Ben Foo Email & Phone Number

Singapore

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

- Ownership of financial management in the capacity of a trusted finance business partner across the following portfolios: 1. Prestige & Luxury titles (digital and print);2. News.com.au digital platform;3. E-commerce4. Women's network (digital and print);5. Travel Network (digital and print);6. Commercial Content;7. Food Network (digital and print);8. Digital Support Functions (Technology cost centres responsible for the operations of the digital technology infrastructure).- Business partnering with senior leadership teams on initiatives with EBITDA impact to deliver growth.- Developed complex financial models and worked with senior leadership teams to assess products profitability and long-range plans to help achieve strategic outcomes which include products continuity and closures, new products creation, merging of products, cost-out targets.- Managed end-to-end set up of new products reporting to deliver the desired reporting outcomes for senior leadership teams. This included, but was not limited to, co-ordinating with cross functional departments to ensure correct setups and mappings were achieved under the correct reporting hierarchies to deliver the desired outcomes in TM1 and Tableau reporting dashboards. - Led and delivered month-end, year-end, forecasts, budgets and long-range plans.- Established costs allocations methodologies for the allocations of costs to consuming units.- Developed rolling forecast financial models to facilitate proactive reviews of departmental forecasts and identified performance trends, risks and opportunities to assess impact to the top and bottom line.- Drove and delivered process improvements with Data and Strategy team by simplifying complex reporting templates to deliver bespoke visual dashboards through Tableau.

Sydney, Australia

- Led and delivered month-end, year-end, forecast and budget processes for operational and capital expenditure.- Cost management and analysis of all Technology and Digital operational expenditure, particularly headcount, software licensing, hardware servers' maintenance, sites hosting, internet security and telecommunication costs.- Responsible for approving cost recharges from New York head office and managing costs allocations across Australian entities.- Established shared costs allocations methodologies and allocations across divisions nationally.- Responsible for the monthly capitalisation of internal resources across capital investment projects.- Reviewed capital expenditure against budget with PMO team and submitted monthly capital expenditure forecast to Head Office for capital expenditure cash flow reporting.- Streamlined and standardized month-end reporting tools across Technology departments. This resulted in consistent reporting packs across Technology departments and more efficient consolidation of Group Technology results for Chief Technology Officer and his direct reports.- Created headcount forecast template to enable more efficient management of headcount costs and reporting.- Developed cost schedules to track operational expenses relating to software licensing, hardware servers' maintenance, sites hosting, internet network security, network data links, fixed voice, mobile costs to enable senior leadership teams to identify their risks and opportunities.- Developed a cost management dashboard to facilitate call out of abnormalities and proactive reviews of departmental forecasts.- Successfully led training sessions for business partners from non- finance background to educate them on the fundamentals of accrual accounting, invoice coding, quarter-end and year-end deliverables.

Sydney, Australia

- Responsible for the financial management of Westfield Online and Brand Alliance business units which are responsible for eCommerce and advertising revenue.- Delivery of key financial deliverables including but not limited to monthly reporting, annual budgets, quarterly forecasts.- Process improvements - developed, reviewed and implemented improved forecasting and budgeting templates and processes to continually drive consistencies, quality and efficiencies.- Reviewed the performances of business units and highlighted potential risks and opportunities to management and executive teams.- Business partnering with Website Development, Sales and Advertising stakeholders.- Provided finance training and guidance to business partners from non-finance background.- Ensured all year-end accruals are current to meet tax and audit requirements.- Successfully built reporting tools for tracking operational spend relating to advertising banners in Westfield Shopping Centres.- Committee member of Compass Focus Group leading a team of 5 members to drive and conduct training sessions on Effective Planning and Prioritisation within Westfield Finance Operations.- Collaborated with IT to centralize documentation on Share Point for easy access across the different divisions within Westfield Finance Operations.

Sydney, Australia

- Month-end deliverables including balance sheet reconciliations.- Responsible for preparation of Australian Bureau Statistics Survey forms for the reporting of GPT's financial information, economic activity and capital expenditure every quarter.- Maintenance of capital expenditure registers and depreciation schedules for the different property portfolios.- Key contact for Hotels portfolio accounting functions. Responsibilities include capital expenditure, rental income, and interest income movements/accruals, assets revaluations, reconciliation of rental and interest income to general ledger.- Responsible for the preparation of taxable income statement for the Hotels trust and liaising with the internal and external tax agents.- Also responsible for quarter-end and year-end deliverables.

Sydney, Australia

- Responsible for verifying and processing invoices for payments.- Responsible for coding invoices and ensuring accurate data entry in the system.- Ensured timely payment of vendor invoices.- Assisted in the processing of payment runs.- Involved in day-to-day functions of solving suppliers' queries in relation to payments.- Provided administrative support to team.

Bachelor Of Accounting, Accounting

Sergeant In School Of Artillery

Diploma In Building Services Engineering, Engineering