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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Key Finance business partner to Growth & Strategy ELT team (x3), CPO and General Counsel. Forecasting, Budgeting, Management reporting, Pipeline analysis, business case/pricing modelling. Strategic business reviews and new deal/opportunity analysis. P&L and Headcount analysis.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Key financial advisor to Managing Partners & Senior Partners. New customer/opportunity pricing & business case reviews. Management reporting, Forecasting, Budgeting. Practice reviews and analysis, Partner Admissions, Senior Associate & Special Counsel performance reviews.

North Sydney

Managed the Salmat Group Forecast & Budget Planning process, involving high Business stakeholder influencing and involvement. Finance Business Partner to C-Level and Executive Leads (GM Marketing Solutions, Head of Sales/Marketing, Head of Ops, CTO, Head of People) Monthly Results presentations & dashboards, Strategic Business Reviews including commentary and Board/Investor Presentations. Mentored 2 x Commercial Analysts and indirectly managed 4 x Finance Managers/Accountants. Partnering with Sales & Client Engagement teams to review client contracts and pricing requests.Active role in the project team and liaising with external advisors to undertake the Vendor Due Diligence for $25M sale of Marketing Solutions and $100M sale of (Philippines based) Microsourcing Businesses.

North Sydney

Finance Business Partner for multiple C-level stakeholders and Functional Business Support Executives (IT, HR, Legal, Sales/Marketing). Accountable for the Group Forecast/Budget Planning process and Group Management reporting to the CFO/CEO and Board/Investor Presentations. Owner of the Sales Compensation process including documentation of Plans and calculation/approval of Sales Targets and Commissions. Corporate Finance month end process improvement and mentoring of Commercial Analyst.Active role in the project team and liaising with external advisors to undertake the Vendor Due Diligence for $53M sale of the Contact Centre Business.

Sydney, Australia

Full responsibility for the end-to-end Finance function including Admin/Operations, Banking relationships and Payroll. Monthly Reporting and Analysis, Forecasting, Budget Planning and Tax Compliance. Finance Business Partnership with the CEO and Head of Sales, and close working relationship with Advisory Board and external Auditors. Mentoring Finance Admin and Operations Admin team members.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Financial Business Consulting including Payroll, Management Reporting and Bookkeeping services to multiple clients.

Sydney, Australia

This Corporate role draws on my Divisional and Country knowledge to more closely align the Corporate Reporting and Business Practices of the APAC and EMEA Finance teams. Managing various Finance projects (including COA Standardisation & Global Finance Reporting Project) to streamline, standardise and centralise reporting, business practices and automate processing. Managed the training of APAC Finance systems and processes for the newly created India Finance team to support the Indian Development Centre and APAC management team.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

- Full accountability for the end-to-end Finance function of the APAC P&L, Balance Sheet and Cash Flow reporting, including management of ANZ Payroll. - Led and mentored a team of 5 (Financial Accounting, AR, AP and Payroll). - APAC consolidated monthly management reporting, forecasting and budgeting including commentary for CFO/CEO and Board reporting- Managed the APAC Audit process.- Off-shored a Finance team in Gurgaon, India to support the launch and ongoing operations of Bravura's Global Indian Dev Centre.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

- Commercial Business Partner to Sales Team and Consulting/Service Delivery Executives. - Undertook client contract reviews for compliance with Rev Rec Policy/IFRS/AASB Revenue Standards and Bravura's Finance Business Practices. - Monthly APAC Management reporting and commentary including Product & Client profitability.- Developed profitability and cash flow models to assist Sales team in presentation to Opportunity Review Committee (Deal Approvals). - Developed pricing model for launch of new APAC flagship product (SONATA)

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Reconciliation & Data Analyst migrating GL, AR, AP and Fixed Assets from legacy systems to JD Edwards across multiple Australian locations as part of NEWS Limited's National Financial Project.

London, England, United Kingdom

Full responsibility for the end-to-end Finance function of the UK branch office of Fairfax Business Media, including banking relationships, payroll, facilities management, and compliance with both UK and AU Accounting Standards and Tax legislation. Forecasting, Budget planning and consolidated monthly reporting to AU head office. Reporting to the FBM Business Manager in Sydney, Business Partner to the Head of Advertising Sales in London, and mentor to London-based Finance Assistant and Office Manager. Undertook real estate negotiations to relocate (downsize) the London office following the sale of key magazine masthead and subsequent redundancies.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Business Partner to the FBM Advertising Sales Director, Head of FBM Circulation and the FBM Editorial, Advertising and Marketing teams, and mentoring a team of two Management Accountants, I was responsible for the Management reporting, Forecasting and Budgeting of the Fairfax Business Media mastheads (Australian Financial Review, BRW magazine, AFR inserted magazines, MIS and Smart Investor magazines). Business case and pricing/productivity analysis for the launch of new masthead Smart Investor magazine. Consolidation and reporting of UK branch office P&L results and Balance Sheet reviews.

Frenchs Forest, New South Wales, Australia

Streamlined and automated the Sales Commissions and Reporting processes, rolled out more robust internal controls and improved timeliness of EOM Sales reporting.

North Ryde, New South Wales, Australia

Financial Analysis for Licence and Consulting Divisions (reporting to VP Finance APAC), Forecasting and Budget consolidation of the 13 countries in the APAC Region. APAC SME for Oracle Financial Analyser and Oracle Sales Analyser involved travelling to the APAC countries and training the Country Finance teams on APAC Business Practices and OFA/OSA best practice.

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Revenue recognition, project accounting (incl WIP and Revenue Deferrals), Balance sheet reconciliations, project profitability analysis and reporting.

Lane Cove, New South Wales, Australia

Completed

Bachelor Of Commerce (Accounting)