Commercial Finance Manager
Macmillan Publishers
Total years of experience :15 years, 5 Months
Publishing Industry Turnover USD 500m Employees
Telecommunications Industry Turnover 1.7b Listed Employees 450
Infrastructure Investment Management
* Assessed potential business partners and acquisition opportunities, including performing valuations of firms.
* Created financial models and perform due diligence to ensure comprehensive analysis of potential acquisitions (£300m) including P&L,
balance sheet and cash flow forecasting.
* Performed competitive analysis of industry, working directly with sales and marketing teams to isolate opportunities
* Created and reviewed financial business plans for new ventures and investment appraisals of projects; both internal organic opportunities
and non-organic opportunities.
* Support with Group long-term planning and strategy formulation processes. Includes analysis of Group-wide KPIs, key market
developments and changes in the competitive environment.
* Development of a monthly report activity by collecting, analyzing and commenting opex and capex variance towards the budget for all
Development & Engineering projects.
The Walt Disney Company - Parks & Resorts
Managed the AOP, rolling forecasts, pricing, cost model for all fares for Disney cruise ships across 54 destinations.
* Monitor performance versus plans and accordingly notify management of the variances and make necessary recommendations
* Prepared quarterly reports for all levels of management in a simple and quickly understandable format with commentary.
* Managed the monthly accruals, balance sheet reconciliations and cost recharging of all direct overheads of sales and marketing to Walt
Disney Parks & Resorts
Cost Efficiencies
* Managed annual budgets, forecasts(P&L, cash flow) and variance analyses, rolling forecasts & monthly KPI reports.
* Incorporated new pricing cost model resulting in savings on USD 3.56m in 2013 and USD 5.13m in 2014.
* Primarily responsible for USD 140m of P&L.
* Involved in capex and opex planning and investment appraisals of projects from USD 0.5 m to USD 15m.
IE is currently ranked in the top 5 business schools in Europe by the Financial Times. * Represented Instituto de Empresa for the Thunderbird Innovative summit, Arizona. * Awarded the Instituto de Empresa Asian Leadership award. * Formulated a business plan for building a 600KW photovoltaic plant with a 3m euro investment
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