Gill Jones

• CIMA qualified (2000) and Prince 2 Practitioner (2016). • Sector Experience: Transport & Logistics, Food Manufacturing and Chemical Production and Distribution. • Business Partner Expert, with over 25 years’ experience supporting/guiding Operational Stakeholders up to Executive Director level, whilst at the same time being professionally challenging to drive business improvement and add value to the bottom line. • Used to multiple site support, working remotely as well as on site with Business Partners, requiring adept inter personnel skills and ability to balance Finance and Operational line management demands. • Vast experience working autonomously or as part of a team, as well as direct Team management and mentoring peers. • Astute and focused, with the ability to balance a logical and detailed approach, with a pragmatic and holistic view, allowing me to act as ‘Trouble-shooter’ to quickly identify, co-ordinate and focus resource on the main problem areas. • Naturally inquisitive and tenacious, always seeking own validation. Subject matter expert in both financial and business support systems -Chorus, GTS, Transform Fleet Mgt, Cognos Impromptu. Proficient Microsoft Office user - Excel (Pivots, Lookups, Nesting Formula), Word and PowerPoint. • Conduit between Finance and TM1 team for all development of consolidated financial reporting from automation of Daily/Weekly/Monthly Operational Flashes, P&Ls and Variance/Trend analysis to Budget/Forecast Modelling. • Operational Finance representative on project teams for development of Business wide BI solution (POC between Cognos Analytics and SAP BO), implementation of both HR and Payroll system (I-Trent and MHR) and Fleet management system (Tranman). • Always share best practice, both within the finance team and for non-financial managers, to build understanding of, and an efficient and consistent approach to, provision of key performance information.