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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Partner with the Dentsu Leadership team to influence strategy and drive performance of the business. The role is responsible for leading the forecasting and budgeting process as well as management reporting. In addition, the role is key to enhancing the commercial acumen across the business and embedding commercial governance frameworks that ensure the business keep within commercial parameters.Selected Achievements• Rolled out the refresh of pricing committee and upskilled growth team on value-based pricing deals.• Provided commercial support on APAC and Global client deals that impacted the ANZ market• Led cost rebalancing program across the market to reduce growth, delivery and overhead costs• Developed consistent customer profitability and utilisation metrics across 3 businesses to drive performance on key clients.• Successfully led the strategic and financial planning for FY23 and FY24 budget

Australia

Partnered with the BUPA Health Insurance Leadership team to run the FP&A function which included month end reporting and forecasting.

Partnered with the Health Leadership team to run Finance function. This encompassed financial accounting, management accounting and pricing. The role was responsible for supporting the business with both short term and long term performance of the Health Business and ensuring our strategic plan was delivered.Selected Achievements• Completed acquisition of PowerHealth and Medical Director• Completed divestment of the Medinexus business• Restructured the operating model of Finance to align with next growth stage of Telstra Health

Melbourne, Australia

Partnered with the Health Leadership team to provide financial support and advice. Responsibilities included establishing and running finance shared services for Telstra Health that encompasses billing, accounts receivable, accounts payable, employee expense claims, procurement and statutory compliance functions. Responsibilities also included development of processes and policies as Dynamics ERP, CRM and HRIS was implementedSelected Achievements:• Restructured the operating model of Finance from a decentralised model to shared service model to align with next growth stage of Telstra Health• Led implementation of Dynamics ERP, CRM and HRIS across the Health business• Established a streamlined accounts payable and expense management process and team. Automated accounts payable with implementation of OCR• Streamlined accounts receivable and collection procedures with implementation of Microsoft Dynamics• Developed and rolled out a new procurement policy and process.

Melbourne, Australia

Partnered with senior executives across the Company to provide advice on strategic and financial matters. Responsibilities include advice on Telstra’s capital structure, including dividend policy, market guidance, cost structure and use of capital. Responsibilities also include financial analysis and modelling of enterprise wide strategic problems and the preparation of Board papers and CEOLT presentations.Selected Achievements:• Led the financial support on the project to establish Infra Co, a new Business Unit in Telstra. This new Business Unit was one of the four strategic pillars announced as part of Telstra’s 2022 strategy.

Partnered with the Deputy CFO and the Executive Leadership team to provide decision support on all financial and strategic matters. Decision support covers financial accounting, management accounting, tax, procurement, billing and credit and enterprise-wide financial and strategic matters. Responsibilities also include preparing Board and Audit & Risk Committee papers and briefing notes for CEO, CFO and Deputy CFO prior to Board and Audit and Risk Committee meetings.Selected Achievements:• Prepared FY18 Market Guidance Board paper and Dividend Paper that was approved by the Board.• Preparation of high quality CEO, CFO and Deputy CFO speaking notes for the Board and Audit and Risk Committee for year-end financial reports.• Partnered with IT and Properties to roll out an IT support blitz across Finance to help employees with their IT and workstation issues in response to feedback from Employee engagement survey.

Melbourne, Australia

Partnered with the Executive Director of Premier Business and the Leadership Team to provide strategic financial advice and detailed commercial analysis to enable effective, commercially sound and sustainable business decisions. Responsibilities also included leading the planning, strategy, commercial management and driver-based analysis.Selected Achievements: • Partnered with Premier Business Executive Director to segment customers and move a portion to an inside sales force model whilst achieving productivity gains by reducing employees from 700 to 600. • Restructured Premier Business finance team, reducing headcount from 8 to 4 whilst continuing to provide valuable insights to the Business.• Developed a weekly scorecard measuring the key metrics of the business at both the National and State level resulting in increased accountability across the sales force.• Implemented strong expense controls in Premier Business reducing yearly spend by $12m.• Developed and fostered a high performing Premier Business finance team that hold the business accountable and influence the strategic direction of the business.

Melbourne, Australia

Partnered with the Group Executive (Retail) and the Retail Leadership Team to provide insightful financial and commercial support to embed change and drive strategic priorities. Responsibilities also included leading the financial budget, planning, forecasting and reporting processes across Retail’s $17 billion turnover business; financial due diligence on all capital investments and managing the external audit requirements.

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

London, United Kingdom

Melbourne

Melbourne, Australia

Graduate Diploma Of Chartered Accounting

Bcom/Llb, Accounting And Finance