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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Head of IT Procurement, managing a team responsible for over 150 technology contracts across Cloud, SaaS, PaaS and Hardware vendors; achieving 7% savings through cost visibility, technology rationalisation and efficient procurement processes.Established a Cloud FinOps team, enhancing cost and usage transparency, negotiating contracts with GCP and Azure, and meeting key cloud metrics to drive efficiency targets.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Scaled a team to be responsible for over $300m in costs across Cloud (AWS & Google Cloud) and 90+ software vendors. Key outcomes - evaluating and executing cost-saving initiatives, scenario modelling and providing recommendations to Senior Management for renewals and new software and CAPEX purchases.Found Cloud FinOps team at Canva - savings of over $34m over 2 years through cost visibility initiatives, presenting to engineers and product managers, executing commercial initiatives and… Show more Scaled a team to be responsible for over $300m in costs across Cloud (AWS & Google Cloud) and 90+ software vendors. Key outcomes - evaluating and executing cost-saving initiatives, scenario modelling and providing recommendations to Senior Management for renewals and new software and CAPEX purchases.Found Cloud FinOps team at Canva - savings of over $34m over 2 years through cost visibility initiatives, presenting to engineers and product managers, executing commercial initiatives and managing cost transformation projects across 20+ teams.Sole responsibility for modelling long-term cloud spend of over $1.1bn across 5 years at a vendor and service-line level - analyzing multi-vendor commercials and providing recommendations around vendor mix and discounts. Reduced cloud spend by 22% through new EDP's with AWS and GCP and getting larger discounts on compute and storage SKUs.Managed P&Ls across Infrastructure, Security, AI, Networking and Technology, including meeting cost and cashflow targets and presenting insightful monthly business reviews to Group Leads and Finance leadership; building productive relationships through collaboration and timely management of risks and opportunities.Improved forecast accuracy and tracking of savings across $200m p.a. of Cloud spend through building automated and scalable reporting, tailored to both engineering and finance stakeholders.Educated over 700 non-finance employees with finance knowledge and context through regular 'Finance 101' sessions, promoting better stakeholder buy-in and alignment with finance metrics. Show less

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Managed 5 contracts with a combined turnover of ~A$35m. End to end financial performance management through analysis and modelling of P&L's, balance sheets and cashflows; responsible for annual budgeting, forecasting and scenario/sensitivity analysis.Grew a team of three Assistant Financial Business Partners (AFBP's) with a focus on delivering better commercial insights and improving processes around customer billing, contract changes proposals and and financial… Show more Managed 5 contracts with a combined turnover of ~A$35m. End to end financial performance management through analysis and modelling of P&L's, balance sheets and cashflows; responsible for annual budgeting, forecasting and scenario/sensitivity analysis.Grew a team of three Assistant Financial Business Partners (AFBP's) with a focus on delivering better commercial insights and improving processes around customer billing, contract changes proposals and and financial systems.Responsible for scoping and evaluating all Defence bids & proposals across ANZ, assessing project financial models and performing financial analysis. Worked in with Sales and Commercial teams to scope and model opportunities in the maritime, logistics and maintenance sectors.Increased revenue by $4.5m through creating and winning contract extensions and adding new services to existing contracts and improved customer retention. Created and modeled commercial initiatives in partnership with Sales teams to successfully propose changes to clients. Show less

Sydney, Australia

Developed and implemented first Group-wide technology strategy in co-ordination with Qantas, Jetstar and Qantas Loyalty; created distinct strategies for data, privacy, innovation and vendors.Partnered with various divisions (Airline, Freight & Loyalty) to determine viability of IT projects including cost-benefit modelling and ensuring that delivered on Group Technology Strategy objectiveKey achievements: Managed Group relationships with AWS, Google, TCS & IBM - validated… Show more Developed and implemented first Group-wide technology strategy in co-ordination with Qantas, Jetstar and Qantas Loyalty; created distinct strategies for data, privacy, innovation and vendors.Partnered with various divisions (Airline, Freight & Loyalty) to determine viability of IT projects including cost-benefit modelling and ensuring that delivered on Group Technology Strategy objectiveKey achievements: Managed Group relationships with AWS, Google, TCS & IBM - validated business cases, led cost benchmarking and subsequently implemented recommendations and followed-up on commercial opportunities. Co-managed project to offshore invoice and SLA validation including process-mapping, managing handover between vendors and managing training/change management. Show less

Sydney, Australia

Led scoping, financial and operational modeling and presentations for commercial and strategic projects. Prepared business cases for large CAPEX projects such as aircraft and property leases.Key achievements:Implemented comprehensive review of freight pricing to implement customer segmentation and improve revenue management and margin. Generated insights from proposed pricing model to recommend new pricing structures and created modelling tools for Sales and Pricing… Show more Led scoping, financial and operational modeling and presentations for commercial and strategic projects. Prepared business cases for large CAPEX projects such as aircraft and property leases.Key achievements:Implemented comprehensive review of freight pricing to implement customer segmentation and improve revenue management and margin. Generated insights from proposed pricing model to recommend new pricing structures and created modelling tools for Sales and Pricing teams.Prepared analysis for customer-initiated proposals (e.g. Australia Post, DHL) including financial modelling across aircraft types and schedule optimisation to improve freighter routes and flight hours. Show less

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Developed and implemented projects to grow revenue in Australia and SE Asia and identified opportunities to develop new revenue streams. Jointly-led launch of new Group procurement policy across A$10bn spend and achieved ~$45m savings annually.

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Auckland, New Zealand

Graduate Diploma In Commerce, Commercial Law

Bachelor Of Business (First-Class Honours), Accounting, First Class Honors

Activities and Societies: Postgraduate Student Representative Honors topic: "Goodwill or Impairment: The impact of ERP's on Accounting.

Bachelor Of Commerce, Accounting And Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Faculty & Business School representative