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Wodonga, Victoria, Australia

Albury, New South Wales, Australia

Overseeing and strategically guiding commercial, financial and operational analysis & reporting. Engaging with stakeholders to deliver role based reporting, effectively managing their expectations in relation to timelines and quality of deliverables. Surfacing challenges and bottlenecks to address root causes rather than symptoms, identifying opportunities to streamline processes, and ensuring changes are well documented and effectively implemented. Guiding quality control within the department, including two-level reviews, influencing and challenging the level of complexity of client facing reports, and ensuring processes regarding testing and stakeholder engagement are followed. Continuous learning of Power BI, SQL and other coding languages as required to coach 8 employees and consider new ways to solve old problems. Actively challenging the status quo while embedding agile methodologies and gently shifting the team’s mindsets from working reactively to proactively; from “our suggested” to “stakeholder informed” reporting. 1:1s with the team to increase engagement, as well as quarterly objective check ins to keep our agreed objectives front of mind, provide space for long-term career discussions and address any performance issues early. Highlights so far include building the Analytics Objectives Dashboard to monitor team performance and streamline monthly board reporting processes, the shift to Release Planning within Jira and aligning Zoho tickets to be triaged by one resource within the team to reduce interruptions to project teams.

Albury, New South Wales, Australia

Undertaking commercial, financial and operational analysis, researching best practice, and investigating possible reporting and business solutions. Planning and facilitating workshops/stakeholder meetings to gather business requirements and maintain/close out the feedback loop. Documenting processes and identifying opportunities to streamline them, including encouraging the use of visualisations/diagrams of complex processes, to improve service, safety, or profitability. Testing and reconciliation of data between systems to identify variances and ensure data is de-identified to prevent breaches of personally identifiable information. Creating dashboards utilising Power BI, including data modelling for the development team for the new SSAS environment, peer reviewing draft dashboards of the transformation project and learning DAX, SQL, JQL and JSON coding languages. Providing project management support to project teams through evaluating different options for capturing stakeholder feedback and helping scope projects more effectively with the adoption of Jira workflow. Actively challenging the status quo and gently shifting the team’s mindsets from working reactively to proactively. Highlights in my first six months include building my first two Power BI dashboards and implementing agile methodologies within the Business Analytics teams utilising Jira.

Australia

Used Microsoft Excel & Netsuite to perform bank reconciliations, associated journal entries, and intercompany transactions. Review of contractor payments for both Australian & overseas entities and their employees. Processed payroll tax and other tax reporting obligations, both in Australia and overseas (UK & NZ). Accounts receivable follow up and issue resolution via Zendesk and accounts payable reviews. Meeting period close deadlines and reporting using Floqast.

My role from Trainee through to Accountant level was to proficiently prepare client’s Business Activity Statements, Financial Statements and Income Tax Returns. This included liaising with clients, the Australian Tax Office and suppliers on behalf of clients. I consistently achieved budgets through proficient use of the Microsoft Office Suite, MYOB AE, MYOB Accountright, Quickbooks Online and Xero. One highlight was a six-month secondment contract with a large multinational overseeing all intercompany transactions for Australia and New Zealand, including meeting period close deadlines and reporting using SAP & Blackline.When I progressed to a Senior & Supervising Accountant, I assisted the section manager with training and development of new and existing employees. I also assisted with managing workflow, reviewing other section members work, and effective time management. I was a leader and peer reviewer of the Fringe Benefits Tax team. A highlight was processing monthly Business Activity Statements and quarterly management reports for two key medium sized family groups.I then accepted an Assistant Manager role designed to centralise all small clients into one section. This section trained all new employees to achieve consistent training and coaching. I created and implemented procedure guides to be used throughout the organisation. This section also trialled the paperless ‘workdocs’ process I designed and rolled out to enable the team to work remotely.Further to my roles, I was the founding member of the Innovations Group formed to address inefficiencies and lack of documented processes within the organisation. Achievements included the roll out of the partially automated billing process, redesigned tax planning workpapers, paperless workdocs trial, small clients training group and associated training guides, as well as many small process improvements. I was also a fire warden and member of the Human Resources group.

Wodonga

Managed the Register Supervisors, Administration Assistants and Entertainment Department in addition to providing relief in those roles. Maintained low risk OH&S compliance through the Safety Committee, OH&S training, site safety inspections, co-ordinating practice evacuations, incident and injury management, maintaining site chemical registers, managing contractors and organising repairs and maintenance. Consistently achieved queueing times below company standard of three minutes.Also responsible for opening and closing the store, ordering store consumables, achieving expenses on or below budget, co-ordinating stocktake, facilitating change, resolving escalated customer and team member queries, complaints and disputes, co-ordinating interviews, inductions and all training. Administration tasks included bulk and petty cash handling, data entry, reconciling register paperwork, processing goods inwards and outwards, creating and analysing reports, archiving, payroll and rostering for up to 120 employees, as well as interpretation of retail agreements. I also travelled as required to three other Target Country stores throughout Victoria to assist their administration teams with new processes and technology as well as provide follow up over-the-phone assistance as needed.

Graduate Diploma Of Chartered Accounting, Accounting

Bachelor Of Commerce With Distinction, Accounting And Financial Planning, Weighted Average Mark: 79

Alpine Valleys Lgbtiq+ Community Leadership Program, Organizational Leadership

Diploma, Accounting

Certificate Iv, Accounting