Dal K

Strategic finance leader with 15+ years across consumer, hospitality and FMCG sectors. Delivers sharp commercial insight, robust business cases and data-driven investment frameworks that drive profitable growth. Expert at partnering senior stakeholders to influence decisions at board level.

Commercial Finance Partner - Boden

(2021-08 - 2026-08)

Key point of contact for Marketing and Ecommerce teams, with ownership of the weekly/monthly and yearly forecasting process. Every week I lead discussions with senior leadership to provide recommendations on marketing investment through the lens of revenue and profit.

• Built LTV-driven marketing investment framework, enabling senior leadership to maximise customer recruitment within agreed ROI guardrails
• Led all board-level business case construction for new investment strategies, owning end-to-end Capex approval process across the business
• Drove promotional analytics capability, quantifying incremental revenue and profit per campaign to sharpen marketing spend decisions

Senior Finance Manager - Hilton Worldwide

(2015-03 - 2020-05)

Provided support to key global brands and commercial stakeholders across the international business to help drive commercial activities by Identifying financial and operational opportunities

• Owned international corporate budgets, monthly forecasts and variance reporting across all functions for a global hospitality group
• Built Brand Fund tracking model enabling granular P&L visibility vs. forecast and budget, improving financial control and transparency
• Partnered business leaders on 5-year strategic plans, tracking KPIs and surfacing risks and efficiencies to drive performance

Global Operations Finance Manager - Hilton Worldwide

(2013-01 - 2015-03)

Managed weekly, monthly and forecast Global Ops Reporting processes and procedures to ensure accurate and timely delivery of reports, and regular review, analysis, and challenging of results to ensure business plans are followed and achieved

• Led Global Operations annual budget process, coordinating cross-functional stakeholders and presenting directly to CFO and CEO
• Spearheaded redesign and launch of all Global Operational Reports on a new reporting platform, improving data accessibility
• Delivered monthly consolidation of hotel capital cash flow data globally to support FP&A and Construction teams

Commercial Finance Manager - Burger King

(2012-05 - 2012-12)

• Drove 5% sales uplift by identifying and relaunching highest-performing menu products with full P&L analysis; secured 3 of 5 major franchise remodel sign-offs within 3 months

Finance Graduate - Reckitt Benckiser

(2008-09 - 2012-05)

• Completed structured finance graduate programme at Reckitt Benckiser, rotating across HQ accounting, corporate reporting and financial systems

Financial Systems - Reckitt Benckiser

(2010-08 - 2012-05)

• Led system integration workstreams for £2.5bn Durex & Scholl acquisition; delivered internal audit tool reducing completion time by 80%

Corporate Reporting - Reckitt Benckiser

(2009-08 - 2010-08)

• Supported global consolidation, board reporting and quarterly press releases; trained senior finance teams across Latin America on new reporting systems

Corporate HQ Accounting - Reckitt Benckiser

(2008-09 - 2009-08)

• Managed month-end accounting and statutory accounts for 60+ CHQ finance entities, ensuring accuracy of all external regulatory reporting

Chartered Management Accountant - Chartered Institute of Management Accountants - CIMA (Kaplan Financial, Hammersmith) (2008 - 2011)

BSc (Hons) - Business Economics - Brunel University (Uxbridge, Middlesex) (2003 - 2007)

A-level - Ealing & West London College (Ealing) (2001 - 2003)

GCSE - Featherstone High School (Middlesex) (1996 - 2001)