Dee Mclean Cima, Cgma Email & Phone Number

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

- Preparing large MVNO business cases and negotiating pricing- Preparing large customer bids and business cases to support the Wholesale Team- Wholesale market sizing and strategy analysis - Creating bespoke models and processes for Account Managers to help with speed to market- Performing investigative commercial research in an Internal Consultant capacity for the Executive and Leadership Teams, including discovery backed up by supportive analysis and recommendations for improvement.- Presenting recommendations to the Executive and then leading, managing and executing them in the business through collaboration with the wider cross functional business teams.- Providing expert counsel and building financial models for decision making and comparative purposes for various business/commercial initiatives.- Preparing financials for board papers / Exec, commercial negotiation purposes and for the optimisation of operations.

Auckland, New Zealand

- External Commercial negotiations, relationship building and strategic financial analysis.- Performing investigative commercial research in an Internal Consultant capacity for the Executive and Leadership Teams, including discovery backed up by supportive analysis and recommendations for improvement.- Presenting recommendations to the Executive and then leading, managing and executing them in the business through collaboration with the wider cross functional business teams.- Communicating these changes to the business and conducting training where necessary.- Providing expert counsel and building financial models for decision making and comparative purposes for various business/commercial initiatives.- Preparing financials for board papers, commercial negotiation purposes and for the optimisation of operations.- Driving internal efficiency improvements and improvements in CX through collaboration.

Auckland, New Zealand

Business case development, financial partnering to the wider business including provision of financial advice, reporting and support.

Suva, Fiji

- Established during my eight years in Fiji to enable me to utilise my skills. The activities most relevant involved consulting and advising at Digicel Fiji Ltd, and facilitating and managing at Turner.- Collaborating with the Executive and Leadership Teams and other stakeholders to perform investigative research as an External Consultant to the business to identify business issues and needs and put forward recommendations for improvement.Financial process improvement/advice, general process improvement services, project management and change management.- Management accountancy services, business case creation, financial reporting, interpretation and advice - Locations Department Liaison Officer for a TV production filmed in Fiji (8 months)- Facilitation and support for TV and film productions coming to Fiji- Writing articles for The Fiji Times newspaper

Suva, Fiji

- Conducting weekly workshops with key stakeholders from around the business in order to identify business issues and improve various processes and service delivery- Creation of new ICT sales process - Training of staff on the new process - Liaison with all relevant stakeholders- Drive improvements in CX by identifying the key reasons customers contact the call centre

- Consulted for three main clients over this period of time the larger of the three being McKeon Bros. Ltd. (Engineering Contractors) and GPI Fire Protection Ltd.- Installed an accountancy & payroll software system at GPI in order to bring the finance function in-house in order to give the owner more management reporting information and more control of his business. It involved setting up the finance function for management accounting and compliance and setting up processes and procedures for the smooth running of the finance and administration function. It also involved recruiting and training new staff.- McKeon Brothers was a much bigger role acting as GM Finance and Admin, but also involved setting up an organised and smooth running finance and administration function in-house. It involved putting in place processes and procedures to create regular management reporting information to help the owner of the business become profitable and run the business smoothly. Set-up of a project claims register to track projects over their life and understand their % completeness in order to improve cashflows and margins.

- Responsible for the Cable TV and Residential On-net product portfolio - Increased monthly revenue by $250K ($3m per year)- Increased market share from 20% to 35%- Implemented cost saving initiatives - Simplified the product portfolio - Liaison with Sky TV

- Developed and implemented a month end management pack for the Mass Markets GM- Presentation of monthly results - Developed reporting around the cost of acquiring and servicing residential and small business customers

- Pioneered, developed and introduced financial reporting to the eBusiness area- Drew attention to the importance of product profitability for the company- Improved the relationship between the Business Analysis and Product Marketing Departments

- Researched and wrote competitor profiles

- Provision of financial advice, recommendations and analysis to General Managers and Product Managers in order to help them make informed business decisions- Customer bids- Promotional analysis- New product pricing, re-pricing and profitability reviews- Financial analysis of business cases- Post implementation reviews- Financial modelling

- Project managed the implementation of OFA for OPEX forecasting and planning- Developed standard input sheets and reports on OFA (GLA)- Devised a training program and trained all departmental managers/deputies- Budgeting and forecasting of revenue and COS for various products