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Melbourne, Australia

• The role of Senior Financial Performance Analyst reports directly to the Principal, Risk and Performance and plays a key role supporting the wider Global Finance Services (GFS) OrganisationResponsible for driving.
• FY19 Telstra Excellence Award winner - delivered ~$20m in annualised productivity savings for GFS across 39 initiatives. This was achieved by role modelling Accelerate and Collaborate behaviours across GFS and solving.
• FY18 productivity targets exceeded by 30% through strategic source and organisational optimisation initiatives
• FY17 CFO award as a member of the Automation team helping to deliver 73 Robotic Process Automation Bots with a $7m productivity benefit

• Provide insightful and driver based monthly management reporting, annual budgeting, reserve management, financial modelling, project management support and process improvement initiatives. Maintenance and operation of.
• Implemented a monthly Finance report that provided executives a snapshot of the key financials on Business Day 3 in comparison to the previous timeframe of Business Day 20.
• Financial modelling and vendor pricing negotiation for Pooled Superannuation Trust product to be marketed to the Self Managed Superannuation Fund sector. This has enabled the Fund to launch a niche product offering.
• Identified a number of process improvement opportunities which resulted in winning “Innovator of the Year” for the company at the annual awards night. This included streamlining the Telstra bill payment process which.

• Provided financial analysis, reporting, planning and forecasting to the Senior Finance Partner of Infrastructure Technology Services. Analysis on finance options for outsourcing business cases. Finance Business Partner.
• Identified contract payments made which have been included in the Infrastructure Transformation contract resulting in credit notes from outsourcing partner which resulted in an $8 million reimbursement.
• Finance Partner secondment for Infrastructure Technology Services, Project Services and SITE. This includes leading all finance interactions with Executives and Leadership Team, providing high visibility as a.
• Streamlined the planning process for the FY13 project overlay, engaged with key stakeholders and streamlined the template to save 50 hours of effort across the organisation.

• Provided management accounting support to the Business Bank, which included monthly Performance commentary, planning and forecasting. Performed the external reporting obligations for Business Banking which included.
• Finance analyst on the “Revenue Attribution Protocol” initiative, which enabled visibility of AU$500 million in cross-sell product income via an alternative performance reporting suite for distribution businesses.
• Occupancy education deck for Business Bank around Commercial and Network charges in order identify levers that could be implemented to achieve saves across the occupancy portfolio.
• Reconciliation and identification of issues & solutions around Business Banking Sales Incentive Provision for Banker rewards. Resolved a $14m reconciling issue across Business Bank and Personal Bank.

• Provided support to the Project Director/Manager in financial management, risk management, business case management, financial reporting and tax transfer pricing. Managed the analysis of forecasts, plans, budgets.
• Providing Tech Finance support around the Aviva Integration Project. Building the “As is” and “To Be” model for FY10 for Aviva and TMLC. This allowed the Technology work stream identify $20 Million in synergies.
• Member on the Off-shore governance council – Identifying processes which are deemed to be non value add ideal for off-shoring to help drive a cost save for the organisation.
• Successful integration of Integrated Project Accounting System into ITO projects that were already in execution phase.

London, United Kingdom

• As an Investment Trust Accountant, responsible for the production of the statutory accounts for a variety of investment trusts.
• Carried out day to day financial control functions for investment trusts. This included monitoring liquidity and efficient cash allocation, reviewing and preparing tax returns, reviewing all payments made and income.
• Implemented a Pricing template which automated the interface between Bloomberg and Excel.

London, United Kingdom

• As a Senior Fund Accountant in Project Development, assisted in developing new reports for custody clients in line with accounting requirements.

Melbourne, Australia

• As a Team Leader of an Investment & Tax Accounting Team, reviewed work performed by team members, which included Tax Provision calculations, General Ledger reconciliations and Business Activity statement preparations.
• Streamlined GST reporting – working with Business Analysts to improve the efficiency of the monthly GST reporting.

Croydon, VIC, Australia.

• As a graduate accountant was responsible for the preparation of individual tax returns requiring calculation of capital gains, apportionment and expense deductions. Processing company accounts and preparing Profit &.

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