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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Overseeing commercial strategy and long term forecasting for annual revenue exceeding A$2b in the healthcare industry.• Leading financial change initiatives within the not for profit sector• Managing key stakeholder relationships and implemented revenue growth strategies.• Up-skilling the broader finance team in financial analysis, stakeholder management, and strategic planning. Bringing the entire finance team together in one unified function

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Led a team of Finance Managers, Business Partners, and Accountants to provide financial advisory services at Mater, Queensland's largest healthcare service.• Implemented strategic financial planning to support the organization's mission of providing care to nearly 700,000 patients annually.• Streamlined financial processes and improved budget management, resulting in increased operational efficiency and cost savings.

London, England, United Kingdom

Mundipharma asked me to come onboard and triage their run towards year-end and audit season. Their balance sheet was in disarray after neglect and lack of skill over several years meant there was no accurate record of third party medical research vendor balances. Directly leading a co-ordinated multi-disciplined exercise to right the ship we were able to deliver year end close with an accurate and auditable balance sheet

London, England, United Kingdom

Acting as internal consultants we lead teams in commercial decision making and business improvement.Focusing on strong commercial business partnering for the Sales & Account Management teams, being the key business partner to worldwide head of sales and driving business change while we were acquired by Amex GBT from Expedia Group and then to be part of a NYSE SPAC listing in 2022.

London, England, United Kingdom

Egencia acquired from Expedia Group by American Express GBT during 2021Role continued uninterrupted within Egencia under American Express GBTKey highlights included being part of new Go To Market strategy planning

London, United Kingdom

This was an interim transformation project role created by a divisional restructure. Reporting directly to the Divisional CFO this role was primarily about creating sound and consistent business practices that drive better and more efficient insight for the executive management team.

London, United Kingdom

Interim role within the Commercial Finance team in Deliveroo's global HQ. Reporting to the director of commercial finance this was primarily focused on preparing the global order forecasting and managing the budgeting process for 13 countries. This role often involved working with large data sets, complex modelling, working with business partners and preparing business cases for the senior operational committee.

Melbourne, Australia

The Commercial Team sits across the Munro Footwear Group and works with their portfolio of retail, wholesale and product sourcing business delivering analytics to the Executive team and wider business. I was responsible for delivering reporting insights as well as working with internal and external business partners.We worked on a range of projects including integration of Fusion Retail Brands into the MFG group and managing improvements and expansions to the business. Key projects involved the introduction of BI live reporting around the business, building large and complex financial models, and managing relationships with external consultants.

Melbourne, Australia

Dedicated to Cruiseabout, the flagship cruising brand of the Flight Centre Travel Group, a $330m+ business with 80+ retail locations across Australia, New Zealand & South Africa and the fastest growing sector of the travel industry. This was an agile, hands on role working with operational business partners to grow and drive success by being their co-pilot. Commercial insight ranged from shop-by-shop deep dives to wide scale analysis, redesigning incentive and remuneration models to align them with the business focus.

Brisbane, Australia

Retail Area Accountant for Travel Associates looking after most East Coast shops maintaining an in-person relationship in QLD/NT/VIC with ad-hoc work in other states for end of month processing, analysis, reporting and internal audit duties.

Brisbane, Australia

Wholesale accountant - Infinity Holidays

Brisbane, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Education record

Fully CPA qualified

Bachelor Of Business, Accounting