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England, United Kingdom

London

London, United Kingdom

• Modelled impact of new products and business models
• Managed group budget process
• Introduced new BI tools to provide deeper insight into group performance
• Produced monthly board reporting packs

London

London, United Kingdom

• Managing the flow of new business ensuring that deals are profitable, closed and delivered quickly and providing a link between the commercial teams and the rest of the business
• Defining the sales process for the international sales team, working with Business Systems to implement in Salesforce. Understanding where bottlenecks occur and work with eg Legal to remove these. Run the internal.
• Own the commercial approvals… Show more Managing the flow of new business ensuring that deals are profitable, closed and delivered quickly and providing a link between the commercial teams and the rest of the business
• Own the commercial approvals gate for any non-standard deals, working with sales team to get to profitable deal before sign off by CFO. Forecast deal performance based on historic data, known market factors and input.
• Evaluating deal performance against defined metrics and against forecasts, understanding reasons for difference
• Working with FP&A team to create forecasts and budgets for the business as a whole and individual areas

London

Worked directly for the CFO in this fast moving online video start-up. Took on a large number of responsibilities, getting involved in areas across many different business teams.

London, United Kingdom

• Received a thorough grounding in basic strategy skills and techniques such as market modelling, customer segmentation, business plan evaluation, financial modelling and primary research. Developed extensive analysis.
• Evaluated pricing strategies for UK B2B advertising… Show more Received a thorough grounding in basic strategy skills and techniques such as market modelling, customer segmentation, business plan evaluation, financial.
• Evaluated pricing strategies for UK B2B advertising business, combining quantitative transaction data and qualitative customer interviews, reporting back to business board
• Led a third party cost diagnostic for a legal process outsourcer and delivered savings of over £1m, both from changing processes (eg setting up bank accounts in local currency to avoid currency charges) and negotiating.
• Designed a B2B strategy for a leading UK retailer involving designing and leading brainstorming workshops with people from across the business, leading the financial modelling of potential end-game visions and.

Gap Year Commission with 2 Royal Anglian. 4 week training at Sandhurst before joining unit as 2nd Lieutenant. Qualified as Urban Warfare Instructor and trained troops before their deployment to Afghanistan. Commanded a fire crew in Glasgow during the Fire Brigade strikes, attending 999 calls.

Master'S Degree, Maths & Philosophy

Activities and Societies: St Peter's College, University Rugby Team

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