Team: IT Business Engagement - Manufacturing

Team: Manufacturing Applications

Team: Business Intelligence & ReportingAchievements• Project FAME (Financial Automation of Month End) - Redesigned the Port Kembla Steelwork’s Financial Month End process, transitioning the Finance team from a manual spreadsheet driven process to an automated, web-based reporting solution reducing time required by over 50%. Managed project tasks, co-ordinating 20-30 project resources, successfully ‘going live’ and under budget.• Project Manager for BlueScope Australia & New Zealand’s new Safety & Environment suite of reports, co-ordinating COGNOS report developers, users and external contractors.• Project Manager for BlueScope Supply Chain web-based ‘Project Management’ suite of reports.• Project Manager for SAS EG software roll-out.Roles & Responsibilities• Analyse & re-design Business Processes and identify improvement opportunities.• Manage projects from concept to delivery, estimate time frames, create project schedules and manage resources.• Document and design integrated solutions maximising BlueScope’s investment in existing software and hardware to present cost effective solutions.• BlueScope SAS Governance Leader – Managing users, licensing, and server upgrade.

Achievements• Worked collaboratively with a government agency, the business and other IS teams to achieve the most cost effective and best resolution on the Natural Gas management system upgrade project.• Created software that automated a manual email handling procedure with Lysaghts, freeing up resources and increasing reliability. Designed to allow other departments to utilise the same functionality.• Led a project working with Supply Chain & Processing Development to design a solution that replaces their spreadsheet-driven project financials reporting by utilising & extending existing BlueScope assets.Roles & Responsibilities• Assess customer requirements and processes and design solutions to meet those requirements. Advise and steer customers to ‘the best solution’.• Estimate time & effort of work to be undertaken by IS Applications staff and provide clear and understandable specifications and documentation.• Design & develop new software, maximising benefit of existing BlueScope resources and following best practise.

Achievements• Managed & developed a multi-stage project (ESUS) replacing multiple legacy systems, redesigning and migrating the team’s core processes into one central database & web-based data management & reporting system.• Managed the migration of Springhill Work’s meter reading, data calculation & SAP reporting processes into ESUS. Working with and coordinating people from multiple departments and achieving process simplification, efficiency improvements & reduced errors.• Managed a project to develop the reporting & data auditing requirements for the new AEMO Natural Gas Short Term Trading Market using ESUS, saving BlueScope $200K+ in upfront software purchases, plus ongoing licensing costs.• Coordinated with multiple parties to migrate Environment’s LBL Reporting system’s data gathering processes, automating a labour intensive & error-prone process.Roles & Responsibilities• Manage projects to transition from legacy software & reporting systems to current technology.• Gain a deep understanding of the steelwork’s energy processes and work with various departments to improve the BlueScope’s efficiency & capabilities.• Support and make improvements to the Energy Sourcing & Utilisation’s End of Month financial process.• Design & develop new software to serve the data collection, management & reporting requirements for ES&U and other departments.• Gain an understanding of the energy & utility requirements of the Port Kembla Steelworks, and the reporting systems used around the plant.

Achievements• Successfully managed multiple ‘crisis situations’ where IT problems had severe effects on business operations.• Coordinated a high-profile client compensation project with an external audit team on a project, involving strict reporting & calculation requirements.• Joined the IT Extend Leadership group as a member of the ‘Continuous Improvement & Business Process Review’ Team.Roles & Responsibilities• Provide recommendations & implement reporting & process improvements for the business.• Use business database knowledge to provide guidance to IT & business units on design & reporting projects.• Perform complex data analysis and interpretation of results to solve issues affecting internal & external clients.• Provide assistance and training to colleagues on complex topics and methodology.• Coordinate & liaise with business units to determine the cause & ongoing solutions to problems.• Develop database systems & reports to provide support for IT and non-IT business units.

Achievements• Commended for customer support activities• Commended for speedy and accurate response to MoneyOne financial advisers• Commended for MS Excel data analysis & presentation skillsRoles and Responsibilities• Develop a deep understanding of the company’s database and data warehouse systems, and the real world applications of these. • Create specialised reports for both internal (Executive/Management/Administration/Client Services) and external (Subfund/Financial Adviser/Individual) clients.• Provide accurate reports within the SLA (Service Level Agreement) in a clear and presentable format (Excel/PDF/Word).• Ability to work autonomously and within a team, work under pressure and prioritise work according to urgency.• Responsible for correct execution and delivery and automatically generated reports.• Client support via phone and email for MoneyOne website – involving explanation of complex technical problems and business issues.• Problem Solving & Bug Fixes for MoneyOne Website (Java/SQL).• Testing new functionality of internal software & websites.

Sales Representative 29/11/04 – 14/01/05• Tip Top Sales Representative for 16 Major Stores in Sydney.• Responsible for meeting sales & returns budgets.• Communications & negotiations with store-level management.• Responsible for a team of Merchandisers (Stock fillers).• Sales Order Management.• Promotion Organisation.Business Analyst 17/01/05 – 20/07/05• Business Process Analysis for the ‘Top Up’ project. Top Up is the replacement of Tip Top’s current Sales & Distribution software ‘TOPS’ with an SAP Enterprise Solution.• Working alongside the Sales BPO (Business Process Owner) to document and improve current business processes using Use Case and flowchart methodologies.• Gained excellent knowledge of the business, end-to-end.• Organisation of Blueprint Workshops & Meetings.• Gap/Fit analysis between business requirements and SAP Standard Functionality.• Presentation of complex problems and information to both business experts and people new to the business, such as the SAP Consultants.SAP Security Redesign Project• Baking Division’s representative on the project team which was responsible for the complete redesign of the current SAP system’s security.• Responsible for communication between IS and management at all levels throughout the business to ensure that the redesign was planned within the business’ requirements.• Removal of redundant SAP licenses.Marketing Trainee 27/7/05 – 16/9/2005 • Working for the Marketing Manager on the bread business of George Weston Foods – Baking Division.• Processing Marketing Spend.• Responsible for the Weekly Tracking reports using Excel in conjunction with ACNielsen I-sights and COGNOS Powerplay.• Analysis of sales figures, trends and other marketing data.• Coordination of Sponsored events.• Communications with key business and sponsorship partners.• Coordination of reviews and changes to the company’s web-sites.