Business Manager/Financial Consultant - Business Manager of the Year 2015 England, UK
National Health Service - Primary Care
Total years of experience :18 years, 1 Months
“ Awarded as Business Manager of the Year 2015 by National GP Awards, London UK”
• Responsible for managing overall business operations related to Financial, IT and commissioning issues.
• Providing advice/recommendations to Senior Partner and supervising Practice Managers and staff in effective running of Primary Care business for member practices.
• Prepared Budgets for the Group and performed variance analysis, communicated targets to the partners, devised expansion plans and provided financial advice to support partners in decision making.
• Interpreting financial and non-financial information, monitoring and interpreting Cash Flows and predicting future trends, and reporting on factors influencing business performance.
• Monthly preparation of performance reports, budgets, forecasts and progress across Cost Improvement Plan targets.
• Developed strategic frameworks to facilitate in establishing, expanding or providing new services to patients.
• Managing IT online/systems deployed at member practices - ensuring zero downtime, also recommending newer technologies that can enhance productivity.
• Led as Project Manager and team member for various IT transition projects, cost cutting and improvement schemes.
• Prepared Financial Statements including consolidated reports for the Group, prepared and analyzed monthly, quarterly, half yearly statements.
• Prepared surgery expansion plans, identified, compared costs and monitored work schedule and was successfully executed in first quarter of 2013.
• Supervised staff (25+), conducted training sessions for new and existing developments, developed appraisal systems, performed brain storming sessions to get input on providing/improving quality services to patients.
• Achieved increase in existing revenue streams by 15%, cost improvement by 9% and overall 40% increase total revenue.
• Responsible for analyzing financial and organizational data to support decision making.
• Developed supplier control system, negotiated supplier contracts; overall increasing effectiveness.
• Project related to manage advice and provide recommendations to increase/enhance productivity of the finance department - including how effectively they can you Microsoft GP.
• Managing the whole team, directly reporting to CFO, interaction with CEO and CSO
• Provided management reporting to CFO for the Group comprising of six subsidiaries.
• Effective financial reporting - AP and AR aging, Group Financial Statements, budgets, recommending controls.
• Responsible for managing business and IT operations for the Group.
• Led as Project Manager and team member for various IT transition projects, cost cutting and improvement schemes.
• Developed strategic frameworks to facilitate in establishing, expanding or providing new services to patients.
• Prepared Financial Statements including consolidated reports for the Group, prepared and analyzed monthly, quarterly, half yearly statements.
• Prepared Budgets for the Group and performed variance analysis, communicated targets to the partners, devised expansion plans and provided financial advice to support partners in decision making.
• Prepared surgery expansion plans, identified, compared costs and monitored work schedule and was successfully executed in first quarter of 2013.
• Extracting information from EMIS Web (ERP System) and submitting service reports to consortium for financial payments.
• Achieved increase in existing revenue streams by 15%, cost improvement by 9% and overall 40% increase total revenue.
• Responsible for analyzing large amount of financial and organizational data to support decision making.
• Evaluated performance based on targets, reconciled QOF registers and set up look-ahead plans resulting in achieving 96% (above threshold) of target in 2012-13.
• Preparation and presentation of surgery expansion plans, budgets, forecasts, services plans, targets and performance reports to the directors.
• Developed supplier control system, negotiated supplier contracts; overall increasing effectiveness.
• Supervised staff (25+), conducted training sessions for new and existing developments, developed appraisal systems, performed brain storming sessions to get input on providing/improving quality services to patients.
The project aimed to forecast cash needs over the next five years of operation in Philadelphia, USA and also if the company plans to expand locally as well as globally. The project was completed in approximately two months. The deliverables of the project were:
• Comprehensive analysis of past five year financial statements and preparation of cash flow statements.
• Sales projections over the next five years and variance analysis based on previous projections.
• Local and international projections of revenue and costs based on normalized and aggressive returns.
• Separate budgets for each region i.e. USA, Asia and Europe and Master budget for global expansion (revenues and costs)
• Cash operating budget for next five years.
• Managed functional departments and operations of the company.
• Brought in new business by establishing new ventures with communication companies and signing new contracts with IBM and other third party IT vendors.
• Providing decision support to directors on various projects/ new ventures / restructuring / financial viability / business analysis.
• Prepared monthly/half yearly/ yearly statements and assisted in annual audits.
• Created, managed and sustained customer relationships, acting as a consultant and by selling/marketing enterprise and Solutions.
• Proven track record of consecutive three years record sales by increasing company sales by 20%, with increase in 60% of company’ clientele. Individual sales of US $ 2.5m.
• Collaboration with CEO and provided technical support to close deals.
• Managed budget allocation of US $32 million, analyzed revenue opportunities, prepared full cost review for efficient allocation of resources, prepared and executed business plan for new business unit i.e. PTCL franchise
• Lowered days sales outstanding from 60 days to 40 days, vigilance in tracking and ordering contributed to sustain 10% yearly profits and eliminated potential for over ordering through stricter controls, achieving, efficient cash flows within the company.
• Handled day to day operational activities, pricing and promotion of products, managed account receivables and payables, managed suppliers, negotiated contracts, assisted in annual business audits, evaluated and submitted multi-year business plans, lead contributor towards revenue/growth of the company.
Awarded with a Distinction Degree
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