Declan Barlow Email & Phone Number

Southbank, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsibilities:• Driving adoption of the new ERP solution• Gathering requirements on what the business needs to improve the solution.• Coordinating and participating in testing of new enhancements and reporting.• Training End Users on new enhancements, business process and reports.• Participating in cross divisional workshops to improve and align the solution globally.• Business partnering with various stakeholders within the Finance department and wider Operations and Supply Chain teams.Key Achievements:• Supported delivery of enhancements to the solution which reduced/eliminated manual work.• Developed various BI Reports for the Australian Division which cut down run time and improved visibility of key metrics.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsibilities:• Delivery of an ERP implementation in the areas of Finance Operations, Supply Chain and Costing.• Gathering requirements on what the new solution needs to ensure business continuity.• Migrating data (Inventory, Material Master etc) from system to system.• Managing and mitigating change impacts to the business in adopting a new ERP.• Preparing and delivering training of the new solution to End Users.• Business partnering with various stakeholders within the Finance department and wider Operations and Supply Chain teams.Key Achievements:• Migrated data with minimal variances – especially Inventory.• Exited Hypercare for all deployments on schedule.

Cobram, Australia

Responsibilities:• Business partnering with site manager and wider site management team.• Management and development of two person finance team.• Preparation and ownership of site annual budgets and revised forecasts.• Ensuring of site compliance to company risk management and internal control policies.• Involvement in cost reduction projects at site.• Involvement in business development projects across the business.

Cobram, Australia

Responsibilities:• Monthly, weekly and daily site based reporting.• Preparation of month end result, reports and powerpoint presentations.• Preparation of annual budgets and revised forecasts.• Analysis and validation of cost reduction projects.• Owner of the site weekly forecast, anticipating and communicating variances to budget to both site and corporate management.• Site safety walks and talks with operator engagement.Key Achievements:• Involved in cost reduction projects at site valued in total at over $5m.• Implementation of activity based costing and reporting at site.• Ownership of site weekly forecasting including improved knowledge on drivers of cost variance.

Melbourne, Australia

Responsibilities:• Monthly cost and production reporting including the consolidation of all Murray Goulburn manufacturing sites.• Profit/loss analysis on individual products, markets and the entire company.• Facilitation of the Milk Broking market of Murray Goulburn in co-ordination with site personnel.Key Achievements:• Process Champion for the implementation of the SAP Product Costing module at Murray Goulburn.• Provided monthly reports on stock holdings, cost variances and other key indicators to General Managers.