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Warrington, England, United Kingdom

• Supporting the Executive during a period of strategy redesign and organisational restructuring:
• Led the budget and forecast processes for 2019/2020, as well as a root and branch reforecast on joining the business, overhauling a model which was unfit for purpose. Wrote various papers to the Audit & Risk Committee.
• Led the budget and forecast processes for 2019/2020, as well as a root and branch reforecast on joining the business, overhauling a model which was unfit for purpose. Wrote various papers to the Audit & Risk Committee.
• Identified the key commercial terms of a major supplier contract, enabling these to be invoked in order to reduce costs by an annualised £0.1m, and analysing the potential financial impact of pursuing a strategy of.
• Overhauled the company’s Business Case/Project Planning template, creating a more robust and transparent model by adding detailed user guidelines, enhancing the relevance of financial analyses, and ensuring closer.
• Redesigned Sage reporting structures and hierarchies to ensure that budgetary accountability was more clearly defined, monitored and approved at all levels. Created company-wide training materials and videos for a new.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Providing support for, and challenge to, a range of potential funding opportunities, ensuring that all financial terms and risks of bid/tender guidelines and draft legal agreements were evaluated prior to contract.
• Provided key support to a complex contract negotiation in Iraq.
• Created a flowchart to identify, evaluate and address potential tax and treasury issues, for use in all contract negotiations across the organisation.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Providing consultancy to a number of clients including:
• A European clothing brand for a trial launch into UK, giving guidance on pricing and 5 year planning to secure internal investment for a multi-country rollout.
• Developing the digital marketing strategy for an online education business.
• Producing financial projections and graphs to illustrate property rental and pricing options for a business coaching consultancy.
• Business planning and financial projections to support… Show more Providing consultancy to a number of clients including:
• Business planning and financial projections to support investment funding bids for a corporate wellness business. Show less

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Led the North region’s voice and input in driving forward a national project to implement Agresso finance and management information systems. Challenged the basis on which new MI structures had been built, and secured.
• Reorganised regional management structures, to ensure visibility and accountabilityof budgets in line with the Trust’s new finance model.
• Trained staff at all levels, from general managers and… Show more
• Trained staff at all levels, from general managers and retail/catering managers to surveyors and gardeners, in the use of a newly rolled out budgeting tool. Made key recommendations for process and content.
• Overhauled the region’s primary weekly retail and catering analysis report by documenting robust processes and challenging the calculation of key KPIs. Reduced the high level of issues and queries raised by report.

Macclesfield

• Produced recommendations for a European-wide customer price quotation tool, improving the quality of product and process cost data & highlighting the need to move pricing from a pure cost-plus to a market-driven basis..
• Produced a report to the Board analysing major capital expenditure projects, identifying common issues such as the need for a standard tool to chart… Show more
• Produced a report to the Board analysing major capital expenditure projects, identifying common issues such as the need for a standard tool to chart critical paths and milestones, as well as a consistent approach to.
• Created Excel-based planning models covering a full range of corporate strategic objectives and providing guidance & training for factory managers. Demonstrated financial expertise and commercial acumen to gain the.
• Overhauled the monthly Hyperion Finance Report, enhancing the quality and relevance of narrative commentary and graphical trends. Took a lead in coaching and developing the UK shared finance team by explaining the.
• Wrote a post-investment appraisal in respect of the purchase of a production site in France, highlighting contract terms which were subsequently invoked to both increase sales and recover costs.

Cheadle

• Provided financial guidance to the company's Russian Licensee, which was facing its first experience of economic recession. Withstood initial local resistance to continue emphasising the importance of cashflow, and.
• Instrumental in negotiating… Show more
• Instrumental in negotiating a new contract with the same Russian Licensee. Constructed a business case to convince Licensee management of, and gained CFO approval for, the key dynamics which underpinned a non-standard.
• Developed a pan-European contingency planning framework, to mitigate against potential Licensee failure. Applied key steps in negotiations with the Liquidator of the former Hungarian Licensee, ensuring that stock was.
• Created third party cashflow forecasting models, and worked together with Licensee management teams in developing commercial plans to ensure local business continuity and secure Umbro’s royalty income streams.
• Built models to assess the commercial viability of new products and propose pricing structures across the distribution chain.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Head of Department and a member of the Operational Management Team, line-managing a team of three:
• Overhauled the international payroll process by interfacing multiple processes and introducing control checks between Sage, Excel and bank software, and engaging the Assistant Accountant in the process of documenting.
• Overhauled the international payroll process by interfacing multiple processes and introducing control checks between Sage, Excel and bank software, and engaging the Assistant Accountant in the process of documenting.
• Providing advice and support in relation to programme and project reports for a wide range of institutional and governmental donors.
• Responsible for key cashflow management. Successfully challenged the charity’s banking suppliers to have surcharges waived on a non-functioning fast-track funds transfer process.
• Recruited two HQ finance managers as direct line reports, and led telephone interviews for overseas finance positions. Show less

Street, Somerset

• Improved profit margins in the German market by producing a plan of action for the phased termination of business to customers with sub-optimal product offerings, poor brand image and higher product returns. In.
• By analysing and benchmarking competitor/partner performance, influenced the decision regarding significant funding for a Japanese distribution partner… Show more
• By analysing and benchmarking competitor/partner performance, influenced the decision regarding significant funding for a Japanese distribution partner, obtaining approval for this and other key conclusions from the.
• Provided analysis on Clarks branded retail store investments, challenging assumptions on store location and size, SKU profiles, trade margins and lease costs. Used this knowledge to influence a major decision on the.
• Produced analyses of competitor performance, identifying the main differences in business operating models and thereby presenting key recommendations for product sourcing and the creation/purchase of intellectual.
• Created and maintained a monthly financial analysis pack for a major European business partner, reporting data for formal review against a number of contractual targets.

Knutsford

• Reporting to the MD of a £100m turnover division and line-managing a team of two staff:
• Negotiated a pan-European dental glove distributor contract, consolidating the previous structure of disparate partners across countries into a single distributor by setting price and rebate structures to encourage.
• Worked closely with the central marketing team to develop and evaluate strategy, analysing NPD, new technologies… Show more Reporting to the MD of a £100m turnover division and line-managing a team of two staff:
• Worked closely with the central marketing team to develop and evaluate strategy, analysing NPD, new technologies and potential acquisition targets.
• Presented the health economics of synthetic gloves to potential institutional buyers, by highlighting the impact of increased re-use rates and the lower incidence of infection.
• Encouraged consumer-brand focused subsidiary Country Managers to understand and extend their focus to an unfamiliar medical business, which represented a small proportion of their overall turnover, by illustrating the.

Bsc, Economics And Accounting

Diploma, German Studies