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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Leading the Finance, Technology and Operations teams at Strata Choice, we aim to provide the best Strata experience to our clients using a personal, care-based approach delivering Strata Management, Building Management Committee, New Development Consulting and Strata Management CDP.

Millers Point, New South Wales, Au

Acquired in November 2022 by Globant, we are the leading global digital Commerce studio nestled within Globant’s Technology studios. We provide multi-nationals and enterprises with service design led Digital Commerce transformations that enable them to thrive in a connected digital world, delivering best in-class omni channel solutions that helps differentiate our Clients. With a Global presence, we sit at the intersection of strategic thinking, technical expertise and creativity to achieve the art of experience driven commerce. With our extensive Partners including Salesforce, Adobe, SAP Hybris and CommerceTools, we are the experts in digital Commerce for B2C, B2B and B2B2C.As the Global Executive General Manager, I lead the Commerce Studio in solving digital challenges for our clients, through managing the Strategy and Operations of the Business. Growing Globant’s Commerce Studio, I am responsible for:• Developing the business strategies and vision for the Studio ensuring their alignment with short-term and long-term objectives• Leading and motivating our team to advance employee engagement whilst developing a high performing organisation• Oversee all operations and business activities to ensure they produce the desired results and are consistent with the overall strategy and mission• Determine investing decisions to grow the business and increase profits• Enforce adherence to legal guidelines and in-house policies to maintain the company’s legality and business ethics• Review financial and non-financial reports to devise solutions or improvements• Build trust relations with key partners and stakeholders and act as a point of contact for important shareholders• Analyze problematic situations and occurrences and provide solutions to ensure company growth and reputation• Maintain a deep knowledge of the markets and industry of the company

Millers Point, Nsw, Au

eWave was a leading independently owned eCommerce agency with global capability. Acquired by Globant in November 2022 to form the Globant Commerce Studio, eWave provided leading multi-nationals and enterprises with service design led digital transformations that enable them to thrive in a connected Commerce world, delivering best in-class omni channel solutions that helps differentiate our Clients. As the Global CCO, I lead a passionate and talented team of Sales and Marketing people who constantly strive to put the Customer first. We believe in living our values of Mastery, Truth, Growth, Action and Passion in every single engagement. Key Achievements:• Developed 3 year Sales & Marketing Strategy to support the business on its Global growth ambitions• Restructured the S&M Division to drive greater focus on new Business Development, Stronger Marketing capability and capacity, and geographic expansion into the UK market• Drive engagement of lead generation outbound marketing company to improve volume and quality of leads, growing our Pipeline by 3x• Strong focus to deliver over 20 Case Studies on actual Clients success stories• Finalised the Brand refresh and re-development of the Website to showcase the eWave BrandKey Responsibilities:• Lead and develop the global sales and marketing organisation• Develop and execute the Global Sales and Marketing Strategy, including identifying and penetrating new markets and optimising our territory & channel strategies• Manage and direct our sales campaigns; generate significant profitable growth through retention/further development of major accounts.• Develop marketing plans to implement and achieve targeted opportunities

Millers Point, Nsw, Au

Leading the Global Finance & HR team, I was tasked with establishing and building a Finance & HR organisation that is as much about driving Strategic Planning and Commercial disciplines as it is about ensuring robust financial reporting and analysis, and ensuring we develop a HR Strategy to support the growing business. Strategically, the goal was to support the Founders to ready the business for IPO / Trade Sale and ensure a high valuation multiple. Key Achievements: • Developed and implemented Strategic Planning framework to “bring to life” the strategic plan, enable executive visibility, track implementation performance and integrate the Financial Planning element (Including development of integrated forecasting model) & People Strategy• Developed 3 year Finance & Legal Strategy to support the business on its Global growth ambitions and IPO• Chaired the Crisis Management Committee with COVID19, ensuring early actions were taken on data insights provided by Finance and Customer teams• Driving the Corporate Restructure project (Key Strategic goal) to consolidate and rationalise the ownership structure, preparing the business for IPO• Lead the companies first equity raise round to fund future M&A strategyKey Responsibilities: • Establish Finance & HR as a true trusted advisory function, uplifted from a simple operation;• Provide Strategic support to the CEO (Founder) and Executives, bringing Commercial Discipline into decision making and strategic planning, overseeing the EPMO• Develop and implement Business Investment review capability, ensuring that commercial rigour is defined into business cases and undertaking post implementation reviews to ensure delivery of ROIC• Establish an FP&A capability, providing early insights to future performance and driving an interlocked Strategic Plan and Budget process• Establish a robust Financial Control environment, readying the business for IFRS compliance and IPO

Nashville, Tennessee, Us

CFO and Executive Director for Asurion’s businesses in Australia and New Zealand. With 300 staff and turnover of $100m, the ANZ business provides Mobile Device Services to Carriers and Retailers across the lifecycle of support, including Device Protection (Insurance), Upgrade & Trade-in solutions, Repair and Remanufacturing, User Support (Technical Support), and Device Financing. Key Achievements:* Led Commercial negotiations for major tender worth $1.5b over the contract term, including customer engagements and vendor engagements.* Key subject matter expert in developing a syndicated leasing facility in support of the major tender, including securing initial presell of $1b of funding.* Provided key financial support and guidance to drive the transformation of the Australian business to reduce costs by 30%Leading the Finance function, responsibility includes all Commercial aspects (Pricing, Negotiations, Decision Support Analysis), Financial Planning and Analysis, Financial Controllership, Regulatory and External Reporting, Working Capital management, Payroll and Risk Management.

Macquarie Park, Nsw, Au

DIRECTOR BTS FINANCE (Sept 2013 to March 2017; $1b turnover, 80 staff)Lead the finance and corporate services function for Optus Business ICT divisions and NCSi Australia, incorporating all SingTel / Optus ICT Australian subsidiaries including the NCSi Australia business. Key Achievements:* Financial leadership of the Business Technology Solutions division ($1b turnover) to deliver year on year growth of over 30%,* Lead Finance Executive on ATO re-sign project, securing the ATO for a further 3 years delivering a $300m managed services contract* Led the Finance Transformation program, developing strategic plan and programs to implement new SAP instance, integrate over 6 subsidiaries and improve financial reporting accuracy and timeliness* Successfully designed and executed a captive offshore shared service finance function improving resource capacity and delivering ongoing savings of over $5m per annumA Key business partnering role to drive Finance and Commercial outcomes, as well as governance and compliance with SAP. Key focus on transforming and integrating subsidiaries to create a new ICT business, driving YoY growth above market rates. Financial leadership of teams including Financial Accounting, Management Reporting, Customer Contract Finance, Project Accounting, Cost Accounting, Procurement, ICT Billing, and for NCSi Australia, Financial Control and Taxation.

Macquarie Park, Nsw, Au

DIRECTOR TRANSFORMATION (March 2013 to Sept 2013)Working with the Optus Business division executive leadership team, identify and restructure the business to achieve a leaner operating model, focused on ensuring continuation of business services and supporting other strategic initiatives. Successfully implemented a $60m cost out program.

Independent consulting advice to the Telecommunications industry. Provided financial modelling for commercial business analysis and pricing, as well as infrastructure project management advice to clients.

Dickson, Act, Au

GENERAL MANAGER CUSTOMER SERVICE & OPERATIONS (Turnover $120m, 150 staff)Lead the TransACT operations group providing an efficient, customer service orientated function across the customer life cycle from activation and installation, through service delivery, billing, credit, customer help desk and call centres. Leverage this capability by leading the TransACT IT group to deliver a robust Corporate IT environment. Also lead the network operations for TransACT providing maintenance and augmentation, fault management, and national operations centre monitoring and management.Key Achievements:* Assisted the Board and Executive colleagues with the successful private sale of TransACT group to iiNet limited,* Led the transition of TransACT's IT to iiNet infrastructure and systems, and successfully outsourced the Field Operations of TransACT to external provider per iiNet strategy,* Achieved financial targets and business plan objectives (EBITDA and Operating Costs) 3 years running during the “global financial crisis”, growing the business by more than 7% CAGR compared to industry decline

Dickson, Act, Au

GENERAL MANAGER VICTORIA & PROGRAM MANAGEMENT (Turnover $120m, 60 staff)Responsible for leading the Victorian team for Transact, including sales, customer service, infrastructure engineering and systems engineering. Indirectly responsible for leading the consumer sales and marketing. Also the Group Executive responsible for establishing and operating TransACTs Executive Program Management Office which drove all strategic and capital projects for TransACT.Key Achievements:• Developed and implemented Business Recovery Plan for Victorian subsidiary to achieve positive EBITDA and cashflow for the first time in over 10 years. Business turnaround from a $2m EBITDA loss to a $2.5m EBITDA profit in 2 years in a difficult trading period (GFC),• Leadership of the business plan to enter the Victorian Corporate and Government market growing revenue from $150k to over $1.2m per annum within 12 months,• Leadership of product development including the release of VoIP, growing customer base by over 160% in 2 years, adding $2m per annum in revenue• Reduced operating costs by 15% ($3m p.a.) through restructuring and productivity gains, without dilution of service or capability• Integrated Victorian subsidiary into operations division following acquisition, achieving synergy benefits identified in acquisition business case of $0.5m.

Not for profit advocacy company promoting ICT industry and technology take-up in Ballarat Victoria. Influencing Government ( Federal, State, and Local ), Business leadership and the community about the benefits of ICT and how Ballarat is positioning itself to be the regional hub of technology in Australia.Key achievements include assisting the organisation establish an appropriate corporate governance framework and processes, and successful delivery of first audit.

Canberra, Act, Au

GENERAL MANAGER VICTORIA (Turnover $120m, staff 60)Responsible for the Transact subsidiary Neighbourhood Cable, which ActewAGL managed under contract on behalf of TransACT.Neighbourhood Cable was acquired by TransACT in June 2009. Led the Sales, Customer Service, Infrastructure Engineering and System Engineering teams. Key achievements include successfully launching VoIP, growing the customer base by more than 160% in 12 months and cost reductions of more than 10%.

Canberra, Act, Au

Group Financial Controller - Retail (Turnover $700m, staff 30)Responsible for leading the Retail divisions finance group delivering commercial advice, financial & management accounting, business planning, business performance reporting, credit management and risk management.Key achievements include reducing arrears by more than 50% through business process re-engineering, improving reporting across financial and non financial elements, and improving the business planning process creating stronger alignment between the strategy and business plan.

Led a finance team of 10 staff delivering financial and management accounting, business planning, payroll, accounts and commercial advice.Key achievements included implementing a new ERP (Technology One), establishing a business planning process aligned to strategy, and improvement of financial controls.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

Established the Enterprise and Government Transformation Program Office. Reviewed and established within the program office more than 160 projects, which was refined and analysed down to approx 50 key projects. Developed reporting on project progress and predictive analysis on likelihood of success based on Boston Consulting Group's Roadmap methodology.

Sydney, Nsw, Au

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