Group FP&A Manager
Enova by Veolia
Total des années d'expérience :11 years, 8 Mois
Proactively building, inspiring, motivating, and nurturing relationships with cross-functional teams and internal and external stakeholders. Continuously developing process improvements to better assist with pull-through programs and conducting effective financial assessment as part of identifying growth and revenue generating opportunities.
Key Responsibility
• Driving strategic planning, budgeting and rolling forecast across Business Units and Corporate emerging markets
• Presents financial results and outlooks to CEO, CFO and Corporate Controller monthly; produce and deliver quarterly earnings preparation to senior business and finance leaders (CEO, CFO, Controller, Business heads, Treasury)
• Supporting commercial team on contract negotiation and providing value chain creation for future opportunities
• Spearheading corporate project to transform and re-direct strategic investments with targeted annual savings of $2M+
• Spearheading financial assessment of potential M&A transactions as well as due diligence and business integration
• Spearheading Working Capital Strategies on DSO, DPO and DIO with Programs and Initiates
• Managed Direct and Indirect cashflows for all high growth BU’s
• Analysed business performance, recommended benchmarks, highlighted key opportunities, risks, and collaborated closely with Executive Committee in developing plans to capture opportunities and mitigate risks
• Shared global responsibility for Business Unit financial management accounting in accordance with IFRS and other required accounting principles
• Collaborated with ENOVA Finance Management in ensuring state of the art financial systems and processes that maximize functional efficiency
• Developed FP&A practices within MENA region by encouraging, motivating and building value creation team
Managed portfolio worth $700M, worked as a Strategic Finance Business Partner for EMEA Director by engaging financial decisions to drive profitability in pipeline integrity management business to leverage and allocate appropriate resources across the EMEA region.
Key Responsibility
• Strategic Finance Business Partner for EMEA leadership for Strategic goals, Quarterly Business Review (Forecast) and Planning cycle with 95% and higher on Top line and Bottom line accuracy
• Improved Gross Margin by 3 points despite severe competitive pressure through active revenue mix management and pricing strategies
• Leading Divisional FP&A team for Forecast and Planning cycle
• Drive business performance through established processes, objective challenge and business reviews
• Commercial Support - Oil & Gas Market and Competition Analysis for Europe, Eurasia and Middle East & Africa and proactively worked on portfolio strategies
• Operational Support - Enhanced monthly financial analysis and insight for EAM Business Unit generated in a timely manner
• Value Creation Support - 12% cost savings by identifying and eliminating non-value adding activities to reduce subcontractor costs by deriving KPI’s to monitor set objectives
• Financial Planning Support - Appropriate allocation of resources using an efficient planning process thus achieving 95% and higher utilization of manpower and equipment for onshore/offshore projects
• Investment Decision Support - Spearheaded potential investments by creating robust business cases by creating superior value and aligning with strategic direction
Supporting role in the Middle East and Africa Business Unit objectives and strategies.
Key Responsibility
• Analysis on Forecast, Profit Plan, and Actuals results - Regional P&L
• Liaised with EMEA controllers and WHQ Global Financial Accounting team for reviewing key changes in global financial reporting processes
• Supported monthly Rolling Forecast Vs. Actual and recommending any critical operational issues to functional directors
• MIS Corporate EMEA reporting - ENCORE and TM1 Citirx Cognos
• Comparing operational data and financial reports to prior periods, forecasts, and plan objectives
• Development and preparation of forecasts, annual budgets, profit and strategic plans for Middle East Corporate region
• Assisting Regional/Divisional Controller in preparation of regional/country/project level financial analysis and presenting to Middle East and EMEA leadership team
Financial Analyst
Intercontinental Hotels Group Plc. (IHG) London Mar 2010 - Jan 2012
Supporting role in Greater London Region objectives and strategies.
Key Responsibility
• Spearheaded rolling forecast on P&L - Weekly Basis
• Customer profitability analysis - Sales Mix
• MIS reporting - People Soft and Hyperion
• Evaluated internal controls and process flows
• Prepared month end journal reports and supporting backup for period close
• Analysed Forecast and Actual; provided insight on variances to HQ
• Prepared project reports based on market and financial feasibility to increase profitability
• Liaised with Director of Finance for regional sales on weekly basis
• Studied issues associated with: strategic finance and management, marketing management, business communication and people management. • Improved awareness of corporate finance, entrepreneurship and small business management and operations management.