Giving authoritative advice in the new financial reporting structure for the whole organisation and leading the whole change process. Mapped and established all the new cost centre structures so that the financial reporting is aligned with the program’s strategic plans and their financial acquittal requirements. Developed new financial reports to improve financial reporting quality and efficiency. Working with senior management in budget setting and financial management. Highlighting budget variances and recommending strategies to rectify budget deviations.Perform other ad hoc projects as required.

Family Life is a non-denominational for-purpose organization based in Melbourne operating in multiple sites with more than 10 government funded programs, 4 social enterprises and 1 warehouse. The organization's major activities are to provide family services such as counselling, mediation and family violence prevention. The budget is of $10 million p.a. employing 130+ staff.My responsibilities were to oversee all financial functions to ensure the organization operate smoothly. Specific outcomes and impacts that I achieved were:1 - Budgeting & financial modelling to enable informed business decisions to be made.2 - Management reporting and budgetary control (i.e. Actual vs Budget analysis) to track performance and provide corrective actions.3 - Establishment of financial policies & procedures; better cost centre structure and chart of accounts to improve systems/internal controls.4 - Provision of advice to the Board & senior management on tax matters, business cases and other non-financial issues, e.g. I coordinated the transfer of land titles and registration of trademarks.5 - Supervising all finance and payroll functions and contributing significantly to HR functions.6 - Production of annual audited statutory financial report that I led, coordinated and oversaw the whole annual auditing process. The audited financial statements I compiled every year passed independent external audit without any auditor’s qualifications. This ensures company's governance and contract compliance.7 - Playing an influential role in strategic planning. E.g. Improving organization’s efficiency by implementing new accounting and payroll systems.8 - Project management such as conversion of organization's legal structure from an association to a company limited by guarantee. It was completed on schedule in 2015.9 - Work with the Board to fulfill essential reporting and statutory requirements with ASIC, ACNC, ATO and Consumer Affair Vic and other departments as required.

To analyse the efficiency & effectiveness of business processes with reference to internal policies and procedures; make recommendations to regional managers to improve process accordingly.

VACCA is a statewide organization delivering social services to Indigenous Victorian and they employ over 120 employees across Victoria. They are passionate in protecting and advancing Aboriginal affairs in Australia with an annual budget of $12 million (Year 2010) from State and Federal governments.In VACCA, I supervised a team of 4 employees to ensure that all financial and payroll functions ran smoothly. With my strong team building and staff management skills, I had nurtured a motivated finance team to ensured that finance and payroll services were efficient and reliable. As the Finance Manager, I was also responsible for all compliance requirements pertaining to finance and payroll operations such as timely lodgement of accurate tax returns, e.g. BAS, FBT Return and IAS. In regards to funding contracts, I also had the full responsibility to liaise with all funding departments to submit accurate and timely funding acquittals in order to be fully accountable financially. In VACCA, I led and produced 2 annual audited financial statements. In both occasions, the annual reports were completed in a timely and organized manner with great feedback from the external auditors. To improve internal controls, I had established a lot of financial policies and procedures that formed part of the governance framework.As part of the annual strategic planning, I worked closely with the CEO and other senior managers to establish budgets for all programs and for the organization. On a monthly basis, I produced financial reports (budget vs actual) and presentations to clearly communicate the financial performance of the organization to the Board and senior management. I would make recommendations to CEO and managers to rectify budget variances when necessary. In relation to commercial contracts, I also played a pivotal role in providing financial and budgetary advice so that informed business decisions can be made.

Hanover (now known as Launch Housing) provide community services to metropolitan Melbourne and employ about 120 employees. They are great advocates for the Homeless in Victoria with an annual budget of $12 million (Year 2008).I supervised all aspects of financial activities including AP, AR and cash management. I was fully responsible for financial reporting to the Finance Committee on a monthly basis and all other reporting to statutory bodies and funding departments. I also have a pivotal role in annual budgeting & financial modeling. As a key player in management, I had significant inputs and contributions to the formulation of the organisation's budgets. To embrace continuous improvements, I had established a lot of business process improvements and ensured the organisation was tax compliant.Major achievements includes: * the conversion of Hanover's accounts to AIFRS compliance* establishment of financial policies and budgeting process, and * overhauling of its charts of accounts and cost centre structure.

My responsibilities included :• Prepared annual financial reports for the Mission at year end including P&L Statement, Balance Sheet, Cash Flows Statement & Notes to the Financial Statements.• Month end closing for programs, handling queries and suggesting corresponding answers and solutions.• Overseeing Accounts Receivable functions and responding to customer’s queries and complex accounts reconciliations.• Reconciling balance sheet and general ledgers; monitoring standing charges and preparing general journals & standing journals.• Monthly reconciliation of GST liability & preparation of BAS to ensure GST-ledger always balance.• Interpretation of Tax Legislation & advising on tax issues.• In charged of Fixed Assets Register for accounting purposes and determination of expenditure capitalization criteria, effective life and purchase costs.• Maintaining leased fleet motor vehicles data base (about 110 vehicles) to ensure lease liabilities reconcile with balance sheet account.• Designing Excel programs to streamline and enhancing internal operations, e.g. created automated reconciliation & journal worksheets to achieve higher accuracy & efficiency regarding leases and fixed assets.• Reconciling and allocating government funding to corresponding programs.