Office Shoes
Meera Kerai has a diverse and extensive work experience in finance and accounting. Meera currently serves as the Head of Commercial Finance at Office Shoes since March 2021. Prior to this, they worked as the Financial Planning and Analysis Manager (Interim) at Halma plc from August 2020 to March 2021.
Meera's previous experience includes working at Pandora as a Financial Planning & Analysis Manager from June 2016 to March 2020. During their tenure at Pandora, they played a crucial role in anticipating profitability, risks, and opportunities through financial modeling and budgeting. Meera also identified a significant revenue opportunity in the sales budget.
Before joining Pandora, Meera worked at Mothercare as a Senior Group FP&A Manager from July 2014 to June 2016. In this role, they supported the company's transformation project and led initiatives to eliminate non-value-added financial reports and implemented a new financial planning and reporting system.
Meera's international experience includes a secondment to Herbalife's Los Angeles headquarters, where they served as a Finance Manager from December 2013 to April 2014. Meera also held the role of Financial Planning and Analysis Manager (Interim) at Herbalife from April 2013 to November 2013, where they prepared budgets for the Northern Central Europe region. Additionally, they served as the Nordics Finance Manager at Herbalife from June 2010 to March 2013, where they successfully transferred the Nordics Finance function to a Shared Service Centre and managed the clearing of payments in the Icelandic bank.
Meera began their career at Chello Zone, where they worked as a Management Accountant and Assistant Management Accountant, responsible for financial reporting, cost management, and process improvement. Meera also worked as a Credit Administration Assistant, handling accounts receivable and reconciliations.
Overall, Meera Kerai's work experience showcases their expertise in financial planning, analysis, and management accounting, along with their proven ability to drive business decisions and implement process improvements.
Meera Kerai attended Brunel University London from 2002 to 2006, where they obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Finance and Accounting. From 2007 to 2009, they also attended the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA), but did not pursue a specific degree or field of study there.
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Office Shoes
OFFICE is a leading edge fashion footwear specialist, providing style conscious customers with innovative shoes to suit every occasion. We pride ourselves on our unique product range – created by our in-house design team and global brand partnerships, all of which are recognisable by their individuality, design and quality. OFFICE was first established in 1981 as a concession in the Capital’s department store of choice, ‘Hyper Hyper’. Our name was born from the fact we originally displayed our products on old office furniture; a quirky detail, which is representative of the brand to this day. We proved such a hit with London’s fashion scene that we opened our first stand-alone store on the Kings road in 1984. Since then we have continued to grow and acquire stores in some of the most celebrated shopping destinations across the UK and Germany. In 1996 OFFICE launched OFFSPRING a pioneering concept set to revolutionize the world of fashion sports retailing. OFFSPRING was the first sneaker store to fill the gap in the market for fashion sportswear, creating trainers with style at the forefront of their design. To this day OFFSPRING provides our customers with exclusive, limited edition styles, devised by collaborations with a multitude of must-have brands. OFFICE was acquired by Truworths International an investment holding and Management Company in December 2015. Truworths is a market-leading fashion apparel retailer in South Africa. The OFFICE Head Office team is based at our East London HQ, where a group of dedicated designers and buyers are consistently presenting pioneering and up-to-the minute trends. Our stores are filled with the best employees on the high street, who deliver passionate, inspiring and individual service to our customers every day. Today we have over 160 stores globally, and an evolving ecommerce platform, helping us to earn our reputation as a fashion leader on the British high street, as well as aiding our growth across the globe.