1. JOHN NICHOLAS MINA
BSc (Hons), Maths with Statistics
Grays, Essex Tel: 07581 007 025 john.mina25@gmail.com
Professional Profile
A person who has significant Business/Data Analytical experience, with strong Excel reporting skills, across many
diverse Industries, in both the Private and Public Sectors. Excellent track record working with very large data sets.
Established experience in the following areas:
• Compiled Program/Timing Plans
• Improved Project Management processes to advise
• Setting up Advanced Excel MI spreadsheet
systems on SharePoint
engineering planning for vehicle production
• Generated labour savings by Project Managing
the automation of staffing data
• Improved and upgraded reporting and forecasting
systems
• Supervised and established a £0.5m automated
contract production tool for Commercial Managers
• Improved and shortened process for contract
production, with improved product revenues
• Data mining of large quantities of data
Key Objective is to expand analytical skills in other Industries, and further improve Excel, VBA, Access and Oracle skill-sets.
Professional Development
• MS Office, Advanced Excel and PowerPoint
• Oracle Hyperion
• Root Cause and Six Sigma Analysis
• Lead the market in customer satisfaction
• Project Management • Winning through Compliance
• Presentation and Negotiation Skills • Managing for High Performance
• Fundamentals of Finance
• Advanced WebEx
• Personal Effectiveness Programme
• The Telecoms Code of Practice
Career Summary
May 2016 Finance Analyst OCTAVIA Housing and Care, London, W10
• Related to previous OCTAVIA assignment in March 2016, but analysing a large amount of different data sets.
• Providing analytical support for the Head of Treasury and Business Planning.
• Detailed analysis of more than 100,000 lines of housing accounting data, for component accounting purposes.
• Summarising and reporting of key housing accounting data to key stakeholders.
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April 2016 Finance Analyst PARKINSONS UK, London, SW1V
• Completed short term contract, providing analytical support for the Local Support Group Finance Team.
• Detailed analysis of finance data for over 500 Support Group Financial Returns, for accounting purposes.
• Summarising and reporting of Support Group finance data to key stakeholders.
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February 2016 – March 2016 Finance Analyst OCTAVIA Housing and Care, London, W10
• Completed short term contract, providing analytical support for the Head of Treasury and Business Planning.
• Detailed analysis of more than 100,000 lines of housing accounting data, for component accounting purposes.
• Summarising and reporting of key housing accounting data to key stakeholders.
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April 2015 – January 2016 Business / Timing Analyst FORD of Europe, Dagenham, Essex
• Compiled Program/Timing overviews and developed Project Plans, to direct and guide engineering planning for
vehicle production.
• Advised and supported various Timing meetings, for different Programme Teams.
• Prepared and managed Timing and Launch Meetings for the Programme Team, ensuring Global Engine Plants,
Programme Managers and Manufacturing are aligned and advised on the timing of Engine development.
• Track projects to time and cost.
• Reporting and managing issues associated with budget, order, parts tracking and costs.
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2. • Tracking of engineering spend on manpower, material and purchase services.
March 2014 – April 2015 Business / Reporting Analyst FORD of Europe, Dunton, Essex
• Automated compiling staffing data from over 2000 people, and overseeing the automated upload of this data
onto Oracle based platform, saving many days of manual input per month.
• Improved the monthly reporting system for Business Supervisors, by setting up Advanced Excel MI spreadsheet
system on SharePoint. Designed using VLOOKUP, Pivot tables, Dashboards, Macros and Oracle Hyperion.
• Prepared analytical summaries and review at Chief Engineer level, to advise how headcount resources have
been allocated by vehicle projects against Budget.
• Collated and improved the processing of all Programs high level plans into a single calendarised plan, which
exceeded the Business Planning and Forecasting requirements.
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February 2014 Finance / Commercial Analyst LEAR Corporation, Coventry
• PD Analytical support to the Finance Controller, Operations.
• Designed Advanced Excel models, including Excel Macro automation, to analyse and report monthly outturns
and forecasts, improving efficiency and accuracy.
• Analysis and reporting of Key Performance Indicators.
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June 2013 – Dec 2013 Application Analyst HONEYWELL Turbo Technologies, Basildon
• Co-ordinating and liaising with global regional leaders for the purposes of updating sales information for the
global monthly report - compiled using Excel and PowerPoint.
• Production, streamlining and automation of global monthly report, including data integration, making report
more accurate and streamlined.
• Analysing and checking monthly financial recharge and Bill of Materials, including SAP analysis.
• Root Cause and Six Sigma Analysis for monthly financial recharge.
• Maintenance and analysis of census headcount data.
• Production of Quick Start ‘Systems’ Guide, used for training new Application Engineers.
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Oct 2009 – June 2013 Property Letting in the UK and overseas
• Researched and started Property Letting Business in the UK, but with the downturn in the Housing market,
Banking Crisis and Europe Crisis, coupled with falling revenues, this was not a viable Business.
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Dec 2003 – Oct 2009 Forecasting/Pricing Analyst/Commercial Manager BT
• Project Managed and negotiated the implementation of a £0.5m Oracle database that automated and streamlined
contract production for Service Level Agreements. Presented proposals to Senior Management Team.
Established a system and process for Commercial Managers that shortened contract production, increased the
product revenues, and exceeded requirements set by Telecoms Regulator (Ofcom).
• Training and coaching of work colleagues on the Oracle Contract Database.
• Contract administration, together with constructing and presenting reports to Senior Managers and Directors
and Product Managers, as part of a £1bn p.a. revenue stream.
• Data mining of large amounts of International call volume data, for pricing analysis and forecasting, using
Access and Excel.
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Further work history available on request
Education and Qualifications
Bsc (Hons) 2.1 Maths with Statistics
3 A Levels Maths, Further Maths, Economics
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3. Personal Details
Interests Travel, keen interest in motoring, photography, movies, music, current affairs, stocks and
shares, business markets, computing.
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