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• Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance - Trading & Forecasting I am responsible for delivering insight to enable the business to achieve its financial plans. Develop the forecast process to embed the financial.
• Results: Delivered key objective within the… Show more Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance - Trading & Forecasting I am responsible for delivering insight to enable the business to achieve its financial plans..
• Results: Delivered key objective within the first 6 month in role, whilst learning process largely unsupported due to staff turnover. Introduced story telling presentation of key information for Directors drawing out.
• Results: Improved the process efficiency through automation and removal of duplication for P&L cost and revenue line items; placed greater ownership on business partners; improved the overall accuracy of the budget.
• Results: Analysed line items identified discrepancy between booking system and budget file in specific cost items. Presented findings to Commercial and Finance directors, which allowed the business to develop.
• Results: Applied project management principles including critical path analysis; developed forecast calendar with business partners to identify pinch points, moving the process from a largely un-managed and reactive.

• Reporting to Head of Commercial Finance - CUK FP&A and Reporting responsible for providing business partnering support to Sales Director and direct reports including; strategy development and modelling, targeting and.
• Results:… Show more Reporting to Head of Commercial Finance - CUK FP&A and Reporting responsible for providing business partnering support to Sales Director and direct reports including; strategy development and.
• Results: Delivered succinct targets to the S&D leadership team across a range of metrics including; revenue, CoA and occupancy split by key channels and agents in order to benchmark direct and third party sales in.
• Results: Increased awareness across the Business of spend by channel, Developed Sales Senior Managers understanding of cost acquisition, identified promo £400k deficit for remainder of the year resulting in a review of.
• Results: Produced a forecast by individual agent, providing a 3 method approach to monitoring performance to assess the likelihood of achieving target to identify the potential costs to the business. Identified £900k.
• Results: Centralised and reconciled all agent contracts; developed executive summary identifying incentives in place and exposure, thus eliminating control failure resulting in £600k loss from staff turn over the.

Southampton, United Kingdom

• Reporting to Senior Sales Planning Manager responsible for developing strategic sales objectives; managed £9m sales promotional activity budget for use with travel agents; in conjunction with commercial and marketing.
• Results: Developed weighted average and promoter analysis to provide insight and recommendations around engagement, visibility and productivity of interactions which were taken forward as the KPIs for 2015..
• Results: Introduced monthly group session to share ideas and improvements on standardisation as well as 1-2-1 session to help with specific queries for individuals. Subsequently voted sales person of the year by peers.
• Results: Created automated summaries from a single data set to automate the population of performance, reducing the creation time by 50%. Allowing focus to shift to insightful commentary, peer challenge and next.
• Results: Introduced a formal approach to budget reviews enabling managers to focus on the key activities to maximise the reward from their spend reducing overall CoA by 5% YoY £250k Aged accruals reduced from over 12.

• Reporting to Senior MIS Manager managed a £10m agency sales incentive scheme. Responsible for analysing commercial information, providing insight and recommendations to senior management; developing and implementing a.
• Results: Developed a clear auditable process in-line with SOX… Show more Reporting to Senior MIS Manager managed a £10m agency sales incentive scheme. Responsible for analysing commercial information, providing insight.
• Results: Developed a clear auditable process in-line with SOX with key stakeholders to ensure standardised contracts and tracking in a central location, removing any ambiguity in language, greater accuracy of.
• Results - identified key trends within the booking curve; Providing recommendations on strategy to bring booking curve forward through travel agent engagement – accepted by senior leadershipIncreased query refresh.
• Results - 50% decrease in the data process time and reduction in the file size by 25% delivering smoother usage for users Show less

Southampton, United Kingdom

Reporting to Risk and Compliance Manager as a business partner developed pre-existing database to deliver 50% efficiency in process and accuracy through automation and engagement around the business; Produced new suite of monthly reports to enable business decisions; created job profile and operating procedures for incumbent person after role made.

Ma Economics For Business, Business/Managerial Economics

Ba (Hons) Business Economics With Business Law, 2:1

Activities and Societies: An active member of the University American Football team.

A Level, History, I.C.T, Business Studies, Media Studies

As Level, History, I.C.T., Business Studies, Media Studies

Gcse (9) Including -, Mathematics, English & Business Studies, A* To C