Rosemond Appiah
Summary
Detail-oriented team player with strong organizational skills, ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously with a high degree of accuracy. I seek an employment which offers career progression and allows me to utilize my knowledge an experience achieve business goals.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Manager – Vodafone Cash/Consumer Mobile/Fixed Business
Vodafone Group
12.2017 - Current
- Lead for Mobile Financial Service annual budgeting/planning cycles, forecasting Direct and Indirect revenues, all incidental Costs and Operational Expenditure for the unit
- End to End owner of Consumer Mobile and Fixed Business Operational expenditure taking into consideration the impact of all foreign exchange movements
- As a gatekeeper for budget, I drive productivity by ensuring the business only incurs costs which are necessary and relevant leading to savings in millions.
- Monthly Mobile Financial Services P&L preparation, reporting and interpretation to relevant stakeholders
- Monthly reclassification of costs to ensure all spend items are mapped to appropriate general ledgers
- Weekly engagement with stakeholders to review actual revenue with corrective decisions to close gaps where necessary to optimize opportunities and mitigate risks
- Bottom-up weekly revenue forecasting based on trends and analysis and sharing commercial insights with stakeholders
- Effective management reporting and variance analysis to ensure that spends are in check and in line with expectations to achieve high operating margins
- Projects financial justification and post implementation reviews
- Vendor revenue share validation based on agreed matrices to ensure accurate invoicing
- Major Project led from finance perspective (The introduction of customer loans product to the business portfolio, Introduction of agent insurance – first of its kind in the market, re-introduction of mobile money interoperability charges).
Finance Analyst (Fixed Assets and Capital Expenditure)
Diageo
02.2015 - 10.2017
- Budgeting cost of production
- Reporting and analyzing cost of production
- Reviewing and analyzing trends and variances in overhead/expenses and finding ways of saving cost
- In depth fixed assets and depreciation analysis
- Managing the entire asset base of Guinness Ghana Breweries Limited
- Preparing financials for projects justification
- Monthly forecasting of expenditures of existing projects for group reporting
- Transferring Capital Work in Progress into assets
- Monitoring group and third-party expenditures on projects
- Tracking project payments and outstanding
- Reporting on depreciation for all classes of assets in the company
- Creating asset numbers and tagging all assets to be depreciated
- Annually undertaking tagging and physical verification of all assets belonging to company
- Annually undertaking asset lives review
- Creating and managing internal orders for Capital expenditure
- Major Project led from finance perspective: (Re – identification of untagged but existing business fixed assets, Product based depreciation allocation).
HR Advisor Supply (Production Division of the business)
Diageo
05.2014 - 02.2015
- Responding to all queries from the Supply (Engineering, Packaging, Brewing, Health and Safety and Quality) Working closely with the Supply HRBP to support the delivery of people plan
- Collating and auditing “Partners for Growth” (Diageo’s Performance assessment) to meet the Diageo standard
- Responding to all emails and queries from the Industrial and Commercial workers' Union (ICU) about the Unionised staff
- Arranging for all meetings between the company and the ICU
- Firstpoint (Workday) contact for all queries from the product supply part of the company.
Resourcing and Learning & Development Advisor (Management Trainee)
Diageo
08.2013 - 04.2014
- Creating comprehensive annual resourcing plan in line with business goals articulated by Business Partners and using this to direct resourcing activities
- Responsible for end-to-end brass ring management
- Responsible for the lifecycle of the recruiting process using company recruitment strategies, processes and Policies to support hiring talent into the business in an efficient and effective way
- Developed good networks and contacts in order to develop a pipeline of potential candidates; Decide best recruitment channels for each role and post positions accordingly on internal / external career sites, job boards, with agencies etc
- As necessary undertake direct sourcing activities to identify active and passive candidates
- Screen candidates via first interviews in order to assess their potential for hire and referral to the next stage in the recruitment process agreed with Hiring managers and HR Operations
- Advice on suitability for recruitment, appropriate reward package and negotiate /support offer process with candidates / agencies
- Develop, create, and work with line managers/HR Operations to systematically follow all processes and procedures associated with recruitment process
- Coordinating all training activities
- Communicating on attendance statistics for all training
- Facilitating trainings.
Education
Master of Business Administration in Finance - Accounting And Finance
Coventry University
Coventry, Unite Kingdom06.2017
Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting Major) - Accounting And Finance
University Of Cape – Coast
Ghana05.2009
Skills
- Variance Analysis
- Financial Management
- Continuous Improvement
- Performance Analysis
- Month end closure
- Financial Risk and Opportunity identification skills
- Budget Forecasting
- Financial Budgeting
- Analytical Skills
- Communication Skills
Timeline
Finance Manager – Vodafone Cash/Consumer Mobile/Fixed Business
Vodafone Group
12.2017 - Current
Finance Analyst (Fixed Assets and Capital Expenditure)
Diageo
02.2015 - 10.2017
HR Advisor Supply (Production Division of the business)
Diageo
05.2014 - 02.2015
Resourcing and Learning & Development Advisor (Management Trainee)
Diageo
08.2013 - 04.2014
Master of Business Administration in Finance - Accounting And Finance
Coventry University
Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting Major) - Accounting And Finance
University Of Cape – Coast
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