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Blackburn, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

> Responsible for overseeing the effective Business partnering of the Technology and Procurement functions, ensuring costs are controlled within budget and investments / contractual agreements support the strategic growth of the business.- Lead the development of internal resources to establish a process improvement team skilled in Lean 6 Sigma methodologies aligned with the establishment of Robotics Process Automation skills in the Technology team;- Partnered with the Technology and business functions to deliver strategic partnerships with Accenture (System transformation and support), Microsoft (Cloud adoption) & Ocado (Online delivery automation) which will ensure costs are controlled and the business is at the forefront of developing technology.

Melbourne, Australia

> Accountable for the delivery of accounting services and continuous improvement within Finance, managing a team of 90+ in Melbourne. Responsible for the relationship with offshore partner shared services team of 60+ in India.- Lead the definition and roll out of the Finance Vision and improvement plan, establishing the Finance identity and focused efforts on a short term plan to lead the whole finance team closer to the shared vision;- Established and lead the project governance structure across Finance, leading to more effective use of resources and delivered key improvements to finance processes and systems.

Budapest, Hungary

Key achievements and responsibilities:> Responsible for developing and implementing a plan to converge and transform finance processes and reporting across 4 businesses mobilising a team of 12 in locations across the region and India. - Put in place a plan to converge four separate and varied country finance processes into one which is more efficient, controlled and simpler making the best use of shared services. - Ensured that Global transformation plans addressed key priorities of the Central European business.

Budapest, Hungary

Key achievements and responsibilities:> Responsible for Financial Control, Tax, Treasury and Property Finance, managing a team of 100+ in 3 locations across Hungary and India.- Improved the financial control of the business to a top class standard, improving processes and ensuring all risks were properly understood by senior leadership and mitigated. - Developed and grew my team to allow a promotion and successor following a successful external hire.- Designed options to reset the business following legislation changes which significantly impacted the ability of the company to be profitable- Developed asset impairment model and coached teams regionally to ensure consistency

Bengaluru Area, India

Key achievements and responsibilities:> Accountable for reporting, accounting and transaction processing for the business in Ireland, managing a team of 90 in India. - Significantly improved collaboration with local finance and business teams in Ireland to ensure that the shared service centre worked efficiently and effectively adding value to the business.- Successful implementation of self-assessment process for improved financial control framework for UK and Ireland businesses.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Key achievements and responsibilities: > Responsible for improving UK financial control through initiatives linked to balance sheet best practice, stock provisioning and quality of stock reporting.- Reviewed current stock provisioning policy and updated it managing the impact of the change. - Balance sheet control policy designed and implemented consistently across the UK core business and subsidiary companies.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Key achievements and responsibilities:> Responsible for managing stock, margin and working capital, fixed asset register and depreciation, statutory account preparation for UK business in different roles - Design and implementation of accounting for stock accounting system replacement for UK business - Transition of multiple processes to shared service centre in India

Education record

Bsc Hons, Chemistry

Education record