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San Francisco, California, Us

Foster City, Ca, Us

San Mateo, California, Us

At KCG, I helped startups become established and thrive. This included all aspects of finance support from fundraising through to data analytics, planning and reporting. I was the CFO for a number of startups in biotechnology, consumer technology products, and SaaS industries.I was also the Head of the Finance team at Keating Consulting Group, responsible for scheduling, resourcing, professional development and workforce planning.

Chicago, Il, Us

Director of Financial Management at Grant Thornton, a global consulting and accounting firm. My role was focused on the Silicon Valley market, particularly in the technology industry.I worked with senior finance leadership at clients to improve the effectiveness of their financial operations and organizations.Notable Achievements:• Assisted a number of clients to transition their process and technology platforms to adopt the new accounting standards, ASC 824 and IFRS 16.• Worked with a client to develop a corporate services cost allocation model. This model was used as the basis of BU valuations, forecasting models, transfer pricing calculations, operational planning and investment decisions.

Miami, Florida, Us

Director of finance transformation at The Hackett Group. My role involvedconsulting with clients to improve the effectiveness of their financial operations and organizations.Notable Achievements:• Assisted a client with technology, engineering and manufacturing operationsto establish a mature finance capability and prepare for implementation of anew ERP platform.• Led a specialist advisory team to design and assess feasibility of a multifunctionshared services capability for a multi-national client with $5B annualturnover.• Worked as part of a client-facing team to scope and plan a project to reducefinance costs by $40m per year. Key focus was on finance operations andconsidered outsourcing models, process redesign and elimination, andorganization redesign.

Murarrie, Brisbane, Qld, Au

I spent over three years working as the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of GoodstartEarly Learning, one of Australia’s largest nonprofits with over 700 locations andan annual turnover exceeding $800M.Key Accomplishments:• Developed and implemented a new pricing model which was more responsiveto customer demand than the prior model, resulting in a revenue increase ofover $100M.• Established management reporting, support and governance for $700M of revenue12 months after company establishment.• Created a commercial function to support business contract management, procurement andtendering governance and order to cash processes. Net saving >$16M peryear with five new positions.• Established a culture of continuous improvement by applying an analytical approach to inefficient financial operations.

Au

I initially started with Macarthur Coal as the A/CFO but soon took on a newlycreated role as the Executive General Manager of Finance. I was in charge ofinternal financial operations for a public mining company with $700M annualturnover.Notable Achievements:• Refined close-to-report calendar to produce monthly accounts on Day 6(improved from Day 22).• Stabilized the direction and culture of an unsettled finance team, followingsignificant staff turnover, uncertainty of roles and conflict with other divisions.• Overhauled budget process to ensure critical inputs were correctly modeled,validated and accepted by the business.

Gb

As a management consultant at PwC, I worked with public and private CFOs inthe USA and Australia to improve their organization’s value to the companiesthey support.Key Accomplishments:• Redesigned the content and process of monthly client operational reporting,resulting in a new format monthly report produced in a shorter timeframe aswell as a training plan to assist non-financially literate users to interpret thereports issued.• Worked with the client CFO to develop a roadmap for improvement projectsand vision for the global finance function.• Worked with a pharmaceutical company to standardize its 50 global financefunctions.• Reviewed the finance functions of a group of logistics companies to supportits finance integration goals. Developed a strategy to incorporate processesand systems into a whole-of-company approach to financial reporting anddecision support.

Brisbane, Qld, Au

General bookkeeping and accounting assistance for clients. Supporting senior accountants to prepare financial accounts and statutory lodgements.

Ba, Economics

Bbus, Accountancy

Performance Reporting For Non-Profits, Accounting And Finance