Stuart Morris Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Malmesbury, England, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Bicester, Oxford

•Deliver insightful information and visual analysis to enable informed senior management decisions•Produce KPI’s & P&L scenario analysis; actuals vs budget, forecast & last year. Income & cost by village/ market sector/ dept/ cost centre and general ledger code. Mapped the entire business to provide management with complete visibility. Created comprehensive process notes to ensure reporting continuity•Ensure reporting consistency and accuracy during a change of finance system•Drive the procurement supplier rationalisation project and deliver top down and bottom up analysis•Forecast and what if modelling of the procurement departmental costs/ savings achieved•Redesign, introduce more insightful analysis and fully automate the procurement monthly management pack•Understand the business change needs in Procurement and the Supply Chain, assess the impact of those changes, capture, analyse and document requirements •Ad hoc analysis and data mining

Didcot, Abingdon

•What if complex scenario modelling to aid bid/tender of new business. Key account FX reporting, investigation & reconciliation. Sales target setting & actuals vs target. Manage £40m cash flow & cash flow forecasting. Transactional analysis at unit/ category/ market level•Designed, built, implemented and automated a bespoke reporting tool that tracks and informs management of all problem areas within the business, I delivered business requirements and provided added value via better visibility and more in-depth data insights than was requested, and achieved this in just 4 weeks whilst also ensuring business as usual•Produced a report that detailed timings of fraudulent activity and proposed a plan of action to combat it. Plan was actioned and resulted in considerably less fraudulent activity, providing a considerable saving to the business•Implemented line by line profitability & implementation of KPI analysis, YOY LFL analysis at customer account level and actual vs budget/ forecast variance analysis and commentary at lowest level of detail •Introduced the preparation of annual budget & Quarterly forecast utilising market trends•Created analysis of customer services volume data to ensure call volumes could be managed effectively and service desk appropriately manned, allowing less calls to be outsourced and therefore reduce cost to the business•Production of highly confidential and time sensitive critical reporting to the CMA during the business acquisition period•Forecasting/ strategy planning to aid business development/ contract negotiations •Assisted all directors with business operations almost on a daily basis

Staines, Surrey, United Kingdom

•Develop financial models from the ground up that provide management with scenario planning analysis that governs decision support, prompts financial queries and results in improved company performance•Champion enhancements and efficiency improvements using macros, pivots, nested complex formulae etc, whilst improving and ensuring high levels of data accuracy of all reporting areas •Ensure successful year end planning and execution liaising with auditors and senior leadership team•Ensure a high standard of reporting and analysis that is robust, consistent and deadlines are met in a timely manner in line with company objectives•Be the go to person in finance for all departments with any financial related queries, in particular the sales cube, providing confidential KPI analysis to the senior leadership team•Manipulate large volumes of data and complex information in a way that provides greater visibility and transparency allowing for meaningful insight and recommendations to the business•Preparation, submission and presentation to senior leadership team of quarterly forecasts and annual budgets, monthly management pack and variance analysis•Month end preparation; analyse and review P&L, sales, margin, SG&A, grants, rebates, post journals/accruals, raise invoices, liaise with department directors and management accounting team•Prepare and submit PPRS payment calculation (£m’s) to the government and assist with audit queries, provide critical highly confidential information to the government CMU in a timely manner•Prepare sales incentive tracker and submit confidential payment amounts to payroll ensuring accuracy•Designed and implemented fully automated departmental headcount reports and submit to the business monthly•Prepared step by step process notes for all complex processes to train new manager and senior finance analyst•Designed and implemented fully automated daily sales tracker, prepare on a daily basis and issue to business

Staines-Upon-Thames, Chessington, Uxbridge, Fulham, Croydon

Various roles from finance assistant to corporate reporting accountant