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Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Reported to the Finance Director (Supply Chain) for project specific tasks and responsibilities and in addition collaborated and reported to various Global Directors.Key Responsibilities • Provided day to day business partnering to improve capital metrics (i.e. working capital and ROI).• Partnered internally with the supply chain team to extract their knowledge and experience. • Trained and transitioned the supply chain team onto a new system (CAPEX Insights).• Developed robust capital plans and budgets in alignment with strategy and agreed timelines.• Ensured timely, accurate and insightful delivery of key reporting (i.e. Quarterly Capital Management decks) and presented this information in a simple format.• Supported visibility of capital metrics through dashboarding, key KPIs, and other systemised reporting. • Developed an understanding of capital drivers and metrics and turned these into actionable insights.Achievements Led Lion's capital management system to successful transition to CAPEX Insights for Supply Chain Capital Projects.  Led the remarkable reduction, bringing non-compliant CWIP from $22m to an improved $5.9m within a swift 5-month period. Navigated uncertainties stemming from the COVID-19 challenges, continuously re-forecasting to maintain an updated capital position amid the complexities. Successfully re-worked the Annual Operating Plan (AOP) for NZ, uncovering an $18m hand back/upside early in the year.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Key Responsibilities • Managed the customer execution of the twice annual CPI process.• Ensured no surprises performance management environment which involved managing risk and identifying opportunities.• Embedded SAP system and new processes to ensure data quality and new reporting platforms were leveraged.• Simplified systems and processes within finance through continuous improvement initiatives.Achievements Transformed data accuracy during the sales transition to SAP & Anaplan platforms. Created an efficient tool ensuring precise loading of sales deals into Anaplan and seamless integration into SAP. Ensured timely master data updates, resulting in a significant boost in accrual accuracy from 70% to over 90% within 2 months. Streamlined data accuracy checks, reducing the monthly time commitment to about 1 hour. Resolved a 3-year lag in reconciling customer claims for Everyday and promotional pricing. Enhanced the existing tool to efficiently incorporate Deal Sheets, promotional programs, and sales volume data, promptly identifying over/under claims. Effectively communicated findings with the Commercial Finance Manager and Endeavour Drinks external contact. Successfully identified and resolved $6m in over claims through constructive discussions with the client.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Key Responsibilities • Collaborated with the sales team to develop each month’s promotional slotting board. • Provided financial analysis, sales analysis, and feedback on planned activities.• Maintained IPM (integrated planning model) and rolled forward each CPI period.• Delivered fortnightly share results to customer teams for share performance tracking.• Provided fortnightly BWS SKU performance to assist in tracking and achievement of EDG share results. • Partnered with sales team to perform monthly right price commentary.• Managed CPI process within the ED customer team by partnering with both external ED stakeholders and internal Lion stakeholders.• Completed the BWS true up calculation which reconciled expected claims with actual claims. • Provided monthly robust sales forecasts and insights to the Lion sales team. Achievements Successfully delivered targets for NSR ($462.2m), GM ($109.2 CPL) and share (36%) through partnering with the sales team, providing key insights, and challenging relevant proposed promotional activity to ensure the right outcomes for the business.  Increased forecasting accuracy by 3% in 6 months by improving the IPM tool through automating the monthly accruals calculation and improving the forecasting process.  Addressed declining share results for the Endeavor Customer Team by implementing a fortnightly Share reporting dashboard for national customer teams (Coles & Endeavor Drinks). Introduced BWS SKU performance results bi-weekly to enhance tracking and achievement of EDG Share results. Successfully met share targets for the year, achieving a 36% market share.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Key Responsibilities • Provided timely and concise monthly performance management reporting.• Partnered with NBM’s to evaluate marketplace investments with insights being shared with key stakeholders.• Partnered with sales team to deliver customer specific plans.• Participated in the AOP process to ensure delivery was in line with timeline and business partners buy-in and ownership.• Contributed to no surprise’s performance management environment.• Managed risk and identified opportunities.• Ensured revenue and trade spend outcomes were optimised through embedding an ROI mindset across the commercial account team.Achievements Improved process efficiency by cultivating relationships with the seven Key Account Managers (KAMs) in this role. Proactively identified and addressed their needs, streamlining business processes and facilitating a more seamless workflow for optimal results. Improved team and customer engagement through simplifying the NILWA claims process, CPM reporting and the development of KAM self -serve reports. This enabled more time to be spent on value adding activities.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Coordinated and chaired monthly FCM’s.• Delivered key insights on drivers to +/- Forecast.• Ensured accuracy of demand planning system data.• Worked with Supply Planning team to ensure stock location accuracy.• Developed insights into key customer and regional demand patterns and correlated to pricing, promotional activities, and seasonality drivers.• Provided insights to the business on market, customer, category, and product trends to facilitate forecast accuracy.Achievements Increased forecasting accuracy by 4% within the financial year through business partnering and developing robust volume forecasts across Heineken and NPD to reflect key drivers of volume, market share and category outcomes.

Sydney, Australia

• Partnered with group finance teams to deliver end to end finance process improvements to strengthen governance, deliver efficiency and promote engagement.• Supported the tracking of key milestones for initiatives and escalation of key risks.• Led a team of four to ensure data validation was completed and signed-off prior to the commencement of F15 management and quarterly reporting. • Prepared documentation presented to the board and supported group finance management and statutory reporting periods.• Partnered with key project team stakeholders to ensure they were able to meet their initiative obligations. Achievements Successfully delivered systems on time through supporting the group finance team with the implementation of a new finance consolidation tool (HFM) and reporting tools (Business Objects).

Sydney, Australia

• Completed Month End Reporting, Balance Sheet Reconciliation preparation, Statutory Reporting, and ad-hoc financial duties. • Delivered month end balance sheet reconciliations free from material misstatements. • Provided monthly working capital commentary to support the board’s reporting process. • Partnered with business stakeholders to collate valuable insights within tight timeframes. • Responsible for the balance sheet budgeting process to provide insights and analytics of results. • Delivered FBT returns, prepared local statutory accounts, and provided technical accounting advice. Achievements Improved key processes including monthly working capital commentary and balance sheet budgeting.

Sydney, Australia

• Completed Month End Reporting, Balance Sheet Reconciliation preparation, and Statutory Reporting.• Provided monthly working capital commentary to support the board’s reporting process.• Managed the balance sheet budgeting process.• Delivered high-quality financial services including FBT returns, preparation of local statutory accounts and technical accounting advice.

Sydney

Responsible for the coaching and development of four junior staff members.• Completed financial statement audits for various clients including Vodafone Hutchison Australia Pty Ltd, Hutchison Telecommunications (Australia) Limited, Microsoft Pty Limited and Multiple Sclerosis Society of Australia.• Ensured audit engagements (including the identification of risk) were conducted in accordance with firm standards.• Collaborated with IT and Tax Audit team members to plan audit engagements. • Developed the audit scope, objectives, risk and control assessments, work programs and other deliverables. • Managed audit engagements including project management, client planning, budgeting, and team leadership. • Performed audit procedures including analytical reviews over statutory accounts. • Led engagement teams to conduct audit field work including review of the work performed. • Managed client expectations through relationship-building and agreed liaison protocols. Achievements Achieved 100% participation in service line initiatives and 95% participation in out of hours activities through improving team and customer engagement.

Post Graduate Diploma, Accounting

Bachelor Of Business Administration & Bachelor Of Commerce, Accounting, Marketing