Christopher Haynes

Experience

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  DHL Global Forwarding

  Sept 2002 - Mar 2011

  • Lead the monthly management reporting of all UK operations into CREST (SAP based reporting system).• Prepared forecast and budget offline schedules for all buildings and IT Income Statements. Sending out wish lists to the regional managers for capital expenditure on all leasehold items and IT equipment. • Provide cost analysis and commentary on different business scenarios during the budget process supporting the Finance Director and IT Director on management meetings.• Monthly management of the 40 company Building Income Statements and cost analysis to the Finance Director. Involving authorisation of costs all associated costs and managing accruals and prepayments.• Financial controller responsibilities for a subsidiary (85% owned) preparing the Income Statement and Balance Sheet from the Trail Balance for management reporting in SAP; also providing analysis for Divisional Controllers in Germany. Duties include preparing and dealing with statutory accounts and corporation tax with monthly tasks of maintaining the fixed asset register, preparing the payroll Journal and VAT returns.Achievements• Selected to be a mentor on the Outward Bound Trust run in conjunction with the DHL Foundation. The Trust is a charity for under privileged children and the process is very strict as there are many applicants. I had to raise £500 pounds for the Trust in order to be applicable to attend in which I did through riding 45 miles across Surrey to Goodwood and various charity events at work.• Worked on a system development project. Mapped a complex chart of accounts structure (Income Statement and Balance Sheet) to ensure transparency and maintain consistency of data while conforming to head office requirements of implementing a global accounts structure.• Designed and held an Excel training class (all levels up to Macro recording) to help improve employee’s knowledge and understanding of formulas, pivot tables and basic excel formatting. Show less

  • Management Accountant

    Jan 2007 - Mar 2011

  • Assistant Financial Accountant

    Jan 2005 - Dec 2006

  • Accounting Clerk

    Sept 2002 - Dec 2004
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  TWG - The Warranty Group Services

  Jun 2011 - Feb 2013

  A&T Reporting Accountant

  • Produced the monthly management accounts in respect of the underwriting data for the Appliance and Technology (A&T) Division; including reporting of variance analysis and commentary. Focusing mainly on those that fell within my remit.• Reconciling the Financial data to the raw underwriting files. Containing clients that are either in-house collected or reports from the clients themselves to validate the data’s integrity.• Controlled key clients for the processing and accounting transactions of Third Party Administered (TPA) products; analysing profitability, trends and ongoing issues.• Prepared the Budgeting and Forecast offline schedules for the T&A ensuring all actuals and model data is correctly populated before distributing to Underwriting• Liaised with Underwriting, Compliance and IT on client profitability reports and advising of any accounting/system errors.• Completed monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations resolving outstanding issues/items to SOX compliance.Achievements• Adapted and redesigned from scratch a new underwriting monthly accounting pack to better streamline data input, enhance the visual appearance, established clearer data validation checks, and imbed macros to auto export reports for management meetings. Show less

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  Saba Software

  Mar 2013 - Mar 2020

  • Finance Business Partner for the R&D, Product, IT & Cloud Operation groups. Providing in-depth variance analysis and commentary on actuals vs forecast and budget for product and P/L for C-Level management.• Managing forecasts and preparing bottom-up budgeting submissions, working with budget holders to align financial strategic plans to the 3-year business model.• Designing and preparing global monthly and quarterly financial and KPI analysis dashboard reports using Excel/Power BI to support senior functional leaders in business reviews, executive meetings, including commercial and financial decision making.• Developing and managing an R&D ROI decision and evaluation process modelling the allocation of resources, reporting/KPI tracking with stakeholder accountability and the measurement of profitability and expected payback period. • Analysing internal non-financial (Product Analytics, Sales CRM and Marketing) and financial data to identify trends and insights to challenge ideas and make recommendations for product go-to-market strategies and roadmap investments. • Collaborating, building, and managing professional working relationships with senior non-finance stakeholders, providing financial regulatory guidance.Achievements• Spearheaded a multi-layered transformation project, redefining the business cost centre structure to shape new consolidated and product level income statements.• Led supplier procurement analysis, subsequently leading to a reduction in business unit expenditure, year on year: • Developed a complex cost modeling project for migrating on-premise to cloud services. • Built a bottom-up budgeting model for the product roadmap, empowering key stakeholders to make clear, yet difficult business decisions. • Created Excel dashboards for Board Reporting. Through identifying enhanced ways, the data was visualised by the company to enable better benchmarking and country level analysis. Show less

  • Finance Business Partner, Engineering, Product, IT & Cloud Operations

    Jan 2016 - Mar 2020

  • Finance Business Partner, Engineering and Product

    Nov 2014 - Dec 2015

  • Financial Reporting Analyst & Finance Business Partner, Poland

    Jan 2014 - Oct 2014

  • Financial Reporting Analyst

    Mar 2013 - Dec 2013
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  Cornerstone OnDemand

  Apr 2020 - Feb 2021

  Product and R&D Finance Business Partner

  • Analysing internal non-financial (Product Analytics, Sales CRM and Marketing) and financial data to identify trends and insights to challenge ideas and make recommendations for product go-to-market strategies and roadmap investments. • Designing global monthly and quarterly financial and KPI analysis dashboard reports to support senior functional leaders in business reviews, executive meetings, including commercial and financial decision making.• Collaborating and managing professional working relationships with senior non-finance stakeholders, providing financial regulatory guidance. Show less

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  Stagecoach Bus

  Mar 2021 - Aug 2022

  Finance Business Partner
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  ITC Travel Group

  Sept 2022 - May 2023

  Commercial Finance Business Partner
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  Form3

  May 2023 - now

  Senior Finance Business Partner