with significant investment to grow business to £600m p.a. in 4 years.Capex approval from boardBusiness partenering on launching new products and business case approval. Interaction and regular presentations to Senior management.Influence pricing and commercial terms and conditionsInternational Growth and advising on business strategyControl of Reporting, Forecasting and Budgeting.Staff management Show less

London, United Kingdom

Finance lead on managing £4bn revenue across the voice and broadband market in UK.Analysis of product profitability, customer growth and insightful action from monthly reported results.Pricing of new product launches and regulatory compliance.Achieved growth in a highly competitive and challenging market conditions where prices were reduced significantly each year by regulator.

London, United Kingdom

Senior Finance manager on several successful major global bids.Financial modelling on complex bids, presenting pricing options and supporting commercial negotiations.Significant contribution to process improvements and team leadership.