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Doncaster, Gb

Wigan, England, Gb

Responsible for defining UK Tote Group’s global data strategy, to support the B2B, B2B2C and B2C business channels.Recruiting and building a central data team to support delivery of the data strategy – Reporting and Visualisation, Analytics and Data Science, Data Management and Development.Core business dashboards rolled out to functions within initial 12 months using AWS and Power BI; used by >70% of organisation and viewed 7k times per month on a 24/7 basis. Roll out of analytical models to predict customer behaviour achieving more than 80% accuracy.Introduction of central analysis team to create an insight hub to drive better decision making with functionally aligned analysts - increasing profitability and margin, identifying potential fraud and mitigating corporate risk.

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Responsible for Enterprise BI strategy and capabilities across the Dixon's Carphone group. Managing a team of onshore and offshore developers that supported data platforms for more than 30k users across the Currys group.

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Heading up the Business Intelligence team for Dixons Carphone MVNO brand, ID Mobile - 1 million customers with billions of data points over a 2+ year tenure. Delivery of Dixons Carphone's Telco data and BI capabilities on Google Cloud and Azure Cloud providing Micsrostrategy 2019 reporting, dashboards, visualisation and self service cubes and building out the data engineering platform on GCP where tactical innovation projects and advanced analytics/data science reside. Full E2E ownership of the project from requirements, business case, RFP, project management, delivery and deployment of production environment.Building out a multi-disciplined data team using FTE, contractor and partner resource, supporting all areas of the business - CRM, Commercial Finance, Trading, Operations, Billing and Collection, Digital etc. Projects include: churn, billing reconciliation (fuzzy matching), profitability reporting/forecasting, automation of manual reports, building out a campaign data marts, customer demographic insight, reporting on Mobile applications user insights, customer segmentation, deep dive analysis of the impact of capping on customer behavior plus many more.Establishing governance frameworks and processes for the iD Mobile data service covering all aspects of BI delivery and execution - resource planning, road-maps, prioritization, post implementation reviews, data governance and project showcases to iD community and wider Dixons Carphone group.Introduced and lead the Dixons Carphone Group Data Hub as a new meet up for the data community - project showcases, best practice careers discussions, Qwiklabs sessions working in collaboration with Google.

Reading, Berkshire, Gb

Responsible for ensuring that all customer data at Three is delivered, defined, maintained and reconciled.Ensuring that the appropriate access policies and management practices are in place and that people have the right tools and information required to do their jobs.

Las Vegas, Nevada, Us

Responsible for the delivery of actionable Insight and Analytics to more than 50% of UK land based gaming industry in the Licensed Betting Office, Casino, Arcade and Bingo and Interactive sectors.Developing and implementing a range of commercially proven yield tactics and strategies that delivered in excess of £50m incremental revenue growth. Managing and coordinating the insight and analytics activities of a large team that analyse billions of transactions, and driving commercial awareness through leadership, training workshops and coaching.

London, Gb

Responsible for delivering a revenue budget of £12million across IT/Telecoms and Ad-hoc Services. Achieved revenue growth of 34% over a 15 month period. Using analysis to identify customer trends, and create new propositions and strategies to meet demand. Managed IT Sales and Operations teams to deliver sustainable growth and yield across all revenue streams. Commercial analysis to support and challenge new IT business contracts falling outside of established sales policy and providing constructive guidance to sales teams.

London, Gb

Responsible for driving sustainable profitability and yield across the West London and London Midtown. Delivered a forecasted EBITDA contribution of more than £2m.Responsible for development and presentation of the Company Sales Dashboard to the executive team.Provided detailed forecasts for key revenue streams, rates, occupancies and EBITDA, and ensuring total revenue capture through detailed monthly auditing of centre P&Ls and sales figuresCommercial analysis to support and challenge all new business contracts falling outside of established sales policy.

London, Gb

Responsible for producing the Management Reporting packs for eight Serviced Office businesses generating in excess of £1million EBITDA. Produced detailed P&Ls and Balance Sheets for presentation to auditors.

Chippenham, Wiltshire, Gb

Weekly and monthly reporting of contracted fleet (5,000 vehicles) to Tesco, Sainsburys, and Serco. Monitoring and reporting on all fleet mileage, to ensure vehicles are within warranty.

Ba (Hons), Accountancy And Law

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