Ben Jardine Email & Phone Number

Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Brisbane City, Qld, Au

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

November 2020 - September 2021: Program Director, Department of Energy and Public Works, leading and coordinating advice to government on economic and investment of electricity transmission and distribution infrastructure, including $1.7 billion CopperString mega-project.

Greater Brisbane Area

Brisbane, Australia

A new role established to focus the business on achieving the commercial expectations of shareholders over a five-year horizon through a substantial uplift in revenue. Includes translation of long-term corporate strategy into a Balanced Scorecard to address performance gaps and establishment and operation of a Strategic Portfolio Office to prioritise investments in strategic capabilities and govern execution of strategic initiatives business wide.Also responsible for setting business planning processes and project management methodologies organisation wide aligning asset and engineering portfolios. Implemented a universal project portfolio register with analytics and Power BI reporting integrated with ERP financial data.

Brisbane, Australia

Wide ranging role identifying and pursing cross functional business improvement opportunities, including: renegotiation of major integrated services agreement materially increasing revenue; identifying efficiencies in inventory management; re-aligning and accelerating procurement process for major projects.

Brisbane, Australia

Supported new executive team in reforming and operating Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) frameworks to align with new strategy and market conditions. Role included reporting to Audit and Risk Management Committee of the Board; business continuity; insurance and fraud control.

Brisbane, Australia

Leading the development of a long-term enterprise strategy for the new business to deliver commercial success in a competitive market. Responsible for business performance reporting to Shareholders and Board. Assisting the CEO as an internal management consultant/Office of the CEO style role. Standing attendee of the Executive Committee to support CEO. Continued membership of Credit Risk Management Committee.

Brisbane, Australia

Reporting to Business Services Executive and responsible for a multi-discipline portfolio of corporate services including Corporate Risk, Land and Property Management, Information Resources (Records), Facilities Management and Quality, with responsibilities added over time. Key advisor to the Audit and Risk Management Committee of the Board, reporting major risk exposures recommending control measures and providing comprehensive assurance in conjunction with Internal Audit. Risk advisor to Business Development program.

Brisbane, Australia

Start up and operation of a whole of corporation Program Management Office to guide performance of $100 million per annum project portfolio over the full project lifecycle: initiative identification, investment selection, planning timeframe and resources, monitoring and supporting execution performance, identifying and escalating issues and conflicts to Executive early and post-implementation review.

Brisbane, Australia

Graduate Certificate, Data Engineering

Graduate, Company Directors Course

Mba (Advanced), Finance, Project Management, Corporate Governance

• Master’s completed in 2006, extended to Advanced Master’s in 2008-2009 after promotion to Risk role to expand knowledge of financial.

Advanced Diploma Of Financial Services, Responsible Managers Program

Australian Financial Services License responsibilities

Bachelor, Engineering, Honors

• Major in Computer Systems • Dean’s Commendation for High Achievement in Final (Thesis) Semester

Graduate Certificate, Applied Data Analytics