Agostino De Felice
Senior Business Analyst
Brighton
Summary
Senior Business Analyst with over 20 years of experience with world-class corporations within: Utilities, FMCG & Financial Services.
Key Strengths:
- Ability to identify continuous change actions to reduce costs, saving time & enhance quality & accuracy.
- Persistent in drive for improvement, can plan and organise account workloads whilst still being flexible enough to prioritise tasks.
- Proactive, with pleasant team work personality have the ability to liaise, motivate, and communicate with all people at all levels, to ensure a successful outcome.
- Collaborate with stakeholders including senior management, external customers and multiple internal departments.
- Track record demonstrates a highly developed analysis skill set, allowing to highlight and transform relevant data to support the strategic decision making of senior leadership.
Overview
21
21
years of professional experience
9
9
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Languages
Work History
Senior Performance Analyst
EDF Energy (Revenues £8.1 Million) Nature Of Business: Utilities (Part Of EDF Group Revenue €80 Bil)
Hove
06.2015 - 06.2022
- Established end-to-end reporting of UK Smart Metering Program, identify cross functional BI needs to produce roadmap, developing insight/analysis framework to effectively highlight unforeseen deviations to drive results.
- Created end to end statistical pack used to take strategical decision by Senior Leadership, highlighting findings and recommending changes.
- Reduced corporate expenses by streamlining reporting processes resulting in headcount reduction of 2 roles within performance team.
- Drove business intelligence digitalisation to streamline, centralise and automate analysis function, leading to vastly improved capability with 80% reduction in reporting times by prioritising outputs delivered in using combination of Tableau,SQL and Excel.
- Established EDF as top 3 supplier by establishing intricate regulatory and portfolio reporting.
- Identified inefficiencies and risks by monitoring business unit trends and key performance indicators.
- Supported efficiency and data integrity by monitoring control documentation of reporting procedures.
Control and Consolidation Analyst
EDF Energy (Revenues £8.1 million) Nature of Business: Utilities (Part of EDF Group Revenue €80 Bil)
Hove
11.2013 - 06.2015
- Coordinated the Working Capital & Cash Flow month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting, analysis of variance and financial commentaries for the UK Energy Sourcing and Customers Supply Finance.
- Recognised within first few months to have re-modeled entire Working Capital Reporting modules and Financial Commentaries submission to UK Corporate finance department.
- Streamlined and simplified lengthy Working Capital processes creating more simplistic and accurate way of reporting and eliminating lots of non-value added activities.
- Achieved successful reduction of Month End timing of 3 working days placing critical financial information earlier into hands of Directors to allow them to react faster and more effectively to formulate business decisions.
- Effectively coordinated Entire Working Capital Forecast, Budget and MTP process for entire Customers business.
Financial Analyst
Kimberly Clark (Revenue $19.1 Billion) FMCG (Owners Of “Andrex”, “Kleenex”, “Huggies” Etc.)
Brighton
03.2011 - 05.2013
- Orchestrated the Working Capital & Cash Flow month-end, quarter-end and year-end reporting, analysis of variance and financial commentary for the European Consumer Business ($4 Billion Revenue), KC Professional ($1 Billion Revenue) and HealthCare ($600M Revenue).
- Recognised to have supported the European Consumer Business leadership to achieve 2012 Cash Conversion Cycle target by providing accurate and timely financial reports, analysis, commentaries & forecast.
- Coordinated Working Capital & Cash Flow yearly and quarterly forecast and provide senior-level financial support in areas of strategic planning for the European Consumer business with $4 billion in annual revenue.
- Successfully exceeded stakeholders expectations leading the “month-end reporting acceleration processes” by partnering with various internal departments, anticipating Working Capital and Cash Flow month-end deadlines for the European Consumer Business, KCP & Health Care from WD8 to WD6 and for MEA Business from WD10 to WD6 placing critical financial information earlier into the hands of Directors to allow them to react faster and more effectively to formulate business decisions.
- Recognised to have successfully redesigned entire Working Capital and Cash Flow reporting process and tools for entire MEA business using new prototype of Hyperion HFM system, since I was the only European user.
- Reduced turnaround time from 3 days to one day by identifying, streamlining and automating 6 month-end reporting processes and transferred them to our outsourced partners in India (Inventory Control, Capex Reporting & the Working Capital submissions for the financial head quarter in Dallas).
- Developed and managed complex excel-based financial model (Year on Year analysis of Working Capital elements and Key Drivers).
- Developed an Excel-based model to facilitated improvement of Inventory control & accuracy for finished goods, raw materials & spare parts. Saved approx150hrs per year by automating this module and by transferring it to our outsourced partner in India.
- Business Partner: Introduction of business results review sessions with the A/P & A/R director and team leaders by providing financial advice, evaluation and analysis on all relevant issues/opportunities by supplying working capital information, creating ad hoc models to allow the teams to see what went well and what could be improved. These sessions have allowed to establish a good working relation between the finance team with the other departments, also a good way for the teams to see where they were improving and celebrate their successes and see how things can be improved for the future.
P&L Reporting Analyst
Kimberly Clark (Revenue $19.1 Billion) FMCG (Owners Of “Andrex”, “Kleenex”, “Huggies” Etc.)
Brighton
09.2007 - 03.2011
- Supported the implementation of a centralised Finance Reporting & Analysis functions transitioning European Finance analysis and reporting to a Share Service Centre in Brighton (UK).
- Controlled the full P&L for the Italian ($700M Revenue) and Eastern European markets.
- Responsible for all financial reporting (Net Sales Report, Trade and Consumer Promotion, CoS, Gross Profit, Advertising SG&A and Operating Profit), Variance Analysis, Customers Profitability, Market & Products Profitability.
- Business Partner: Recognised to have built and maintained very important strategic relationship with Italian and Eastern European Consumer market, during difficult business restructuring time.
- Traveled often to work closely with Senior Finance Managers in regions, to offer them assistance during transition of reporting and analysis processes.
- Acted as main point of contact between Brighton office and Markets, influencing them on importance of business changes and bringing them on board without let them feel neglected. This has subsequently facilitated me to be promoted to support UK Consumer market ($1.5 Billion revenue) top Consumer market for Kimberly Clark.
- Saved countless hours and increased efficiencies for the centralised European Finance reporting team, executing the Reporting Rationalisation Project which determined the value added & usage of financial reports & analysis across all European regions and implement solutions to improve our current process baseline.
- Traveled Holland and Poland to meet face to face with two stakeholder representatives to present current process in place, establish their new needs and propose new ideas for harmonisation of reporting in Europe.
- Implemented Advertising and Promotional cost management reporting and analysis model for European Consumer regions, increasing process accuracy, and improved workforce awareness of actions needed to reach financial goals. This process has been rewarded on company newsletter as vital tool for Marketing and Finance providing financial support in forecasting Non Capital Expenditures.
- Reduced time spent on reporting task by 80% and improved accuracy by 100% for Finance Reporting team by identify opportunity to automate Advertising and Promotional cost management reporting and analysis for European Consumer Markets.
- Lead project as Subject Matter Expert Identifying and partnering with different departments such as Internal Control & Technology. Project achieved: Clarified SOX requirements: All projects must have been reviewed by project owners on a quarterly basis in order for Country General Managers to have the overall view of non-capital spending and to enable them to give their approval.
- Built SAP Business Warehouse cube which now holds ALL non-capital project spend data across all sectors and markets.
- Implemented Project Spend Validation tool which will allow project owners to review and validate changes requests in SAP.
- Designed and implemented a financial module for the European Consumer Leadership Team. The module visually highlighted markets & products financial KPIs (Volumes, Net Sales, Gross Profit & Operating Profit) issues or improvements, supporting the Leadership team during the strategic discussions. This module is still in use nowadays in the main Leadership meetings.
- Ensured accuracy of compliance with accounting policies and procedures, liaised with external audit (Deloitte).
Credit Control Analyst
Kimberly Clark (Revenue $19.1 Billion) FMCG (Owners Of “Andrex”, “Kleenex”, “Huggies” Etc.)
Brighton
10.2004 - 09.2007
- Provided support to centralisation of Italian Trade Receivable processes from Italy into Share Service Centre in Brighton. Spent more than 4 months in Turin (IT) to acquire insights about Market and Customers Trade Receivable information.
- Managed and mitigated credit risks by analysing customers annual financial reports, calculating liquidity ratios, collaborating with credit rating companies and using other reporting tools (SAP BW).
- Responsible to make decisions based on analysis about authorising credit limits, payments terms, releasing or holding customer orders based upon financial condition of accounts.
- Increased cash flow by $15 million by reducing outstanding receivables, visiting customer face to face to negotiate shorter payment terms and minimising risks from marginal customers.
- SAP & Business process key user, train and motivate accounts receivable team, provide coaching in order to accomplish organisational, departmental and individual goals and objectives.
- Improved collection of receivables by implementing new collection procedures such as Chasing Payments and Goodwill, streamlining existing processes.
- Successfully transitioning cash applications to outsourcing partner (Genpact India) standardising credit procedures and simplified processes.
Accounts Payable Specialist
Kimberly Clark (Revenue $19.1 Billion) FMCG (Owners Of “Andrex”, “Kleenex”, “Huggies” Etc.)
Brighton
10.2002 - 10.2004
Reconciliation Analyst
American Express Europe
Brighton
10.2000 - 10.2002
Education
Attended 4 Years - Business Economics
University Federico II
Napoli 09.1990 - 09.1994
National Diploma - Business And Tourism
Business & Tourism Management School
Caserta 09.1985 - 08.1990
Professional Qualifications -
Various Courses
Brighton And London 04.2001 -
Skills
Business Intelligence (BI)undefined
Timeline
Senior Performance Analyst
EDF Energy (Revenues £8.1 Million) Nature Of Business: Utilities (Part Of EDF Group Revenue €80 Bil)
06.2015 - 06.2022
Control and Consolidation Analyst
EDF Energy (Revenues £8.1 million) Nature of Business: Utilities (Part of EDF Group Revenue €80 Bil)
11.2013 - 06.2015
Financial Analyst
Kimberly Clark (Revenue $19.1 Billion) FMCG (Owners Of “Andrex”, “Kleenex”, “Huggies” Etc.)
03.2011 - 05.2013
P&L Reporting Analyst
Kimberly Clark (Revenue $19.1 Billion) FMCG (Owners Of “Andrex”, “Kleenex”, “Huggies” Etc.)
09.2007 - 03.2011
Credit Control Analyst
Kimberly Clark (Revenue $19.1 Billion) FMCG (Owners Of “Andrex”, “Kleenex”, “Huggies” Etc.)
10.2004 - 09.2007
Accounts Payable Specialist
Kimberly Clark (Revenue $19.1 Billion) FMCG (Owners Of “Andrex”, “Kleenex”, “Huggies” Etc.)
10.2002 - 10.2004
Professional Qualifications -
Various Courses
04.2001 -
Reconciliation Analyst
American Express Europe
10.2000 - 10.2002
Attended 4 Years - Business Economics
University Federico II
09.1990 - 09.1994
National Diploma - Business And Tourism
Business & Tourism Management School
09.1985 - 08.1990
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