Marelda Ward Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, QLD, AU

Australia

• Lead the Physical Target Package (PTP) process delivering cross-company volumes data to Global Business Services (GBS) and Global Networks & Technology (GN&T) for budget and workforce planning.
• Orchestration of the monthly Company Investment Forum (CIF), driving the agenda, documentation of minutes and actions, and ensuring all actions were completed by the CEOLT and associated executives.
• Business partnering with GBS, InfraCo and SEAL to orchestrate and support their business plan for the year and to track delivery of their strategic objectives and key results.
• Support the implementation of the business planning cycle (annual and quarterly) and activities to deliver planning outcomes which are sufficient, measurable, robust to support the company’s strategic direction.
• Orchestrate reporting of T25 key results and Company Objective insights including the development of performance against plan insights provided to the CEO and CEOLT forum. Achievements
• Lead the simplification and template enhancement for the PTP Process to enhance the understanding of the process across the Functional and Segment stakeholders.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

• Manage the tracking and reporting of initiative milestones and metrics supporting the Environment Strategy Program within Sustainability, External Affairs and Legal and the Environment Executive Group.
• Assist in the coordination and collation of Board and Audit & Risk Committee papers
• Manage the tracking of the Environment Teams deliverables to ensure objectives are met.
• Consult with stakeholders in the development of Environmental Scorecard metrics.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify initiatives which actively support the Environment Strategy and targets.Achievements
• Lead the development and coordination of the Environment and Climate Change OKR and game plan submission.

Brisbane, Australia

• Collate and consolidate key performance updates within executive reports on behalf of the InfraCo CEO for weekly and monthly executive forums.
• Analyse data and consult with subject matter experts to deliver insights on performance measures for Wideband Delivery within governance reports.
• Act as the Operational Reporting team point of contact for the business in the absence of the team leader.
• Design complex data models combining multiple data sources and develop reports as per client requirements.
• Interrogate and analyse data using both Power BI and SQLDeveloper.
• Assist in the implementation of Agile Methodologies within the team, driving improvement in sprint planning for report development.Achievements

Brisbane, Australia

• Consult and collaborate with clients and technical staff to gather and analyse reporting requirements to provide meaningful and decision relevant output.
• Assist Guest Developers to design, develop and debug data models and reports.
• Source and combine data from multiple systems including TeraData, Oracle APEX system and Appian.
• Interrogate and analyse data using both QlikView and SQLDeveloper.
• Design complex data models combining multiple data sources and develop reports as per client requirements using Qlikview and nPrinting.
• Assist in the development of a single source of truth to enable the provision of value and insight from data

Nathan Campus, Brisbane, Australia

• Projects:
• Consult with clients to gather, analyse and document reporting requirements which are then transformed into a Proof of Concept (POC) and presented for approval.
• Liaise closely with technical staff to understand and ensure accurate business logic is implemented and the relevant components are identified as part of the data acquisition process for the data warehouse.
• Utilised Cognos Framework Manager and BI to design and develop reports as per client requirement documentation.
• Design test plans for both internal team and end user testing on Dashboard and detail reports.
• Undertake project development using the method of Agile Project Management and agile story cards to prioritise the project deliverables.Operational (March 2009 – March 2013):

Nathan Campus, Brisbane, Australia

• Project lead creating an Activity Based Costing (ABC) Model within SAS Enterprise Guide and SAS ABM
• Model building within Cognos Analyst and Contributor and data analysis
• Preparation of annual budgets and monthly cash flow analysis
• Provide analysis and advice concerning overall financial position
• Assisting in Project and process planning and mapping
• Setting policy and procedural documents for Revenue Allocation Project processes

Brisbane, Australia

• Timely completion of month end general ledger reconciliations for multiple international offices, including foreign currency loan accounts and the identification of the exchange risk
• Producing daily results and analysis report for WIP, Fee and Production results
• Effectively communicating with International offices to complete the hard close of our accounts on the last day of each month
• Assisting in setting policy and procedural documents for international offices

Brisbane, Australia

Reconciliation of bank accounts, processing debtor and creditor transactions. Production of reports used in the advancement of legal staff to Associate and Partner. Training of staff in using and understanding the financial accounting system.

Brisbane, Australia

Manage and organise multiple office administration functions including reconciling Office and Trust Bank, completing debtor and creditor functions and processing

Brisbane, Australia

Maintaining professional and friendly image whilst communicating with internal and external clients. Assist sales and finance staff in organisation of correspondence and client maintenance

Graduate Certificate, Information Systems

Bachelor, Business (Accounting)