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Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Perth, Australia

Adjunct Lecturer in Financial Management and Workflow Systems modules of the Legal Practice Management Course - assisting legal practitioners to transition to being successful business owners and to obtain their unrestricted WA Practising Certificate (aka the "Principal Practising Certificate").

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Logikal is a global project management consultancy that was recently acquired by Assystem SA (a large French engineering group). We provide an agile and people-focused service, while also being able to deliver infrastructure projects and programmes of any scope and size; we specialise in PMO, project controls, enhanced business intelligence, and BIM.

Perth, Australia

Clever Counting is my freelance consulting entity. I partner with SMEs to better integrate their data into their forecasting, reporting and decision making. I train staff on advanced features of Excel and data management (eg Power Query, database structures). I mentor staff to improve processes, strengthen internal controls and better serve clients. I.

Perth, Australia

Kott Gunning was an independent commercial law firm founded in Western Australia in 1919, specialising not only in services to large institutional clients but also to local business and private clients. The firm closed its doors in Dec 2021, after the partners resolved to go in different directions.My role at Kott Gunning was to support the partnership.

Perth, Australia

During this short term project, I oversaw the implementation of a new practice management system at family law firm Leach Legal, and worked with the principal of the firm to ensure governance controls, processes and management reporting were put in place.

Perth, Australia

FilePro is focussed on providing law firms with an innovative well-priced legal practice management system. As a FilePro Trainer, I assisted employees and partners to master the bookkeeping modules of FilePro.

Perth, Australia

• Allion Partners is a boutique corporate law firm with offices in Perth and Sydney. I was brought into the firm following the 2009 merger of two small firms, my objective being to introduce governance, processes and.
• Streamlined accounting processes, reporting and forecasting, via intelligent use of SQL queries to directly interrogate data warehouse.
• Identified risks to business, implemented controls to monitor these risks.
• Offshored processes.
• Liaised with banking partners to implement new equity funding model for firm.
• Beta user and product development adviser to Allion's practice management software provider.

Perth, Sydney

Mallesons Stephen Jaques (as it was known when I worked at the firm) created my role to provide business intelligence to the “small centres” (ie all offices apart from Sydney and Melbourne), who felt a need for focused financial guidance. One of the most enjoyable aspects of my role was building advisory relationships with senior staff and partners across.

London, United Kingdom

This was an opportunity to work again with some of my ex-GE Capital mentors, whilst I needed to live briefly in the UK for family reasons. Based in the strategy office in London Aldgate, I worked on "The AXA Way" customer-focused change project, and drove a process improvement project that reduced AXA's UK mobile telephony costs by approx 7%.

Perth, Australia

• RSM is the world’s sixth largest international accounting organisation. My role was to keep satisfied clients returning to the firm, as we built up our consulting practice in Perth.Key achievement:
• Built a complex costing model for WA’s Department of Education $360M IT project, at the time the largest IT project the agency had ever undertaken. As soon as we submitted to Treasury, this number made front page.

Leeds, United Kingdom

This role introduced me to management accounting, Big Data, and allowed me to hone a variety of communication styles. The card insurance division had a revenue budget of approx. $600M; I was responsible for spotting worrying trends for the CFO and creating higher value sales (or “future revenue streams” as I got the team to think of them as). Key.

Perth, Leeds

Unconventional entry into the chartered accounting profession. Ran businesses that were in receivership, usually in distressed conditions. Sold businesses and assets within strict legislative guidelines and with prescribed communication requirements. Managed workloads under often difficult conditions.

Six Sigma (Green Belt)

Ca Program

Prize winner in Management Accounting & Auditing module

Bachelor Of Business, Accounting, Finance

Activities and Societies: As winner of the Vice-Chancellor's Medal for the School of Business, I sat on the Curriculum Advisory Council.

Graduate Certificate In Sustainability, Behavioural Change, Urban Design For Resilient Communities

Activities and Societies: Students for Sustainability An extraordinary opportunity to study and work with some world leaders in the.