Business Finance Partner - Treasury Products
Barclays PLC
Total years of experience :7 years, 0 Months
• Strategy & Planning:
- Prepare financial plans & budgets (interim and annual)
- Responsible for consolidating financial plan for Cash, Trade and Treasury products
• Business performance management:
- Analyze monthly product performance against budget (Annual revenue target of £90m)
- Provide future performance outlook and insight re: impact of market conditions
- Prepare financial commentary and present regular performance reports to senior management
- Challenge the business to maintain momentum of revenues
• Decision & Support:
- Measure and monitor progress of product initiatives against set targets
- Undertake product performance analysis e.g. volumes, profitability & penetration
• Member of Colleague and Commercial Team
- Research commercial topics and facilitate discussions to raise commercial awareness (e.g. future of banking post financial crisis, rising oil prices, Euro the currency etc.)
- Organize social events, compile the monthly newsletter and implement actions addressing employee concerns highlighted in the annual opinion survey.
• Prepare Financial Plan for the business; FY 2006 - Revenue $6m and FY 2007 - Revenue $8m;
- Including Expense, Assets, Liabilities, Initiatives, Sales metrics
• Part of core team driving strategy for the business;
- Monitor performance against plan and provide management information to render competent decision making
- Assist Business Head with weekly pipeline reviews
- Liaise with the Sales, Credit and Product teams
- Prepare business performance and strategy presentations covering business drivers, milestones achieved and planned initiatives
• Monitor Financial and Sales Targets;
- Prepare monthly regional financial reports analyzing financial and sales metrics
- Review and monitor monthly business expenses
- Prepare monthly reports capturing business volumes and revenues generated by sales teams
- Manage time survey process, analyze and negotiate over allocations with product
• Risk and Control Self Assessment Coordinator for the business
• HR Coordinator for the business
• Successfully completed Citigroup Treasury Bourse Game Training; member of winning team.
• Successfully completed Citigroup Risk Analytics Training; achieved score of 100% on the final assessment
• Identify risks, evaluate internal control processes, analyze business and financial implications of control deficiencies found and issue management reports and recommendations to the Chief Financial Officer and General Manager of the Business.
• Prepare quarterly Audit Committee Meeting Presentation and Minutes of the Meeting
• SOX s404 Project Coordinator
• Assisted in preparation of quarterly Directors Report
• Assisted in preparation of Federal Budget Highlights 2005-06
• Specialization in Technology, Telecommunications and Media (TMT)
• Lead Senior on audit and special engagements generating over $7M in fees
• Prepared Individual and Corporate Tax Returns
• Engagement work included:
- Statutory audits for both public and private companies
- Assessing appropriate application of Canadian and U.S. GAAP for financial reporting of both public and private companies
- Identifying key internal controls and assessing their effectiveness in mitigating financial risks
- Preparation of Draft Financial Statements and Notes to the Financial Statements
- Building professional relationships with key client personnel and identifying selling opportunities within the competency of the firm
- Providing on the job training and development to junior staff
I'm a Qualified Canadian Chartered Accountant and a member of the ICAO.
Completed my GCSE O'Levels and A'Levels in June 1998.