Vikas S. Email & Phone Number

Dubai, AE

Dubai, United Arab Emirates

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

• I act as a Go-to-person to coordinate high priority requests from various stakeholders. I liaise with stakeholders to capture business needs and workflows to enable successful execution of projects (including data.
• Analyse pipeline data to give visibility of opportunities, highlight risks to quarterly targets, and analyse sales performance using Salesforce Reports and Dashboards, Excel and PowerBI
• Interrogate the financial and CRM reporting systems to respond quickly to ad hoc requests from senior management to drive effective decision making
• Identify data integrity issues and manage them appropriately in the short-term, then engage with technical teams to ensure long-term resolution
• Conceptualise (through user stories) and build new reports (in Excel, Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics, PowerBI and Qlik view) as per management's needs, and own mid-term delivery, then engage with technical teams to.
• Extract data from finance and CRM source systems and integrate it with off-line data, managing anomalies, to support GTM activities such as customer segmentation

London, United Kingdom

• Analysing large volumes of financial data to provide insight and recommendations to drive the business performance. Working closely with the Europe wide finance teams ensuring they have timely and accurate information.
• Interpret data, order and assess its value and then present the findings in a clear and concise way
• Draw on financial data, using appropriate tools (Excel/Access) to analyse(variance analysis), interpret and present the findings
• Partnering with the Regional Finance Managers to drive business performance by providing insightful, clearly presented analysis and suggest solutions that drive decisions and actions.
• Highlighting opportunities within the region for improvement on sales and productivity.
• Built EMEA wide Sales retention Model (Microsoft Access and Excel) to provide insight into the client retention percentages by Product/ Region/ Customer types

• Business partnering with sales teams provide analysis, tools and insight to help them make more informed decisions to drive business strategy while acting as a mini CFO for my area.
• Monthly validation of region’s sales numbers through regular interaction with sales heads.
• Provide analytical and strategic support, including business planning and project work
• Analyse variances and monitor Key Performance Indicators
• Provide support to planning and forecasting
• Support the month end financial close process

London, United Kingdom

• Timely and accurate calculations of commissions’ and discuss individuals’, teams and regional performances with Sales managers. Suggest improvements in the global commissions’ processes and improvements. Represent.
• Calculate and process commissions and operation bonuses using Excel and commission calculation tool.
• Analyse and present on sales performance results and make recommendations for improvement.
• Maintain the sales organizational hierarchy, and make any changes to hires, terminations, or compensation plan changes.
• Designed EMEA wide commission scorecard
• Global Financial Model to have a holistic view of Actual commission’s payment vs prior year/ budget split by regions.

I took Ownership and responsibility for commissions payment and management at channel level for O2 Retail shops (Circa 3,500 staffs) and over 100 Franchise stores across UK. Duties involve Business partnering, working closely with MIS team and resolve data issues, Audit & investigate unusual activities or arrangements to safeguard company's goodwill and.

• The role involved Building effective relationships with Business managers, Suppliers, auditors and Finance department, Co-ordinating the team with regards to workload, priorities, deadlines for payment runs and.
• Nominated by Finance Manager to resolve queries on over 50,000 outstanding invoices at the time Connaught went into administration

Post Graduate Diploma, Corporate Finance And Investments

Modules Corporate Treasury Management, Quantitative Analysis of Finance, Capital Structure and Funding, Research Methods for Accounting.

Masters, International Finance And Investments

Modules International Finance Dissertation, International Financial Management, Mergers and Acquisitions, International Business Finance.

Bachelors, Commerce

Modules Business Mathematics, Cost Accounting , Accountancy, Micro/Macro Economics

Part Qualified, Cima