Chris Arvanitakis Email & Phone Number

Altona North, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Responsibility of preparing the annual Group Plan from top down target creation through to submission and approval by Board.• Responsibility of consolidation of accurate & timely monthly firmwide forecasts ensuring alignment to strategic goals and identifying risk and opportunities to meeting key targets.• Monthly analysis of Group financials to Group Executive and to Board including risks, opportunities and recommendations to pivot to hit strategic goals.• Proactive engagement with stakeholders to identify areas of financial focus and drive actionable change. Partnering to over 140 Partners effectively to support strategic plans and influence financial outcomes whilst lifting commercial acumen across the business.• In depth market and industry awareness in order to compare key metrics against major competitors and keeping to date with market trends.• Manage the operations of the Billing Team, providing leadership and guidance in relation to management and understanding of WIP across the firm and ensuring efficient close of monthly billing cycles.• Managing the requirements of pricing and rates review, analysis of commercial client agreements to safeguard profitability targets and strategic objectives are met. • Overseeing the client reporting team, primary focus is to deliver financial and client reporting across the business both internally and externally.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Provide strategic financial planning, management accounting, modelling, budgeting and performance reporting to Future Business & Technology and Customer Markets Operations leadership teams. • Financial review and approval of new product and service offerings, commercial planning and modelling (NPV, IRR, WACC etc) ensuring focus on metrics that matter.• Managing all aspects of Future Business and Technology strategic investments and acquisitions.• Commercial partner to the Credit & Affordability, Connections & Billings, Operational Services & Optimisation, Compliance Risk and Assurance and Customer Engagement and Performance business functions. • Net bad debt expense management, providing recommendations and reviewing of provision rates• Inclusive of all Manager roles and responsibilities below.

Melbourne, Australia

• Contributing to the achievement of Future Business & Technology (FB&T) financial objectives and targets by playing a vital role as commercial partner to the EGM (CIO) Leadership team. • Providing insight and guidance to shape the strategic agenda, optimising sustainable financial outcomes including return on investment spend, NPV, IRR, payback period etc. • Develop good quality reporting through the use of data analytics and BI reporting tools to monitor and track financial and non-financial performance trends. • Leading productivity and cost optimisation programs, creating financial capacity to reinvest through prioritisation frameworks. Influencing decision making and playing a key role in improving the commercial acumen of leadership teams.• Attend project approval board as well as oversight of all of IT capital projects spend, partnering and challenging project managers to drive appropriate commercial decisions.• Deliver preparation of annual budgets, four-year plans, quarterly forecasts, financial accounting, balance sheet, cash flow and other key driver reporting. • Review and management of infrastructure and software applications, ensuring any onboarding of SaaS or software licensing is aligned to overall technology architecture roadmap.

Melbourne, Australia

• Coordinate external audit, liaising with external auditors• Completion of FBT and income tax returns• Preparation of local statutory accounts for overseas entities• Month-end reporting requirements including Group consolidation and review of general ledger recs• Monthly Board reporting • Cash flow reporting and forecasting• Calculation and reconciliation of the group bonus pool and quarterly sales bonuses• Manage overseas accounting requirements, including Hong Kong and Singapore operations• Managing the day to day operations (team of 19) including AR/AP functions, payroll and billing teams• Management of the Online Expense system• Review and approval of Accounts Payable and expense payments• Completion of Australian Bureau of Statistic Surveys • Mentor and develop the team• Analysis and interpretation of monthly financial results including trend analysis• Co-ordination and delivery of forecast, plan & budget cycles • Ensure effective understanding, analysis and reporting of key metrics• Provision of variance/financial/trend analysis for monthly financial review and to support the business • Clearly present the results of business analysis, providing key observations, insight & recommendations for further action

Melbourne, Australia

• Preparation of monthly management reports for various stakeholders, including commentary to accompany management reports and CFO Report• Co-ordination and delivery of forecast, plan & budget cycles • Analysis of profitability of contracts and clients including revenue recognition for fixed price contracts• Build effective working and business partnering relationships with key stakeholders to ensure alignment of planning processes, techniques and intentions• Clearly present the results of business analysis, providing key observations, insight & recommendations for further action • Preparation of rolling forecasts and presenting outcomes to key stakeholders• Other adhoc responsibilities include, trend analysis, implementation of business reporting restructure including financial dimensions, business partnering to regional directors providing financial support and feedback.

Melbourne, Australia

• Building long term relationships with internal clients and colleagues, demonstrating business and commercial acumen and assisting with the Management Consulting practice and providing in depth insight and analysis on their business. • Facilitating annual budgeting process along with preparing strategic planning and three year operating models. • Preparing monthly KPI reporting that includes analysis of key business trends and budget versus actual variances, including comprehensive financial and variance commentary. • Analysed and recommended resource and staffing needs based on utilisation and FTE metrics and historical trends. • Advanced experience in financial planning providing robust modelling and reporting to facilitate executive level decision making. • Managed two direct reports, mentoring and developing their skill set enabling them to progress to more senior positions.• Other adhoc responsibilities include, balance sheet reconciliations, monthly accrual preparation, salary and overhead analysis, management of general ledger, opportunity management review, research and BD activities.

• Assisting in co-ordination of the annual budget including planning, market research and analysis.• Analysing and investigating business performance results and following up with partners and other senior stakeholders.• Providing specific systems analysis and preparation of models to assist in better understanding and visualization of business performance.• Provide recommendations in decreasing cost base and reviewing current mandated policies on cost behaviour.• Undertaking of business development and commercial analysis in researching and maintaining key target client database.• Undertaking of client research and investigation for line of business reporting in preparation of proposals

- Monthly FMR's- Management accounting- Cost analysis and commentary- Assisting with the budgeting and forecasting processes- General ledger maintenance

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting

Bachelor Of Accounting, Business/Commerce, General