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Littleton, CO, US

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• ► Leads matrixed finance organization of 11 direct/300 indirect reports for $6b region in a matrixed organization, supporting the Americas President and leadership team across Canada, USA and LATAM
• Improve reporting quality and communication with corporate finance and Americas operations, meeting all deadlines including quarterly reforecast and delivering best in class Zero Based Budget in the first.
• Restructure the finance team at operational and controllership level to accommodate significant growth the business is experiencing. Drive better performance of outsourced finance functions and integration into.
• Bridge the gap between finance and operations through deep understanding and driving improved business partnering from finance in support of operations.
• Drive project initiatives for the Americas, including Legal Entity Rationalization, Cashflow Conversion Ratio, Zero Based Budget, ERP (Oracle and Hyperion) upgrades for management and statutory reporting.

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• ► Leads direct-report team of 8 w/reach to 200 FTEs and P&L responsibility for $50M business serving midstream, refining, mining customers in CO, ND, SD, UT, NV, AZ, MT, WY, CA and TX.
• Created and implemented plan that successfully mitigated numerous issues resulting from COVID-19 pandemic/economic downturn, previous leadership departure, talent drain, client attrition, and acquisition.
• Retained all high-value employees and improved morale and productivity via internal promotions, open communication, office relocation with increased amenities and cultivating meaningful relationships with team members.
• Achieved 100% renewal rate of master service agreements and added new and re-engaged previous clients by directly reassessing needs and delivering top-quality, on-time projects and services.
• Grow/Diversify Win large EPC projects into 2024 and 2025 in mining and refining sectors, adding strong growth and increasing customer base by 4 times, grow team size back to pre-Covid levels.
• Growth achieved year 1 of 30% growth, year 2 a further 30% growth and year 3 on track for 25% growth.

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• ► Led direct-report team of 4 w/reach to 380 FTEs, managed business, and completed team integration of Worley’s acquisition of Jacobs, which created $1.2B, 2,900-FTE USA division and added 31K FTEs worldwide.
• Completed Jacobs integration by developing new business strategy and creating new teams for project controls, estimating, supply chain, and facility management; facilitated global rebrand.» Reduced fixed costs by $7M.
• Managed strategy, budgets/forecasts, project services, and new-proposal and bid/no-bid decisions.» Reduced Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) by 43 days to 57.» Implemented MS Power BI, which integrated and leveraged data.
• Enacted comprehensive COVID-19 plan transitioning employees to work-from-home status and ensured safe ongoing facility operations.

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• ► Spearheaded transition management operations for Worley/Jacobs global finance integration. Worked with section leaders across 13 time zones to plan and implement finance workstream.
• Achieved fully operational integration by day 1 of merger announcement by creating taskforce utilizing finance operations, shared services, payroll, accounting, tax, treasury, and statutory and management reporting.►.
• Lowered costs and improved service delivery by consolidating 6 businesses and centralizing their finance systems into 1, addressing specific needs of each.
• Developed and deployed EBIT analysis and rolling forecast consolidation tool and reduced DSO 89 days to 37.
• Won engineering procurement and construction contract with BP for offshore project. Drafted initial MOU, set up joint venture with construction company, and was appointed officer.

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• ► Led matrixed finance organization/team of 4 direct/35 indirect reports for $500M business.
• Bolstered commercial efforts to successfully maintain/extend commercial arrangements during downturn.
• Established finance support structure for newly created business line: Improve (LT Asset Management); reduced DSO by 55 days to 55.

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• ► Led strategic direction and financial management/team of 4 direct/65 indirect reports for $2.8B (CAD) business.
• Restructured financial accounting team, reduced headcount from 18 to 5, and developed standard operating procedures for smooth migration of most tasks to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• Upskilled operation finance teams for Canadian operations including hiring and mentoring high-value employees in Engineering and in Construction teams.
• Facilitated confidential plan to integrate all North American businesses into single entity and defined and allocated projects, people, leadership, and cost implications.

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• ► Led strategy and financial management/team of 4 direct/46 indirect reports for $500M business w/2600 FTEs.
• Transformed finance into reliable business partner post-2007 Colt acquisition that was plagued with issues regarding work culture and numerous offices lacking accounting and process synergy.
• Upskilled, hired and mentored high-value employees, instilled teamwork, deployed process across Canada, and created ‘train the finance trainer’ commercial acumen program that was adopted globally.
• Prepared for transition to global ERP business system from legacy system.
• Developed and deployed EBIT analysis and rolling forecast consolidation tool and reduced DSO 66 days to 62.

North Sydney, NSW, AU

• ► Led team of 5 direct/25 indirect reports w/reach to 500–1,400 FTEs for $350M (AUD) business.
• Transformed finance into reliable business partner with focus on improved reporting and upskill teams.
• Improved cash management, reducing NSW DSO by 55 days to 65, reducing Northern by 65 days to 60.

North Ryde, NSW, AU

• ► Led team of 6 direct/14 indirect reports for all finance functions and managed admin for 1,700-vehicle fleet.
• Facilitated division restructure, led migration to group-wide ERP system (from Pronto to Coins), and improved management reporting process by consolidating KPIs and dashboards.

North Ryde, NSW, AU

• Developed improved reporting utilizing Hyperion, creating dashboards for Regional and Business Units.
• Restructure Melbourne corporate finance team and relocate functions to Sydney head office.

Sydney, NSW, AU

Executive Mba

Chartered Accountant Program

Certificate In Auditing (Post Grad)

Certificate In Theory Of Accounting (Post Grad)

Bachelor'S Of Commerce Degree (Bcom Accounting / Bcom Honors)