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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

The fundamental purpose of the Governance & PMO Lead is to partner with Business Process Leads (BPE) to embed the BPE Governance framework, facilitate operating cycle and prioritisation forums and drive the ongoing improvement of this cycle. Having strong business partnering responsibilities and liaise with Program Steering Committee members, Leadership Team and numerous stakeholders at all levels of Lion by providing reports on key milestones, business readiness activities and program health. Active participation in cross-team project and process/ solution improvements.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

As the PMO Lead my role is to drive project governance and to ensure key risks & dependencies are flagged, relevant stakeholders are updated and any decisions which may impact project deliverables can be made in a timely manner. Actively develop & lead milestone plans and schedules to ensure successful completion of all Upgrade and End to End Process Optimisation activities.Partnering process leads and business stakeholders to deliver scorecards and provide status updates on key milestones & business readiness activities.

Sydney Olympic Park

Working directly with the SAP Transformation Hypercare Lead to coordinate Hypercare prep activities to enable a successful execution of Hypercare, as well as help to coordinate the day to day activities during the Hypercare execution phase of the project. Developing reporting templates and generate status reports, plan and schedule kick off meetings and training sessions, developing shift rosters, gather inputs from interdependent teams, assist in developing presentations, tracking actions from alignment meetings.Update project tracking documents and status reports for Go Live Readiness. - Create/Update risks and issues raised or assigned to the Hypercare Team

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Facilitate discussions to resolve conflicts in scheduling, resourcing, and execution constraints. Prepare summary & progress reporting on Test Cycles. Manage overall Test plan & cadence

Sydney Olympic Park

As the PMO Analyst I support the Business Transformation program in delivery sound governance and transparency, with a particular focus on status reporting, risk & issues management, quality management and change control.

Homebush, Nsw. Australia

Lion is one of Australasia’s largest food and beverage companies, employing approx 6,700 people across Australia and New Zealand.My role within the Enterprise Services Department is to work within the Accounts Payable Team assisting the accounts payable function & key stakeholders to develop and implement system & process improvements by the way of providing Reporting & Insights with a focus on attention to detail, reconciliations & working capital improvements.As the Accounts Payable Quality Assurance Executive I provide reporting on the delivery of KPI’s within the team and provide insights into areas of improvement and perform root cause analysis. By Business Partnering with team members outside of my direct team I conduct analysis on Working Capital impacts which contributes to the monthly Finance Dashboard presented to the Group Leadership Team. Working on Continuous Improvement Strategies I have built and implemented process improvements relating to Preferred Supplier Reconciliations & Payment to Term Analysis with a focus on Data Integrity in all business units Lion Beer Australia, Lion Beer New Zealand, Lion Global Markets & Lion Dairy & Drinks. With an active involvement in J-SOX, UAT, Project Work & Month End (Dashboard) reporting, my role has a focus on Data Integrity, leading Continuous Improvement strategies and building trusting relationships with key stakeholders and driving the implementation of Industry Best Practice procedures and systemsA key skill require in the success of the Quality Assurance role is an eye for detail and the ability to conduct in depth analysis on data presented, generated & available along with strong business partnering skills to be able to provide insights into results and recommendations for Continuous Improvement strategies in line with Company goals.

Sydney, Australia

The South Sydney Rabbitohs (often called Souths and The Bunnies) are a professional Australian rugby league team based in Redfern, a suburb of inner-southern Sydney, New South Wales.[3] They participate in the National Rugby League (NRL) premiership and are one of nine existing teams from the state capital.As part of my role, I managed the full Accounts Receivable & Payables tasks by performing weekly cheque & EFT runs, monitoring of contra agreements & spends, and creditor statement reconciliations.The Sales Administration aspect of my role, consisted of management of the players medical register, which tied in with my Accounts Payables tasks by conducting weekly, fortnightly & monthly reviews of Player Medical Expenses, liaising with the clubs Doctors both Internal & External and providing reviews back to the Team Manager.Support provided to the Financial Manager & CFO, entailed of end of month & end of year financial reporting, partnering with external auditing companies and providing required data to ensure compliance, whilst maintaining accuracy in Financial Reporting. An integral part of my role with was the ability to business partner with multiple stakeholders internal & external and to have the ability to develop an open & trusting relationship whilst delivering outstanding customer service & financial reporting accuracy.

Sydney, Australia

The Sales & Marketing Events Administrator role consisted of providing administrative support to the in-field sales team along with Marketing Director and National Sales Manager, along with maintaining sponsorship & athlete relationships. As part of my role I provided Personal Assistant services to company directors and CFO in the way of managing competing diaries coordinating meetings taking of minutes along with maintenance of appointments and travel Diaries Company Wide. Assisting in building & maintaining relationships with Athletes & Ambassadors, customers, consumers and staff.As the Sales & Marketing Administrator I handled proof reading of all company marketing correspondence, preparing running & review of effectiveness of e-marketing campaigns B2B and B2C. Performed analysis of current and prospective sponsorship contracts providing recommendations for changes and effectiveness as well as management of Sponsorship Contractual requirements. The Events Administrator function allowed me to grow & develop valuable skills pertaining to planning and coordinating of the yearly company trade shows by reviewing and aligning aspects of the yearly marketing, advertising and promotional calendars to coincide with new product launches. A strong skill of the role required business partnering both internal within the sales team, administration team members & new product development teams, as well as building trusting relationships with PR & Print Media Agencies.

Gold Coast, Queensland

Personal Assistant Duties to the Director• Management of all Accounts Receivable• Processing Invoices, Payable & Receivable, expense forms & requests for payment• Staff training• Customer Service• Event Coordination and Management• Sponsorship Administration• Preparation of various Financial reports• Coordination of new sales accounts enquiries• Management and Implementation of Email Marketing for existing Retailers and General Public• Oversee new Account Approvals & Process• Internal Intranet maintenance

Scrum Master Certification, Agile Project Management

Prince2 Agile® Foundation + Practitioner, Project Management

Project Management Fundamentals Certificate, Project Management, Certificate

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