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Melbourne, Victoria, AU

East Melbourne, Victoria, AU

East Melbourne, Victoria, AU

East Melbourne, Victoria, AU

East Melbourne, Victoria, AU

East Melbourne, Victoria, AU

• Leading a high-performing team of 13 people, producing consolidated financial reports, the annual budget and budget review, as well as advising and supporting senior management and Ministers providing strategic advice.
• Leading the Consolidated Reporting and Analysis Team effectively collaborating with internal and external stakeholders in the operational delivery of the State’s financial reporting products and other significant.
• Providing high-level budget and financial analysis and advice to senior management and Ministers, including financial modelling and variance and trend analysis, in accordance with agreed quality and time related.
• Working collaboratively with other executive officers to manage the group’s staff and deliverables, while ensuring alignment of the group’s capability with the department’s vision; and
• Providing strategic leadership to build and maintain effective relationships within the Department of Treasury and Finance and with other departments and portfolio agencies.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

The role responsibilities included managing a diverse global team of professionals to consolidate the group’s data providing a management, statutory and tax view of the results. Ownership of the Groups SAP consolidation system, ensuring data and system integrity including business support, together with the identification and actioning of process.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Following the successful go-live of Project Condor I accepted a role in Group Reporting in the Consolidation team to operate and support the business using SEM BCS. The role encompassed responsibility to ensure system and data integrity in the consolidation system through to consolidated reporting and also business process improvements as these were.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

Working on Project Condor, a group initiative to replace BHPB’s consolidation system for reporting from Hyperion to SEM-BCS, I was responsible for ensuring by business unit (Stainless Steel Materials) and the group’s objectives were met and worked as part of project team contributing to design, build, data migration, user acceptance testing, training and.

Melbourne, Victoria, AU

I was brought in deliver a SAP Business Warehouse (BW) project. The outcomes of the project were well received and opened an opportunity to review finance process and utilise technology to increase productivity in reporting. Supported the finance team on systems and produced the internal management reporting pack.

Responsibilities included co-ordination and completion of the budget process for BBC technology, the arm of the BBC that brought us “Living with dinosaurs” but also supported the organisation providing information technology requirements. After completing the budget process I led a project to automate their monthly reporting pack utilising SAP BW

Managed the financial reporting of a portfolio of Hotels, including preparation of business cases for capital injections and new start-up concepts. Provided support to the finance team as the key user on the reporting system (FRM and Great Plains).

Prior to my role in Fosters I worked for several companies of note, from smaller locally based businesses like Viewtec where I was the financial controller, to larger international based companies like CSFB and AT&T where I was based in London and was responsible for financial reporting.

Accounting And Business/Management

B.Bus, Accountancy