David Dillon Email & Phone Number

Australia, Au

Setting the benchmark in the emerging Virtual CFO sector within the Accounting Profession

Sydney, New South Wales, Au

I provide CFO expertise which gives you full-time peace of mind, without the full-time overheads.I help owners of SME’s get better rewarded, by leading them onto the right path and helping them stay there. This allows them to focus on their customers, whilst growing their business. Most companies in the $2M-$30M turnover range can’t afford and don’t need a FTI (full-time internal) CFO.Rather than have an expensive overhead chewing away at your bottom line waiting for projects to do, or month end to roll around, plenty of clients have realised the benefits in having an on-demand Virtual CFO If you are looking for a Virtual CFO specialist, servicing the Maritime, Transport and Construction industry verticals, then I'm your guy.Available for :-Specialist maritime commercial consulting for tenders etc. -Turnaround plans and health checks-Budgeting, forecasting and reporting -Setting up cloud based accounting solutions

I took a short break after leaving SL to finish my final 2 subjects in the MBA. Results were a High Distinction for Accounting and a Distinction for Business Process Management, giving an overall Distinction GPA for the MBA

Rotterdam, Nederland, Nl

Smit Lamnalco bought Pacific Basins share in PB Towage, so same role but new owners. Was the focal point in initial transition for new owners understanding detail behind results and forecasts until migration to their own accounting platform.

PB Towage (Australia) were a harbour towage tug boat operator, formed when Pacific Basin bought AMS. Initially a fledgling 6 tug, 3 port operator with modest market share that struggled to compete against the behemoth competitor, AP Moller owned Maersk. Pacific Basin injected $100M in capital to upgrade the fleet and add scale, and the business reached close to 50% market share and expanded into new ports of Townsville, Onslow, Bunbury, Newcastle, Weipa and Mackay, owning and operating up to 23 tugs at the peak. Auckland based PB Sea-Tow group, both own and operate a fleet of tugs and barges providing extensive project cargo and module transportation services and expertise throughout Australia, New Zealand, Asia and the South Pacific. At one stage PB Sea-Tow were operating a fleet of 15 tugs and barges on the Gorgon LNG project in WA PB Towage (Australia) and PB Sea-Tow is 100% were both owned by Pacific Basin Shipping Limited, a dry-bulk shipping company listed on the HKSE.Business development, retaining customers, tariff integrity, tenders, overseeing the finance and admin functions whilst still coordinating all reporting and forecasting.Was promoted into this role by MD of Pacific Basin to address a slide in market share. The brief was simply to retain existing business as well as start winning back market share. The role required extensive travel both domestically to most capital cities, as well as the Pilbara, Weipa and North Queensland. Additionally, internationally to HK, Singapore and Seoul.

Overseeing Accounting teams for PB Towage (Australia) and PB Sea-Tow, which meant sharing time and quite a lot of travel to NZ. Monthly results, budgets and forecasts, commercial focus, tax and audit compliance, Company Secretary, multi-currency multi-entity environment.- Leadership both teams including receuitment . Team of 5 in Auckland and 8 in Sydney and ultimately responsible for :- Monthly Financial reporting for group which included a multi-currency consolidation- Monthly Revenue and Cost analytics and commentary- Designed and implemented Dashboard reporting-Company secretary of all 12 Australian registered entities.- Control and structure of commercial chartering contracts within group- Cash Management – managing funds across entities, NZ, Aust and HK banks- Payroll Management – Australia and New Zealand payroll- Financial Modeling of commercial tenders and investment cases- Corporate Income tax compliance - Australia, Singapore, New Zealand- Audit and tax compliance : - Audit - Consolidated group plus Australian, New Zealand and Singapore (local) - Statutory Accounts – Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, BVI (group) - Internal Accounting Controls development- adhere to Cross border 3 tiered tax structure- Consolidated IFRS accounts for PB Sea-Tow Holdings (BVI) Ltd- Joint Venture accounting- Project / Contract accounting - Annual Budget/Forecast profit and cashflowNB: Joined PB Towage as Finance and Admin Manager in 2008 and later promoted to Regional Finance Manager in recognition of contribution at a senior level.

Docklands, Victoria, Au

Set up Project Accounting system for Waycon. Set up National Revenue forecasting model

East Sydney, Nsw, Au

Preparation of monthly financial statements for board papers. Profit and Loss, Balance Sheet, cash flow and other management reports and charts, such as Job Costing, revenue and cash-flow forecasting. KPI and margin analysis, staff supervision (2), budgeting, forecasting, systems development and implementation. Development of project cost planning models, Responsible for payroll 75 staff + contractors, Overseeing Debtors and invoicing, Creditors and Superannuation. Preparation of BAS, Payroll tax, ABS surveys, Preparation of FBT schedules. EMDG for Austrade subsidy on overseas marketing expenses. Responsible for all day to day financial activities and systems.

Rotterdam, Nl

: Management accounts, P&L, Variance reports, Budgeting, General Ledger integrity. Also managed Finance team of 7 people in "service bureau' handling Debtors and Creditors for both NSW and Head Office.

Fca, Accounting

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General

Fcpa, Accounting

Bachelor'S Degree, Accounting

Hsc

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