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Auckland, New Zealand

Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer. Responsible for finance, procurement and commercial business partnering to navigate the best long-term value with proactive risk and cost management on NZD$17 billion cash spend and NZD$5 billion asset base. This includes activities across milk collection, manufacturing, supply chain, quality and safety, technical services, innovation, information technology, and sustainability. COO has a 12,000 workforce across these activities, producing a range of… Show more Reporting to the Chief Operating Officer. Responsible for finance, procurement and commercial business partnering to navigate the best long-term value with proactive risk and cost management on NZD$17 billion cash spend and NZD$5 billion asset base. This includes activities across milk collection, manufacturing, supply chain, quality and safety, technical services, innovation, information technology, and sustainability. COO has a 12,000 workforce across these activities, producing a range of ingredients, foodservice and consumer products. Finance team of 100 people supported by a global financial shared services team. Show less

Auckland, New Zealand

Reporting to the Managing Director New Zealand Milk Products. Responsible for finance and commercial business partnering with a globally dispersed team on the sales and marketing activity across ingredient, foodservice and consumer portfolios and Central Portfolio Management on allocating milk for best return, generating a revenue of NZD$12 billion and EBIT of NZD$800 million. Key focus areas: maximise value above a global dairy trade (gDT) commodity auction offering, development of digital… Show more Reporting to the Managing Director New Zealand Milk Products. Responsible for finance and commercial business partnering with a globally dispersed team on the sales and marketing activity across ingredient, foodservice and consumer portfolios and Central Portfolio Management on allocating milk for best return, generating a revenue of NZD$12 billion and EBIT of NZD$800 million. Key focus areas: maximise value above a global dairy trade (gDT) commodity auction offering, development of digital services and channel to market, capital efficiency, allocation of milk to optimise demand and supply economics, financial risk management and commodity margin exposure to the FarmGate Milk Price. Finance team of 105 people supported by a global financial shared services team. Show less

Auckland

Reporting to the Group CFO and Chair of the Board Audit Finance & Risk committee. Responsible to provide value added assurance to the effectiveness of risk management and its adoption across the global business. This relied on a transformation of Internal Audit capability across people, process, and systems to a centre of excellence. Boards confidence secured with identification and remediation on vulnerable risk gaps and the professionalism of the function recognised by external audit… Show more Reporting to the Group CFO and Chair of the Board Audit Finance & Risk committee. Responsible to provide value added assurance to the effectiveness of risk management and its adoption across the global business. This relied on a transformation of Internal Audit capability across people, process, and systems to a centre of excellence. Boards confidence secured with identification and remediation on vulnerable risk gaps and the professionalism of the function recognised by external audit reliance and an achievement award from the Institute of Internal Audit New Zealand. Internal Audit Team of 25 people. Show less

Mexico

Reporting to the Global Trade Commercial Director. Based in Mexico, responsible for the commercial and finance management of the International Sales network through a globally based team. The business generated revenue of NZD$4 billion and EBIT of NZD$200 million. Key focus areas: fiscal management of P&L and Balance Sheet, strategic planning and execution, commercial business partnering, customer relationship growth, profitable revenue growth, working capital, and credit risk management… Show more Reporting to the Global Trade Commercial Director. Based in Mexico, responsible for the commercial and finance management of the International Sales network through a globally based team. The business generated revenue of NZD$4 billion and EBIT of NZD$200 million. Key focus areas: fiscal management of P&L and Balance Sheet, strategic planning and execution, commercial business partnering, customer relationship growth, profitable revenue growth, working capital, and credit risk management. Strategy included the launch of Global Dairy Trade (gDT) online platform providing transparent market price discovery, recognised now as the world’s leading trading platform for core dairy products and supports efficient dairy derivative trading. Commercial business partnering prioritized on value add pricing above commodity gDT offering. Show less

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Formed on the acquisition of the Bonlac Foods business with responsibility for the sales and marketing of dairy products generating NZD$1 billion revenue. Key focus areas: lead the establishment of the finance team, core financial process and controls integrity, performance management system and managed the principal commercial arrangement on dairy product purchases. Implemented a business combination on the acquisition of a manufacturing plant and supply of 600 million liters of raw milk.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for the commercial and financial activities of the Cooperatives manufacturing operations and sales and marketing channels to market. Focus areas: product costing, manufacturing efficiency, sales & operational planning, pricing, and margin maximisation

Ireland

Pfizer, market leader in the manufacture of orthopedic implants. Key focus areas: to prepare and review weekly and monthly manufacturing performance, standard costing ownership, and inventory valuation

Ireland

Chartered Accountant training apprenticeship. Key focus areas: leading audit teams, preparation of consolidated statutory financial statements, corporate tax returns and company secretarial.

Bachelor Of Business, Finance And Economics, Honours

Education record

Professional Excellence

Fellow