Christopher David Jordan

Name: Christopher David Jordan Current Job Title: Business Analyst

Address: 95 Holywell Fields Place of Birth: Wolverhampton Hinckley Leicestershire LE10 1EG

Telephone Number: 07508993166 E-Mail: jrdchr@aol.com

Colleagues, friends and family describe me as an energetic, friendly and responsible individual. I work well as part of a team, both member and leader.

I am a full member of the ACCA having completed my exams and relevant work experience. I am described as a flexible individual, who can apply a variety of skills to most situations that may arise in the working environment. I am able to pick up systems quickly and I am able to use Microsoft Excel at an expert level which includes writing and editing Visual Basic Macros.

I am currently working as Financial Controller at James Villa Holidays. I originally took on this role as a temporary placement to cover a maternity period. Over this short tenure, I was able to roll out a new expense management system, outsource the payroll function and introduce cost centre reporting. In recognition of my achievement in this role I was awarded the companies Presidents Award and in addition, I was asked to continue working at James Villas on a permanent basis.

Start Date: End Date: Name and Address of Subject Studied: Grade:School/College:

02/2007 02/2009 Financial Training Company ACCA Pass

02/2005 02/2006 Financial Training Company AAT Technician NVQ 4

02/2004 12/2004 Financial Training Company AAT Intermediate NVQ 3

09/2002 06/2003 Sutton Coldfield College AAT Foundation NVQ 2

09/1999 07/2001 Brownhills Community School A Level History BA Level Religious Studies B

09/1997 07/1999 Brownhills Community School 10 GCSEs A* - C

Good CommunicatorMy current role at Wyndham Exchange and Rentals involved communicating to a number of different business units across different countries when asking questions and ascertaining explanations for variances. I was able to explain the query clearly and then relay this information effectively to group reporting.

OrganisedMy role at James Villas involves organising a number of tasks, all of which have different deliverables. In the short time I have worked there, as well as the day to day reporting tasks I have also been involved in a number of large projects which have had to be managed at the same time as maintaining the status quo.

Team LeaderIn my role at James Villas I have eight members of staff in my department. In the year that I have managed the team, the departments Associate Opinion survey results improved significantly. I feel that I am a supportive manager and that I am able to get the bets from my team.

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Start Date: End Date: Company Name and Address Job Description11/2013 Present James Villa Holidays Limited Financial Controller

20/20 Business ParkSt Leonards RoadMaidstoneKentME16 0LS

- Management of eight team members.- US GAAP monthly reporting of Profit and Loss and Balance Sheet with supporting variance analysis.- UK GAAP Statutory and Industry reporting.- UK Corporation Tax provisioning.- Quarterly VAT calculation and submission.- Payroll and Bonus provision approval.- Ensuring SOX controls are maintained and fully documented.- Calculation of foreign exchange movements.- Co-ordination of the annual budget process and the subsequent monthly forecasting process.- Production of monthly management information for the board.

09/2012 11/2013 Wyndham Exchange and Rentals Finance AnalystKettering ParkwayKetteringNorthamptonshireNN15 6EY

- Review the monthly balance sheet and cash flow forecasts for each business unit, ensuring any variances are understood and effectively communicated to Executive Management in Europe and at Global level.

- Develop and implement improvements in forecasting models.- Supporting the FP+A Manager in the fulfilment of ‘ad hoc’ requests by interrogating the Management Reporting

System.- Support the FP+A Manager in aspects of the annual budget process for the European region.- Implementation and monitoring of forecast accuracy tools.- Consolidation and interrogation of Capital spend. - Review the Capital Budget requests and ensure the business case is accurately presented.

05/2010 09/2012 Antalis McNaughton Business AnalystInterlink Way WestCoallvilleLeicesterLE67 1LE

- Creation of an automated customer profitability which was adopted globally.- Preparation, analysis and development of daily sales reporting.- Preparation of the month end turnover and cost of sales reconciliations.- Processing month end sales expenditure accruals.- Month end commentary and analysis of income and expenditure vs. budget, forecast and prior year.- I created Regional profit and loss reports with a number of supporting files which I distributed to the business sector

directors.- Monthly meetings with sales directors to review actual performance; amend forecast and discuss profitability initiatives.- Co-ordinating the budget and forecast process across the business.- Analyse and challenge the budget and forecast assumptions.- Creation of the management pack and presenting this to the Finance Director.

06/2008 05/2010 Office Depot FP&A AccountantBeaumont Leys LaneBeaumont LeysLeicester

- Ensuring sales and cost of sales postings were in line with US GAAP.- Allocation of advertising expenditure and meeting with the Head of Marketing to discuss old accruals and forecasts for

future months.- Coordinating the weekly flash update and attending the update meeting with the senior directors.

Work Experience:

- Co-ordinating the budget and forecast process across the business.- Challenge forecast submissions with the relevant department and present the revised forecast to the Finance Director.- Creation of the management pack for the Finance Director to present.- Communicating/presenting the finalised annual budget targets across the business.- Assist the Finance Director in compiling a business review presentation to present to Corporate Finance.- Production of an annual situational analysis detailing the prior year performance, the macro-economic circumstances

and their impact on the business and the budget for the forthcoming year.

04/2007 05/2008 Next Retail Limited Assistant Capital Accountant

03/2006 03/2007 Next Retail Limited Assistant Controllable Cost Accountant

10/2004 02/2006 Selfridges and Co Management Accounts Assistant

08/2003 09/2004 Selfridges and Co Cash Office Team Leader

The achievement that I am most proud of in my career to date is winning the President’s award at James Villas. James Villas is a business unit which sits under a very large consolidation of companies ultimately owned by the Wyndham Worldwide Corporation (US). I was lucky enough to be selected out of thousands of employees to go to New York with my partner to collect my award from the CEO at the awards ceremony.

At Antalis McNaughton I was able to use my knowledge of macros to save time on a number of tasks such as the daily sales reports, which due to the fact I was able to automate them, resulted in the ability to create more detailed and user-friendly reports in a timelier manner.

I developed Business Sector Profit and Loss reports which made a large change in the organisation. Sector directors were made more aware of the profitability of their sectors and consequently were able to make much more informed decisions.

In my role at Office Depot I was able to make valuable changes to the forecast process. I created walkthrough templates for each cost area of the P+L that helped to build up the forecast in detail by initiative.

In the majority of my roles I feel that I have built up strong working relationships with non-finance departments which have enabled me to gain more knowledge about the businesses I have been lucky enough to work for.

Within a small project team at Office Depot I helped to successfully implement a vendor rebate process for claiming price support on items we had sold. Until this project team had been put into place we had claimed no money from this vendor and as a result we were successful in attaining a significant amount of cash flow.

Full UK Driving LicensesExcel Visual Basic programming course

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