John Baglow, Cpa Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Australia

Australia

North Melbourne

• Lead the Finance department to efficiently provide accurate commercial information and ensure compliance for all of WISE Employment's statutory obligations. Significant achievements include:
• All financial information, creditor payments, and wage subsidy compliance reporting delivered on time and to accuracy expectation
• Improved efficiency of A/P & A/R processing by 20%
• Acquitted 7 federal and state funded training programs despite fragmented accounting records. Each program acquittal was successfully audited and submitted per requirements.
• Improved internal processing controls in accounts payable through introduction of approval requirements and system approval controls.
• Updated and improved key process documents as part of federal department audit resulting in acknowledged demonstration of systematic processes and controls from the department in accordance with the underlying funding.

Melbourne Australia

• Head of finance for Movember, an independent, not-for-profit organisation working to raise awareness and funds for men’s health issues around the world. Significant achievements include:
• Led the migration of Movember’s stand-alone ledgers to one multicurrency, web-hosted platform. This eliminated significant offline consolidation and translation efforts while improving reporting stability and.
• Reporting, budget and forecasting processes improved to provide a greater level of detail and transparency for all levels of management.
• Managed the transition from 2 global legal entities to 5. Accounting and consolidation processes were established and local auditors were engaged. All 5 audits were performed on time with unqualified opinions.
• Upgraded the capacity and quality of the finance team through skill gap analysis, replacement and introduction of new roles to manage the global workload. This resulted in more effective finance support, and direction.
• Global expenses were favourable against budget across the globe every year and well under the global standard of 15-25%.

South Melbourne

• Managed the entire finance function of the business, including general accounts, monthly board reports, billing, payroll, and accounts payable. Managed a staff of 6, including contractors. Reported directly to the.
• Worked with the various tax authorities in negotiating payment plans better align with operating cash flow. This enabled the business to continue operations and work its way out of significant operating losses.
• Produced pro forma operating cash flow statement to provide Board with clear understanding of business’ cash performance. As a result, significant cost cuts were taken to bring the business back to positive cash flow.
• Managing the finance staff turnover from temporary/contractor personnel to qualified, permanent staff to improve the overall performance of the team. This resulted in improved billing accuracy and collections, tightly.
• Project managed the recreation and reconciliation of the business’ accounting records.
• Improved month-end processes to deliver monthly results from 20 workdays to 10.

• Provided overall financial management in accordance with the policies and procedures of the firm and WHK Group. Manage and lead the Finance Division to ensure accurate and timely reporting of accounting information..
• Designed and implemented team management reports (where none previously existed) using a new report writing software called Insight. This promoted greater visibility and accountability at the team level that continues.
• Worked with principals in reviewing their work-in-process and debtors to assess the recoverability of their WIP and determine the overall adequacy of provisioning.
• Produced summarised trail commission reports from voluminous, unformatted spreadsheets to enable more transparency at a fund manager and advisor level.
• Managed high turnover in the finance team while improving delivery. Turnover occurred due to office relocation and inability to promote. I sourced capable replacements with a clear understanding of their roles’.
• Developed a complex cross-charging model to improve the matching of service revenues to underlying employment costs. This enabled management to evaluate its different practices with a fully-loaded view of their costs.

• Directed all finance and accounting activities for Australia, New Zealand, and Southeast Asia, including month-end reporting and analytics, monthly engagement analysis, cash management and special projects such as.
• Directed and personally contributed to detailed monthly work-in-process (“WIP”) review. This involved the detailed review of engagements over $500K by comparing the WIP to date against the current budget and.
• Managed the handover of the Southeast Asia accounting and payroll with a fortnight’s notice. The work of 5 staff in Singapore was assumed largely by the Australia finance team with no incremental headcount.
• Managed the preparation of the 2003 and 2004 general purpose statutory accounts. As previous accounts were prepared in an abbreviated format, prior year comparatives had to be done from scratch.
• Redirected the efforts of the finance staff to reduce the month-end timetable from 15 working days to 4.

• Primarily responsible for monthly closes and estimates, annual budgets, monthly and quarterly reporting, accounts payable, cash application, travel & entertainment reimbursement, and balance sheet reconciliations for.
• Established an accounting cost structure, chart of accounts, reporting format, and balance sheet in compliance with the parent company’s accounting policies and procedures.
• Hired staff to support the new accounting workflow as the parent company had minimal infrastructure to support a consulting organisation.
• Developed and implemented accounting policies and procedures including revenue recognition, expense approval and control, capital expenditures, and workflow documentation.
• Developed annual budgets for 2002 and 2003 for each major revenue and cost centers within parent company deadlines and parameters. These were the inaugural budgets of this unit as part of a public company that required.

• Managed special projects focused primarily in the area of the Company’s finance and accounting areas. Reported to the Sr. Vice President of Finance & Administration. Significant achievements included:
• Autonomously performed acquisition evaluations including financial and operational analyses.
• Performed financial due diligence of acquisition targets.
• Constructed discounted cash flow models, pro forma income statements and balance sheets for the purpose of estimating net positive cash flow and maximum purchase price.
• Drafted purchase agreement sections for net asset covenants, agreement definitions, and referenced financial exhibits. Proofed entire purchase agreements for overall completeness and accuracy.
• Coordinated parallel technology and facility reviews of acquisition candidate. Determined and estimated any price impact.

Supported Operations Planning department in S&P’s global Business Process Reengineering initiative. The role involved working with all disciplines at S&P to identify major areas of improvement and develop and implement action plans to realise that improvement. In addition, the role served as the analytical compliance officer to insure analytical and.