Kelly Savage Email & Phone Number

Fairlight, Nsw, Au

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

North Sydney

Senior Support Consultant for Kilimanjaro Consulting's MYOB Advanced clients. Kilimanjaro Consulting is Australia's largest and most experienced implementer of MYOB's enterprise-level business management, accounting and payroll software.MYOB Advanced is a cloud based ERP solution aimed at larger growing businesses. It is 100% Saas (Software as a Service) based system set to transform the way Australian and New Zealand businesses work.

Sydney, Australia

• Over 15 years’ designing and developing Corporate Performance Management solutions for large organisations to enable them to analyse, plan and report on financial and operational performance. The modelling software provides scenario management, rapid calculations and consolidations, extensive reporting and easy interaction with metadata stored in databases.• The solutions developed have helped businesses make considerable savings by streamlining the financial modelling process, providing quick and reliable forecasted profit and loss and balance sheet.• The bespoke solutions would result in the saving to the client of at least one finance analyst.• Briefing executives in large corporations, working with senior management to develop requirements for forecasting and budgeting solutions, leading sales presentations, negotiating contracts, statements of work and scope expansions and renewals.• The internal expert on the health industry, but also experienced with clients in the following industries: energy, publishing, local government and retail.• In-depth understanding of accounting principles necessary for liaising with clients and turning the accounting calculations into innovative software solutions, saving clients considerable sums. • Evaluating requirement definitions and accurately estimating the duration of software builds.• Hands-on development and implementation of software solutions.• Experience in multi-dimensional software designs.• Knowledge of the budgeting and planning process across multiple industries.• Tier 1, 2, and 3 support for all clients once application completed and implemented

• Provided analysis, reporting and forecasting for the Customer Retentions Department to the General Manager of Customer Services.• Analysed the cost benefit of various methods to reduce churn of customers disconnecting once out of contract.• Provided cost benefit analysis of purchasing a predictive dialler.

• Conducted one-on-one interviews with a large sample of BBC Production staff in order to gauge how much time they spent on productive versus administrative tasks. • Utilised MS Access for the preliminary data collection and analyse, excel for more detailed analysis and MS Powerpoint for the presentation or recommendations for cost savings.

• Performed all management accounting tasks for the Documentaries and History Department including reconciliations, forecasts and budgets, maintaining the accuracy of the general ledger, preparing monthly management accounts and preparing variance analysis of the accounts.• Took on extra responsibility when the management accountant worked part-time upon returning from maternity leave.

• Preparation of budgets, forecasts, variance reports and monthly management accounts for the marketing department. • Used in-house accounting software for transactions and report generation and excel for ad-hoc reports and analysis.

• Initial contact for all IT help calls for Telecom employees throughout New Zealand.• Logged all calls and identified the specialist department for follow-up.• Rostered 24/7 support.

• Performed financial analysis of the time and cost in providing clinical services.• Produced tender documents for the supply of clinical services to the Regional Health Board.

• Rotations in each of the main departments of Telecom NZ (finance, customer services and networks), together with major roles in management accounting and internal audit.

Llb, Competition Law

Activities and Societies: Hockey Club MemberI completed a Bachelor of Law in three years with a 90% average, majoring in commercial law.

Diploma Of Information Technology (Software Development), Vb, C+, Vba, Access Programming

This self paced course provided a strong grounding in IT via study of a selection of programming languages, database systems.

Bms, Accounting, Finance

Activities and Societies: Hockey Club Member, Hockey Club TreasurerA four year degree in management studies with a major in accounting.