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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Leading the Data Science team responsible for providing Data Science & Analytic support to the APAC Sales org.In my current role, I lead a distributed team (Syd, Mel, Shanghai) responsible for supporting the APAC.
• Developing machine learning models to identify best… Show more Leading the Data Science team responsible for providing Data Science & Analytic support to the APAC Sales org.In my current role, I lead a distributed team.
• Developing machine learning models to identify best strategic approach for managing consumers of merchants
• Understanding and advising on performance of new or existing products, or new or existing merchants
• Advising on performance in context of BNPL market growth and broader retail growth. Identifying and recommending opportunities to drive growth in new or high potential verticalsSignificant achievements
• Led the process to identify root cause of transaction declines with a major Australian retailer. Identified and proposed strategic options to alleviate declines while merchant side solution was developed.

Sydney, Australia

• Acting CFO Jan 2020 to Mar 2021Market leader for eCommerce in Australia with billions dollars of annual turn-over. Sat on the AU management team, responsible for AU Finance organisation (financial analytics, local.
• Led local accounting & performance modelling/forecasting team; primarily responsible for forecasting and managing P&L performance of the Australian business
• Led annual financial planning process… Show more Acting CFO Jan 2020 to Mar 2021Market leader for eCommerce in Australia with billions dollars of annual turn-over. Sat on the AU management team, responsible for AU.
• Led annual financial planning process culminating in creation of annual budget and operating plans.
• Developed detailed performance commentary for the Australian management team and regional leadership. Developed ‘close the gap’ plans & initiatives when missing forecast.
• Led the ‘investment council’ process to identify available excess funding, and allocate funding to proposed projects (evaluated on both an ‘immediately commercially viable’ basis, as well as ‘strategically important’.

Sydney, Australia

• Led a team of analysts, supporting AU site & product development, Seller strategy, and Mobile strategy
• Financial viability & impact modelling of proposed site enhancements & policy changes
• A-B testing of site & product changes (from a financial & customer metric perspective)
• Deep performance metric analysis, forecasting & insight generation
• Development of tracking & reporting structures as well as forecasting of financial & operational measures
• … Show more Led a team of analysts, supporting AU site & product development, Seller strategy, and Mobile strategy

London, United Kingdom

• Led a team of 3 analysts, supporting Payments & Buyer protection programs on European platforms.Primary responsibilities were supporting development of Payment Intermediation (PI) product, and risk management / loss.
• Analytic support of development of ‘Payment Intermediation’ payment product, revolutionising the way eBay Buyers & sellers transact.
• Responsible for strategic support, A/B testing, modelling & forecasting… Show more Led a team of 3 analysts, supporting Payments & Buyer protection programs on European platforms.Primary responsibilities were.
• Responsible for strategic support, A/B testing, modelling & forecasting, and report development.
• Advised offshore data warehousing team on required development of supporting data structures
• Internal consultant to EU DE risk teams regarding the financial impacts of various proposed risk initiatives and policy changes, including Basel III ‘stress testing’. Examples include alteration of payment ‘hold.

Sydney, Australia

• Responsible for all aspects of revenue side financial forecasting, modelling and reporting, as well as operating metric management & analytics.
• Responsible for all country level financial & operating metrics forecasting for the AU business. Forecasts compiled for the purposes of budgeting, target setting, and general reporting. Forecasts prepared at monthly.
• Conducted comprehensive financial impact modelling… Show more Responsible for all aspects of revenue side financial forecasting, modelling and reporting, as well as operating metric management & analytics.
• Conducted comprehensive financial impact modelling for proposed site, pricing & policy changes such as: mandatory payment method proposals, Standard rate card price changes and price promotions.
• Solely responsible for completion of revenue side month end processes, including revenue recognition, verification, management & reporting of closed revenues, preparation of “actuals to forecast” comparison reports &.
• Provided weekly performance reporting & commentary to the senior AU management team, to facilitate senior APAC weekly performance review.

Sydney, Australia

• Provided certified engineering support, for a range of KONE Elevator products.
• Developed multivariate market pricing regression models, Coded Visual Basic and SQL routines to extract required sales and costs data.
• Developed comprehensive specifying applications (including graphical user interface) for three separate products, enabling sales users to specify and tender deliverable, Australian Standard compliant elevator systems.
• Developed comprehensive specifying applications (including graphical user interface) for three separate products, enabling sales users to specify and tender deliverable, Australian Standard compliant elevator systems.
• Developed KONE Australia’s first ever ‘client side’ specification-tendering-ordering program. This tool was rolled out to the National sales force and enabled sales users to significantly reduce the time required to.
• Project managed the investigation and development of the supply chain process to achieve KONE Australia’s first ever importation of elevators from the KONE China Global Supply Unit. This project required the.

Bachelor Of Engineering, Mechatronics

Activities and Societies: Dean's List of Academic Merit, Golden Key International Honor Society (Hons I)

Bachelor Of Commerce, Econometrics & Economics

Certified Practicing Accountant (Cpa)

Acma, Cgma, Management Accountancy