Head of Finance Planning & Analysis
The Entertainer FZ LLC
مجموع سنوات الخبرة :26 years, 2 أشهر
• Global Leader for Financial, Planning & Analysis, responsible for a team of Financial Analysts supporting the Business across the Middle East, South Africa, Asia & Europe.
• Responsible for all global planning, forecasting, closing process, system strategies and reporting.
• Advisor to the CEO and CFO, developing financial strategies and KPI’s to drive initiatives, owned cross company projects and supported all aspects of the Business.
• Transformed the management reporting suite for both internal and external stakeholders with implementations of new processes and building efficiencies in system utilization.
• Led global spend controlling & execution of cost optimization plans, including implementation of breakthrough system providing global visibility on spend.
• Project Leader for the acquisition of the ENTERTAINER in 2018.
• Member of the Executive Leadership Team.
• Overall responsibility to provide strategic financial analysis and support to Senior Management
• Preparation of monthly, quarterly, and annual management reports
• Providing information to management by assembling and summarizing data; preparing reports; making presentations of findings, analyses, and recommendations
• Development of annual budgets, quarterly forecasts, and long term strategic plans in conjunction with Senior Management.
• Project Lead for implementation of Adaptive Insights, a new Business Intelligence Tool.
• Ad-hoc projects/analyses including systems user-acceptance testing.
(Central Region covers 21 countries including South Africa, Turkey, Russia and UAE)
• General Commercial Support to Regional Profit Centre Manager & team
• Production of Presentations for Regional & Global events consolidating the Central Region analysis and data.
• Production data specialist for all revenue generating businesses
• Treaty Specialist
• Liaison and communication lead for Country FP&A Managers and Regional teams
• Financial Systems Project Lead
• Regional analyst for Budget & Forecast consolidation
• Responsible for the production of monthly expenditure for 8 countries, consolidating monthly reports and allocation out costs to multiple lines of business
• Responsible for Capital Forecasting for multiple entities. Completing solvency calculations as required by the DFSA and other regulatory authorities.
• Responsible for the production of quarterly forecasts for expenditure and budgets
• Providing economic and demographic analysis for country presentations.
• Liaising with project managers to help develop and enhance existing processes within the FP&A team.
, (Finance - contract role)
• Liaised with team leaders and department heads for collating business requirements for Assets Under Management Reporting. Data sourcing to produce a model in Excel to provide accurate information for Marketing, Finance, Performance etc.
• Responsible for producing a project document to outline the requirements for transferring the Excel model to a system based function.
• Responsible for creating a cost allocation model based upon a multi-boutique scenario using Excel & Q&A for Management Reporting on a quarterly basis.
• Producing high level models for vendors to create a Proof of Concept for AUM & cost allocation reporting.
• Involved in decision making on new system implementation.
• Assisted with the Budget & Forecast process for Cost Allocation and AUM.
• Created Budget models for Third Party Administration costs.
• Assisted with various ad hoc requests from around the Business.
• Finance Business Representative for various projects which aim to enhance and automate the internal processes of data. Strategic Management Information Project - Worked alongside Project Managers and Developers to create a new robust system to produce our monthly core data.
• Key Finance representative to assist consultants to build a cost allocation database (Business Objects)
• Responsible for the production of all Asset under Management and associated data from source (in-house and external) and the analysis and subsequent production of reports which feed the Finance MI.
• Responsible for providing AUM information to external parties and liaising with Fund Managers on a monthly basis to receive sign off for the values.
• Production of all MI including KPI's, Pipeline analysis and forecasting for internal clients and at Group Level, providing analysis to assist in decision making.
• Overseeing the production and distribution of all Sales Reporting (Inc Daily analysis and bonus calculation schemes)
• Attend various divisional management meetings and present the Management Information packs.
• Liaise with management teams within the Distribution Division to prepare forecasts and budgets for costs and revenue on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis.
• Key contact for the Distribution Division (both Retail & Corporate Sales Teams, Marketing, Product Development and R&D)
• Responsibility for the production of the Distribution Division's cost reports and all sales reporting.
• Design and execute various bonus schemes for the Sales Teams dependent on locality and product
• Responsible for a team of two Financial Analysis Associates.
• Assisted with the preparation of cost and revenue forecasts and budgets.
• Sole responsibility for the production and any enhancements to the sales reports on a daily, weekly and monthly basis - providing high level variance analysis against targets.
• Responsibility for the production of the cost reports for the Distribution Division.
FINANCE ANALYST - (June 2003 - December 2005)
• Assisted in the production of cost reports and initial analysis for various divisions within the company.
• Headcount and payroll analysis.
• Assisted with the implementation of the Oracle ledger.
September 2001 - June 2003
Baker & Mckenzie
ASSISTANT MANAGEMENT ACCOUNTANT, (Accounts Department)
• Monthly Financial Information Package Issued to Partners.
• Weekly Statistics - Issued to Management Committee, contains overview of Financial Information Package.
• Ad Hoc queries on billing time, collection and aged receivables.
• Quarterly Analysis and Commentary of Expenditure Reports.
• Provided National Statistics with stock, headcount and turnover information.
• Liaised with Managers and Partners on all levels.
• Debtor's control - involves regular communication with clients and Client Services representatives from other Deutsche Bank offices.
• Constructed monthly reports for presentation to Client Services.
• Prepared management fee invoices for input onto SAP Sales ledger whilst entering invoices onto accruals spreadsheet in preparation for month-end reporting and reconciliation's.
• Completed various client rebates using information from Portia, for daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly reports.
September 1997 - March 1999
Deutsche Bank
ACCOUNTS AND GENERAL ADMINISTRATION, (Temporary Role)
A-Levels History (D) and English (E) June 1996 7 GCSE's History (C), English Literature (C), English Language (C), Mathematics (C), Science (double award) (D), Music (B) and German (B)