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Milton Keynes, Gb

Pharmaceutical for Blood Products for therapeutic care and rare orphan diseases. Divisional Commercial Finance Director • Tactical market access pricing support and global pricing management • Supporting funding pitching and in-bound due diligence from potential investors • Direct multi national team management in London and Milan • Regular liaison contact with current bank on trade finance •Compliance officer for the Commercial division • Lead Commercial Analytics with direct reporting responsibilities in London and Milan • Shared accountability for divisional financial performance with divisional president • UK plant production site leadership team member • Strategic support for global business (ex USA) and management of strategy implementation including long term planning • New process formulation and setting up internal business process • Responsible for long range and near term business planning and pricing strategy • Managed and developed new country roll-out planning and investment appraisal • Owned international tender, customer sales negotiations and decision support • Facilitated global distribution network planning and risk management • Partnered with international regional VPs in direct customer negotiations and strategy formation for rapid growth business • Supported and reviewed anti-trust filing submissions for M&A activities to the UK Competition and Markets Authorities (CMA) • Played a key strategic role to core Finance dept activities in Currency hedging, Reporting, FP&A • Managed commercial and contractual risks with delegated contractual authority to sign off penalty clauses, guarantees and other potential liabilities • CRM management support ownership

Turin, It

• Ownership of UK and ROI financial results and performance• Finance business partner to the UK senior management team• Direct commercial responsibility for product and channel segment profitability including planning on product portfolio mix optimisation • Key stakeholder for the planning and approval on profitability based on new product launches, market pricing acceptability and timing of product launches. • Direct management of the UK Business Control finance team • Decision maker for key customer fleet deals including deal analysis and approvals• Revising UK business planning recommendations including capex and real estate planning• Key decision-maker for internal tender profitability approvals and general tender support.• Leading high profile cross functional activities including annual budgeting, quarterly forecasting, strategic business reviews, cost reduction reviews and decision support.• Steering MD and Sales Director in commercial tenders on profitability, cash flow, risk and its mid-term goals• Monitoring key macro-economic KPIs and developing options & scenarios for the organisation• Leading UK incremental process change programme involving sales and finance teams• Creating and presentation to UK management level monthly management reporting• Strengthening UK Finance team by developing financial models and coaching staff on the creation and maintenance of financial planning tools.• Maintaining SOX/ ICFR standards compliance within the commercial and operational depts.

London, Gb

•(Formerly Cable & Wireless)• Programme management of integration plans for the Finance dept resulting in integrating all 350,000 customers of 2 companies in 4 months• Rapid deployment of sales key performance indicators to support MDs of several business units in 1 month – targets setting, performance management, commercial support- 15 % increase in productivity in first 2 months• Succeeding in establishing adequate cost control on operational costs and cost reduction initiatives; 10% reduction in operating expenditure within 12 months• Proactively identifying tactical recommendation to sales teams in terms of products based on margin analysis of product segments- improving overall profit position by 5%• Simplifying monthly management reporting pack across entire organisation in 2 months.• Leading financial forecasting and business planning initiatives including installing analytical capabilities within local regions in 3 months resulting in superior P&L forecasting• Close coordination with Group financial planning team to ensure consolidated figures makes commercial sense and analysis of division level data• Management of senior management reporting of budgets and alignment to long term business planning across multiple business units for the Retail division.• Management of monthly management reporting into Business Unit (BU) FDs and MDs• Supervising analysis of revenue and Cost of Sales by customer and product type for respective BU MDs• Ownership of financial controls for individual regions and responsibility for tracking of commercial contracts.• Integration of two major businesses and change management

London, England, Gb

• (Formerly BG Group)• Finance Manager with P&L responsibilities for telecom subsidiary from 2001 onwards, driving increase in revenues year on year of 80-150% pa on new start-ups• Stakeholder management of new start-up including equity holder, senior management team, local country managers and employees• Drove a change transformation programme across 3 countries to introduce new working practices, customer care and new products pipelines, resulting in 30% performance gains.• Prepared New Product Development & investment papers and models to the Group Executive team for sanction with a 100% successful outcome on all proposals.• Developed business models enabling expansions into 20 cities in India and Brazil, which added 80,000 customers into the business in less than 12 months.• Influenced, lobbied and engaged Directors to fast track critical investment to acquire Brazilian assets ahead of competition in 7 months.• Project managed of up to 5 development teams simultaneously in India and achieving one of the fastest project delivery time scales and lowest cost in the company, resulting in cost savings of £500k-1m per city.• Lead and coordinate business planning and budgeting process for global subsidiary• Responsible for subsidiary’s 10 & 5 years business planning horizon and short term 12 months forecasting for submission into Group level• Ensuring robust business plan submissions by challenging assumptions & business drivers• High level strategic guidance to Marketing support on NPD programmes resulting in high profile brand building initiative and product breakeven/profitability analysis• Working with overseas JV complex partnerships in India and Brazil on business initiatives• Implemented Key Performance indicators and drivers for the entire operating business. • Market analysis/ benchmarking of industry trend, competition and new projects against competitors

New Orleans, La, Us

A senior analyst role recruited to bring analytical expertise following MBA, into the asset management group which is responsible for Entergy’s European power plants, including power trading• Design, build and maintenance of financial models for operational and project finance. Extensive liaison with 45 agent banks & syndicate banks for project financing Business development analytical support for new power plan investments in Bulgaria.

Munich, De

A leading procurement role in power plant construction with responsibility for a team of buyers with short terms assignments to Asia Pacific countries, Australia, China, Taiwan and Germany. • Main negotiator for contractual content of product and services• Management of a purchasing annual turnover of US$ 30 million and with an average cost savings of 10%.• Selected into Siemens’ Accelerated Young Manager Programme

Advanced Diploma In Management Accounting

New Venture Innovation Programme

Mba

Certificate Of Business Law

Beng, Mechanical Engineering