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Simon Foley
Summary Profile
A bilingual finance professional and UK Chartered Accountant (ACA) specialising in the Telecoms
industry with 17 years’ experience with multinational companies in the UK, Panama and the
Caribbean. Extensive experience in a variety of functions including accounting, reporting, planning
and analysis, revenue assurance,ERP and other information system implementations, process and
control improvement and organisational change. A leader of effective teams and adept at gaining
consensus from senior stakeholders and cross-functional teams.
Experience
Oct 2013 - present Cable & Wireless Panama Panama City, Panama
Revenue Assurance Manager
Main responsibilities:
 Ensure effective operation of controls focused on completenessof revenue billing and collection
for allproducts and services provided by the company
 Development of newcontrols to improve revenue and margin assurance
 Identification and resolution of system and processissuesimpacting revenue generation
 Review and finalapprovalof high value billing adjustments
 Leadership and mentoring of team of 15 staff
Sample achievements:
 Implementation of Revenue Assurance managed service for developmentand monitoring of
automated controls for 13 Caribbean business units
 Design and implementation of severalnew automated controls for mobile, fixed line,internet and
television revenue streams
 Design of new method ofinternationalcallmargin analysis and identification of more efficient
traffic routing with annualised costsavings of approx. $500k
Jun 2008 – Sep 2013 LIME (formerly Cable & Wireless Caribbean) Caribbean
SAP Solution Architect & Project Manager Process & Applications
Main responsibilities:
 Design and implementation of new SAP finance system,processesand organization structure for
Finance Shared Service centre to support13 island business units
 Principallink between projectteam and business stakeholders,ensuring that business
requirements were accurately captured and translated into technicalsystem and process designs
 Indirect leadership of consultantteam and approvalof allof their deliverables to ensure
implementation of a high quality, robust and coherent solution to best meet businessrequirements
 Development and maintenance of SAP Roadmap of future enhancements including prioritisation
based on cost / benefit analysis
Sample achievements:
 Recruitment and leadership of geographically dispersed project team of 10 staffthrough the on-
time delivery of all project phases from blueprint,build,test,data migration to stabilisation
 Design,sign off and implementation of approximately 80 processes across 5 main finance
process cycles of record to report,procure to pay,inventory management,invest to capitalise and
order to cash
 Close working with externalconsultantsto finalise newfinance organisationalstructure across
shared service centre (SSC),centresof excellence and in-country finance teams
 Design and implementation of automated reporting interface between SAP and Hyperion group
reporting system requiring detailed understanding of head office reporting requirements,SAP
data structuresand transaction flows

2.  Definition and implementation of BusinessIntelligence financialreportsacrossall key reporting
areasto provide improved accessibility,granularity and timeliness of financialreporting and
analysis
 Design and build of new SAP costcentre variance analysis and transaction reports
Feb 2006 – May 2008 Cable & Wireless (Americas & Caribbean
Region)
Panama City, Panama
Regional VP Finance Operations
Main responsibilities:
 Finance operations improvement projects
 Monthly regionalfinancialperformance reviews
 Annualbudget & target setting reviews
 Direction of OBS Financialsystem administration support
Sample achievements:
 Creation of approved implementation proposaland businesscase for finance transformation
including: draft organisationalmodel; headcount structure;middle levelprocess flowsand key
controls; review and recommendation of different ERP system options; detailed cost / benefit
model
 Coordination of internalcontrols and processreview across 13 Caribbean islandsand presentation
to head office management of findings and recommendations forimprovements
 Creation of 120 day turnaround plan for finance function of largest Caribbean businessunit to
remedy weak controlenvironment
 Development and delivery of enhanced regionalcommercialKPI reporting
 Development of detailed planning and analysis modelto identify the underlying drivers of each
business unit performance and identify gapsbetween actual and required run rate
 Development of a number of presentations for RegionalCFOon commercialand operational
improvements acrossa number of areasincluding revenue generation,costreduction,working
capitalimprovements and organisationalredesign
Oct 2004 – Dec 2005 AOL (UK) Ltd London, England
Senior Financial Analyst
Main responsibilities:
 Financialperformance analysis for Online Advertising and Content Production Departments
 Annualbudget and quarterly forecastcreation in coordination with businessstakeholders
Sample achievements:
 Development and maintenance of detailed driver based planning modelfor Online Advertising
revenuesusing Cognos Planning tool
 Improvement in senior management understanding of driversand distribution of advertising
revenuesacrossdifferentcontent channels
Jun 2002 – Jul 2004 Cable & Wireless Panama Panama City, Panama
Financial Controller, Mobile Division
Main responsibilities:
 Financialreporting
 FinancialPlanning and analysis
 Controland process improvement
 System integration and improvement
Sample achievements:
 Creation of new reporting template formonthly management reporting
 Creation of improved planning modelfor budget and forecastcreation
 Design and implementation of finance interface outputfrom new mobile billing system

3. Oct 2000 – May 2002 Cable & Wireless Panama Panama City, Panama
Revenue Analyst
Main responsibilities:
 Revenue analysis and development of revenue budgetsand forecastsby line of business
 System integration support
 Processand organizationalimprovement
Sample achievements:
 Integration of mobile finance back office with main finance team
 Definition of revenue product structure forSAP implementation
Sep 1997 – Sep 2000 Ernst & Young London, England
Audit Senior
Main responsibilities:
 Externalauditor specializing in clients in energy sector
 3 month secondmentto Corporate Finance Transaction Services
Sample achievements:
 Significant royalty tax saving for client due to identification of repeated errorin tax calculation
method for prior years
Education & Professional Qualifications
Sep 1997 – Sep 2000 ICAEW London, England
A ssociate Chartered A ccountant (A CA )
 First time passesin allexams
 1st place in first yearCorporate Lawexam
Oct 1994 - Jun 1997 University of Nottingham Nottingham, England
BSc Chemistry and Management Studies (Joint Hons.)
 First Class degree
References
References are available upon request.