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Norwood, Sa, Au

Adelaide, South Australia, Au

Wallbridge Gilbert Aztec (WGA) is a multi-disciplinary, award-winning engineering and project management consultancy with over 38 years experience across diverse sectors. WGA has over 400 staff across Australia and New Zealand and offers a wide range of consulting services including structural, civil, maritime, mechanical and geotechnical engineering.Responsible for:- Leading group and regional finance teams.- Consolidated group accounts for all subsidiary entities.- Budgeting, forecasting, cashflow and working capital management.- Part of the senior leadership team supporting the Board.- Ensuring financial reporting consistency across the group.- Data analytics and reporting of financial and non-financial KPIs to the board.- Introducing dynamic dashboards through PowerBi to allow better commercial decision making by team leads, managers and directors.- Driving continual improvement through better use of the business systems and project management software.- Helping increase commercial awareness and capability within the company to drive better project and financial outcomes.

Tonsley, Sa, Au

Reporting to the Board and part of the senior management team, responsible for the day to day financial operations of the group. Role encompassed a mix of finance and operational business transformation largely centred around leading an ERP system implementation from MYOB to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations and Dynamics CRM.- Managing multiple stakeholders (both internal colleagues and external consultants).- Leading the finance team.- Driving significant process changes across finance, sales, supply chain, logistics and warehousing.- Introducing multiple automations and system improvements to increase efficiences across the group. Examples include automated bank reconcilitions (finance), inventory master planning (supply chain) and full Purchase Order system with automated workflows- Project management of an implementation spanning 1 year and over $500K.

Adelaide, Sa, Au

Business and Risk Solutions (BRS) provide management consultancy services to the infrastructure sector. Reporting to the Managing Director, the role is a mix of running the operational finance and commercial business coupled with general consulting to local government and private sector clients who wish to improve their commercial and strategic performance. • Responsible for the end to end financial performance of the company. Statutory accounting, tax compliance, payroll, WIP control, invoicing and purchase ledger. • Complete the commercial review of job quotes we tender for to ensure that commercial risk can be mitigated and our qualifiers and assumptions cover scope change. • Introduced automated reporting from our time-sheet system to track staff utilisation and help drive staff utilisation levels and behaviours that reduce job write offs.• Developing the 5-year growth strategy in conjunction with the Directors to support expansion into new territories and gain market share of record infrastructure spending. • Brought in a cloud based expenses process in Xero that allows paperless claims and pass through of travel and disbursements directly to client accounts.• Introduced an automated travel procedure that reduces cost, administration time and directly improved both our margin and the cost to client.

Melville, New York, Us

Optos Plc is part of Nikon Corporation and is a leading medical technology company that designs, develops, manufactures, and markets retinal imaging devices.Responsible for the operational delivery of the International Finance reporting unit of Optos Plc and its subsidiary companies in Germany, Holland and Japan. A commercially focused role with responsibility for a finance team of 4 staff.Reporting to the VP of Finance (International & Group) key duties include:- Statutory accounts preparation in accordance with IFRS.- Leading and controlling the monthly reporting process including review of balance sheet reconciliations, reforecasting, variance analysis and intercompany transactions.- Oversight of taxes (Corporation tax and VAT) for Optos PLC and GmbH. - Providing high quality analytics to support European sales, commercial activities and revenue generating opportunities. Control sales commissions- Managing and developing sales forecasting tools and the annual budgeting process.- Development of internal controls and policy/procedure updates. - Controlling the financing and collection of international sales to the distributor network through export documentary credits.- Control of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable functions. - Support Supply Chain, Manufacturing and Logistics to add operational and commercial value.- Maximise systems efficiencies (Microsoft Dynamics / CRM / Adaptive).- Commercial analysis of profit margins to support pricing decisions and sales promotions.

Dunfermline, Fife, Us

Canvas Holidays was part of Wyndham Worldwide group with a consolidated turnover of over $35M. Responsible for the management of all financial, accounting, tax and consolidated statutory reporting requirements for Canvas Holidays UK Ltd, and 5 foreign subsidiaries, to the US parent company. Day to day management of the operational finance function, leading a team of 6 finance staff (appraisals/CPD etc). A technically demanding and commercial role with excellent exposure to foreign and domestic VAT issues, multi-currency, US GAAP, SOX compliance, transfer pricing and development of internal financial and system controls amongst the other core accounting and financial skills expected of a CA at Financial Controller level.Experienced system user (Sun, Hyperion Essbase, Sage, Oracle)

Edinburgh, Gb

A commercial role reporting directly to the Bursar and Board of Governors. Responsible for the management of the financial accounting and statutory reporting of Merchiston Castle School and its trading subsidiary Merchiston Enterprises Ltd. Key responsibilities: - Consolidated monthly management accounts and annual statutory accounts - Budgeting and cash flow forecasting - Treasury management- Corporation tax compliance. - Dealing with several VAT issues common to education/charitable sector (partial exemption/land and buildings etc). - Overseeing 2 finance staff- Developing the internal systems and controls.

Edinburgh, Gb

Trainee CA (ICAS) September 2005 to August 2008. Audit Senior to December 2008. Excellent trainee contract with a successful independent firm of Chartered Accountants. A well rounded and balanced portfolio of work that provided a solid practical grounding in accountancy, finance and tax. Bulk of experience gained in external corporate audit and accounts preparation in a variety of business sectors including construction, retail & manufacturing.

Education record

Ma Hons, Accountancy And Finance