Senior Financial Analyst - University of the Arts London (UAL) - London, UK
(2025-12)
Senior finance analyst leading university-wide financial planning, reporting, and analysis to support strategic decision-making, governance, and long-term financial sustainability.
- Budgeting: Lead university-wide budgeting, forecasting, and strategic financial reporting, providing clear, actionable insight to the Executive Board, Governors, and senior leadership.
- Modelling: Develop multi-year financial models, scenario analyses, and cashflow forecasts to support strategic planning and assess financial sustainability.
- Reporting: Deliver financial planning and management reporting, enhancing data quality and structures.
- Project Analysis: Lead and coordinate finance projects, collaborating with finance business partners and coaching colleagues to support effective and accountable decision-making.
Commercial Finance Business Partner - Innocent Drinks - London, UK
(2025-07 - 2025-11)
Commercial finance business partner providing financial insight to support decision-making and drive profitable growth.
- Business partnership: Acted as the primary finance business partner to the Marketing function, building trusted relationships and providing commercial insight to support spend and investment decisions.
- Reporting: Owned financial oversight of head office overheads, delivering robust budgeting, forecasting, and cost control.
- Process improvement: Led and continuously improved the UK accruals process with external partners, reducing balances and improving accuracy and timeliness.
Trading Analytics Manager - Charles Tyrwhitt Menswear Retail Company - London, UK
(2024-02 - 2025-02)
Financial analyst and business partner to non-finance departments, responsible for inspecting and reviewing financial performance and advising business teams on commercial actions and strategy.
- Strategy: Partnered with senior management on strategic initiatives, modelling non-BAU activity and scenario planning to inform strategic direction, including influencing selling price strategy through modelling price changes and tracking post-implementation impact.
- Business partnership: Partnered with non-financial departments to ensure understanding of sales/margin performance and product cost price movements through various ad-hoc reporting.
- Reporting: Independently responsible for production and publication of weekly and monthly business KPI pack and running review meetings to inspect performance and guide business teams.
- Process improvement: Streamlined reporting through Excel, SQL and Power BI. Created new global reporting processes to highlight potential new business territories.
- Analysis and forecasting: Managed sales forecasting, adapting business strategy into financial plan. Conducted in-depth analysis of customer behaviour to inform forecast adjustments.
FP&A Analyst - Pizza Express - London, UK
(2023-05 - 2024-01)
Financial analyst and business partner, responsible for planning, forecasting and budgeting to support the Commercial teams.
- Business partnership: Partnered with department leads to provide insight and analysis on financial and commercial decision-making including modelling commercial viability of promotions, informing promotion strategy.
- Reporting: Independently responsible for production and publication of weekly financial and month-end trading packs and all other reporting needs for senior management through Qlik, TM1 and Power BI. Responsible for submitting reports to external industry business tracker.
- Process improvement: Developed new and improved financial models including various promotional and marketing reports.
- Analysis and forecasting: Analysed financial performance variances against forecast for central costs and marketing spend, providing updated projections for spend against balance.
Finance & Operations Manager - Access Group - London, UK
(2022-08 - 2023-05)
Acting as the lead point of contact with Access Integration / M&A / Finance Systems teams, responsible for end-to-end financial support on acquisitions, successfully onboarding several new acquisitions into Access.
- Business partnership: Conducted internal finance operations due diligence processes; reviewing databases, meeting acquisition finance contacts, identifying and reporting on issues and risks to inform acquisition decisions.
- Change management: Migrated Balance Sheets and P&L into Access financial systems and managed interim monthly accounting/reporting process until live on systems, ensuring smooth handovers to BAU Finance teams. Owned running of finance integration processes upon completion (adding to group insurances, VAT, and treasury etc). Ad-hoc journal posting when needed.
- Reporting: Relayed financial performance pre and post-acquisition to senior stakeholders.
Management Accountant - Frasers Hospitality - London, UK
(2022-01 - 2022-07)
Ownership of the month end process for the Head Office. Responsible for other financial processes such as submitting VAT returns, forecasting sales and coordinating the budget.
- Reporting: Created monthly management accounts reporting including P&L and Balance Sheet, using SAP. Owned financial month-end closing processes and production of month-end packs.
- Accounting and auditing: Calculated and billed management fees for owned and managed properties per management agreements/contracts. Acted as liaison with auditors, providing required documents for auditing purposes. Worked closely with local property teams to ensure that all financial transactions and records were in accordance with applicable local accounting standards and requirements.
- Business partnership: Assisted General Managers with budgeting for the financial year.
- Process improvement: Brought structure to month-end processes, redesigning layout of accounts.
Management/Project/Client Accountant - Burgess Yachts - London, UK
(2020-08 - 2021-12)
- Accounting and auditing: Owned preparation, input and validation of journal entries including payroll, accruals and prepayments in Sage. Researched, investigated and reported variances on a monthly basis to maintain the integrity of the Company's general ledger and financial statements. Ensured all bank accounts reconcile and that account statements are accurately reflected.
- Client management: Financial point of contact for the yacht owners, managers and suppliers. Presented financial information for yachts to clients and senior management. Assisted with new business and onboarding clients.
- Reporting: Prepared monthly accounts and finance pack.
Finance Assistant/Associate - Clarasys Ltd - London, UK
(2018-07 - 2020-02)
- Accounting and auditing: Independently managed the month-end process ensuring accruals and prepayments were input into financial management systems through journal entries/double entry bookkeeping. Owned management information documents including compiling the P&L and Balance Sheet through Excel/Google Sheets. Responsible for uploading WIP report to Xero to reflect the revenue for the month.
- Accounts Payable and Receivable: Setup weekly Supplier Pay Run. Ensured all account balances were paid and debts resolved in a timely manner. Managed client invoices in accordance with company payment terms and invoice due dates. Chased outstanding debt not paid within the allotted time period. Reconciled payments received with issued invoices, bank and general ledger.
- Process improvement: Redesigned the expenses process to streamline and give consultants greater accountability.
- Business partnership: Built strong relationships with senior stakeholders across Marketing, IT, HR and Consultants and provided financial support to commercial decision making including marketing spend and ROI. Analysed and presented monthly financial performance to senior stakeholders including revenues by industry/client/job level, utilisation of consultants and statutory accounts.
Commercial/Operations Analyst - BJSS IT & Technology Consultancy - London, UK
(2015-08 - 2018-06)
- Forecasting: Owned revenue forecasting and budgeting across the business.
- Business partnership: Supported client-facing teams with profitability and resource utilisation analysis, tracking and reporting clients' debt. Owned analysing commercial viability of projects. Utilised Kimble to provide performance indicators that influenced senior management decision making.
- Client management: Provided commercial support and insights partnership to a portfolio of clients. Worked with clients to ensure invoices were paid in full and on time. Analysed the PO burn rate through and notified clients when they were running out of commercial cover. Reduced the outstanding receivables from blue chip clients.
Business Affairs Production Accountant - McCann London Advertising Agency - London, UK
(2014-05 - 2015-08)
Newly created role acting as Finance point of contact within production team. Responsible for raising and issuing POs, cost reporting through SAP, monitoring production expenditure and projections vs budget, implementation of control procedures, setting up and closing productions from financial perspective ensuring finance and production requirements met. Obtained IPA Foundation certificate with merit.
Junior Project Manager/Project Coordinator - Imagination - London, UK
(2013-11 - 2014-05)
Worked across departments and coordinated with project teams to ensure projects ran smoothly. Assisted the deployment, implementation, training, client sessions and conferences across Imagination projects.
