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 quality assurance, report pulling and other project-related tasks) globally. Produce Adhoc/ BAU Reports and Dashboards showing sales performance vs Budget and projected revenue for the future period.• 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 productionise.• 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• Provide data integration and commercial operations support for new Product/Company Acquisitions or other significant events

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 to share with their respective regions. Acting as a trusted adviser and to add value that assists in decision making• 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• Built Top Down/ Bottom up Financial models for Annual Budget/Plan in Excel and Access• Introduced Statistical Model to forecast sales trend• Built Revenue Waterfall Models• Introduced Reserve Movement Analysis Model

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• Provide analysis for special projects as required• Identify and highlight data discrepancies to the MIS team.• Review and authorise commission payments.• Drive process improvements and efficiencies.

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 Commissions and sales teams at SME capacity in the development, implementation and training on new commissions’ tool globally.• 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.• Built Statistical model to forecast commission payment trend (by sales manager) for future quarters to allow management to have a view about the probable spend for rest of the year.• Built Account management teams’ targets and performance metrics globally to help finance team set up future year’s targets and floors• Introduced Sales Specialists on-boarding metrics globally• Help project team in gathering requirements from the end users.• Test quality of Data migrated from legacy system.• Review the calculation logic applied to the commissions elements• Organised system testing• Provide Training to the sales/commissions teams on the new tool

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 driving process improvement for O2 Retail Channels.

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 accounting timetables and preparation of cash flow statements, payment budgets, performance metrics regarding invoice throughput and payments backlogs.Key Achievements• 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