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As Managing Director for an Australian e-commerce skincare business, my role encompasses:• Finance and reporting• Stakeholder management with local and international suppliers and manufacturers• Regulatory and legal compliance• Logistics and operations• Corporate governance• Product developmentThe skill set acquired during my career in management accounting, financial analysis and business consulting is proving invaluable in this role.

I have consulted to enterprise clients in law and FMCG on a range of strategy, business and finance projects. Projects have included:• Design and implementation of pricing model to enable timely and accurate response to tender requests• Supporting a business process review to achieve greater consistency and systemization of existing pricing methodologies• Simplification and enhancement of excel models using sophisticated analytical tools such as Power Query to deliver efficient and reliable data analysis• Financial modelling to support changes to business processes by clearly demonstrating impacts of changes in a clear and concise manner that is easily understood by key stakeholders

Australia, Au

An international law firm, headquartered in Australia and regarded as one of the Asia-Pacific's premier law firms. Reporting to the CFO and COO, I provided direct support to CEO and Chairman of the Board, and had strategic input, positioning the Firm with accurate business insights to inform key decision-making around Partnership management. I was accountable for key projects and all Partner payments and profit distributions, including budgeting, forecasting, analysis and reporting of all Partner related financial matters. Commencing this role after the appointment of a new CEO, the first key challenge was to contribute to management collaboration and a shared view for the Firm devolving from a state based silo structure. The aim was to introduce best practice analysis, systems, automation and reporting to provide an accurate overview of key aspects of the Firm’s financial performance.My key contributions included: ✓ Delivering a single source of truth with a Partner history database enabling timely, accurate and flexible reporting of all Partner related data ✓ Assisting in a securing a positive outcome with negotiations with the ATO leading to the Firm becoming one of the first law firms in Australia to agree on valuation outcomes with the ATO for Everett assignments ✓ Improving the Firm’s long term financial position with input into the reengineering of Partner remuneration system, developing financial modelling which supported transition and retirement for long tenured Partners ✓ Increasing efficiency of revenue recognition, developing missing timesheet reporting for business units and individual fee earners and reports on individual Partner’s performance ✓ Introducing a bulk e-mail tool to streamline communication and improve credit control✓ Supporting the Firm’s negotiation with the Queensland Office of State Revenue for determining methodology on calculating Stamp Duty liability, developing accurate and robust financial modelling

London, Greater London, Gb

This global law firm is co-headquartered in London and Sydney. Formed in October 2012 in a merge between the UK Herbert Smith, a member of the "Silver Circle" of leading UK law firms, and the Australian based Freehills, one of the "Big Six" law firms in Australia. Leading up to and post merge this role had a significant change and project management component. A key project was to implement uniformly accepted agreement and Partner financial management practices across the merged global entities.My key contributions included: ✓ Successfully project managing a major complex transition for a large business unit from partnership into affiliate structure, delivering this within timeframes; completed with a robust shared services agreement successfully administered for 2 years✓ Effectively supporting the business developing a globally accepted process for managing cross border matters pre-partner management system integration✓ Ensuring corporate uniformity and Partner agreement with best practice processes leading the post-merger Partner review and remuneration process alignment across multiple geographies covering 200 + partners in Australia and 250 in the UK, Europe and Asia ✓ Leading a project providing subject matter expertise and business impact analysis for the establishment and maintenance of a global conflicts database following the corporate merge ✓ Providing a single source of truth including a full history of key Partner data around unit and fixed draw holdings, bonus payments, headcount and FTE changes, loan capital and fees developing an Access Database including implementation and education of London based team following merger ✓ Determining a globally accepted metric for profit sharing managing a global point value and co-efficient post-merger accurately reflecting changes in FX rates to ensure relativities between partner points was correctly maintained

With offices in 40 countries this is an American global management consulting firm. I managed the monthly consolidated management reports, budgets and forecasts for the Asia Pacific region of A.T. Kearney. A key achievement was improving the accuracy of budgeting and forecasting, designing an in-house budgeting tool in collaboration with a software provider. This software was so effective it was deployed internationally.

Dublin 2, Ie

Employed at Andersen, now Accenture, this is a global management consulting and professional services firm. I was accountable for monthly management reports, budgets and quarterly forecasts; work in progress and receivables; job and proposal costings and monitoring of fee adjustments/write-offs. I was also engaged on projects including drafting and implementing policies/procedures on tax equalisation of expatriates and accounting for Firm tax issues.

Bachelor'S Degree, Commerce (Honours) Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Commerce