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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Program management support of NBN DA and Exchanges & Infrastructure business projects.• Assist project managers with detailed financial analysis to identify key expense drivers.• Coordination, and consolidation of Budget and Forecasts in collaboration with stakeholders, to gain insights, secure consistency, quality, timing, and transparency in financial planning.• Ensure financial targets are met by proactively addressing variances and implementing corrective actions.• Supporting of projects month end activities across the portfolio, such as time sheeting compliance, variance analysis and collaboration with Finance department to ensure monthly results are accurately captured and reported.• Business Performance Reviews (BPR’s)- Conducting and participating in monthly BPR’s to assess the financial health and performance of projects and initiatives.

Melbourne, Australia

• Responsible for the delivery of month end expenses reports and analysis to the Marketing and IT, and PMO projects portfolio• Ensure the PMO project portfolio expenses are properly reported (CAPEX/OPEX)• Management of financial issues as they arise• Preparation and support of annual budgets

Melbourne, Australia

Financial support to the Commercial finance manager and project deployment team ($3 Billion Capex project)• Monitor and report of project expenditure against budget and forecast, including commentary on the main variances.• Work closely with project managers to understand variations against budget and forecast, implementing corrective actions to ensure financial targets are met.• KPI’s report to ensure project milestones are met.• Collaboration with Finance department to ensure accurate expenses are captured and booking of appropriate accruals to enable the project to be properly reported.• Set up and maintenance of financial model to support preparation of budgets, forecasts and 5 years operational plan.

China

During this period, I lived in Nanjing – China, to accompany my husband in an international assignment with the company he works for. I had the opportunity to immerse myself in a totally different culture, being able to spend some time learning Mandarin and complete the studies of my CPA program. I had a great life experience that pushed me out of my comfort zone.

Melbourne, Australia

• Financial support to the Sales & Marketing team, in the management and planning of their budgets• Preparation of Sales & margin reports and P&L by product/Brand • Volume and price variations analysis • Ad-Hoc reports/analysis as required to improve efficiency and profitability.• Support in the preparation and analysis of divisional P&L and Commentary of monthly financial performance against budget and forecast, including close liaison with department managers to identify corrective actions and risks/opportunities to meet budget targets • Preparation and consolidation of forecasts, annual budgets and strategic plans of the division.• Extensive participation in the implementation of SAP/BW (system requirements and data validation)

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Consolidation of results (P&L) of Latin America countries and preparation of the financial results and presentations of the region to be sent to the global headquarter in Netherlands• Consolidation of Rolling Forecasts, Annual Budget and coordination of the Schedules of the countries in the region, ensuring the reporting in the established timeline given by the global headquarter• Coordination of the implementation of the SAP / BW system in the Latin America countries (system requirements, data validation, users training)• Responsible for ensuring that all procedures of month end results, elaboration of budgets and forecasts are within the norms and procedures of the guidelines sent by the global headquarter

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Financial support to the project managers of the Infra-structure Solutions division;• Follow-up and control of the projects sales performance and product lines of the Infra-structure business, from pre-sales up to the project delivery;• Forecast of the sales, cost, margin and impacts of the month (risks and opportunities);• Analysis of the variations Actual vs. Budget and detailed explanations of the main variations of project and product line results;• Report of the monthly results to the board and several management reports as required for decision making.

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Preparation of budgets and forecasts (Revenues, Expenses and Losses) by product and area• Preparation of Profit and Loss Report (P&L) – Month End Results and detailed explanations and analysis of the main result variations • Preparation of management reports for decision making• Analysis of the consistency and reconciliations of the accounting information uploaded in the system.• Interface and financial support for several areas across the business• Budget control of new projects and significant operational areas• Preparation and Analysis of key performance indicators (KPI’s) of the credit card segment• Study of the viability and financial profitability of sales, marketing and launching of new products (Business Plan)• Participation in the definition and homologation of management information for the implementation of systemic projects (SAP R/3) in the finance area

São Paulo Area, Brazil

• Support to the Credit Manager in the collection of active clients• Writing-off and liquidation of titles• Bank reconciliations• Portfolio control of Ribeirão Preto Branch• Support to the sales area for decision making• Preparation of management reports

Accounting Body, Accounting And Finance

Post Degree In Finance, Accounting And Finance

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration And Management, General