Sarah Oshingbade Email & Phone Number

London, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

Collaborating on financial budgets and forecasts with FinanceProviding informal performance feedback frequently, recognizing achievement, and flagging opportunities for growth. Writing quarterly and annual performance feedback and completing performance evaluations.Providing advice and assistance to teams on technical difficulties that arise in the course of doing their work.Staying current on the Cost Management tools and practices that your team members are using.Utilize analytics skills both to guide individual contributors and to directly contribute to essential analysis for the success of the team.

London, England, United Kingdom

Budget responsibility for monthly cloud cost, reporting, capacity utilization, optimization analysis, and financial chargeback reports.Support annual budget and long-range planning for cloud costs and usage.Build reports, dashboards, and tools to enable senior leadership through engineering teams understand usage, utilization, costs, and opportunities to optimize.Provide timely, insightful, and actionable reports to Finance, Business Operations, and Engineering leadership.Develop and drive opportunities to advance FinOps culture throughout the organization, both within and outside the Technology org.Be accountable for keeping core reports up-to-date and find opportunities to improve the accuracy and usability of these reports (AWS cost explorer, Tableau and Yotascale FinOps software)Partnering with senior directors to establish an inclusive, data-driven, and results-oriented culture.

London, England, United Kingdom

Budget responsibility for monthly cloud cost, reporting, capacity utilization, optimization analysis, and financial chargeback reports.Support annual budget and long-range planning for both cloud and software needs and usage.Build reports, dashboards, and tools to enable senior leadership through engineering teams understand usage, utilization, costs, and opportunities to optimize.Provide timely, insightful, and actionable reports to Finance, Business Operations, and Engineering leadership.Develop and drive opportunities to advance FinOps culture throughout the organization, both within and outside the Technology org.Be accountable for keeping core BizOps data sets and reports up-to-date and find opportunities to improve the accuracy and usability of these reports. Partnering with the Director of TechOps, establish an inclusive, data-driven, and results-oriented culture.Lead the Cloud and Software Cost, Asset Management, and Risk Management programs for Cirium. Maintain and improve our Risk Management program, driving best practices across teams and working with Central Services to report on and manage our risks. Build and evolve Asset Management program.Manage and coach BizOps Analysts. Total cost of ownership projectProduced a Power BI report detailing a centralised view of total cost of ownership for the tech organisation which split cloud costs and staff cost per product revenue to show product profitability. This report also included and operational issues such as security risk to revenue of product based on vulnerability scanning and penetration testing results.

London, England, United Kingdom

Partnering with the VP of Technology, establish an inclusive, data-driven, and results-oriented culture.FinOps Lead in charge of AWS cost optimisationOwnership of the tech spend, identifying opportunities to reduce waste, work with Finance to reconcile monthly spend.Participate in business case development, cost modelling, TOC (Total Cost of Ownership) and trade-off exercise for new and existing products, services, and initiatives.Build reports, dashboards, and tools to enable senior leadership through engineering teams understand usage, utilization, costs, and opportunities to optimize.Provide timely, insightful, and actionable reports to Finance, Business Operations, and Engineering leadership.Develop and drive opportunities to advance FinOps culture throughout the organization, both within and outside the Technology org.Working with internal and external stakeholders to coordinate project plans, milestones and create consolidated status reports for investment casesAligning and working within the Product Technology Governance & Operating framework, ensuring standards (tools, documents, and templates) and processes are in place and adhered toManage the process for tracking of actual spend/budget and resource for all Product Technology projects and workforce planning resource utilisation, forecast revisions, and time phasing of spendMaintaining key project documentation including project plans, RAID logs, action logs and overall governance on SharePointManage and coach BizOps Analysts.

London, United Kingdom

Data Analytics guild (Aligning 5 different Data Sources/Systems to dashboards) – involved in digital transformation projects: implementing digital platforms and self-service platform for sales enablement to give a 360 degree view of the customer. The aim of these projects was to improve business processes, operations and migrate manual processes to digital platforms.• Produce, review and analyse reporting required for month end close, working closely with Accounting services support team to ensure accuracy and understanding of period results.• Perform customer, market, or product specific ad-hoc analysis on complex data sets• Ownership of budget and forecasting processes for share of the brand, ensuring a rigorous and accurate process with appropriate challenge, understanding and communication of risks, issues and opportunities• Partner with and provide support to the senior leadership team with regards to managing and ownership of Revenue and cost budgets, providing necessary challenge and insight while identifying opportunities where appropriate to drive efficiency• Produce and interpret regular financial reports and ad-hoc analysis with focus on key performance metrics, helping to drive profitable revenue growth and ensure that decisions are made based on actionable insight• Work with UK Sector leadership teams within the business to provide financial support when establishing priorities and roadmaps for investment and portfolio management decisions.• Ensure ongoing support and tracking of projects including providing effective challenge on deliverables & milestones.• Manage the integration of acquisitions • Partner closely with the wider Finance Global teams to efficiently support the business• Support an effective control environment and safeguard the company’s assets

London, Greater London, United Kingdom

• Liaising with external stakeholders particularly TfL and London borough councils to report on performance• Delivering month-end management accounts with variance commentaries under tight deadlines • Working closely with the regional directors to identify areas where cost savings can be made;• Driving process changes to ensure efficient use of resources on a £35million budget.• Designing and delivering analysis to drive improved financial knowledge of regional management;• Providing relevant insight and analysis to improve the strategic and operational resource allocation process; • Proactively working with non-finance directors to ensure that the Finance function becomes embedded in the business and provides value adding and innovative financial advice;• Providing key Management Information to the business to make improvements, bringing new innovative ideas for income generation and cost savings to the team and the business;• Annual budget and forecast preparation including training for budget managers;• Preparing weekly KPI and insight reports providing detailed commentary on key variances to budget and movements in performance• Full ownership of the region accounts: Balance sheet reconciliations, prepayments, accruals, fixed asset maintenance. • Achievements include successful support of the region to deliver a £280k saving on salary costs with no redundancies• Effectively convinced the Exec team on having a pre and post-completion process for contract bidding with detailed analysis on reasons why bid performance wasn’t matching actual performance

London, United Kingdom

• Monthly management accounts preparation and presentation of variances commentaries to monitor performance and improve cash flow.• Working closely with the operational directors to identify areas where performance can be improved. • Tracking progress of projects through different stages and ensuring they are managed within budget as well as post completion evaluation.• Designing and delivering analysis to drive improved understanding of financial accounts. • Provide relevant and pragmatic insight and analysis to improve the strategic and operational resource allocation process. • Year-end financial accounts and liaising with auditors.• Proactively working with non-finance directors to ensure that the Finance function becomes embedded in the business and provides value adding and innovative financial advice. • Intercompany journals and reconciliation between parent company and subsidiaries.• Providing key Management Information to the business to make improvements, bringing new innovative ideas to the team and the business.• Annual budget and quarterly forecast preparation including delivering training to budget managers.• Produce high quality and insightful management information to the senior leadership team

London, United Kingdom

• Monthly management accounts preparation and presentation of variances commentaries to monitor performance and improve cash flow.• Producing Ad-hoc reports and analysis to aid strategic decision making for 30 budget managers.• Financial advice provided on maximising profitability in key accounts and cost accounting to client departments. • Year-end financial accounts and liaising with auditors.• Intercompany journals and reconciliation between parent company and subsidiaries.• Annual budget and quarterly forecast preparation including delivering training to budget managers.• System Administration including setting up new users and granting access to the systems; creating new codes; and opening and closing periods in accounting software.Key Achievements: • Successfully replaced existing reporting software including installation, training 2 months ahead of deadline.• Developed a step-by-step guidance on budget versus actual monitoring procedure.• Main lead in the setting up of a new subsidiary organisation including creating a new database in financial software, a new bank account and implemented procedures to monitor performance.• Developed training workshops for budget managers on the reporting and financial software.

London, United Kingdom

• Monthly Management Accounts: Preparation of Management Accounts, producing monthly income and expenditure statements and interpreting any variances to budget for 20 budget holders.• Budgeting: Preparation of the annual budget and forecast including training for budget holders.• Year-end: Assisted with the Year-end accounting and producing reports for management.• Cost accounting for Client departments and providing information to aid management decision-making.• System project team: analysed existing financial systems to identify and implement software configuration changes and/or process re-engineering to improve business practices.• Key Member in the development of an Automated Sales invoice system.• System Administration: setting up new users and granting access to the systems; creating new codes; and opening and closing periods in accounting software.• Training: running workshops for budget holders on automated sales invoice software, budgeting and using the accounting software.• Liaised and advised the Client departments on maximising profitability in key accounts.

London, United Kingdom

• Coding and processing large volumes of purchase invoices (150per week) and sales invoices (50per week).• Processing weekly payment runs.• Preparing and updating Income tax report for Inland Revenue.• Reconciling control accounts to trial balance.• Dealing with and banking cheque and cash payments received.• Shadowing management accountant and assisting with the preparation of accounts, producing quarterly income and expenditure statements and interpreting any variances to budget.• Managing and filing all financial documentation.

London, United Kingdom

• Maintaining database and updating the control accounts.• Coding and processing purchase and sales ledger invoices using Access Accounting Software.• Reconciling cashbooks, bank accounts and the ledgers on a Daily Basis.• Managing and filing all financial documentation.

London, England, United Kingdom

• Providing administrative support to project management• Coding and processing purchase ledger invoices using Oracle Financial Software• Registering, posting invoices for payment, and chasing overdue invoices• Posting and allocating payments• Keeping budget spend spreadsheet up to date

Accounting And Business Management, Business Administration And Management, General, 2:1

Economics (Access To University), 21 Level 3 Credits (300 Ucas Points)

6 Gcse’S At A – C Results

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