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Brisbane, Australia

• The Siegfried Group is a leading provider of Accounting Resourcing Services to the Fortune 1000 in the United States. Our unique and reliable delivery model offers our clients a flexible solution to strategically.
• SEC Financial Reporting/Compliance/Internal Management Reporting
• Transaction Support including IPO Readiness, Mergers Divestitures & Acquisitions and Carve Out’s
• Accounting Policy and Technical Accounting Issues (IFRS, Policy, Research)
• Financial System Implementations and Business Process Redesign
• Complex Account Analysis/Reconciliations Related to Growth or Problem Areas

New York, United States

• Functioned as assistant Project Manager for a Federal Reserve mandated Banking Transformation Program for Regulatory Reporting. The Program was initiated by the Federal Reserve Bank with an aim to increase overall.
• Assisted in the 2016 Federal Reserve audit for the Branch and Broker Dealer divisions of the Bank.
• Assisted with the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) implementation for the Bank.
• Functioned as lead consultant for a Special Project to remediate accounting issues identified in the Bank’s Global Human Resources (HR) Department.
• Created Accounting Procedure and Control Frameworks for 30+ Balance Sheet Accounts owned by the HR Department.
• Created a Profit and Loss (P&L) Certification Model to ensure all P&L Balances were accurate and able to be validated.

Boston, United States

• Functioned as the Manager of Accounting Policies, assisting with review of Balance Sheet, Profit and Loss Statements and Cash Flow transactions to ensure compliance with International Financial Reporting Standards.
• Responsible for analysis and up-stream reporting of globally consolidated data for Accounts Receivable, Inventory, Operational Expenses and Revenue.
• Provided technical accounting guidance to 35+ international reporting sites. This involved leading calls to country CFO’s and Finance teams to discuss and remediate technical accounting issues.
• Documented Accounting Position Papers to be approved by Global Finance based in Switzerland.
• Assisted with various accounting special projects resulting from the divestiture of two significant businesses within the Vaccines and Diagnostics Group. This included Net Working Capital Analysis, Purchase Price.

Boston, United States

• Engaged to assist with the roll up of all finance functions of a company recently acquired by Staples.
• Liaised with Controller and Finance Staff at acquired company to transition knowledge of all month end close processes in a short timeframe before all finance staff departed.
• Learnt autonomously how to extract trial balances and process month end journals into three different accounting software systems, for the three lines of business of the acquired company.
• Responsibilities included month-end close and co-ordination with Staples Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, Treasury, Tax and Fixed Assets team to effectively resolve general ledger-related issues and closing.
• Presented to Staples Corporate Accounting Director recommendations for write offs of Accounts Receivable, Inventory and Vendor Rebates.

Brisbane, Australia

External Audit with industry focus in Financial Services, Aged Care, Property and Publishing.

Education record

Bachelor'S Degree, Commerce/Accounting