Senior Lead Financial Analyst
Timken
Total years of experience :14 years, 2 months
• Support in meeting sales target of 5% growth for products and report gross margin.
• Drive Standard Costs that support incremental savings for product mix based on market and geography.
• Support product deployments and continuous innovation for go-to-market efforts.
• Evaluate standard margins, pricing and inventory for profitability and EBIT savings.
• Estimate and interpret a five year sales growth strategy for the product groups regionally.
• Lead Annual Business Plan and coordinate with product managers for Sales regionally.
• Deliver financial reports that identify cost variances, budgeting and interpret spends for Aerospace. Analyse monthly budgets versus actual expenses and validating accounting projects that are charged to cost centres.
• Co-ordinate in project management for data integration workflows tracking department expenses and Profit and Loss statements.
• Communicate with directors on quarterly budgets for business groups that help in managerial decision making.
• Headed a project for successfully driving productivity savings of 1000 hours in Aerospace. Awarded a partner award for consistently handling transition of activities
Handled foreign currency payments by calculating the bid rate and converting the required exchange rate on a daily basis into Australian Dollars. Gained solid experience of dealing with foreign currency risk and developed an excellent knowledge of authorised payments and mortgage vouchers.
Undertook responsibilities such as recurring payments via cheques and verifying tax invoice contracts.
Exceeded the team’s targets when headcounts were reduced by taking a proactive approach on dealing with foreign currency. Had an excellent rapport with Australian clients at instances where I could solve payment problems.
Tracked status of invoices and customs trade, and provided payment information. Worked with cross-sectional teams on payment strategy development and transactional accounting by researching on the client’s accounts.
• Dealt with third party accounting and vendor account maintenance with respect to financial and business metrics reporting, invoice processing and payments. Exceeded manager’s expectations, consistently exceeded targets and was selected to be a “fast lane growing employee” in the organisation.
Financial Management, Asian Economy and Business Environment, Business in the European Union, Managerial Decision Making, Corporate Finance, International Trade Management, People Management in a Global Context, Global Strategic Management, Management and Organization, Economic Analysis of Asia and Europe
Corporate Finance, Investment Banking, Bonds and Derivatives, Cost Accounting, Financial Statement Analysis, Commercial Banking, Securities and Portfolio Management
Financial Accounting, Marketing Management, Statistics, Financial Management, Banking, Auditing, Business Taxation, Wealth Tax, Economics, Law