Ashleigh Barber Email & Phone Number

Key Responsibilities* Compile and present both department-specific and consolidated budgets, ensuring alignment with business objectives and financial targets * Successfully developed and implemented a streamlined monthly forecasting process, enabling accurate department and consolidated forecasts to be presented to the committee monthly * Lead the.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Key Responsibilities* Strategic business partner to Department General Managers, providing comprehensive analysis of department and event performance * Provide financial support to shared services leadership teams through the preparation of monthly P&Ls and variance analysis to drive initiatives aimed at reducing costs and improving operational efficiency.

Richmond, Victoria, Australia

• Key Responsibilities
• Management of the forecast, budget and medium-term plan processes to ensure key milestones are achieved
• Preparation of reports to stakeholders on forecasts, budgets and medium-term plan. Including appropriate analysis and insight
• Implementation and monitoring of uniform forecasting and budgeting processes with the Brand Commercial Finance team

Melbourne, Australia

• Key Responsibilities
• Management of the planning and budgeting team for all supermarkets, two direct reports.
• Fully accountable for the States and senior management month end reporting packs
• Implementation and monitoring of monthly shared services reforecast packs

• Key Responsibilities
• Management of the brand budget process
• Fully accountable for the accurate and timely production of: o Monthly brand and support services P&L’s o Monthly Regional, Area and store performance analysis o Weekly management reporting o Annual budget process
• Modelling of the strategic 3-year planning
• Monitor and drive cost reductions
• Collaboratively prepare monthly CEO and Board packs

• Key Responsibilities
• Ensured complex calculations and journals complied with accounting legislation
• Coordinate with external auditors and SFG management
• Preparation of statutory financial reports
• Preparation of banking covenant calculations
• Management of the Group’s daily cash flow

Sydney, Australia

• Key Responsibilities
• Plan, organise and monitor financial audits, ensuring that high quality work is performed with both client and statutory deadlines met
• Strategically plan audits including the staffing and budgeting of work
• Manage audit teams including briefing and work delegation
• Prepare statutory accounts and group consolidation under a number of accounting frameworks including AASB and IFRS

Graduate Diploma, Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting