Aaron Bensted Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, VIC, AU

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Working with Industry achieving market registration and resolving any complex issues.Working with Industry and internal stakeholders to assist in the delivery of Market Reforms.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Working with Industry and internal stakeholders to register each independent prospective Market Participant through the registration process for the National Electricity Market (NEM) or Gas Market.

Melbourne, Australia

Working with customers and stakeholders creating commercially balanced outcomes.

Melbourne, Australia

• AEMO is the energy market operator nationwide for electricity and gas. Its purpose is to forecast demand and settle the energy markets for retailers and wholesalers. I undertook this secondment using my ability to.
• Completed annual worksite audits.
• Coordinated well-being program initiatives across multiple states and sites such as general health checks.
• Manage the Incidents related to staff safety and well-being
• Saved $10K through coordinating wellbeing programs in-house
• Closed out risk for first aid and warden resourcing across all state sites.

Melbourne, Australia

• I started as a Business Analyst coordinating IT projects. I was then asked to be the IT Services Manager overseeing a $1.1m budget and hardware lifecycle across all offices nationally and improving relationships with.
• Delivered a project in external participant onboarding (ie new suppliers in the energy field). Researched, selected and introduced a user-friendly portal for registration. This ensured that registrants were aware of.
• Designed a cost-effective asset management lifecycle process from point of procurement to disposal.
• Saved $30K per annum through negotiating better service arrangements with new hardware and software vendors.
• Improved compliance through reviewing and improving various business and purchasing procedures using ITIL principles. Restructured the procurement process of technical assets across the organisation.
• Built excellent, flexible arrangements with leading vendors that could then accommodate changing business requirements. Worked closely with vendors to create a realistic pipeline of requirements.

Melbourne, Australia

• I excelled at building relationships between AEMO and retail market participants (energy providers). My focus was to drive the completion of various initiatives and to be a point of contact for Industry.
• Coordinated monthly forum and project meetings, taking accountability for action items and following up with various stakeholders to maintain progress and momentum. Revitalised existing systems to monitor and report on.
• Produced brief packs for industry members illustrating AEMO’s industry updates and initiatives.
• Rewrote the Power of Choice program’s Terms of Reference. This communicated clearly to stakeholders what was required from the industry and AEMO’s role in rule changes to guide discussions and actions.

Melbourne, Australia

• Agent and Vendor Management is the area responsible for optimising the sale price after the bank had repossessed a property. I worked in a hands-on capacity managing more complex cases that were either sensitive or.
• Led programs of work with LMI on properties where the purchaser had borrowed heavily or cross-collateralised. These programs initiated steps to minimise the bank’s spend trying to recover its costs. Coordinated and.
• Managed complex mortgagee-in-possession properties including those where the mortgagee had lodged a complaint with the Financial Ombudsman Service, in which case all bank action was suspended pending an investigation.
• Contract-managed a panel of preferred vendors ensuring work performed for ANZ, such as repairs and maintenance on foreclosed properties, met contractual targets and instructions. This was important as these costs were.
• Implemented and managed all property settlement requests (ie voluntary surrenders) where either the mortgagee or the bank would sell the property without legal action. Improved positive settlement and exit outcomes to.
• Delivered enhanced executive-level reporting for external stakeholders for LMI.

Melbourne, Australia

Occupied various people leadership roles. Key measures for success where gains in productivity and balancing quality assurance and compliance outcomes. Identify streamline processes, being an advocate for change.

Providing business insight and value add across the collections business for ANZ.

Melbourne, Australia