Alvin Wong Email & Phone Number

Clayton, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Southbank, Victoria, Australia

I helped the Kraft Heinz Beverages Cluster make better financial decisions.Role and responsibilities:• Monthly forecast, annual operating plan ("AOP"), 5-year strategy• Business partnered with Sales, Trade Finance, Marketing, Demand, Supply Chain, Operations R&D• Monthly variance analysis, PVM analysis, revenue management and pricing framework, demand and category insights, competitor analysis, NPD/Innovation FinancialsSome achievements I'm proud of:• Reduced Commercial Finance monthly report running time by 90% for all four cluster teams by implementing standardisation/automation of monthly performance and forecast templates• Achieved $US 300k annualised in factory efficiencies, by leading the Sales, Operations and Cluster team to improve asset utilisation of Dunedin coffee factory, pursing alternative-to-grocery sales channels and optimised promotional plans• Selected to develop Tableau | BI capabilities in business, completing Zenith Gold program;• Boosted Kraft Heinz profile as employer of choice as representative for Finance Employer Branding Event;

Collingwood

I helped T2 (part of the Unilever group) make better financial decisions.Role and responsibilities:• Monthly forecasts, variance analysis, PowerBI, month-end accruals, annual budgets.• Business partnered with Retail, Wholesale, Property, Logistics, Supply Chain, IT, People & Culture, Marketing, Product Development & CAPEX.Some achievements I'm particular proud of: • Drove incremental EBITDA of €400k annually by creating incentive frameworks for Wholesale Sales Managers to drive profit instead of only revenue.• Drove €150k net uplift to profit annually by streamlining wage cost variables the T2 DC in Laverton North.

Melbourne, Australia

Major clients included Toll Group (Logistics & Supply Chain), Rip Curl (Retail), Coventry Group (Hardware) (ASX: CYG), BMW Finance (Financial Services), Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (Retail & Distribution) (ASX: API), among others.Initiated and led the automation of the Toll Group audit's annual consolidation grid and was awarded the "KPMG Growth & Innovation Award" within the Audit & Assurance division. This involved automating the manual repetitive task of auditing the consolidation of various general ledgers into Group, and gained KPMG perpetual efficiencies by cutting down time spent from three days to one minute every quarter-end audit.

Responsibility to sell electricity and gas agreements by cold-calling residential homes and small businesses.Topped my sales team by selling 10 accounts (3.33/day; floor average 1/day in my sixth week at Red.

The University Of Melbourne

Collaborated with team members to produce high quality financial research articles published fortnightly in the CAINZ Digest.

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting And Finance

Activities and Societies: Airtasker.com Ambassador, FMAA, CAINZ. Commerce Student's Society, UBS Investment Banking Challenge 2013.

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