Experience

EDDIE STOBART LOGISTICS LIMITED
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

  • Jul 2023 - Present

Kingsland Drinks
• United Kingdom
• Food and Beverage Services
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Commercial Finance Manager

  • Apr 2020 - Jul 2023


Quintessential Brands Group

• United Kingdom
• Wine & Spirits
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Financial and Commercial Analyst

  • Sep 2010 - Feb 2020

  • Budgeting and Forecasting - Primary responsibility for preparation of Annual Budgets and Quarterly Forecast P&Ls and Balance Sheet and Cashflow statements for the Group. - Facilitate and co-ordinate all the related activities and provide support to the teams to provide timely and accurate information to be fed into the Budgets and Forecasts. - Work closely with the leadership team to determine robust assumptions to drive the Budgeting and Forecasting processes forward. - Provide scenario analysis based on target volume achievements. • New Product Costing - Undertaking robust Costing for New Products / Customers by posing relevant questions to Product Development, Operations, Commercial and Procurement teams. - Responsible for streamlining the New Product costing process by designing costing templates, communication flows and costing sign-off process. • Revenue and Margin Reporting - Evaluating weekly and monthly sales by product, by market and by channel of sale and communicating the findings to the Finance, Commercial and Marketing teams. - Customer Profitability Analysis. - COGs analysis and provision of variances to Budgets. • Monthly Cashflow - Responsible for designing and preparation of monthly cash flow forecast for one of the group companies • Financial Modeling - Develop Financial Models and provide analysis to support strategic initiatives and aid management decision making. • Process Improvement - Analyse the current processes and drive efficiencies by undertaking process improvement projects and automations where possible. ` • Technical Aptitude - Full understanding of Excel and its advanced functions like vlookups, conditional statements, etc - More than working knowledge of Cognos Powerplay, and TROPOS systems used within the company. - Cross-functional interaction being the first point of contact in finance for commercial team and providing support to the Operations and Marketing teams for their initiative Show less



J P Morgan Chase

• Italy
• Banking
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Sr Analyst

  • Jul 2006 - Aug 2009

  - On a monthly basis, would reforecast the expense and headcount numbers taking into consideration new set of information and updates. - Variance Analysis of the expense and headcount numbers by comparing the actuals with the planned and reforecasted numbers and providing commentaries and explanations. - Prepared the Monthly Executive Management Report, which was a 40 page deck drilling-down into every expense item. - Monthly Project Analysis and Reporting in order to determine the costs and the cost-saves to the company owing to certain projects being undertaken. Show less



Tata Consultancy Services

• India
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Executive

  • 2005 - 2006

  - Ratifying Project Classifications, relevant for Revenue Recognition from Accounting Standards point of view - Tracking Project Profitability by considering the revenues and costs and comparing the actual and plan. - Preparing presentations for board meetings - Designed a Web Page – The Project Classification Questionnaire Screen. The Project Managers across TCS use this screen to enter project related details relevant from finance point of view - Ratifying Project Classifications, relevant for Revenue Recognition from Accounting Standards point of view - Tracking Project Profitability by considering the revenues and costs and comparing the actual and plan. - Preparing presentations for board meetings - Designed a Web Page – The Project Classification Questionnaire Screen. The Project Managers across TCS use this screen to enter project related details relevant from finance point of view