Experience

Goodfellow

• United Kingdom
• Chemical Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance Business Partner

  • Mar 2021 - Present

  Reporting to the Finance Director, works collaboratively across the business and acts as business partner to continuously challenge and improve the quality and accuracy of financial and management information, proactively streamlining and improving processes along the way. Charged with building a central data repository using PowerBI as a data visualisation tool, responsibilities include ongoing development of MI, KPIs and insightful analysis for the wider business. Further duties are to create and maintain financial models supporting the annual budget cycle, and to provide month end support to the wider finance team, producing commentary to the financial accounts, analysing variances and highlighting areas for improvement. Show less



AROMI CAFFE LTD.

• United Kingdom
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Commercial Finance Manager

  • Sep 2017 - Mar 2021

  Aromi is an Italian family-run business (~50 employees) with 3 eateries, a catering service and a central kitchen. Employed to help structure the company expansion towards potentially becoming a chain. Responsible for assessing, improving and managing multiple aspects of the business, across various levels. Charged with reviewing, analysing and providing in-depth relevant commercial and financial insight to company Directors. Primary value in the roles was to identify and map out commercial problems, then leading the development of solutions to overcome obstacles. Charged with drafting and reforming HR documents and procedures, liaising with an external consultant to review employment contracts, disciplinary procedures and staff handbook. Created job descriptions for each role in the company, designing procedures for each step of the HR journey, from recruitment to departure, also orchestrating the roll out of the GDPR in the Company. Duties and responsibilities included: • Ground-up development of a commercial reporting system, effective in preparing weekly, monthly and yearly reports of sales, across products, departments and locations, including a P&L report by department and location; • Analysing past trends and seasonality, to then plan the weekly production, further building an ordering system to coordinate between the central kitchen and locations for efficiency; • Calculating the gross contribution margin by product, collecting all direct costs information, including ingredients and labour, for over 100 individual products, in order to support pricing decision-making; • Assisting in the selection of new tools and software for the Company to utilise for operational efficiency, including the till system, rota and clocking in/out recording. Show less



Barclays

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Head of Retail Business Planning and Monitoring

  • Jun 2007 - Oct 2015

  Reporting to the Chief Commercial Officer, led a team of 3 staff members in charge of commercial monitoring and reporting to senior management and supporting the sales network of branches, premier specialists and tied agents. Led the commercial budget negotiation process, in order to define targets for products, segments and sales units in terms of volume and margin. Collaborated with the HR department, building and calculating yearly incentive plans for the sales force, securing final approval. The team produced analysis, keynotes, and documents, to support senior management activities, meetings with sales force and the Group management. Other duties and responsibilities included: • Building Business Cases for evaluating branch opening or closure plans, new initiatives and service models (break even and pay back); • Running and managing specific projects on commercial data, conducting budget data uploads in DWH - Business Object and CRM tools evaluation; • Managing the CRM tool and targeting customer groups for effective product campaigns, marketing events and migrations; • Producing and presenting periodical reports and analysis as requested by the Group; • Contributing to several special projects, including building the business plan for external growth opportunities. Show less



Banca Intesa

• Russian Federation
• Banking
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial Controller

  • May 2004 - May 2007

  Controller on Banca Caboto (Capital Markets of the Group, now known as Banca IMI) Collaborating with the Head of Planning & Financial Control, responsible for preparing and producing reports for accurate performance evaluation. Operating in close connection with Banca Caboto desks, which operated in both the primary and secondary markets. Further working closely with the sales manager across the various following activities: P&L monitoring, forecasting, calculation of indicators -including EVA and daily P&L measurement of derivatives portfolios. Actively involved in Banca Caboto & Banca IMI merger, as part of the merging financial control systems team. Further project work included: • Organising set-up, implementation and launch of a web application for the monitoring of OTC derivatives sold to corporate and retail customers; • Successful migration of the derivatives contracts database to a new operating system. Show less



L'Oréal

• France
• Personal Care Product Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Junior Controller

  • Jun 2003 - Apr 2004

  Internship as Junior Controller for the brand Lancôme. Contributed to the analysis and set-up of a mapping system to monitor brand-new product distribution. Managed a ‘Challenge’ among sales agents, defining their targets and evaluating their performance. Internship as Junior Controller for the brand Lancôme. Contributed to the analysis and set-up of a mapping system to monitor brand-new product distribution. Managed a ‘Challenge’ among sales agents, defining their targets and evaluating their performance.



Italienische Botschaft in Berlin

• Germany
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Analyst

  • Apr 2001 - Jul 2001

  The Italian Embassy in Berlin. Analysed Italian direct investments in Berlin and in ‘New Länder’, taking part in other Embassy activities. The Italian Embassy in Berlin. Analysed Italian direct investments in Berlin and in ‘New Länder’, taking part in other Embassy activities.