Experience

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  Powerco

  • Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand

  • Finance Business Partner

    • Mar 2022 - Present
    • Tauranga, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand
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  Moody’s Analytics

  • Greater New York City Area

  • Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

    • Jan 2016 - Jun 2017
    • 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 quarterl...

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  Sky

  • United Kingdom
  • Broadcast Media Production and Distribution
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Head of Sales Demand Planning

    • Jul 2013 - Jan 2014

    • 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.

  • Senior Demand Planning Analyst

    • May 2012 - Jun 2013

    • 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.

  • Financial Analyst

    • Jan 2012 - Apr 2012

    (Contract)

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  BBC Worldwide

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Senior Group Management Accountant

    • Jun 2011 - Dec 2011
    • 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 submissi...

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  Top Right Group (formerly Emap Ltd)

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Group Financial Accountant

    • May 2009 - Dec 2010
    • 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&amp;L...

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  Hanson

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Financial Accountant

    • Apr 2008 - Apr 2009
    • 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 o...

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  Georgica plc

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

    • Jul 2006 - Feb 2008
    • London, United Kingdom

    • Co-ordination, preparation and analysis of monthly business performance report for the Board and Banks.• Managed quarterly analysis of P&amp;L performance using bridging tool, commentaries and ratio analysis.• Reviewed capital expenditure proposals and investment pipeline to make recommendation...

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  Hiscox

  • European Management Accountant

    • Oct 2004 - May 2006

    (Contract)

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  News International

  • Management Accountant

    • Mar 2004 - Aug 2004

    (Contract)

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  Pernod Ricard

  • Business Analyst

    • Sep 2002 - Oct 2003

    (Contract)

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  Perrier Vittel UK

  • Systems and Commerical Accountant

    • Jan 2002 - May 2002

    (Contract)

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  T-Mobile

  • Transmission Analyst

    • Aug 2001 - Dec 2001

    (Contract)

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  KPMG Audit

  • Tauranga, New Zealand

  • Supervising Senior

    • Feb 1998 - May 2001
    • 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.