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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Supporting the finance team and the group to continue to deliver excellent aged care that focuses on community, physical wellness, and peace of mind.

Sydney, Australia

Sydney, Australia

Leading, managing and reporting on the financial performance of SSE and ensure statutory compliance and reporting requirements are met. Setting up and managing all financial processes in entrepreneurial setting and academic context, and involved with revising the strategy, creating goals and objectives to deliver financial sustainability, scalability and relevance, and enhance the reputation of SSE. Our mission is to drive next generation entrepreneurship, making opportunity accessible to any student entrepreneur in NSW.In the last 3 months following a review of expenditure and a revision of the allowable expenses policy I have been able to deliver a reduction in COGS of savings of 29% and a 17% reduction of total Operational expenses.

Sydney, Australia

Manage all aspects of the Finance function across the Joint Ventures and Associated Entities that Nine Network has investments with 3rd parties. Specifically the new JV between Nine Entertainment and Sky News Business – a new 24/7 business, personal finance and lifestyle channel ‘Your Money’, that went live October ‘18 on free-to-air and pay television.

Homebush, New South Wales, Australia

Senior manager for the organisation’s finance and human resource functions, including the day to day management of the finance team. Assisting other members of the senior management team to ensure the delivery of the organisation’s goals, and managing the operations of matters of a financial nature, including accounting, staffing & payroll, budgeting and insurance & risk management. Also responsible for providing timely information on the above matters to the General Manager & the Board of Directors.In the last two to three years through improved cash flow management, new supplier agreements, and a tighter expenditure policy I aided the build up of general reserves to help fund the new Center of Excellence building and offices at Sydney Olympic Park.

Sydney, Nsw

Senior manager for the organisation’s finance and human resource functions, including the day to day management of the finance team.Assisting other members of the senior management team to ensure the delivery of the organisation’s goals, and managing the operations of matters of a financial nature, including accounting, staffing & payroll, budgeting and insurance & risk management. Also responsible for providing timely information on the above matters to the General Manager & the Board of Directors.In addition to the above, providing services of a financial/human resource nature to the Australian Rugby League (ARL) and a consultancy/reference role to other leagues.I led the extensive and successful due diligence process for the handover of the ARL Ltd to the ARL Commission in 2012.

• Group level reporting and consolidation, for multiple countries and product lines.• Month end reporting, budgeting and forecasting, and ad hoc analysis.• Very hands on. Supervising one other.• Stepping in for the premanent Group Management Accountant who had been seconded to project work.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Reporting to the Area Logistics GM my primary responsibility was the smooth efficient functioning of all finance and accounting functions for all APM Global Logistics entities, (formerly Maersk Logistics), in Oceania.Key achievements were:• As Business Program Manager, representing regional finance, successful SAP implementation for the region replacing local legacy systems. 1-year lead for planning, training, & change management.• Dedicated & motivated finance teams created to cope with the increased volumes & business, (160%), post takeover. HC increase from 7* to 17. (*2 in NZ). 1 voluntary staff turnover in 36 mths - internal move.• A monthly reporting package providing transparency to management for each business unit, prior to the month end reporting deadline.• My teams addressed the problem of virtually no financial control and no transparency over the fixed costs and provided the base for Cost reduction initiatives totalling US$0.9 mill during ’07 and ‘08.• Provided the business with detailed job costing reports, and EBT by customer reports, highlighting areas of extraordinary profits and losses that required attention/action.• Preparation & analysis of the group’s consolidated 1st quarter full year forecast results for management.

Reporting directly to the GM of Finance & Control for Asia Pacific, my primary responsibility was the financial reporting and control of the Regional Operational Costs, (landside terminal, depot and trucking costs), for 13 countries, and providing support for regional procurement

Reporting to both the Asia Pacific Controller and to the regional Costing System implementation team based in Hong Kong I was responsible for the finance configuration, testing, and roll out of the new Global Costing Product, to each of the 13 countries for the Asia Pacific region.

Refer to previous (Rotterdam) position description

Reporting to the Asia Pacific Controller in HKG I was secnded to Europe to acquire knowledge and to identify exceptions that would apply to the forthcoming rollout of the new global ‘Operations and costing’ product in the Asia Pacific region.Responsibilities included;- recommending solutions/necessary workarounds, and acting as the Asia Pacific Finance focal point for the new operations and costing product,- Liaising closely with Asia Procurement highlighting issues/requirements related to rate agreements,- Testing Purchase Order generation and invoice matching, and preparing Asia Pacific region finance for the rollout.

Project Accountant & Business Expert for the implementation & design of PeopleSoft Purchase to Pay Process for the company's global offices for non-operating expenditure. Implementation partner was Deloitte Consulting along side technical exports from PeopleSoft.

From 1999 to 2000 my role was to represent Head Office Finance interests in the role out of a number of global interfacing systems into the East and West Africa offices, as well managing the ‘regional’ requirements and ‘trade’ requirements. The systems were in-house global interfacing systems covering Documentation and Revenue, Global Financial and Management reporting, and Operations Costing

Preparing monthly Charge to Trades, variance analysis, providing trade packages, investigation of adhoc queries from the London based trades, preparation of FYF’s, Year-End reporting, and Budgets.

A review was required due to local uncertainty of the figures being produced from the local systems in North America. The short but intensive review entailed extensive analysis of- The ‘Operational Costs System’ database,- Business Objects queries and reports, detailed Lotus & Excel worksheets and associated macros, and- Analysis of the ‘North America transport’ system.The objective was to determine the accuracy of the final year end accounts for both of the systems used for North America operational costs reporting.

Monthly preparation of financial packages, P&Ls, balance sheets, including variance analysis and commentary, and Preparation of quarterly forecasts and dealing with auditors. (P&O Swire & NZUE trades).

Compiling month end P&Ls, balance sheet analysis, Year End reporting, variance analysis and various reconciliation’s. (ANZGT trade).

Cpa, Accounting

Activities and Societies: CPA

Bachelor Of Business, Accounting Major, With Credit.

Accounting Associate Diploma, Accounting, With Credit.

Hsc