Michael Chandra Email & Phone Number

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities:• Managed the faculty’s accounts, including journals, reconciliation and month-end financial reporting which was then presented to several different stakeholders within the university. • Forecasting and Budgeting which was over $50M p.a.• Presented formal financial acquittal reports to the grantor of funds and faculty academics’ to ensure the grant money was used in compliance with the contracts. • Created financial models to better illustrate the financial position of the academics’ and managers’ accounts and commentary to management.• Managed Accounts Receivables and helped with business partnering for new revenue streams for our academics’.Achievements:• Promoted in 2019, successfully completed the faculty 2019 forecast and the 2020 budget for the Faculty of Health.• Provided business insight and analysis to rebuild the payroll reporting system for the entire university. Advising the team in regards to the payroll and HR reports required to improve the financial reporting and business insight at the faculty level. This improved efficiency in the faculty and provided comprehensive detail reports, thus increasing the information we received and reducing our workload.• Projected new revenue streams for Postgraduate online courses for our faculty. By creating a financial model and comparing it to the market. This created additional income for our faculty.• Project Manager to implement a cloud-based platform in order to improve the security and collaboration space for staff. Collaborated with the Operations Manager, Faculty Directors’ and IT department to design and build a resource library. This created a collaborative work environment for academics and management teams and increased accessibility for the academics, especially when working away from their office and presenting internationally.

Roselands

• Managed telephone and over the desk inquiries.• Provided exceptional services to patients and Doctors.• Updated databases and maintaining client records.• Assisted with the development and implementation of new systems and procedures manuals for the Medical center.• Monitored job processes and tasks to ensuring high-quality output for patients and staff.

Rosehill

• Prepared and provided weekly dashboards of the financial and project reports to all managers on the Immigration contracts for Manus Island and Nauru. Also, I provided commentary on weekly financial reports for the additional service request and analysis on larger variation works of the contract.• Reviewed all business cases for additional service requests being submitted to the government.• Analysed all the tendered quotes to make sure the most beneficial proposal was presented to the client. Made sure they complied with the service agreement. • Responsible for managing the end-to-end process for all additional service requests that were over and above the standard contract. Also, made sure they were in compliance with the contract regulations.Achievements:• Working in collaboration with the Finance and Commercial team, we implemented a new SAP financial reporting structure. To improve inventory tracking, optimising finance reporting, and logistics and progression in construction projects for managers.• I designed a new uniform structure in Excel, as a solution for management and provided improved clarity on the status of all projects on both islands, which allowed comprehensive decision making and sped up the billing process.

Surry Hills

Responsibilities:• Worked in close collaboration with a team of solicitors on a variety of cases in civil litigation, criminal law, conveyance, intellectual property, and family law.• Conducted comprehensive and complex legal research and analysis for cases. • Drafted pre-filing statements, statements of advice and defences. Also calculated settlement adjustments for property transactions.

Sydney, Australia

Responsibilities:• Provided proactive legal support, within a multi-professional team on a variety of cases in the areas of personal injury, motor vehicle accidents, and worker’s compensation.• Conducted comprehensive and complex legal research and analysis for cases. • Entrusted with analysing past and future economic losses for the client.• Prepared pre-filing statements, and out-of-pocket expenses and statement of advice.Achievements:• There was a manual paper sheet for the calculation of past and future economic losses for clients. This was an inefficient process, so I designed an ingenious wage schedule in Excel. This wage schedule was implemented by the firm, as a new tool to help the solicitors and their teams.

Ca, Accounting

Master’S Degree, Juris Doctor

Studies Bachelor of Business and a Juris Doctor

Bachelors, Business

Majored in Financial Planning and sub-majored in Information Technology