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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

First 90 days, hit the ground running;- Delivered new suite of finance reports.- Created new GL structure to support business transformation project.- Delivered Q2 forecast and embarked on COVID-19 budget.

Melbourne, Australia

Sonepar is an independent French company with global market leadership in B-to-B distribution of electrical products & services. Australian brands include L&H, Auslec, Pacific DataCom, and SLS, NZ brand is Cory’s Electrical. Reporting to CFO. Acted as 2IC to Group Financial Controller and CFO to ensure continuity of day-to-day finance operations.Financial Reporting & Control:• Managed monthly accounting & reporting for 6 units across Australia & 165+ operating branches to strict global reporting deadlines to Hong Kong and France. • Managed budgeting and quarterly forecasting for all business units and reporting using a 3-way forecasting model. • Maintained GL Integrity, reconciliations, Indirect Taxes i.e. BAS and FBT and co-ordination of external auditors.Leadership:• Managed 5 Accounting staff overseeing their work planning and performance. • Co-ordinated finance and business teams, Commercial Finance Managers and accounting function of 50 to ensure monthly financial/non-financial reporting completed.• Re-engineered Corporate Accounting function after trans-pacific restructure; resized accounting function & redesigned team. • Successfully developed and encouraged a staff member to become a high performer.Systems & Reporting Improvement:• Project managed implementation of new Expense Management System for Australia across 600 credit card users.• Successfully developed a consistent, consolidated easy to read format for multiple reporting of key metrics.• Implemented a consolidated executive reporting pack for CEO and CFO, with all key metrics for senior leadership in one high-level report.• Reduced time-frame for month-end reporting by 30% from WorkDay (WD) 7 to WD5, & for local Australian Executive pack by 40% from WD10 to WD6 allowing more time for value-added work.

Melbourne, Australia

Co-owner of Peak Cycles in Heidelberg which distributes Trek Cycles and offers superior customer service, custom-fitting bicycles, cycling events, supports junior cyclists and community events. Put the Graduate Diploma in Business Admin. into practice, provided strategic planning, business advice & financial strategies to ensure ongoing profitability of the business every year since inception.

YMCA is a not-for-profit community provider of health & fitness, childcare, camping & Youth Services. • Recruited & trained a team of 4 in a new business partnering team after restructure of Victorian accounting function.• Ensured continuity of business services while engaging 12 key stakeholders across the organization to operate with a more commercial focus by providing support in commercial decision-making processes and tender submissions.• Restored and rebuilt relationships that had previously broken down between finance and business operations, by building trust, being accountable and communicating openly about the desired outcomes.• Led an organisational communication plan and presented it to 30-40 people.

Melbourne, Australia

Computershare is a top 50 ASX listed IT Company providing registry services. Reported to the Financial Controller Australia.Financial Management:• Managed all Month-end Accounting and reporting processes (WD5) including GL reconciliations, Fixed Assets, and payroll accounting. All year end accounting processes including tax effect accounting and preparations for auditors.• Drove annual budget & quarterly forecasting process with State Managers & Managing Director using Hyperion HFM.Major Achievements:Improved Reporting & Efficiency:• Initiated & implemented Dashboard reporting for State Managers & MD, consolidating 8 reports into 1 creating a clearer, more focused review of sales, profit & FTE KPI results, improving decision making and cutting meetings by 50%. • Delivered management reporting packs across ~40 cost centres to strict month-end deadlines; variance analysis, valuable business insight & commentary to Board level. • Re-modelled monthly finance pack to deliver more commercial insights to business partners & non-financial stakeholders, enhancing management decision making. • Developed complete client profitability modelling to identify cost recovery & revenue leakage, giving executives valuable client insight. This led to better understanding of clients and made the client portfolio more profitable.• Utilised VBA macro writing to speed up formatting of common reports, cutting report preparation time by 50%.• Systematically streamlined month-end reporting processes using expertise and reduced reporting time by 38%.

Melbourne, Australia

AXA APH was a leader in the provision of personal protection and investment products throughout Australia and APAC. Managed a team of 10 to 12 staff with 7 direct reports; Accounts Payable, Bank Reconciliation and Accounts Receivable, Payroll Accounting, GL Reconciliation and Integrity functions. Reported to Financial Controller AXA Australia.Financial Management:• Maintained transactional banking facilities; all accounts, collection facilities, data transfers and key relationships.• Ensured compliance with monitoring programs, reported to senior managers and coordinated with auditors.• Managed key stakeholders across business units to manage high-volume, high-value transactions & monthly KPI’s.Major Achievements:Leadership:• Supported the leadership group in developing team leadership, teambuilding, staff mentoring, and culture initiatives. • Turned the team around from being purely transactional group of unqualified people to be a development team.• Successfully developed 6 staff from other teams, e.g. customer services, and upskilled to enable them to further their career in Finance team. • Mentored 2 staff outside the Finance team in AXA’s Mentoring Program and helped them transition to Finance roles.• One of 20 staff chosen for AXA’s Business Leadership program in 2009, successfully presented to senior managers.Process Improvement:• Developed a comprehensive process for monitoring completion of 4,000+ GL reconciliations across ANZ business, set up electronic reporting & quarterly audit reports to senior managers, increased compliance and quality control.• Identified, evaluated and implemented internal control and process improvement initiatives and set the standard of best practice accounting for other units in Australia and NZ.• Initiated and managed a major project team returning millions of dollars to thousands of previously lost clients, which paid back funds to clients and paid untraceable clients’ earnings to charities.

OAMPS was a top 200 ASX listed insurance Broker. OAMPS was acquired by Wesfarmers and recently by A.J. Gallagher. Reported to CFO & General Manager OAMPS Financial Management.• Managed AP & AR teams of 10 staff for OAMPS Ltd Group, maintained day-to-day banking facilities and software.• Managed full accounting functions for 3 group subsidiaries: Monthly revenue & management reports for Group Directors & Divisional CEO’s. Annual budgets, statutory accounts, cashflow forecasts, variance analysis & GL recs.• Successfully supported the financial integration of 110 acquisitions, communicating with key stakeholders.• Initiated and implemented change through process improvement and available technologies.

Graduate Diploma, Management

Executive Education Course, Business Leadership

Bachelor, Business