Donna Watson Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

I joined Deloitte as a Manager in Business Finance in 2012, partnering with the Consulting business and managing financials for the Human Capital and Technology service lines. Looking for a new challenge in August 2016 I joined the Global SAP S4 implementation as the Australian business lead for the RTR stream before taking on a challenging multi stream project called ADM which I have been leading since February 2018.

Sydney, Australia

Working as a contracted Finance Systems Analyst my main objectives were to liaise between finance and IT to understand the system requirements and frustrations within the business, assist Finance with queries enabling them to get the best out of SAP, creating master data and testing new functionality within the Finance and Procurement areas of SAP.My main responsibilities included:-• Working with in-house and external SAP functional staff and developers on resolution of system issues and delivery of enhancements to support the business• Creation of an array of excels models for the finance and systems team, completing master data analysis and providing tools for process improvement.• Assisting users to use the systems effectively and efficiently via requests and ad-hoc training• Creation and testing of master data within SAP including GL Accounts, Profit Centres, Customers, Vendors, Cost Centres • Administering the month and year end process. Executing necessary restricted transactions and working closely with finance to answer any ‘how to’ questions and enable them to close the period more efficiently.• Review of user security access requests, ensuring: o Segregation of duties rules are not breached through user security assignments; o Security changes implemented by the offshore security consultant are appropriately actioned.• Working with finance to understand their reporting requirements, building excel models to provide quick wins whilst providing IT with the spec to get the required report built in SAP or Insight

Sydney, Australia

L'Oreal is a leading world-class manufacturer and distributor of cosmetics with a turnover of $20 billion Euro worldwide. The Australian Luxury Products Division has a turnover of $100m.Working as a Brand Controller for the Luxury Designer Brands business including Ralph Lauren, Giorgio Armani Fragrances, Yves Saint Laurent I had full responsibility of the P&L. Working closely with the General Manager along with the Sales and Marketing Managers to establish strong budgets and forecasts and ensure the brands have the tools and guidance required to adhere to these budgets whilst maintaining growth within the business.Within this role my monthly duties included:-• Preparation and detailed analysis of the monthly P&L with comparatives to the budget and forecast. Meeting with key stakeholders to understand the variances and evaluate the possible risk and opportunities.• Stock reporting for our key customers and analysis of sell in and sell out figures.• Monthly forecast valuations, working with the demand planning team to ensure that the unit sale forecasts are in line with the financial forecast and budget expectations• Reporting the monthly financials to Paris using SAP, Magnitude and an in house Oracle system.• Creation of a monthly reporting pack issued to head office using Excel, PowerPoint and our Oracle System.Ad hoc duties include:-• Creating P&Ls by customer and by door enabling the division to make sound decisions regarding investment and distribution choices.• Profitability analysis of temporary promotions and fixed price changes simulating the effect on the margin.• Product contribution analysis.

Sydney, Australia

Working as a temporary Management Accountant and SAP specialist.My main responsibilities included:-• Creation of an array of excel models to complement SAP and provide detailed information to monitor the business activity, costs and performance. This included margin analysis, ledger reconciliations, cost analysis, data scrubbing aids, customer analysis, debtors reporting, purchasing trends and credit analysis.• To provide support and training to the ledger clerks enabling them to streamline their position and get the best out of SAP. This included training for the day to day financial functions in SAP, banking, reconciling, clearing and troubleshooting as well as month end duties and reporting.• My month end duties include calculating accruals, processing manual and upload journals, running cost analysis reports and monitoring the AR KPIs to ensure the tasks have been completed.• My reporting duties include providing detailed analysis by business unit to the General Manager, creation of graphs and summary reports for non finance colleagues and providing ad hoc analysis when required.

Hull, United Kingdom

Cavaghan & Gray is part of the Northern Foods group with a £25m turnover manufacturing chilled ready meals for a large supermarket chain.Working within a site based team of four my main responsibilities included preparation of the weekly accounts and P&L using SAP, Excel and Hyperion. Working with the senior production team to provide detailed materials and labour analysis on a weekly basis. Providing a set of management accounts on a weekly basis for senior management. Provide costings for new products and amendments. Updating material bills of material and creating product costs in SAP.Weekly accounting responsibilities include reconciling the sales and promotional data, analysing the cost of sales and variance data. Preparing and processing accrual and prepayment journals. Analysing and tracking department and cost center spend.Variance analysis involves attending daily production variance meetings to attain greater understanding of the materials and labour variances. Reporting the variances in detail and tracking key materials. Providing waste reports for Northern Foods. Reporting responsibilities include providing a set of accounts including the P&L, analysis of variances and factory KPI’s for the senior management and the weekly operations review. Submitting various reports to Northern Foods using Hyperion, these include the P&L, gross margin reconciliation and KPIs.Providing product costings using excel and SAP to provide the commercial team with detailed margin information to assist in negotiation with the customer. Creating product costs and BOM maintenance in SAP to tight product launch deadlines ensuring the correct MRP and margin forecast.

Hull, United Kingdom

Caradon Ideal Ltd is a leading world-class manufacturer of domestic, commercial and industrial central heating products. It has a turnover of around £90m and has in excess of 600 employees.Working within a large finance department to strict deadlines, my main responsibilities include monthly sales reports for Caradon’s key account customers, extracting information from both SAP and Cognos, providing detailed turnover and profit information by customer and product. Preparing the monthly rebate accruals and payments, communicating with customers and dealing with related enquiries. Detailed labour and material variance analysis. Preparation of the labour and materials budget. Daily bank reconciliation’s and cash book.Reporting responsibilities include monthly breakdowns of key accounts turnover by product extracting, interpreting and manipulating sales data to enable the customer to establish purchase trends and aid forecasting. Various formats of internal management accounting reports are produced on a monthly basis and are distributed and utilised by senior management.Rebate responsibility for all key accounts, sales information is obtained from SAP and reconciled for each customer against negotiated terms. Rebates are paid monthly by credit note and the details are communicated to the customer. The rebate figures are accrued to enable cash forecasting.Sole responsibility for detailed site labour analysis, reconciling to budget and forecast on a monthly basis. Responsibility for materials variance analysis using SAP, Cognos and excel, reporting the information to senior management on a monthly basis. Sole responsibility for supplier / customer account creation on SAP. This involves close communication with the Purchasing Team and Sales Force.

Hull, United Kingdom

Working within a team of four my main responsibilities included invoice verification and processing, updating and maintaining supplier information, reconciling supplier statements to audit standard, reporting, clearing and analysing the GRNI and GRNC ledgers, processing the monthly bacs run, communicating with suppliers and processing employee expenses in line with company policy.Invoice verification responsibilities include confirming all payment criteria were met, investigation of any discrepancies through discussion with internal departments such as Purchasing, Materials Management, Marketing amongst others. As well as liasing with suppliers to ensure payments were made within the agreed terms.Principle responsibility for supplier statement reconciliation’s, these were put together quarterly to ensure supplier accounts were kept in line with current terms. Investigations carried out on any account discrepancies detailing any action required to rectify the outstanding issues.Principle accountability for running GRNI and GRNC ledgers, investigation of any goods receipts / returns outstanding and responsibility for presenting the information in a consolidated report on behalf of the purchase ledger team to senior management.Responsibility for the monthly bacs and cheque run.

Hull, United Kingdom

Working within a team of three my main responsibilities included: Credit Control duties, invoicing, cashier and bank payments. Reconciling Insurance company statements and raising payments. Analysing and reporting on policy sales by broker and insurer for senior partners.

Hull, United Kingdom

Working for a small manufacturing company my main responsibilities included: Credit control for UK, European and Middle Eastern customers. Purchase ledger responsibilities with empowerment to negotiate and agree discounted terms with suppliers. Materials management, including inventory control and basic materials requirement planning. Weekly payroll responsibilities using a Kalamazoo system