Paul Allison

Experience

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  Parsons Brinckerhoff

  Jan 2008 - Jan 2010

  Commercial Assistant / Project Accountant

  Worked in a commercial/financial role for Parsons Brinckerhoff, a global consulting firm with an annual turnover in excess of £200m. I reported to the commercial manager and worked alongside the department's project manager undertaking project accounting duties. The role included:* Responsible for seeing projects through from tender to contract completion; including receipt of the client request via telephone or email, costing, tenders, supporting documentation, invoicing, and creation and monitoring of the projects using oracle, implementing changes when required.* Built strong relationships with clients to become their first point of contact, working to deadlines to ensure all customer requests and queries were satisfied.* Took sole responsibility for the financial management of a multi-million pound contract, the largest tendered project the department had won; multiple currencies, analysis of hour and expense distribution to best benefit the company, budget against spend, client specific invoicing and document production. Näytä vähemmän

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  ETT (English Teaching Tutorial)

  Jan 2010 - Jan 2010

  English Teacher
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  Global Idiomas / English Home

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2011

  English Teacher
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  Deloitte

  Jan 2012 - Jan 2013

  Finance Assistant

  Varied internal management accounts role. I was recognised with two internal performance awards.* Worked with tax partner to develop internal colleague performance reporting suite.* Produced monthly and interim management accounts.* Undertook monthly financial analysis and commentary on trading results, balance sheet (receivables, provisions, accruals, prepayments), forecasts, monthly WIP, billing and cash targets at partner level.* Ad hoc management reporting, trend analysis and financial support for partners and managers.* Involved in the preparation of annual profit plans and short terms forecasts. Näytä vähemmän

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  Capita

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2013

  Project Accountant

  Finance project management role for a business providing telephony services.* Finance project lead on CPP redress project with HSBC attending various internal and client meetings providing insight and ensuring the implementation and delivery of the financial requirements including the physical redress.* Regular contact required with company clients and 3rd party institutions to source requirements.

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  Bupa

  Jan 2013 - Jan 2016

  Business Analyst

  Interim Finance Business partner to the Scotland operations team (home manager to director) with a portfolio of 21 care homes.* Business Partnering / Core Finance / P&L Management - Provided financial support to regional leadership in the form of periodic and ad hoc analyses. This included highlighting and helping to understand profitability drivers in weekly P&L reviews, undertaking profitability modelling and analysis on Council proposals for our care homes and investigating variances to budget in the homes' P&Ls.* Project Skills / Key Achievement - Undertook a large project to understand the impact of increasing the living wage, increased in Scotland before the rest of the UK, and the resulting payroll increase from various proposed scenarios. Requiring solid modelling skills and the ability to use a lot of data. I influenced the final wage increases implemented for each care home role.* Budgeting / Influencing - Influenced regional leadership to agree and develop challenging portfolio budgets.* Coaching - Led finance coaching sessions to care home managers, non financial colleagues, to improve their understanding of their P&L and how they can influence it, understanding key drivers of performance and commercial success. The coaching sessions were very well received.* Presentations - Financial performance presentations at quarterly meetings to senior management to highlight key successes, areas of improvement and weaknesses in the portfolio.Central leadership partnering role.* Budgeting / Process Improvement - Developed and built a simplified top down forecasting tool for the annual company budget.* Process Improvement - Developed non-financial reporting suite for the quality department that earned high praise from various Councils and has helped the business win a number of contracts setting BUPA apart from the competition.* Process Improvement - Simplified and automated departmental reporting suite to increase efficiency and performance. Näytä vähemmän

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  Wm Morrison Supermarkets Plc

  Jan 2016 - Jan 2017

  Commercial Accountant

  Working for the fourth largest supermarket in the UK, designing and implementing process improvement solutions whilst providing support to senior management and buyers.* Pricing / Key Achievement - I was selected by the commercial finance director to be seconded to the wholesale team because of my technical and stakeholder management skills. I have priced 2 wholesale opportunities with combined sales of £2bn. These projects have required input from various colleagues, which I managed, and been worked to very tight deadlines, which were all met.* Budgeting / Process Improvement / Key Achievement - I developed a new forecasting model, demonstrating strong excel skills, and range change sign-off process approved and implemented after only being in role a short time. Buyers weren't required to produce a financial forecast prior to this. I saw an opportunity to develop a bottom up budget and create accountability around buyer decision making.* Stock Management / Process Improvement - Not initially in the scope of my role, I designed and implemented a stock management process and supporting reports, new to the business, which have successfully assisted in managing out of range stock down with minimal financial impact and minimised the value of stock on the balance sheet. As a subject matter expert, I discuss results with relevant colleagues and suggest actions to take. Working closely with the Head of Trading Support & Procurement.* Influencing / Challenging - I had an active role in the stock meetings introduced in the process with my role being to challenge buyers on how they intend to clear stock and ensure that the proposed actions are taken. Näytä vähemmän

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  Fundacion Fruto Bendito

  Jan 2017 - Jan 2017

  Accountant (Voluntary)

  Working as the sole accountant for a young charity in Bogotá, Colombia.* Accounting System - When I joined the charity there was no accounting system in place. I assessed the needs of the charity and the finance skills of the founder before suggesting and implementing a suitable accounting system and recording all transactions from the start of the charity. The implementation was successful and the founder was happy with the new financial awareness the system gave her.* Modelling - I realised early on that the founder could benefit from my modelling skills to manage her costs and donations. I built a simple tool to enable her to understand what level of donations are required to meet her current and her future costs. Näytä vähemmän

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  Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  Jan 2018 - Jan 2018

  Finance Business Partner (Contractor)

  Ensuring compliance to new IR35 legislation introduced in the public sector before private and improving reporting systems.* Process Improvement - I have improved and automated the internal data capture systems to ensure the accuracy of data and allow new IR35 legislation to be implemented with ease and accuracy to more demanding deadlines. This has included investigating current processes and reporting to understand the value in the work being done with amendments being made or stopped altogether where appropriate.* Analysis / Problem Solving - I used my strong analytical skills to map charts of accounts from many different government entities using different accounting systems to a universal accounting system to allow consolidated reporting. Näytä vähemmän

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  Pladis Global

  Jan 2019 - now

  The primary objective of this role centres around building executable customer plans and ensuring they are delivered on time and in full.* Responsible for some of the biggest brands: Jaffa, Penguin, Club, Gold and Iced Gems* Develop strategies to increase profitable growth through price and promotion (CPI included) and pack format strategy (PPA)* Building plans to mitigate the risks associated with HFSS and losing feature for our Sweet Brands* Managing the delivery of budgeted P&Ls. Tracking delivery and recommending corrective action where necessary.* Work closely with and influence sales, marketing and finance Näytä vähemmän Provide financial support to the commercial director and account managers and manage the commercial aspects of the P&L.* Business Partnering - Providing support to the commercial director, account managers and marketing team to ensure business performance is clear and performance drivers are understood. Review financial proposals before submission to customers, evaluating and challenging investment decisions and supporting marketing with return on investment appraisals for new products.* Pricing (Key Achievement) - Cross functional project to revise the NPD/marketing appraisal process after realising proposals were being priced up and sent to myself for commercial review when it was clear they weren’t commercially viable taking up a lot of my colleague’s time to get to that stage. I designed a pricing tool for the NPD team to get sight of costings early on and revised the gate process whereby projects would be approved or not earlier.* Commercial Review (Key Achievement) - Developed a new decision support tool which enabled me to undertake business reviews with account managers and controllers to highlight opportunities for action to deliver against the budget.* P&L Management - Responsible for managing the commercial aspects of the P&L including regular catch-ups with budget owners to consider promotion plans and strategy.* Marketing - Designed and implemented a new process and tracker to manage the marketing budget after a pladis wide decision to focus on marketing spend more closely. This includes regular reviews with the marketing team.* FP&A - Manage the budget process including brand and account planning. Manage the short and medium term forecasts.* Month End - Month end reconciliation of the full P&L to EBITDAR.* Investment - Manage promotional spend. Review and sign-off promotional investment up to £100k.* People Management - Manage a finance clerk who supports the cake commercial finance team. Näytä vähemmän

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