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Leading the Finance team of Mahitahi Hauora, Northland’s largest Primary Health Entity. Reporting directly to the CEO and key member of the Senior Leadership team. I hold overall accountability in providing valuable advice and direction to enable effective and efficient decision making.Key Achievements:• Established a new budgeting process to enhance transparency and accountability of our various funding streams and ensuring sustainability of the organisation in the midst of political uncertainty• Developed new reporting tools to support decision making at SLT and Board level, and as a result making meetings more effective with increased accountability• Led the process of creating and embedding a new Leadership Team Charter to foster a more cohesive, engaged Senior Leadership Team• Led the annual planning process of the organisationResponsibilities:• Providing essential commercial advice to the CEO, Board and Senior Leadership Team to enable the organisation to explore funding opportunities and manage risks• Developing and leading valuable commercial and financial reporting to enable all leaders in the organisation to make decisions and achieve objectives• Leading and reviewing the systems and processes that ensure the financial function can provide the level of support, information, and reporting that the business needs to operate effectively• Leading the preparation business cases to support funding opportunities in order to address specific primary health needs identified by the organisation• Effectively driving the finance function

Leading the Commercial Finance team of Osborne Clarke, a global law firm of c. GBP 380m (NZD 800m) revenue and 2,000+ employees with locations in the UK, Europe, Asia and the United States. Reporting directly to the CFO and member of the Operations Board. Leading and developing an engaged high-performing team of 15.Key Achievements:• Redesigned MI reporting and profitability model leading to profitability improvements (+3ppt GP margin) • Overhauled the budgeting process to give more control and clarity to both ‘bottom-up’ and ‘top-down’ stakeholders, bridging the gap between the two approaches in record time• Expanded a small team of 3, focused on management accounting, into a high-performing team to 15, covering all aspects of Commercial Finance, Financial Planning, Analysis and Finance Systems.• Supported the firm through the COVID-19 pandemic by implementing new ways of forecasting in a crisis, using contingency frameworks allowing the Executive Board to respond to new developments in real time• Spearheaded process improvements, systems enhancements, and group standardization efforts to streamline operations and enhance efficiency• Created a new firm-wide resourcing process to decentralise decision-making while ensuring alignment with central resource plans and strategic priorities

Reporting to the Head of Commercial Finance in this newly created role, in a newly created Commercial Finance function within the firm.Key Achievements:• Created new reporting packs, based on exception reporting and solution-focused supporting decision making at various levels within the business• Led firm-wide seminars to promote good financial hygiene, and in doing so, shifting the focus away from revenue and towards profitability• Established the “Commercial Finance brand” by increasing visibility as a team and building relationships across the businessResponsibilities:• Interpretation of monthly finance MI into insightful commentary, analysis, and articulation of required management actions • Acting as a trusted advisor to the business, evaluating and monitoring key performance drivers, budget, forecast, and actual results, ensuring risks and critical business drivers are understood and communicated effectively • Managing the annual planning and budgeting process for the practice group and support the delivery and maintenance of group led strategic plans • Proactively working with Practice Group Heads, their leadership teams and partners to provide financial expertise and support, e.g. effective and regular presentations at partner meetings, identifying and leading initiatives to improve financial performance relating to profitability, working capital and financial efficiency• Serving as the key financial interface between the practice group management and the Finance department • Leading the delivery of the finance curriculum for lawyers, including mentoring and training, and presenting at firmwide learning academies for fee earners at all levels from trainee through to partner• Supporting the Head of Commercial Finance and CFO to develop our 3-year plan

Managed the financial operations of WEA International, an entity overseeing Warner Music’s businesses outside of the USA and providing guidance, best practices and commercial insight to the group. Warner Music Group is a multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate. It is the third-largest company in the global music industry.• Managed the production of monthly management accounts, reports and financial • Presented monthly results, budget variances and ad-hoc analysis to senior management• Managed, trained and coached a team of three• Ensured financial integrity through US GAAP, IFRS and SOX compliance with financial processes• Responsible for financial risk, contingency analysis and identifying areas of potential risk• Performed group consolidation of several international entities• Owned intercompany accounting processes and reconciliations• Responsible for several finance process redesigns, achieving greater transparency and control

Part of Warner Music UK’s financial planning team, working with the labels to assess, forecast and analyse financial information related to music releases and artist’s contracts.Preparing monthly management accounts and quarterly consolidationsResponsible for monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accountsProviding analytical review to senior management on margin and variance analysisEstablishing and maintaining systems and controls that verify the integrity of financial processes Producing bi-weekly cash forecasts and variance analysisLiaising with internal and external audit teams

Part of the international digital clearing house, managing financial flows from digital music providers and redistributing to selling territories and repertoire owners.Responsible for the end-to-end financial process on digital streaming accounts (eg. Spotify, YouTube)Supervising and reviewing the work of five digital finance assistantsInterpreting contracts to ensure all terms and relevant aspects are correctly captured in the relevant schedulesResponsible for the accounting and recoupment of advances and minimum guaranteesProviding ongoing and ad hoc sales analysis support (e.g. artist management requests, special project analysis)Identifying non standard deals and coordinating with relevant departments to highlight potential accounting issues and address these accordingly

12-month contracting work for a recently established consulting firm.Building forecast modelsPreparing marketing pitch-books and related materials Working with banks and investors to draft finance proposals

Joined the renowned consulting firm to support increasing demand in transaction services through LBO/MBO and restructuring during the financial crisis.Working with clients, mostly CEOs/CFOs, on modelling and valuationDrafting information memos and presentations for managementCommunicating with legal, financial and technical counsels