Dawn Bowden Email & Phone Number

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

• Lead the design, implementation, delivery and continuous improvement of core people functions (HR) for MBIE. The capabilities of these core functions include: People & Culture (P&C) Operations, Product Management.
• Manage 5 direct reports and circa 72 indirect reports (plus People & Pay Project team) in the People Services team responsible for strategic direction of the team and service delivery for P&C
• Member of the P&C Leadership team, establishing and collaborating with the Centres of Excellence leads and Heads of P&C to resolve complex people-related issues. Contribution into MBIE People Strategy to deliver on.
• Business Owner on P&C projects driving change and deliverables, managing risks and issues, leading project teams, and engagement across all of MBIE and externally
• Deliver customer focused services to actively support and contribute to the achievement of the Ministry's outcomes that deliver to the needs of internal and external stakeholders

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Accountable for departmental and non-departmental financial control, integrity and rigor in relation to all reported financial information by ensuring strong processes in place and technology enhancements
• Managed 4 to 5 direct reports (circa 60 indirect) in the Financial Control branch covering Payroll, Finance Operations, Financial Accounting & Control (including Treasury and Tax) and Systems (10 Finance related systems)
• Business Owner on the Payroll Remediation Project and Payroll Renewal Project driving change and deliverables, managing risks and issues, prioritising the projects and leading the project teams
• Worked across the organisation and wider public sector on various projects and governance roles including a member of MBIE Policies & Procedures Committee and working with the SSC (now Te Kawa Mataaho Public Service.
• Relationship and Contract Management with key suppliers including system providers such as Technology One (FMIS), AMS (Payroll), Converga (AP Scanning), BNZ (Expense Management), Satori (Data Control Monitoring) and.
• Acting CFO (Tier 2) as required as well as a member of the Extended Leadership team working across MBIE

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Leading the Payroll team during a time of media attention
• Business Owner for Payroll on the Payroll Remediation Project
• Management of relationship with payroll system provider (AMS Leader)
• Identification of improvements in payroll area including metrics
• Business Owner for HR & Payroll Business Processes review
• Completed process of structure change from design, consultation, decision making and now finalising the recruitment

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Evaluator for RFP responses for new FMIS
• Identification and implementation of Teacher Payroll improvements in areas of reporting, reconciliation and internal controls
• Resolution of risk and assurance findings in areas of Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable and Cash Management
• Transition of two Trusts to new finance system
• External audit queries
• IRD payroll returns

Wellington

• Finance Settlements Process Review. Document processes and their associated risks. Identified improvements within the Finance team and across the Retail network. Working with stakeholders across the business and.
• Manage the Finance Settlements team through transition to a new structure
• Procurement team support and analysis. Develop a process to identify upcoming procurement work and contract leakage.

Wellington

• Financial planning including management of funding demand and funding request cycles
• Online project / portfolio planning and execution
• Evolving and maintaining all core governance processes
• Ensuring operational excellence in processes, Kaizen (continuous improvement) ownership and Agile management sponsor
• Ownership of performance management framework
• Online representative with other Bank business units/forums including Finance, Programme Office, Procurement, Human Resources and Risk.

Wellington, New Zealand

• Provide strategic and operational management in Marketing to ensure integrity of financial information and records, and efficiency in the delivery of the Marketing processes
• Management of the annual planning process for Marketing, ensuring an integrated plan across the brand portfolio is developed and regularly reviewed
• Own Marketing’s overall budget and financial control systems including allocation of campaign spend, provision of regular reporting and forecasting. Analysis of marketing costs and making recommendations of changes.
• End-to-end management of Marketing Suppliers including new supplier engagements, contract negotiation, performance management, relationship reviews and delivery of savings initiatives
• Manage the process of annual media negotiations
• Operational leadership in the areas of risk and compliance, business processes, resource management, Bank trademarks, purchasing and accounts payable

Wellington, New Zealand

• Supervision of five direct reports (plus 28 indirect reports) in the areas of accounts payable, accounts receivable, fixed assets, purchasing, pcards, helpdesk, finance, systems, projects, information management and.
• Manage the team and lead them through change whilst ensuring operational excellence, customer service and staff engagement
• Part of the business unit leadership group setting the strategy and direction for the department
• Ensuring policies and procedures fully documented, kept up-to-date and adhered to
• Management of departmental business plan and budget and reporting on this monthly
• Consolidate monthly reporting on team performance and metrics

Wellington, New Zealand

• Supervision of six direct reports in the accounts payable and accounts receivable areas including their personal development and assisting them to manage change
• Property accounting including monthly KPI reporting to the Property Services Group and Finance, preparing the annual budget, monitoring of vacant premises and managing the Banks internal rental process
• Co-ordination of monthly reconciliation process and reporting to Finance
• Quarterly preparation of cheque duty return (for Inland Revenue) and FBT information to internal tax department
• Preparation of year end statutory accounts for the property subsidiary and management of external audit
• Identifying and implementing system and process improvements in the areas of accounts payable, accounts receivable and property accounting

Wellington, New Zealand

• Providing monthly management reporting to Group including variance analysis and commentary
• Providing monthly reporting to the Board of the Property Trust
• Supervision of the part time corporate accounting assistant who was responsible for the daily accounting and providing cover when she was not working
• Preparation of the year end statutory accounts
• Manage the annual audit
• Liaising with external advisors (including tax consultants and company bankers) as necessary

Wellington, New Zealand

United Kingdom

• Providing interim and final consolidation account packs to The Sage Group plc within agreed deadlines
• Preparation of the statutory accounts
• Manage the annual audit
• Preparing the corporation tax computations for all group companies liaising with external advisors (in the UK and overseas) as necessary
• Oversee the purchase ledger and cash management functions of the department (this includes 4 staff reports). This has included improving the systems such as moving to pay suppliers electronically
• Proactively promoting the control of costs throughout the organisation

New Zealand And United Kingdom

• Working on statutory audits providing other business services to a variety of clients
• Detailed and strategic planning including risk analysis, audit approach and budgeting
• Managing clients expectations through continuous contact throughout the year
• Supervision, coaching and review of team members work including preparation of performance appraisals
• I.T. skills including use of audit software, Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Reporting to client management, internally and other parties taking into account the different needs (for example commercial recommendations/improvements for client management)

Ca, Chartered Accountancy

Bsc, Accounting And Finance