Perfection Group is one of Australia's leading growers, marketers, IP Owners and wholesalers of fresh fruit and vegetables, as wells as operating farming, packing and food preparation facilities.

Energizer is an FMCG company managing brands across the household and personal care categories; Energizer, Eveready, Banana Boat, Schick, Wet Ones, Hawaiian Tropic, Playtex Products. With a global turnover of USD 4 billion and local turnover across Australia and New Zealand of over USD 500 million.The Australian and New Zealand companies are fully owned subsidiaries of Energizer Incorporated based in the United States.I am a company director and secretary of both the Australian and New Zealand corporate entities. Managing teams across both countries, my responsibilities include; Finance, Business Analytics, Internal Control, Corporate Governance, Risk Management, Procurement, Property, IT Management.I have implemented a shared service centre, called the "Business Service Centre", based in the Philippines, to perform accounts payable, accounts receivable and basic accounting functionality for the Australian and New Zealand businesses.

BP Shipping is responsible for anything that floats within the BP Group. The Shipping BU employs around 450 land based staff and many more sea based. The business operates circa 150 tankers and other vessels on a continual basis with a turnover of USD 1.5b, 23rds of which is internal to the BP Group.Responsibility for the commercial operations of the BP fleet of tanker vessels globally. Managing a team of 26 manager and analyst personnel, based across the UK, Singapore and US. My responsibilities included commercially optimizing the dry-docking of vessels, managing the port agency relationships globally, demurrage negotiations and day to day commercial activities of the fleet.

Responsibility for the origination, structuring and development of marine solutions on behalf of the Segment customers in the region. I was responsible for structuring and delivering commercial solutions to meet the Group's marine requirements. Specific responsibilities include negotiating new-build contracts; helping to structure leasing arrangements; vessel purchases/sales; and supporting in the negotiation of long term time charters. This was a project management role involving significant stakeholder interface and management.

A business started by myself and a business partner. The company is focused on women's fashion, primarily shoes, handbags and fashion accessories. The company has the rights to certain brands and labels sourced through industry contacts, primarily in the United States. There are three arms to the company; wholesale to major retailers, retail through a wholly owned website (www.fashionstage.com) and license management. In less than six months the company grow from nothing to over £500,000 in sales. The company retains an affiliation to GRI Asia Ltd through ultimate sourcing of the product from Asian manufacture.; Responsibility for the commercial and financial operations of the company. My role is a part time one, with my business partner working full time in the areas of product management, sales and marketing. We negotiated the sale of a 75% interest in the website, including handover of all day to day responsibilities. GRI still supplies product to the website, as part of the sale deal, and also into the United Kingdom, and are now looking at the wider European market, both West and East. The operation of the wholesale activity has also now been handed over to a strategic business partner, although strategic direction, marketing and industry contacts are managed by GRI.

Responsibility for the Global Internal Control function reporting to the Business Unit Controller. Primary responsibilities include ensuring the business is SOX compliant, ensuring the maintenance of financial controls across all financial information in the business unit and that group policies are applied where appropriate to keep consistency with the organisation. The Internal Control team consisted of five and covered SOX compliance across the globe, as well as third party auditing.

Responsibility for the finance function reporting to the General Manager. Temporary role with the aim to bring the business unit back within BP Group standards with regards to financial reporting and performance measurement. Primary responsibilities included ensuring the effective and reliable production of financial information. This information flowed through to group reporting under the UK Downstream segment. To full fill the role I continued in London but commuted on a weekly basis to the office in Inverness. The role involved managing the office staff of eight and re-organising not just the financial but also non-financial information flow.

A joint venture (JV) between one of the worlds largest petrol retailers and, what was at the time, the fourth largest supermarket chain in the UK. Turnover of circa £500M with a healthy profit distributed to the parent organisations annually. The JV or "partnership" operated 61 sites across England, Scotland and Wales.Responsibility for the finance function reporting to the Director of the Joint Venture. Primary responsibilities included ensuring the effective and reliable production of financial information for use in managing the JV, maintaining the flow of financial to and from the parent organisations, attendance at monthly board meetings to present financial performance and to advise on financial issues surrounding the JV such as new site evaluation, tax issues and general financial control. The position sat on the management team of the JV and included the management of a team who prepare reports such as profit and loss statement, balance sheets, weekly performance reports and fuel pricing. I also oversaw the implementation of Peoplesoft software through the JV, inline with implementation through the Safeway/Morrisons business.

is a Fortune 500 company and is the world's biggest specialty retailer of toys and children's products with a turnover of USD 11.0B in 1,600 stores around the globe; 38 stores and has a turnover of AUD 200.0M, putting it in the top 500 companies in Australia.; My responsibilities included the accounting department, payroll, industrial purchasing and business analysts. This was a total of 25 to 30 people reporting to me. As part of my senior role in the company I held a position on the management committee (board) for Toys "R" Us - Australia. My role in terms of day to day functions involved ensuring a high quality of financial reporting though the organization as well as liasing financial issues to the parent company in the U.S. Examples of such issues are debt v. equity funding, gaining approval for capital projects such as new stores and monthly/quarterly/annual reporting. I was also responsible for all statutory, taxation and other regulatory compliance. All company secretarial work was completed by me, including the filing of all returns and other documentation with the regulatory body. Other various responsibilities included control of foreign currency hedging position and negotiating industrial purchasing contracts.

Responsibilities included production of monthly financial reports including written analysis, treasury management, payroll, budgeting/forecasting, accounts payable, company secretarial, analyst team leadership.

Responsibilities included production of monthly financial reports including written analysis for both internal and external (U.S. parent) users, i.e. P&L, Balance Sheets, Trial Balance, and Cash Flow. Other duties included treasury management, including hedging placement, budgeting/forecasting, accounts payable, and monthly detailed variance analysis.

Responsibilities included budgeting/forecasting, monthly written variance analysis from both plans and last year, lease accounting, sales reporting to landlords, detailed margin reporting and analysis on a monthly basis, labour planning across the business.