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Wellington

Oversee Joint Venture accounting for OMV Australasia's Exploration and Production Permits, operations up to and including preparation of monthly statements. Support cash-flow requirements to ensure a seamless budget and expenditure process is provided to stakeholders and JV Partners.

Wellington

•Support SAP implementation through participation in Data Migration and preparatory work.•Corporate accounting for OMV New Zealand, OMV Australia & Petroleum Infrastructure Limited, •Accounting for Non-Operated Joint Ventures. •Monthly/Quarterly HFM reporting to Vienna,•Recognition, confirmation and reconciliation of intercompany balances.•Financial journals, intercompany charges/confirmations, Time-writing cost allocations, Payroll.•Prepayments - booking & amortisation.•Review of Accounts Assistant’s banking processes.•Preparation of monthly Balance Sheet reconciliations.•Completing Department of Statistics Surveys.•Treasury including dividend payments, loans, deposits and daily cash management

Wellington

To provide representation and hands on resource from the Finance business area and understand the impact that Enterprise Transformation (ET) will have on other areas. To enable two-way, accurate, timely and effective communication about Contact’s ET to and from all relevant stakeholders.Joined the SAP Implementation Project during the build phase and was accountable for:•Configuration of the SEM-BCS (Business Consolidation System) Workbook ensuring accurate reporting of Balance Sheet, EBITDAF, Cashflow and Board reporting at a consolidated level.•Assist with data mapping between the legacy systems and SAP.•Assist with the development of interfaces relating to Travel and Expense Management.•Assist with the development of interfaces relating to Payroll (Chris21).•Assist with the development of bank interfaces.•Identification of process deficiencies, initiation and follow through of System Change Request.•Attendance and contribution to weekly co-ordination meetings between business and SAP consultants.•Develop and document the Local Close processes for GL month end and year end.•Develop and document the process for Exchange Rate record maintenance and the Foreign Currency Translation.•Develop training materials and process guideline to assist the business at Go Live.•Assist with System Integration Testing of processes and provide feedback to areas of improvement within the processes tested.•Refine User Acceptance Testing and provide support to Users during testing.•Deliver training sessions to the business prior to and post Go Live.•Act as a Change Agent to provide support to the business after Go Live. •ET representative on the GST Transition Project Team ensuring changes to GST effective 1/10/2010 were fully integrated into SAP prior to Go Live.

Wellington

Overall accountability to Decision Review Board (DRB) for delivering Phase 4 on time and on budget, utilizing project management tools. Establishing, maintaining, and communicating an agreed set of measurement criteria.Project Bridge was a NZ$14 million project and was completed NZ$1.8 million under budget and on time.Activities included:•Refining the take-up assessment, Risk Analysis and Mitigation Schedule based on the refined take up assessment.•Knowledge capture / transfer readiness.•Stakeholder engagement.•Preparation of Requests for Proposals•Tender analysis, negotiation and contract management.•Policy iteration and budget management approvals.•Assist with Soft Landing package finalization and Staff Information Packs•Establish/maintain Benefit Capture Scorecard.•Decommission offices in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch.•Negotiate make good payments on old offices with landlords.•Management of progress/retention payments to contractors and suppliers.Contracts included:•Employee Settlement, Recruitment and Relocation Services.•Workstations and task chairs.•Soft Fit Out of new Auckland office.•AV/Data •Meeting Room tables and chairs.•General office furniture for casual meeting areas, executive office areas and reception.Coordination of Project team, providing day-to-day work direction, ensuring constant liaison with CLC members and affected work groups. Participate in regular DRB Meetings, recording actions/decisions, providing agreed updates, and follow-up on agreed actions.In addition ensures appropriate communication/liaison with other internal providers e.g. Procurement.Provide appropriate assistance to HR and other internal functions with the coordination of external contractors/consultants on externally delivered solutions e.g. Relocation/Soft Landing/Outplacement Counselling. 11 December 2008:Received a Level 3 R&A Award for “Demonstrating the Chevron Way, Organisational Impact, Effort and Downstream Cultural Characteristics”

Wellington

Responsible for and leading Special Projects for the Finance department. E.g. Project Olympic (Global Upgrade of SAP), Global Financial Services Project, Project Bridge (co-location of all CNZ offices to Auckland), 2007 IFRS implementation. Lead Finance projects to improve financial reporting and accounting practices. Support other Finance Department managers in their day to day work. Participate in and provide financial expertise to special projects related to other Business Unit initiatives. During my career I have gained strong analytical skills and a comprehensive understanding of the oil industry. This has assisted me in providing the Business Units with informed, efficient processes to ensure not only comprehensive financial measurement of performance, but also accurate information and results. Examples of this include: •Assisting business units in accruing expenses to ensure operational performance is measured accurately with all the relevant information on hand. • In conjunction with Payroll designing and working on providing accurate and timely information to Cost Centre Managers with regards to accruals for outstanding leave as well as providing comprehensive breakdowns by employee and remuneration type of personnel costs and expenses. In this role, I was involved in many collaborative relationships. As a part of a service group I was often the finance representative on cross-functional projects and initiatives. These relationships were often as a result of being called on within Chevron to provide Financial and Business expertise to other Business Units as the recognized Subject Matter Expert on SAP, TEA (Travel and Expense Accounting), Asset Transactions, General Ledger, Payroll Processing, Insurance, Accounts Payable and Banking.

Wellington

Provision of accurate cost effective general accounting services to the business. Meet offshore business needs (month-end reporting and development of shared service functionality). Ensure integrity of all aspects of general accounting through excellent individual performance and teamwork. Supervision of 8 general accounting staff in Financial Accounting, Accounts Payable, Banking, Payroll, Fixed Assets and Insurance. Subject Matter Expert for SAP financials.As Manager of CNZL General Accounting I supervised the Accounts Payable. Payroll, Banking, Insurance and Financial Accounting functions. In the Financial Accounting function I maintained the General Ledger for CNZL including the STandardised Account Reconciliations process. I also gained valuable experience in leading teams in implementing and designing new services e,g, IFCS Starcard, STAR, Starcash, Travel & Expense online Accounting System. I personally designed the Areas of Responsibility reporting tool that was instrumental in the implementation of Standardised Accounting Reconciliations. This ensured that all 7 principles of STAR were completed on time and in full. I was directly involved in the design and maintenance of several keys SOX controls in Risk control Tracking System relating to Procurement through Payables, Payroll & Employee Benefits, Ledger Maintenance, Financial Reporting and Risk Management.In this role I faced some significant challenges with increasing workloads and new processes while having resources seriously reduced. Over 3 years my area had taken on considerable additional responsibilties (including TEA administation, SOX controls, STAR inplementation & administration) while cutting our operational expenditure by almost 50%. This was achieved without compromising the service to our core customers, i.e Caltex/Chevron Business Unit.During my time in this role I had a number of interfaces with Retail e.g as Finance representative working on the Retail Entrepreneurial Program.

Wellington

Provision of accurate, cost effective general accounting services to the business units and meet offshore requirements (CT900 month-end reporting and shared services). Ensure integrity of all aspects of general accounting activity and specifically general ledger records through excellent individual performance and teamwork. Liaise with external auditors and prepare statutory accounts in time to meet deadlines with the Companies Office.

Wellington

Accounting for stock ledger transactions and balances, borrow and loan transactions and ledger balances. Maintenance, review and reconciliation of inventory through the cost ledger under a FIFO basis and produce US$ LIFO valuation of inventory for shareholder earnings reporting.

Wellington

Provide support to Telecom CPE Equipment Business. Product margin analysis.Profit & Loss analysis, revenue/cost forecasting & budgeting, CAPEX reporting, Inventory Analysis/reporting and Work in Progress analysis/reporting for projects/service orders.

Wellington

Consolidation/reporting of New Guinea, Vanuatu, New Caledonia, Wallis & Futuna, Emoleum(Aust.), Mobil Food Stores(Aust.), Atlantic & FINCO. Equityaccounting for NZ Refining Co. and 5 other joint venture companies. Consolidationof Coastline Petroleum in MONZ. Prepare monthly cashflow reports for MONZ. Maintain MONZ chart of accounts and cost centre hierarchy. Quarterly intercompany confirmations for MONZ and MO Australia. Local User Expert for SAP Financials.

Wellington

Consolidation/reporting of MONZ, Atlantic & PSL financial statements & bluebooks. Maintenance of SAP General Ledger. Oversee balance sheet account reconciliations, preparation of monthly GST returns and Department of Statistics reporting.

Wellington

Oversee the company’s product costing and account for product inventory. Maintain LIFO costing system to account for inventory under the required valuation methods in accordance with US, Taxation & local company needs. Supervision of Product Cost Analyst and Borrow/Loan Administrator.

Wellington

Coordinate MONZ expense reporting and market share analysis.

Wellington

:Administrative support for Operations, Commercial & Resale Departments.