Tim Bennett Email & Phone Number

Planning, forecasting and analysis.

Finance Analyst, Centre of Planning, Reporting & Analysis

Bracknell Forest, England, United Kingdom

• Manage the delivery of robust accounts, pre-flash schedules and variance analysis commentary.
• Provide the business with insight and trends on sales margin and investigate/ resolve unexpected variances.
• Collaborate with FBPs, CoPRA and Buying/ Merchandising teams in Victoria, London to provide detailed accounting analysis on commercial initiatives and strategies such as Immediate Exchange, Stock Exit and Refurbished.
• Proactive engagement with the Finance Projects team, influencing and increasing exposure to upstream commercial/ system changes, ensuring the financial impact is understood and feedback communicated.
• Create linkage between IT/ Systems and Finance teams, enhancing understanding and mapping system processes for future reference.
• Preparation of Half-year and Year-end accounts of high profile stock provisions of aged inventory, customer returns impairments, shrinkage calculations and unique accounting judgements.

Bracknell Forest, England, United Kingdom

• Lead the operational relationship of two external service providers, delivering stock management activity for Waitrose & Partners Branches.
• Responsible for ensuring a quality service is delivered in a professional, consistent way in line with expectations and holding the provider to task when required.
• Proven task management of count scheduling, production of shrinkage reporting and analysing performance KPI.
• Implement CI opportunities, to improve count accuracy and drive higher sales though improved stock availability and regain stock file integrity.
• Maintain Business Partnering relationships with Retail to add operational insight on 3i (Inventory Integrity Index), shrinkage, stock drift and stock management activity to optimise to Branch resource and.
• Successful relaunch of Stock Count activity, post COVID-19 resulting from a tactical review of available data sources to prioritise Branches who would benefit the most.

Bracknell Forest, England, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the preparation of month end reviews of actual expenditure for The Waitrose Farm (Leckford), Launch Costs and B2B cost centres within the Waitrose & Partners P&L. Resolving material queries, by working.
• Created Year end balance sheet provision adjustments and Hyperion reporting.
• Calculated the GST tax return and investigated material suspended VAT entries.

Bracknell Forest, England, United Kingdom

Bracknell Forest, England, United Kingdom

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