Naima Khaliq

Operational Demand and Performance Manager @Virgin Media O2

Drive the engagement with various teams within Network Operations to establish detailed budgets and forecasts for each area with a clear understanding of the trends and challenges.• Accountable for the management of budget plans to support the wider teams within Network Operations in achieving their financial targets/objectives, this includes but not limited to overtime control and overhead costs• Working closely with the Finance business partner, to compile presentation slides for the SLT and WLT to communicate key trends, whilst raising potential risks and opportunities to drive key business decisions.• Conduct structured timely reviews of forecast and ensure the actuals are in line with expectations; detailing all relevant variances and key insights, risks and opportunities and minimise budget variance.• Be accountable for the end-to-end process governance of Business cases, working with the Planning and Engagement team, as well as Network Operations teams to align with the 3-year plan. • To drive and manage the Service costing project, working closely with seniors to provide an accurate view of costing pools and align the data and automate the process. • Drive the correct Capitalisation within Network Operations to reduce Opex overheads spend.• Accountable of contractor renewals and extensions within Network Operations, taking ownership of securing budgets, approvals and ensuring purchase requisitions are in place.• Accountability for the governance, tools and access for our third party and off-shore partners, to under pin contractual obligations.• Managing and owning the SRN BCP Portal ensuring all Governance, compliance and access permissions are adhered to.