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Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Australian subsidiary of the US listed parent. Local turnover $50m, based in Melbourne where it manufactured, imported and distributed flooring products for sale into large scale commercial building projects, retail flooring stores, distributors, small flooring installers and leading retail chains, operating nationally and employing 100 staff.Reported to the Global CFO in the US and worked closely with the Global CEO and the ANZ GM.Lead a team of 5 in accounting, 2 in IT and supervised payroll.This role was a combination of hands-on, commercially focused, ensuring financial integrity and strategically focused and mentoring the business leaders through a business sale process.Major Achievements:Drive engagement and collaboration and reduce conflict between internal teams to improve customer support. Reduced business debt by $8m over 2 years by reducing working capital, improving capex controls and driving internal cash flows.Provided leadership for the residential sales strategy as a new growth area for the business.Built an effective Finance team by aligning each finance team member with a functional business team.Drive business planning, forecasting and analytical functions to enhance forward planning.Lead the Australian business sale process from the sale side due diligence, the regulatory filings processes and the legal oversight process for the asset sale process. Provided mentoring and business support to the local management team and lead the business transition process to the buyer.

Melbourne, Australia

The APAC region was formed in July 2010 with the acquisition of the ICO Polymers business by A. Schulman and the merger of the combined businesses across the region.The APAC operation had 7 manufacturing plants, 2 JVs and a regional office, with a turnover of ~200m USD and a headcount of +600.The organizational structure operated in a Matrix environment I reported jointly to the Global CFO and the VP & GM APAC.In this role I led the accounting/finance team and provided regional leadership to the IT function - total staff of ~35 in finance.This role was a combination of customer and commercially focused support, ensuring financial integrity for local and US reporting, strategically focused to support the regional growth plan and over the final 12 months driving the business sale process for APACMajor Achievements:Lead the APAC finance team during the parent entity sale process including leading the finance data gathering for APAC for the due diligence and the support for the regulatory filings processes and the APAC finance preparation of the integration process.Develop APAC strategic plan and implement key steps to achieve the plans. This resulted in the significant expansion of the APAC region, growing Operating Income 6-fold in 8 years (from USD 3m in 2010 to 19.3m in 2017). Oversee the organic growth programs (targeted capital improvement program) and annual capital investment program for APAC. Amount invested = $40m USD over 5 years.Strengthen the APAC balance sheet to self-support the strategic plans for the region without debt via structured working capital improvement programs, high level of focus on business understanding of cash generation benefits and sound fiscal management practices.Developing and implementing standard pricing models for all APAC countries.Built a finance team that can continue to support the business growth plans. Driving the continuous improvement program for the APAC region.

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Group Financial Controller, APACPromoted from the Australian Financial Controller role into the APAC role.ICO Polymers was purchased by A. Schulman Inc. in April, 2010.Key Skills/ExperienceFinancial leadership - provide leadership and guidance to the 3 APAC businesses and ensure compliance with local, USGAAP and corporate requirementsStrategic leadership - working with the APAC management team develop and implement strategic plans for the APAC regionAPAC Representative - liaise with and represent the APAC business with external service providers, bankers, auditors and internal corporate providers

Melbourne, Australia

Financial ControllerCourtenay Polymers Pty Ltd was a business owned ICO Polymers Inc. a NASDAQ listed multinational. The Australian business provided specialty plastic powders to meet performance and processing needs, with a wide range of physical properties, performance, and powder characteristics for the Australia rotation plastic moulding industry.Key Skills/ExperienceFinancial leadership - provide leadership and guidance to the Australian business and ensure compliance with local, USGAAP and corporate requirementsAustralian Representative - liaise with and represent the Australian business with external service providers, bankers, auditors and internal corporate providers

Melbourne, Australia

Finance Manager within the Ethanol Business Unit of CSR Sugar's segment.Manufacturer of ethanol which was used as a food and beverage product across the Australian and Asian markets.

Melbourne, Australia

FMCG business focus on manufacturing and distributing premium dairy and speciality food products

Mba, Accountancy

Cpa

Graduate Diploma In Finance, Finance, General

Bachelor Of Business