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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Australia

ResponsibilitiesFinance Business Partnering - providing finance support to multiple business units to achieve a common goal. Budgeting & monthly forecasting, monthly P&L reviews, building strong relationships with business unit owners and simplifying processes to generate a quicker more insightful analysis.System Administration (TM1) - Building and maintaining hierarchy trees (accounts, cost centres etc.) updating processes for preparation of budgeting and forecasting, building live reports and providing best use practices for end users

Responsibilities:Stakeholder Engagement – directly engaging with key stakeholder from the Supermarkets and Operations Insights team to identify business requirements and produce supporting documentation to deliver key business improvements.Building Key Relationships – liaising with the IT team and building strong relationships between the IT team and the business to work together on providing detailed functional requirements and completing business activities.Support – providing ongoing BAU support across multiple systems. Regular support would include data extraction and manipulation, how systems process work and how to best use the systems and tools available to the end users. Key Achievements:- Providing critical support on budgeting/forecasting restatement process, providing end users with the ability to restate for a change in the category hierarchy. Support included preparing the baseline numbers, providing users with procedures on how to update the base and liaising with the IT team to ensure the correct security was applied to each user.- Successfully implemented a weekly validation check for the Supermarkets and Operations Insights teams to reduce manual checks on Monday mornings where time is extremely valuable, saving the business 1 hour- Ensure that all reporting processes continued to run without error whilst the entire finance team underwent a significant transformation.- Prepare UAT test scripts for business units to use in the upgrading of the budgeting and reporting system.

ResponsibilitiesReporting – running weekly reporting processes and prepare reports directly delivered to the CEO, CFO and other directors. Perform all Merchandise Finance end of period reporting, ensuring data reconciles across all systems.Stakeholder Engagement – directly engaging with the Business Performance Finance Manager & Finance Category Analysts, understanding their needs to deliver business requirements. Engaging with suppliers and providing Business Development Plan reports on a monthly basis.Training/Support – provide staff with end user training, guide them on best practices and provide recommendations across all reporting platforms. Provide system support and more critically around budgets and forecasting processes.Build Key Relationships – build strong rapport and strengthen the relationships between the Finance and IT teams to drive business priorities and enhance the ability to provide Insights to stakeholders.Change Management – manage and co-ordinate the product hierarchy change and restatement of financial data at year end. Continuously improve reporting processes to Key Achievements- Recognised by the GM of Merchandise Finance at the Coles finance away day for care-taking the role of the Business Intelligence Manager for 3 months during a crucial time of the year.- Successfully managed the product hierarchy change and complex full year financial restatement.- Reduce reporting time of Supplier BDP reports (1 day per month) and Merchandise EOP reporting (5 hours per month) via process improvement and automation.- Development of season reporting, providing like for like analysis, year on year analysis and sell through measures to track performance versus expectation. This saved the merchandise groups 2-3 hours per week during seasonality periods.- Construction of TM1 input templates to assist with the loading of budgets. This saved the Finance Business Partners time and allowed more emphasis on producing the budget.

ResponsibilitiesReporting– providing weekly and monthly reporting to the CEO, CFO and other directors. Completing cost centre reports and providing insight to cost centre owners around current spending and remaining budget. Providing adhoc reporting to all business units when required.Implementation – help transition from JDA Enterprise Planning platform to IBM Cognos TM1Key Achievements- Prepared Budget and Forecasting packs to help GM’s make business decisions.- Launched new SharePoint website providing a central location for reports to be accessed from.

• Managed 10+ staff across various departments from 5.30pm-12pm • Transferred all cash from the registers to the back office safe after the store had closed• Sign for deliveries• Handled all customer queries

Bachelor Of Business, Accounting And Economic Finance

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