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Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Member of 4-person team managing commercial functions for all Marketing and Merchandise departments catering to a network of 430+ franchise owned retail stores around Australia. Focusing primarily on expenses, work closely with the Finance and Marketing teams to manage all transactional and commercial activities of a large Marketing budget, ensuring they are within commercial governance, budgets, and guidelines.

Brisbane, Australia

Conduct analysis and prepare reports to understand the profitability of product lines and accounts . Completed daily pricing functions while answering internal inquiries and meeting daily deadlines and quotas in a fast paced environment. Prepared ad hoc reports and analyses as needed to provide Sales operational and logistics supports, while collaborating and liaising with senior executives and external stakeholders. Drafted and reviewed new supply agreements and letters of intent liaising with Sales and Legal departments, reviewed and maintained contracts using SAP based contracts management system. Tender preparation for new and potential customers. Execute pricing “rises and falls” according to contract parameters and updated pricing systems.

Vancouver, Bc Canada

Financial Analysis and Reporting, Data and Trend Analysis, Tracking and Reporting KPIs, Running Reports, Compiling and Formatting Data into Usable Formats, Advanced Excel work. Accounting functions such as Period End Reconciliations, Journal Entries, GL Activity, Inventory Sub-Ledgers, Creating Excel Templates for Income Statements, Balance Sheets, Cash Flow Statements, and consolidated reporting.

Melbourne, Australia

Moved to Melbourne to gain experience in a larger market. Completed daily pricing functions while answering internal inquiries and meeting daily deadlines and quotas in a fast paced, dynamic environment. Daily responsibilities included data analysis and reporting, contracts management, tender preparation and spread sheet building, pricing/estimation of quotes.

Brisbane, Australia

Completed daily pricing functions while answering internal inquiries and meeting daily deadlines and quotas in a fast paced environment. Pricing quotes, reporting, data analysis, tracking new business gains and losses, spreadsheet building, data entry, administrative duties.

Brisbane, Australia

Completed intensive 16 month graduate program rotating through various departments including Sales, Technical/QA, Design, Pricing, and Customer Service, exploring different parts of the business to develop a broad skill set. Managed customer sales accounts. Completed lengthy project report (100+ pages) on New Business, including research into current practices and approaches, analysis of strengths and weaknesses of available options, and recommendations for future implementations.

Bachelor Of Commerce, Major In Finance

Bachelor Or Economics, Major In Quantitative Methods

Student Exchange Program, Orfalea School Of Business