Mark Ravanello Email & Phone Number

Pascoe Vale South, Vic, Au

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Key duties include:• Develop and embed an integrated approach to strategic planning, business planning, project management, performance measurement and reporting across GMCT.• Manage the process for the preparation of the GMCT Strategic Plan and Annual Planning cycles including research, consultation, drafting and approval.• Establish an overarching governance framework of GMCT strategies, plans and policies to ensure alignment, consistency, clarity, and efficiency, and to inform organisational priorities for further strategic work.• Establish and manage an Enterprise Project Management Office (EPMO) to lead the organisation’s project governance, and to align project selection and delivery to the strategic and annual planning processes.• Establish and manage an executive information centre to provide clear, timely and insightful information on organisational activity and performance.• Develop reporting systems, processes, and templates to enable high-quality reporting on project planning and implementation for Executive, FIC and Board.• Maintain a suite of Key Performance Indicators for Board and Executive reporting.• Planning and Operations Lead for greenfield development, particularly Harkness Memorial Park (largest in the Southern hemisphere).• 15-year long term financial and capital planning• Land acquisitions and rezoning, Cultural Heritage, feasibility studies.• Strategic Asset Management - Asset planning (10-year plans) on all asset classes including tree risk management.• Support the Chief Governance Officer in the management of Board, Committee and Executive Team meetings and governance processes.

Key duties include:• Management of the Future Built Environment directorate which comprises three pillars – planning, design, and construction and in excess of 20 staff members. Responsible for future planning of all 21 memorial parks and delivery of construction projects across the network.

Key duties include:• Governance and oversight - responsible for governing the operations of the cemetery. This involves setting policies, overseeing financial management, and ensuring compliance with relevant laws and regulations.• Strategic Planning - participate in the development and implementation of strategic plans for the cemetery.• Financial Management – Finance and Investment Committee member, responsible for overseeing the financial affairs of the cemetery, inclusive of budgeting, reporting and asset management.• Legal and regulatory compliance – ensure the cemetery operates in compliance with relevant laws, regulations and industry standards.

Key duties include:• Management of the Legal and Governance directorate, focusing on compliance, governance, internal audit and risk management, strategic planning and administration specific to cemetery operations.

Key duties include:• Within the Future Built Environment Directorate, responsible for managing seven project managers and the delivery of circa $40m in capital works program across 21 cemetery sites including but not limited to:-> Mausoleum development Keilor and Fawkner-> Greenfield development Harkness, Plenty Valley and Emerald-> Asset renewal program-> Inventory development across all sites, incl. lawn, monumental, vaults and cremated remains

Fawkner, Victoria

Key duties include:• Create financial models to provide detailed analysis on business performance and operational efficiencies. Manage two commercial analyst.• Manager of Procurement, creating new business processes for financial delegation, procurement practices and contract management. Manage two procurement advisors.• Represent finance as a commercial lead on key business change projects.• Provide financial modelling and commercial advice in relation to the evaluation of strategic options under consideration.• Provide financial modelling and commercial advice in relation to the models that GMCT can interact with Class B Cemeteries – i.e. acting as a fee-for-service provider, acting on a no-charge basis as a support provider for smaller rural Class B cemeteries within our region, acting on requests to absorb Class B Cemeteries within our structure.• Provide financial modelling and commercial advice to Project Teams that are managing land purchases, capital constructions and internal projects (Digital Transformation Project) across the areas of procurement, contracts, budget, resources, expenditure classification (operating and capital).• Provide financial governance and oversight across the CAPEX and OPEX portfolios.• Analyse the financial viability of business-as-usual activities to determine their long-term viability along with recommendations as to remediation / improvement – seek to provide operational efficiencies.

Ravenhall, Victoria

Key duties included:• Design and develop financial structure for newly formed division - fifth pillar of the Costa Avocado business.• Undertaking significant growth and acquisitions with purchases of farms across Australia and continued push into the market to become the number 1 marketer, grower, and packer of Avocados – involved in three $25m plus M&A activities, and two up to $10m.• Significant acquisition integration work with $100million in acquisitions undertaken within the portfolio – involved in alignment of financial practices, governance and embedding culture.• Management of three finance business partners across the Banana and Avocado Division.• Lead for management reporting consolidation on a weekly and monthly basis, forecasting, corporate requirements, and external audit requirements• Project lead for systems improvements across the division

Ravenhall, Victoria

Key duties included:• Preparation / completion of the Group's annual report for lodgment on the ASX under the Corporations Act and applicable AASB's. • Preparation / completion of the Group's half year reporting requirements• FBT / Income Tax• Lead external audit liaison for corporate function and business segments• CAPEX Reporting requirements• Monthly Corporate Reporting• Budgeting and cash flow management• Weekly Group Reporting

Melbourne, Australia

Moonee Ponds, Victoria

Graduate Diploma In Chartered Accounting, Chartered Accountant

Management Accounting; Audit & Assurance; Financial Accounting and Reporting (Merit); Taxation; Capstone (Merit).

Strategic Leadership Step Up Programme

The Programme covers: - Seeing yourself through the lens of others - Creating and contributing to high performing teams - Leading self.

Diploma Of Project Management, Project Management

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting And Finance

Bachelor of Commerce, Majoring in Accounting and Finance

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