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A professional Financial and Commercial Executive with a proven track record of experience and achievement based on over 30 years experience. Initial 7 years employment at Hogg Lawson Chartered Accountants, has provided the strong technical and staff management skills. Subsequent experience as the Commercial Manager for Queensland Cement Limited, a subsidiary of Swiss publicly listed company, Holcim Ltd (mkt cap $26B), for 6 years has provided a wide breadth of commercial accounting experience. This has been further enhanced with 8 years strong commercial experience as Commercial Manager for the Australian Building Products Division of Hanson PLC (UK publicly listed company with mkt cap $19B). On 1 July 2008 the Hanson Masonry business was sold to Adelaide Brighton Limited (ASX Top 200 with mkt cap $2.1B), and merged with C&M Brick Pty Ltd to be the largest Masonry supplier in Australia, and I was promoted to be Chief Financial Officer of the newly merged business, now called Adbri Masonry. In October 2010 I left Adelaide Brighton Ltd looking for new challenges. In March 2011 I commenced a new role of International Business Improvement Manager at Billabong International Limited. In November 2013 my role was changed to International Commerical Manager.In September 2014 I joined SSKB Body Corporate Management Pty Ltd as Chief Financial Officer.In January 2016 I moved to Swan Group as Chief Financial Officer.Specialties: - financial accounting, commercial accounting, and taxation skills;- overseas reporting requirements;- treasury - establishment and monitoring of financing facilities;- corporate/financial strategic thinking and planning;- project management;- staff management; - governance, control and risk management;- systems implementations and innovative problem solving; - acquisitions, contractual negotiations and due diligence; - budgeting and forecasting.

Listed skills include Accounting, Budgets, Forecasting, Treasury, and 17 others.