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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Establishing the Treasury Department and advancing the Finance Function at the Group Level.

Sydney, Australia

Driving the scope and definition of new features and iterations end to end from business analysis to quality assurance and launch. Maintaining the road-map and influencing delivery in partnership with IT team. Managing and appropriately prioritising required features and the product backlog both within a release and across releases. Collaborating with internal teams to launch new projects and products. Engaging and fostering key stakeholder relationships.

Sydney, Australia

Leading a team of four people across two locations in different time zones. Providing support for major Financial Services accounts in Australia and New Zealand. Business partnering role. Financial advisory to Account Leadership. Working closely with client and engagement executives to ensure GAAP compliance, monitor performance and drive profitable growth. Overseeing the annual strategic and financial planning as well as quarterly forecasting. Continuous improvement – having streamlined a variety of business processes both internal and client facing. Implementation and standardization of best practices across multiple accounts.

Sydney, Australia

Providing overall financial management and advisory role for the Service Group Portfolio including planning, forecasting and analysis support. Operating as the primary Finance point of contact for leadership and client teams. Acting as a business partner by contributing financial insights, solutions and controls to optimize profitability and to manage risk across the client portfolio.

Sydney, Australia

Providing financial management, planning/forecasting and analysis support. Originally for the Communications, Media and Technology (CMT) Operating Unit and later for the Financial Services (FS) Operating Unit. Both within Asia Pacific with particular focus on the ANZ region.Developing and maintaining forecast and reporting tool sets and supporting the annual planning and monthly/quarterly forecasting processes; general financial analysis and presentation; effective management of operational costs and ensuring accurate financial recording of activities; pricing support; Single point of contact for SAP Hierarchy type issues;• Development and maintenance of Forecasting and Reporting Databases.• Assistance with monthly and quarterly forecasting and planning deliverables• Active role as finance representative in the ANZ region on operations and forecast review calls.• Point of contact for the ANZ client executives regarding finance related questions, issues, policies, and procedures.• Collaboration with the Operating Unit Finance Lead and Client Financial Management (CFM) teams to accomplish the goals of optimizing profitability and managing risk• Review and analysis of monthly financial results and variances to forecast. • Single point of contact (SPOC) for all SAP Hierarchy maintenance and general Hierarchy issues. • Assistance with preparation and presentation of Operational Finance decks to the Leadership group as required.• Compliance with US GAAP and Accenture policies

Argentina

Started with a team of two people providing off-shore financial support to the UK and helped it grow to a team of four people globally supporting projects for one of the major oil companies in the world.Responsible for:- compliance with U.S. GAAP, company's financial policies and local statutory requirements- execution and documentation of internal financial processes- preparation and revision of costing and pricing reports (including assistance with pricing ofnew/potential arrangements)- forecast management activities (input collection, processing, reasonableness validation,interpretation and report creation)- variances analysis (performance data to metrics)- working capital management- execution of billing processes and improvements- job balance monitoring, expenses and fees reconciliation- participation in knowledge-sharing activities and CFM recruiting activities- supervision and coaching of CFM analysts on tools, policies and processes

Argentina

Leading a team of three. Actively participated in the company’s re-engineering process and obtaining funding for the construction of a second refinery plant that enabled the company to position itself as the fifth 95 octane fuel producer in Argentina.Responsible for:- reporting directly to the General Coordinator- liaising with the Directory Advisors- financial planning and management- project financing and capital structure management- design and implementation of financial policies- supervision of treasury activities

Argentina

Responsible for:- financial management (short term loans, investments, collections and payments)- new financial policy implementation- preparation of cash flow reports and forecasts for all the local companies within the economic group- benchmark and work in cooperation with other treasuries in the region- new accounts payable policy development and implementation- management reports preparation- daily financial planning- accounts reconciliation- improvements to treasury processes- accounts payable and receivable administrative tasks- petty cash management- new electronic payment services implementation

Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering

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Lic. En Administración, Económicas