Wayne Gibson Email & Phone Number

Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand

Greater New York City Area

• Business partner to the Sales and Customer Services, Emerging Business, Learning & Solutions and Content business units.• Reported monthly to Managing directors of each division on budget/forecast variances and assisted on employee hiring strategy.• With each business unit prepared quarterly forecasts, annual budget and 5 year plans. Presented plans to Executive directors and challenged leadership teams on numbers based on business understanding and analysis.• Responsible for accurate and timely consolidations of MA level plans and allocated P&L’s.• Understood and helped continual development of Hyperion smartview compensation model.• Used Hyperion Essbase as a planning application to input and retrieve forecast data for analysis.

London, United Kingdom

• Led the demand planning and balancing meetings and managed 3 staff to complete the monthly Sales and Operational Planning (S&OP) cycle.• Responsible for the total Sky new sales and up sell forecasts as well as Now TV and Sky Go (Multi-media products).• Acted as conduit to create alignment between Trading, Marketing and Finance teams and was first point of contact for Head of Departments and their queries.• Understood all promotional activities and incorporated these into statistical forecasts.• Member of Connectivity Steering Group – Director and Head of Department level. Charged with providing critical analysis and recommendations on future demand and supply.• Managed relationship with materials planning team to ensure the successful execution of the operational plan.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for forecasting, analyzing and understanding the sales demand.• Worked with Product Marketing to forecast Sky Go, Now TV and On Demand, ensuring that the forecast requirement impact of campaigns provided a balanced forecast.• Prepared high quality decks for monthly S&OP meeting that delivered the operational planning forecast to stakeholders.• Supported Supply Chain, Call Centre Demand planning and Network planning teams to deliver accurate operational plans. • Provided detailed accuracy report (MAPE & bias) on monthly forecasts to S&OP Director, identifying major issues/concerns for operational business units. Achieved target of <10% variance for total new sales.• Worked with Product Marketing to develop their models and improve accuracy in their forecasts to achieve business target of 6.5 million connected users• Project Manager for £14m project. This required managing and aligning a large number of stakeholders over a 6 month period to achieve goal.

London, United Kingdom

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London, United Kingdom

• Managed team of three qualified accountants to prepare monthly Board report. This included high level, commercially focused commentary on business performance focusing on variance to budget/forecast.• Budget and forecast: acted as an advisor to business units and responsible for their submissions subjecting them to appropriate challenge and analysis; and led annual/quarterly consolidation process through to preparation and review of Board presentation

London, United Kingdom

• Managed month end Group consolidation: supervised two qualified staff responsible for the GL upload into Hyperion, consolidation entries and group eliminations; ensured Group intercompany balances and interest were calculated correctly and eliminated; and reviewed consolidated Group BS, P&L and Debt report.• Responsible for month end Treasury Accounting: reviewed system generated calculations on interest rate swaps, interest on external debt and intercompany balances; calculation of Group net debt and covenant preparation; and reviewed all financing charges including foreign exchange, fair value adjustments and amortization of fees.• Business lead for implementation of Hyperion consolidation system: worked with technology team to design system ensuring reporting and business requirements were met; and responsible for UAT, training of end users and development of reporting tools. • Work stream lead for Process transformation project (Treasury accounting): performed detailed analysis of accounting processes identifying areas of weakness and development; and managed Treasury specialist reconfiguring system and changing processes that reduced the month end reporting timetable by two days

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for transition of Head Office accounting function to new location, managed the month end process supervising two qualified accountants.• Change management. Identified and drove to implementation improvements to management information. • Budget and forecast. Preparation and review of quarterly Income statements and Balance sheets, ensuring correct cashflow for dividends, intercompany interest and bond payments

London, United Kingdom

• Co-ordination, preparation and analysis of monthly business performance report for the Board and Banks.• Managed quarterly analysis of P&L performance using bridging tool, commentaries and ratio analysis.• Reviewed capital expenditure proposals and investment pipeline to make recommendations to Directors.• Prepared banking covenants on a monthly basis.• Co-coordinated treasury activity for interest payments, debt drawdowns and repayments.• Monitored Group cash position and forecast cash position to advise Board.• Responsible for the construction of data room that led to Company sale. Reviewed due diligence report and fielded subsequent follow up queries from PWC and potential investors.• Preparation and analysis of weekly Group LFL sales report to comment on performance to CFO, c£105 annual turnover.

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Tauranga, New Zealand

Managed small to medium sized audits from planning to sign off. Benefited from KPMG training and secondment to Belgium to gain international experience.