D'Cruz Reuben

Experience

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  Arcadia Group Ltd - Burton Menswear

  Apr 1987 - Dec 1990

  Assistant Financial Accountant
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  Rank Group

  Feb 1991 - May 1994

  Assistant Accountant
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  Break for the Border PLC

  May 1994 - Aug 1997

  Group Management Accountant

  I joined BFTB following its flotation on the London Stock Exchange and the purchase of four bars and a hotel in Dublin. The role reported to the Financial Controller.Responsibilities and achievements:• Assisted in the integration of three acquisitions into the business.o Brixton Academy, Shepherds Bush Empire, Lawson Beaumont, Grafton Plaza, BFTB Dublin, Sinnott’s, Major Toms, Café en Seine• Training and development of 3 staff • Designed and implemented the head office computer network and telephone system. • Production consolidated profit and loss accounts and balance sheet on a monthly basis.• Variance analysis with commentary on restaurants food and drink margins and operating expenses.• Cash flow forecasting.• Weekly sales forecasts on restaurant revenue and costs compared actual vs. budget and cash flow projections.• Payroll and bonus calculations.• Preparation of UK budgets for the restaurant division and group consolidated budget and cash flow projections.• Responsible for the group’s information system.• Review weekly sales analysis with unit managers.• Development of management reporting models.• Worked with restaurant managers producing accurate reporting and timely information. Show less

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  Paramount Home Entertainment

  Aug 1997 - Feb 2000

  Financial Accountant

  Responsibilities and achievements:• Assisted in the implementation of SAP for warehousing and distribution.• Development of SAP implementation for the nominal ledger and purchase ledger modules.• Developing and motivating 5 staff.• Relocated the finance function to the Netherlands’s• A member of the European IT review committee deciding IS strategy for short to medium term.• Finance lead for the UK transition of CIC to Paramount.• Worked extensively developing the sales and distribution excel applications to reduce reporting timelines.• Forecasting revenue per studio per title, sales forecasts, cash flow and profit forecasts.• Preparation of annual budgets.• Quarterly and annual forecasts of title revenues and expenses using Hyperion for submission to international.• Statutory accounts preparation and submission.• Head office reporting, ad hoc analysis of working capital and variance analysis.• Development of AS400, liaison with MIS technical staff on improvements, enhancements and developments to the company’s systems. Show less

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  BD Communications

  Feb 2000 - May 2003

  Finance Director

  • Primary responsibility for the day-to-day finance operation, HR, payroll and IT functions.• Prepared a business plans for new e-commerce ventures.• Turned around the events management business as acting managing director within the first year. • Contract negotiation with clients (e.g. COI, Renault and Unilever)• Assisted on major campaigns as part of the brain storming team and extensive client liaison.• Cash flow management.• Attendance at board meetings for 4 businesses • Developed zero based for all businesses • Improved customer billing and information flow.• Customer profitability analysis • Administering the company pension scheme.• Managed the office relocation to make savings of £100,000 per annum. Show less

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  Technicolor

  Jun 2003 - Dec 2006

  UK Financal Controller

  Technicolor is the largest supplier of DVD and CD products to the Film and Television industry in the world. The business is a division of Thomson SSA and has annual turnover in excess of €500 million per annum. The role reports to the Optical Finance Director. Responsibilities and key achievements:• Primary responsibility for the day-to-day finance operation. Managing and developing a team of 9 in the UK and 3 in Poland. • • Reduced debtor days from over 120 to 66 days within the first 3 months:-• Reduction in invoice error rate• Resolving system issues with IS • Being more customer focused• Designed and developed KPI data for the monthly reporting pack• Managed the inter-company cost allocation and reporting • Reduced the month end reporting timelines by 4 days• Responsible for all aspects of the year end statutory reporting to IAS, UK GAAP, US GAAP and IFRS.• Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Officer and ensured best practice for 7 key processes • Finance lead for key cost saving and efficiency applications and delivered:- o Electronic invoice delivery saving on materials and reducing payment delayso Real time data collection for deliveries o Developed KPI’s for reporting and managing trade debtorso Integrated the inventory reporting for 4 European warehouses o European VAT reporting ensuring customer and plant complianceo Outsourced AP department to Poland saving 2 FTE headso Company restructuring and change management initiativeso Implementation of the Magnitude, Hexagon, Easysource, ADP Show less

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  ADI Global

  Feb 2007 - Oct 2008

  EMEA Controller for ADI Global and EMEA Credit Manager

  ADI Global is the market leader in the distribution of security products including CCTV, Access, Fire and Control systems. They are established in 12 countries in EMEA with branch and Hub structure.Responsibilities and key achievements:• Review of SBU month-end submissions and report to the US Global CFO• Deputise for EMEA CFO• Established and monitored Corp Policy compliance • Staff responsibility for EMEA finance• SEA Approval > £500k Key Achievements: o Standardised finance process and controls to reduce month end cycle by 3 days o Reduced past due from 28% to 11% Reduction in bad debt $1.6m by in-sourcing credito Developed EMEA KPI’s for product report analysiso Transferred accounts payable to low cost countryo Established and monitored Corp Policy compliance o Integrated new acquisitions Gardiner Group plc (5 companies) and Safety Lineo Implementation of ERP in South Africa, Czech Republic Show less

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  Honeywell

  Oct 2008 - Jun 2011

  EMEA Finance Implementation Leader

  Planned and led the finance team for the global pilot project based in the UK using fully integrated solution SAP 6.0 as the ERP platform• Work with the finance leaders to design a global finance business for the Global retail/distribution business• Worked with Corporate to ensure process were compliant with entity roll up to Honeywell Inc.• Liaised with country controllers to ensure process met with local tax and statutory requirement.• Key objectives • Standardise and automate the day-to-day finance operation and implement best in class process functionality from Order to cash cycle to Procure to Pay.• Use of Shared Service Centre for GL processing, Accounts payable Credit Control, Payroll and T&E management• Identify define and design a self service business reports using BI • Building business case for proposed development and liaised with the IT development team to convert these into functional specifications. • Work closely with EMEA and US subject matter experts in the in order management, sourcing, manufacturing and logistics • Assess business requirements from functional teams for any internal control or business risk. • Managed all aspects of the change management process including communication internally and externally• Developed training material to be used as a standard. This was done using Power Point, BPP and QRG’s • Developed the Organisation Structure to ensure training, localisation and post go-live support Show less

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  Honeywell

  Jan 2014 - now

  Planned and lead the implementation of SAP FI module implementations for Honeywell Building Technologies. Working collaboratively with geographically dispersed teams and stakeholders at all levels in the business. Training and mentoring the FIL team Developed training plans and material used for finance deployments globally Build relationships with the central finance teams and controllership to ensure that they are clear on the project objectives SAP Finance Subject Matter Expert for HBT by attending meetings and advising the IT business partners on commercial issues/ideas. The financial expert within the commercial team; advising on projects and opportunitiesAssess and advise the business on the risk and opportunity of a venture from a financial point of view.Key achievements2022 SAP deployment in Saudi Arabia and Swiss Co project in Europe2021 SAP deployment in Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand Australia, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan, Philippine,s and Vietnam 2020 Global: Brexit impact analysis and VAT code changes Supported business restructuring UK: worked on 4 factory and warehouse transitions to various locations in Europe Germany: SAP deployment warehouse move and swiss-co tax set up Nederland’s: SAP deployment for 2 legal entities Belgium: SAP deployment 1 entity2019 Nordic: Supported the creation of 2 new revenue streams, Software, and service Global: Supported the review and testing of TMC, a logistics platform. UK: Started work on Brexit scoping and financial risk assessment 2018 Global: Supported the financial system carve-out of ADI to Residio. Germany: Split a legal entity that included a factory to enable the carve-out of ADI in the country Italy: Worked on the setup and integration of new acquisition in Milan2017 Greece: Fully system deployment of SAP Russia: Set up of new factory in Lipetsk with full SAP. Transition HSF Moscow on to SAP Show less

  • Senior Business Analyst - Building Automation

    Jan 2024 - now

  • Global Finance Project Lead for Honeywell Building Technology

    Jan 2018 - now

  • Role change to HBT EMEA Finance FIL

    Jan 2017 - now

  • EMEA Finance implementation Lead for Honeywell Security & Fire (HSF)

    Jan 2015 - now

  • ADI EMEA Financial Functional Implementation Leader

    Jan 2014 - Jan 2015