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Northampton, United Kingdom

FBP to Marketing & Contact Centre.Financial modelling of commercial opportunities and change projects.Supporting Management Team & Department heads with revenue performance and cost management by providing insight on current and expected trends.Preparing financial and business related KPI analysis.

Northampton, United Kingdom

FP&A Manager leading a team of 3 Analysts, tasked with coordinating a finance team of c.20 people.Provided monthly financial performance insights to senior finance leaders (UK, EMEA & US).Detailed review and challenge of Business Plan, Budgets and Forecasts for P&L and Cash Flow.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Handpicked to work on one of the largest capital projects within Barclaycard (Spain V+ Migration project). Performing a Business Analyst role in order to provide the link between Technology (Singapore), Project Team (UK/Spain), Operations (Spain/India) and Financial Control (Portugal). Operating within extremely tight timelines:-Quickly established credibility with senior management and other key stakeholders.Developed, agreed and delivered project plan in order to revitalise the finance work stream.Conducted various workshops to agree “Go To” financial control model.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Set up and led a new team of 10 people (4 direct reports) who communicate balance sheet risk to senior management and work with finance teams across the globe to resolve reconciliation issues. Key achievements:-Led a programme of employee engagement activity which has helped deliver top 5 employee opinion scores for the department.Implemented a new balanced scorecard which illustrated the link between performance of offshore operational finance teams and volume/value of delinquent items on the Balance Sheet.Reduced time taken to reconcile and improved the clarity of controls by utilising Lean 6-Sigma principles to implement many new reconciliation processes.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Handpicked to support the centralisation of Financial Control activity from various UK sites and offshoring work to a new finance shared service centre based in Noida (Delhi), this involved :-Working with senior management to define, agree and communicate future organisational design.Agreeing project plans, communicating assumptions/dependencies and managing risks/issues.Leading a team of Business Analysts to re-engineer and document processes.Developing training plans and ensuring projects were delivered to agreed timelines and budgets.Key achievements :-Completed Barclays Leadership Development Programme (course reserved for top talent).Successfully managed off-shoring of 50 financial control roles from Northampton to India (Noida) over an 18 month period. Successfully managed the centralisation of c. 1,200 Barclaycard and 2,000 UKRBB balance sheet reviews from various UK locations to Northampton in 9 months. Re-engineered processes along the way to avoid headcount growth (7 people).

Northampton, United Kingdom

Revitalised FBP model for 3 departments, supporting 19 cost centre managers (cost base c. £12m, headcount c. 190 people), working with the business to ensure targets were met. Key achievements:- Delivered £0.5m of cost savings.Improved allocation of capex (c. £3.0m) by implementing a formal investment appraisal process.Implemented a standard financial tool kit which allowed different cost scenarios to be modelled.

Northampton, United Kingdom

Provided financial planning and analysis services, inputs received from 50 finance staff who managed a cost base of c. £600m spread across c. 400 cost centre managers. Key achievements :-Barclays Champions award for developing a “Best in Class” financial planning and analysis process.Designed and implemented a standard financial performance reporting suite.Implemented a new planning tool which led to consolidation and analysis efficiencies.

Coventry, United Kingdom

Working with Energy Wholesale senior management to gain oversight of all future investments.Challenged the strategic justification, assumptions and sensitivity analysis of proposed investments.Examples of business cases appraised include long term gas/coal supply contracts, onshore/offshore wind farms, new coal power station and Biomass power plant disposal. Key achievements :-Obtained E.ON Group approval to build a 1600MW supercritical coal power station (capex c. £1bn).Implemented a new executive investment pipeline report for the MD of Energy Wholesale.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Supported 14 cost centre managers (cost base c. £30m, headcount c. 600 people), working with Jaguar and Land Rover’s (JLR) Manufacturing Engineering (Man. Eng.) senior management team to ensure targets were met.Key achievements :-Delivered £1.5m of cost savings for Man. Eng. in 2005.Performance recognition award received for partnering support provided to JLR’s Man. Eng. division.Implemented a standard financial performance reporting suite and planning tool kit for both brands.Supported 6-sigma projects which focused on delivering reductions in hours/cost per vehicle.Offered a secondment to a higher grade position within 6 months of joining JLR.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Quarterly product margin reporting for c. 1,300 vehicles sold in 8 European markets and the UK. Challenged unit price/cost assumptions and understood key profitability variances.Worked with the business to evaluate the impact of sale campaigns on profit.Created margin and sensitivity analysis for future products.Established strong working relationships across the business.Key achievements:-Heavily involved in setting the price of 2 new models (Rover Streetwise & City Rover).Developed a sophisticated commercial evaluation model (in Excel) which quickly produced product margins and various sensitivity scenarios.

Market Harborough, United Kingdom

Monthly production of Mortgage/Savings sales profitability reports.Monthly executive financial performance reporting for Board of Directors. Producing quarterly forecasts and annual budgets.Completing money market transactions (wholesale funding/interest rate swaps).Producing monthly/quarterly regulatory returns.

London, United Kingdom

Managed end to end month end process, this involved :-Production of key consultancy metrics time sold, average charge rate and total revenue by client.Sales commission calculations and travel expense analysisPreparing accruals/prepayments.Reconciling Payroll, Cashbook, Bank, VAT, Sales and Purchase Ledgers.Producing financial performance reports (including headcount analysis).

Southampton, United Kingdom

Joined IBM’s IT consultancy division.

Stevenage, United Kingdom

Returned to Payroll & Travel Expense department after completing final year at University performing cashbook/suspense account reconciliations and re-engineering the departments processes in support of the implementation of a new Payroll system.

Stevenage, United Kingdom

Working in Payroll & Travel Expense department designing and delivered training courses in support of the roll out of a new travel expense system across the group.

Management Accountancy, Acma

Ba (Hons), Business Studies, 2:1

Final Year prize winner for outstanding academic achievement