Transitioned to BlackLine as a result of the acquisition of Rimilia.Engaging with senior stakeholders at customer organisations, to identify opportunities for automation, streamlining, and implementation of leading practices.

Providing financial and data analysis tools to clients in the UK and abroad. Working in Excel to provide meaningful business insights, measurements against KPIs, and strategy recommendations for businesses and individuals in the UK and abroad.

Targeted intervention of highly at-risk Management Information Projects in the Purchasing workspace.Provided project management expertise, and introduced a rigorous approach.Established project documentation, lines of communication, accountability, scope, and objectives

Achieved significant improvements in data understanding and utilisation internally, enabling targeted negotiation planning, and resulting in multi-million dollar cost savings.Enabled senior management buy-in and budget support for a complex programme of work by working closely with Programme Lead in governance matters, preparation of strategic sourcing documents, presentation materials and forecasting reports.

Provided considerable increases in robustness of monthly and quarterly reporting cycles as a result of performing root-cause analyses of known bottlenecks.Supported newly proposed Port Services Programme, and provided 1st phase recommendations as a result of the analysis of 5 years of global data.Significantly reduced time required to administrate SharePoint site by revising permissions structure and introducing best practice documentation.

Successfully rolled out “CSI” planning tool to multiple internal client teams, working closely with key stakeholders to ensure system set-up, testing, training, and timings matched requirements.Reduced frustration with the approach, and time lost to errors by introducing User Access Management process and principals for system and database access.Facilitated preparation of external-facing client presentations with creation of PowerView and PowerPivot reports, collaborating with multiple internal teams to establish and share best practice.

Achieved extremely significant savings for time and effort requirements in monthly reporting cycle processes (over 50% reduction). Using process mapping, templates, and improved documentation to reduce the need for manual intervention, whilst enhancing error-identification capabilities.Enabled business confidence in processes in advance of upcoming regulatory requirements, prior to general awareness of the increased scrutiny.Improved business understanding of reporting by participating in external benchmarking exercise.Ensured compliance with internal requirements by supporting Business Continuity Planning (BCP) exercises.

- Responsible for analysis and maintenance of current pricing structure and tools- Making recommendations to senior management regarding pricing strategy- Aligning global pricing strategy with global subsidiaries.

Delivered ahead of schedule compliance with incoming Pensions Automatic Enrolment legislation, engaging key stakeholders in a collaborative approach.Producing an in-house Excel-based assessment tool for use by multiple payroll centres.Ensured tools, documentation, and communications materials met rigorous standards, testing extensively with internal and external parties.

Successfully supported transition to new pricing software, by providing key expertise in converting old contract rates into required formats, ensuring client-visible processes were positively impacted.Significantly improved understanding of system function, performance, and delays by establishing key lines of communication with software supplier.

- Co-founded a transport company in the North of England.- Managed operational matters, licensing, legal compliance.

A five month season job based in Val d'Isere, France. The role includes credit control and supplier requests, administrative functions and payment processing.

Assisting the Financial Services Marketing team in Europe, Africa and Latin America. Main responsibilities included data and metric analysis, and managing the Client Contact database (Oracle's On Demand)

A 5 month placement working for innocent SAS in Paris. Working with the Sales, Logistics and Finance teams to fill two unexpected vacancies I assisted with bank reconciliations, invoicing, credit control, supplier queries and processed orders for delivery.

Based in the London head office I worked in the "Environment" team, responsible for the office environment, Health and Safety compliance etc. I managed the fleet of branded vehicles across Europe, including pocurement and repairs, Health and Safety, and tax compliance. Responsible for small scale deliveries into and out of the office, and for managing the relationship with, and tendering of, courier contracts.