Don Malshan Email & Phone Number

Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

• Expanding distribution channels across the states to promote and sell own brands.
• Managing ‘Vodi’ Tasmanian Vodka brand
• Managing key accounts including Coles Liquor & Steve's Liquor.
• Conducting brand activation programs including tasting events and trade fairs.
• Created sales strategy and overlooking the sales.
• Created digital marketing strategy and managing the digital marketing function including social media.

Tasmania, Australia

• Prepared annual Labour & O/H budgets for relevant business units collaborating with cost centre leaders.
• Prepared quarterly basis forecasts to foresee any risks/ major deviations to the budget and reported to divisional leaders followed by possible solutions.
• Worked in collaboration with executives and leaders on implementing cost saving initiatives and analysing the benefits followed by recommendations.
• Educated the managers on how TasNetwork’s corporate O/H cost allocation (CAM) model was developed and its functionality with simplified presentation.
• Developed a Dashboard to track time sheeting progress for Engineers and major projects and explained the reasons for major deviations of monthly targets (budgets & forecasts) in a graphical format.
• Prepared monthly business unit performance reports & reviewed and advised managers on mitigating risks and driving the business units within the budgets.

Tasmania, Australia

• Prepared annual Labour & O/H budgets for farming business units by collaborating with farming heads.
• Updating the Forecast on Monthly & quarterly basis to foresee the major deviations followed by reports to the farming heads & the board.
• Preparation of monthly business unit performance reports & reviewing and advising farming managers on mitigating risks and driving the business units within the budgets.
• Discussed with different fuel suppliers & finalised a deal to implement a cloud-based fuel management system and tank gauge system across farming sites to lively track fuel usage data.
• Quarterly Analysis of raw material price movements in the commodity market for salmon & prawn feed and informing the management on forthcoming trends.
• Monthly reconciliation of fuel invoices, feed invoices.

Tasmania, Australia

• Preparation of budgets and costing reports related to construction projects, identification of major variations and generating reports followed by interpretations.
• Monthly Balance Sheet review. Prepared monthly reconciliations for accrual/provision accounts, prepayments and salary related accounts.
• Monthly P/L Review. Reviewed all overheads related to plants to identify cost variations.
• Preparation of payroll on weekly basis
• Capital purchases and maintenance of fixed asset register and carrying out physical verifications and generation of reconciliation reports.
• Generating standardized month end journal entries and maintained the charter of accounts.

Tasmania, Australia

• Conducted a quantitative research on best practices related to clinical waste management solutions in particular in Sweden, Germany and Norway, targeting the growing population and airport expansion & quarantine waste.
• Examined the current medical waste practices and identified the existing problems related to medical waste in Tasmania (impact on environment and high cost on medical waste disposal)
• Prepared a financial feasibility report for three most effective and popular waste solutions after benchmarking the developed countries.
• Prepared detailed capital expenditure appraisal proposals using NPV and IRR methods for each method and ranked the projects on profitability.
• Prepared budgets and cash forecast requirements and breakeven point analysis for each method and ranked based on the operation excellence and cost efficiency.
• Prepared detailed costing based on the overhead costs and applied the principals of ABC costing to ensure the accuracy of overhead allocation and profitability for each project.

• Executed Brand Activation programmes in collaboration with local councils to localise the "Yutong" brand and awareness among councils, product demonstrations to local government engineers and technicians in.
• Conducted a brand audit for Yutong heavy machinery and recommended actions to improve the low-performing attributes of the brand.
• Designed an advertising campaign for a Chinese heavy construction machinery brand "Yutong" to localise the brand.
• Developed an integrated marketing communications strategy to promote 'Yutong' with 'above the line' and 'below the line' channels to increase brand awareness and drive sales.
• Participated and represented Yutong Brand in business fairs and exhibitions.
• Initiated a Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) initiative to re-plant 10, 000 trees in regional areas to compensate for the deforestation incidents due to highway constructions.

• Prepared, examined, and analysed accounting records, reconciliations, financial statements, and other financial reports to assess accuracy, completeness, and conformance to reporting and procedure standard.
• Assisted in preparing financial statements annually along with its reconciliations, schedules, and notes.
• Internal Auditing including recommendations and initiatives in implementation of adequate internal controls followed by continuous audits - Plant audits, Internal Control process Audits and Fixed assets audits.
• Monthly Balance Sheet review. Prepared monthly reconciliations for accrual/provision accounts, prepayments, and salary related accounts.
• Monthly P/L Review. Reviewed all overheads related to plants to identify cost variations.
• Prepared variance analysis reports after reviewing monthly/ annual budgets and reported to the management about significant deviations.

Master'S Degree, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor'S Degree, Business Management

Management Accounting, Entrepreneurship, Enterprise Management,