Alan Lahiff Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Key responsibilities: • Conducting the preparation of month end reports including reviewing all month end reconciliations.• Collaborating with the Chief Financial Officer in the preparation of annual statutory financial reports.• Directing and managing four finance staff.• Governing the day-to-day operation of the payroll function.• Facilitating the delivering of input into the key expenses for the budget, including the salaries & wages, the gains/losses on investments, the insurance, interest on the term deposits, etc.• Administering the updating, maintenance and reconciliation of fixed asset register.• Directing the preparation and reconciliation of all tax related matters including GST, FBT, withholding tax, investment franking return, salary packaging and superannuation.• Leading the Institute in insurance related matters, including the claims process.• Leading and implementing all finance related projects and applying business improvements and process simplifications.• Monitoring and accounting for the monthly valuations of investment portfolio.• Organising the completion of the financial year end audit.

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Key responsibilities:• Supervised up to three audit staff at one time plus the expectations of audit partner and client, and the presentation of key findings and recommendations to the client.• Lead internal audit and external audit of information technology general controls fieldwork assessment including planning, leading meetings with stakeholders, identifying risk exposures, performing key controls effectiveness tests, reporting findings, insights and improvements to management.• Achieved different review types including information technology general controls, IT security and controls, a review of timesheet data, review of licensing and registration data, Sarbanes-Oxley audits across a range of industries including financial services, retail, technology and the Victorian government.• Acted as a conduit between management, financial auditors and IT control assurance teams across multiple internal and external audits, controls assurance and risk management reviews.• Delivered the first/second draft of the budget for the engagement, including the money the firm will receive and the expected costs in terms of time and resources used.• Created extra value for clients or minimised costs as much as was possible.• Led the firm into adopting new technology including the Value Accounts iPad app, the Google Sheets report wording tracker, the use of the Fuzzy Lookup tool, etc.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Key responsibilities:• Programmed reports to be examined by the Chief Finance Manager and Commercial Manager.• Authored and presented Microsoft Excel skills workshops for beginner, intermediate and advanced users.• Created and refined Excel worksheets with the end users to speed up the work done on those workbooks.• Led the creation and refinement of the tool used for entering casuals’ timesheets.

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