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Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Main Responsibilities:• Lead gross margin improvement plans for over 12 product lines across 10 Asia countries• Lead monthly finance business partnering performance review with Area Directors, Senior Vice President, and Asia Controllers including variance analysis, revenue, commercial activity, and gross margins. • Lead monthly inventory analysis and reconciliations • Lead and support Financial planning and analysis activity with Asia Controller• Review and lead financial analysis of commercial bid strategies• Contract management review with Commercial and Sales • Free cashflow analysis and generation• Facility cost review and consolidations

Main Responsibilities:• Development of Strategic Asset Plan including, planning, communication, coordination with operations, finance, external risk assessor, redesign decision matrix, and alignment to Strategic Plan• Realignment of Strategic Plan to Operational Plan and led stakeholder discussion on resource management, operational requirements, and execution timelines• Financial Controller to financial, budget, external financial reporting, risk and audit• Practical and long-term approach to Corporate restructure including, Finance, IT, and operations• Cross-Departmental Engagement and Negotiations• Major Infrastructure and Capital Business Case DevelopmentKey Achievements:• Implementation of PathWest Strategic Plan, Operational Plan, equipment risk decision matrix• Non-qualified external financials audits• Implemented restructured Finance and IT team with improved operational, succession plan and increased team morale• Completion and redesigned costing model and business case development submitted to Treasury• Received additional $4M in funding for infrastructure upgrade

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

PathWest Laboratory Medicine WA is the pathology arm of the Western Australian Government and as Western Australia’s leading referral pathology laboratory responding to the needs of virtually every medical practitioner in the State. Main Responsibilities:• Financial Management- end of month process, reporting, accruals, and financial accounting• Performance Management- Monthly management reporting, forecasting and variance analysis (activity, FTE, financial, commercial performance of collection centers and disciplines)• Budget Management - Internal budget, annual treasury estimates and service level of agreement• Capital/Project Management - Capital/Project analysis and forecasting• Cash Controller - Cash management, forecasting and reconciliation• Operational Cost Model - Activity costing and pricing structure• Group Finance Business Partnering - FTE, activity and finance lead for disciplines/portfoliosNotable achievements includes:• Lead new management reporting system (Prophix), Robotics process automation (PoC completed); Activity and general ledger integration to new laboratory information system and ; Development of system management reports and dashboards• Lead financial and activity analysis of pathology cost and pricing model in WA (GL/billing data reconciliation, costing methodology, activity based costing and pricing analysis, scenario mapping)• Lead single source relationship database to automate month end reporting (financial, activity, FTE) and other internal reporting requirements• Streamlined end of month process from 5 working days to 2 working days• Streamlined bank reconciliation, patient billing system processes by introducing new workflows thus reducing error rates and increase timely recognition of account receivables and cash (~reduce GL and bank reconciliation timeline by 50%)• Introduced new monthly FTE dashboard and hiring process improvement to increase accountability and reduce timing approval process by 50% (1750FTE)

Perth

Perth, Australia

Department of Transport focus is on operational transport functions and strategic transport planning and policy across the range of public and commercial transport systems that service Western Australia. With more than 1000 employees it has the expertise to deliver and connect a complex, inter-related economic and social network.Main Responsibilities:• Coordinate, review and management of published budget and internal budget• Review and manage of business unit out year’s budget• Assist in developing DVS costing model• Coordinate monthly reporting on external funding initiatives• Coordinate and review capital project asset capitalisation• Administer monthly and quarterly capital forecasts• Administer monthly and quarterly forecasting report• Administer monthly variance analysis reports • Review annual asset strategic plan• Assist in the preparation of financial information for business cases• Assist in the coordination and preparation of mid-year review process• Assist business services manager and general manager in adhoc reporting• Assist in strategic business planning activities• Assists in preparation of deferral of capital and carry over• Assist and provide training on Oracle eBusiness suites• Consistent information management and documentation Key achievements• Completion of 4 full cycles of internal budget and published budgets in 2009-10, 2010-11, 2011-12 and 2016-17 ($180M, 770 FTE, and 76 Cost centres)• Design, and implemented record keeping tool to manage Software and System Maintenance expenses – approximately $5M budget• Assist in the development of channel-costing business case relating to technology adoption

My Pocket Net Sdn Bhd is a Ecommerce company focusing on selling electrical consumables such as mobile phone, television, and laptops via online channels and partner.Responsibilities Business Dvelopment:• Identify key partners for wholesale• Liaise and communicate with stakeholders and partners on a monthly basis • Identify, develop and set new operating procedures for online division including operations flow from, product listings, inventory management, customer service, shipping and account reporting• Manage marketing budget and set sales target for each online platforms (own, multichannel, deal sites and flashsales). Online channels include Lazada, Rakuten, Shopify, Groupon, and many more • Liaise and works with buyer and warehouse for stock allocation and management of sell through Financials:• Handling of financial operations including financial reporting, preparation of management report for audit, budget planning and forecast• Bookeeping, reconciliations and BAS reporting• Account payable and receivable reconciliationsKey achievements: • Marketing collaboration with LINE, Mobile chat application• Top merchant award with Rakuten Malaysia• Achieved $1M sales target within 1st year of operation• Multiplatform selling across all different online channels

Perth, Western Australia

Department of Transport focus is on operational transport functions and strategic transport planning and policy across the range of public and commercial transport systems that service Western Australia. With more than 1000 employees it has the expertise to deliver and connect a complex, inter-related economic and social network.Responsibilitie:• Coordination, review and management of DVS 2010-11 Internal Budget• Preparation of monthly Capital forecasting and reporting (IT and Accommodation)• Identifying cost pressures and propose strategies to the General Manager• Coordinate Corporate Services request and enquiries• Review and assist in the transitioning of Office of Shared Services (OSS)• Review and testing of OSS reporting system• Review of Risk Cover questionnaire• Supervise and training to other Finance Officers• Coordination, compilation and management of the internal budget; • Monthly reconciliation of internal budget and movements; • Preparation of budget adjustments as required and permitted to facilitate business decision and improve cash flow; • Review Chart of Account and align to the business;• Preparation of monthly financial performance reports (variance analysis);• Preparation of quarterly expenditure and revenue forecasts;• Maintain a register of all journals and budget adjustments; • Variance analysis on revenue and expenditure budget;• Coordination and preparation of End-of-month accrual journals;• Review of financial transactions at the end of each month to ensure the data has been coded correctly, and other ad-hoc duties as directed.

ALSPEC are the market leaders in the design and distribution of innovative aluminium systems to the architectural, industrial and home improvement markets. It’s located in 8 locations across Australia with approximately 400 staffs and an annual turn over of $200 million.Responsibilities:• Forecasting and analysis of inventory level• Costing and variance analysis • Project based purchasing• International purchasing and quoting – Indonesia, China, US • Sourcing for new suppliers and product lines• Accounts Payable issues relating to suppliers• Importing/ Exporting and custom liaising• Expediting purchases by liaising weekly with suppliers

Bachelor Of Commerce, Accounting And Finance

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