Profile A self-motivated and focused professional, applying general business, management accounting and financial analysis skills to assist companies meet their strategies. Possesses excellent financial modeling and quantitative skills. Very strong systems skills allowing the application of technology to enable business based reporting. Excellent commercial awareness.
Deliverables Budgets and Forecasts from business indicators and sales forecasts to full Profit & Loss and Balance sheet. Convert accounting data into management information. Ability to liaise with non finance personnel.
Systems Skills Advanced Excel, Access, Powerpoint, Word, OFA, basic SQL, Crystal Reports, html, asp, php
Contact david@riott.com
Providing Financial Control to the UK market and supporting the European markets for Harley Davidson.
Two privately held companies specialising in online media in the personal finance market.
Acting as Account Manager, Financial Controller and IT Manager, I turn my hand to most things in this small company, from managing paid search campaigns for clients to full IT internal support. Implemented web tracking in client sites to demonstrate the best conversion route and increasing lead generation rates.
Vodafone is one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications network companies.
Supported the Performance Management project to introduce a new planning and reporting system. Made ongoing improvements in measurement and content in the Consumer Business Unit Board report pack.
Produced financial analysis and decision support for the new products including mobile TV. Setup and implemented content reporting enabling the business to understand buyer behaviour on Vodafone live! and report to content suppliers. Performed financial planning for all new generation products in the GPRS and 3G arena.
Nortel Networks provide network solutions to public network carriers, wireless operators, multi-service operators and enterprises, offering complete solutions for multiprotocol, multiservice, global networking.
Managed the Repairs Services P&L and Balance Sheet within 5 European countries. Verified the standard costs/prices of repair services in EMEA enabling the outsourcing of all EMEA repairs.
BancTec provide document imaging and workflow solutions to financial institutions.
Set up the platform for experience-based pricing in the bid processes. Acted as systems accounts responsible for the implementation of the ERP system Scala under tight time scales prior to Year 2000. Develop the financial reporting from the ERP system via Excel and the intranet enabling remote access to financial reports by Service Managers.
Now part of Virgin Media, operated cable telephony and television franchises in five north London boroughs.
Produced business plans and analysis enabling £170M of debt funding. Produced telephone usage analysis for competitive bids of Business Telecom Services. Developed subscriber reporting from scratch from an AS400 and Excel based system producing detailed management information. This information was used to produce daily, weekly and monthly subscriber and management information.
Publishing firm with titles from children's books to medical encyclopaedia in book form and CD.
Converted sales information into book by book management accounts and prepared quarterly book by book forecasts of revenue and direct costs.
Telecom New Zealand is the primary telecommunications company in New Zealand
Co-ordinated $NZ600 million revenue budget and reported results against this budget. Prepared key business indicators and sales performance indicators Performed ad hoc projects supporting management decisions including competitor analysis and rental/sale conversion project.
Joint venture between the Marriott Hotel corporation and Auckland International Airport Ltd providing hospitality services.
New Zealand's largest University with 6,000 full time and 20,000 extra mural students.
Massey University NZ MBA 1987 - 1988
Major in Finance
Massey University NZ Bachelor of Agricultural Science 1982 - 1985
Major in Management and Finance
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