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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Enterprise Business Solutions (Australasia) Pty Ltd (EBSA) is a Microsoft Dynamics Partner and represents the Microsoft Dynamics-Business Central Product (and its predecessor NAV) throughout Australia and New Zealand

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Complete new business startup in Microsoft Dynamics-NAV space (originally), encompassing all aspects of business management, resource recruitment, training, development, and management. Pre-sales proposal preparation, comprehensive product demonstrations, sales, implementation planning and delivery, configuration, customisation, post-live customer support etc around the Business Central (BC) & NAV product line. Built team of 10+ consultants and completed 50+ BC/NAV implementations to date spanning various industries and across all BC/NAV modules. Customer sites ranging from 5 users to 100+ users. BC/NAV implementations, upgrades etc on various product versions from NAV v3.0 to NAV2018, BC13 to current. Major achievements included taking over a large scale BC implementation which was failing and re-constituting everything from the Chart of Accounts, to Dimensions and all Group Reporting aspects across 7 countries, including troubleshooting and resolving long-standing issues with unreconciled sub-ledgers, poor system controls, multiple problematic bank reconciliations, currency conversion issues, inventory and manufacturing process and data issues, re-training and mentoring end-users as part of a refreshed corporate rollout.

Lismore, New South Wales, Australia

In 2021, TURSA embarked on a Business Transformation (BT) project which incorporated a complete technology refresh across all of its systems. TURSA selected Microsoft Technologies for this endeavour and had embarked on extensive PowerApp development, MS*CRM/CE rollout, Power*BI reporting initiatives and was upskilling across a range of other Microsoft Dataverse technologies. They had undertaken extensive interface development with government employment systems and other third party systems prior to our involvement.In October 2022, as part of the BT project, TURSA selected Business Central (BC) ERP Cloud to replace their legacy Great Plains (GP) application which was 'end-of-life' and being pro-actively retired.I was the BC ERP (Cloud) Project Lead for this deployment and headed a team of 4 x BC Consultants and 1 x BC Developer in this project. The project required extensive 'two-way' integration with the PowerApps already built and extensive Dataverse integration with MS*CRM/CE and across the Microsoft Stack. This was a high-volume transaction environment, dealing with sensitive personal data for Employment & Disability Services recipients across the whole of NSW.As part of the BC implementation, we undertook a significant extension development involving a muti-layered cost allocation engine which was automated to perform a combination of 'live-posting' and month-end 'batch' allocations across all functional modules within BC. This development replaced a myriad spreadsheets and manual data extraction, allocation calculation and manual re-posting processes which were previously highly user-intensive, time-consuming and inconsistent. The automation undertaken in this area resulted in major process improvements, operational efficiencies, time savings, and other benefits at TURSA. The BT project is ongoing into other technology areas of the business and will enable TURSA to readily embrace AI technologies as they become more available.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Insurance Advisernet Australia (IAA) selected Business Central (Cloud) ERP to replace their legacy Great Plains (GP) product which was 'end-of-life' and no longer being supported by Microsoft. This project included the deployment of most financial modules within BC (GL/AR/AP/BK/FA/PO Approvals/Workflows/Email integration etc) and required interfaces to be built between BC and their core Insurance Policy Management and Control system.IAA represent an extensive array of associated Insurance Brokers (700+) across Australia and New Zealand and needed to account for 15+ entities in their financial group. BC was successfully deployed across all entities in the Group and enabled the complete retirement of the GP product at IAA.A key component of this BC deployment was a significant BC Extension development undertaken to automate the bi-monthly calculation and settlement of all Broker commission payments across the Broker network in both Australia and New Zealand. It also included a configurable 'Deductions' engine, to enable automated calculation and offset of valid deductions against broker settlement payments, using a variety of redemption methods and profiles. This Extension development delivered incredible process improvement, operational efficiencies and ROI for IAA, as an intrinsic component of the BC ERP implementation project.The BC Extension also interfaced all source transaction documents created during each periodic Settlement run (Invoices, Credit Notes, Automated Deductions and EFT Remittances) into a Self-Service Sharepoint Portal for Brokers to access, view and download for reconciliation purposes, as often as required and at any time.

Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia

Partnered with Apache.com to deliver an 'end-to-end' Business Central (Cloud) ERP implementation as an integral part of a full Business Transformation (BT) project at Fencepac Group. The wider project included MS*CRM/CE, Contact & Opportunity Management, Power Platform, PowerApp developments, PowerBI reporting and extensive Dataverse integration across the whole MS Stack. The Business Central (BC20) rollout encompassed 5 corporate entities, covering an extensive suite of modules and functional areas (GL/AR/AP/IN/FA/Jobs/ PO Approvals/Workflows/Email integration etc) as well as extensive Intercompany transaction processing, inter-entity eliminations and Group financial consolidations. Microsoft produced a Case Study video and brochure-ware, showcasing this site as a market-leading example of successful Business Transformation using an extensive range of Microsoft technologies and applications. The Fencepac Group had grown organically and by acquisition over a number of years and had a plethora of financial applications in use across their five entities (Timberline, Sage, MYOB, Great Plains etc). The goal of the Business Transformation project was to migrate all of these applications into one fully integrated, multi-entity, Business Central DB environment. This was comfortably achieved and positions the Group well for adopting IOT and AI technologies into their platform in the future, as they continue to evolve.

Perth, Western Australia, Australia

Partnered with LS Retail to implement NAV Financials fully integrated with the retail POS systems across 15 (24 x 7) Grocery Retail Stores spread throughout WA. This included commissioning and launch of 3 new stores, in addition to integrating 12 existing stores. Store rollouts were complete 'new builds' including all required operational technology (refrigeration units, POS tills, scanning technology etc)Full retail integration to back-end financials for Store 'End-of-Day' processing and reconciliation, multi-location inventory management, daily cash, tender and float processing & management, Group-wide daily Bank Reconciliation processes etc. This project was a large-scale grocery retail rollout with fully integrated financials. Financials aspects included 35+ operational and investment entities in the Group with intercompany transaction processing, mutli-level group consolidations, inter-entity eliminations etc

Sydney, Australia

iSign (Australia) Pty Ltd (“iSign”) was established in October 2008 with a vision to provide online sports registration and team management services to clubs and players of all types. The organisation was established with the primary objective of delivering cost effective, high value benefits and offerings through the use of online technology enabled processes to sports clubs and their members. By streamlining and coordinating standard club and team registration, team management and communication functions, iSign seeks to maximise opportunities for player growth, participation and retention within and across all sporting codes.The iSign (Australia) business has enabled Mike to bring together his extensive accounting, technology and systems background with his lifelong passion for sports. In 2012, the development and testing phase for the online sports product and service suite was completed and the go-to-market offering was launched. The market-ready product and service components have now been fully Beta tested at several sports clubs and have proven to be highly effective in delivering successful sporting and business outcomes at those clubs. Active marketing is now under way to sports clubs and associations across all sporting codes, throughout Australia. Market adoption of the iSign online products is expected to be progressive in the initial phase, with the potential for exponential growth over coming years.The success of the iSign business is expected to be accelerated by the progressive rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN) in Australia. This coupled with the anticipated demographic changes occurring in Sports Club management, along with the trend towards online automation of business and administrative processes in the wider Sports Club industry, are expected to provide 'Perfect Storm' conditions for the iSign (Australia) business to experience massive growth and significant market penetration and success over the next decade and beyond.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

NAV Warehousing Project Lead for New Warehouse Automation, layout design and technology enablement, including multi-shift processing, multi-level pick-tower, integration with ASRS technology. Manage the commissioning of NAV technology including Tasklet scanning systems into the newly built warehouse, and coordinate all relocation activities (inventory tracking & tracing, progress monitoring, reconciliation for 35,000 inventory lines etc) from old warehouse to new. This all had to be achieved with a maximum of 48 hours downtime over one weekend. This role included performance optimisation to maximise multi-shift picking activities to meet peak demands associated with Black Friday/Cyber Monday and Boxing Day retail sales requirements. it also included Batch picking, warehouse route optimisation, integeration with conveyor systems and Order consolidation walls to aid high volume packing and dispatch activities with extensive courier integrations etc. This was a high-tech warehousing automation and integration project, powered by NAV2018

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Business Building for Sable37 in New Zealand. Establishing Offices in Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch.Recruiting ERP Resources in MS Axapta & Fin.Ops space. Customer acquisition in MS Fin.Ops space.Networking, Relationship Management and Business Building & Growth activities in the NZ market

All aspects of NAV v5.1 implementation as Finance Lead in a multi-national rollout. Role included project planning, implementation, NAV configuration, unit, system and integration testing, user training and user acceptance testing, data conversion activities, cut-over planning, go-live coordination and post go-live end user support. In addition to NAV, my role also included learning and taking the lead in relation to the OPPlus banking and payments add-on which was developed in Germany and required customisation to meethigh volume Australian business requirements, as an integral part of the project.

Business Development (Channel Development/Channel Sales) role for Microsoft Dynamics-NAV

Strategic Accounts (NAV), Microsoft Australia Continuation of previous role under Microsoft ownership following global acquisition of Navision. Took voluntary redundancy which was offered as part of post-acquisition merger activity at Microsoft, in order to start up Enterprise Business Solutions (Australasia) Pty Ltd. This was achieved with assistance and

Business Development & Navision Sales to Strategic Accounts (Customers with >50 Concurrent Users) including Channel Development & Sales Support

Strategic Accounts (NAV), Navision Australasia Involved in bringing Navision to Australia under Asia Pac distributorship license from Navision head office in Denmark. Helped establish Navision subsidiaries in Australia and Singapore. Involved in establishing partner channel, business development and initial market penetration for Navision. Sales focus was on Strategic Accounts (50+ Concurrent Users). Customers included; BP Australia,

Moved to Australia to re-assert and grow a declining SAP practice for KPMG in Sydney. Grew practice from 15 consultant to 80+ consultants in two years Customers included; Rothmans/BAT, Freshfoods, Mercantile Mutual/QBE, ING, DBT Australia and a range of other medium to large size SAP implementations

Director - SAP Business Development for KPMG Auckland and subsequently KPMG Sydney. Partner Interface to SAP Australia Pty Ltd

Joined KPMG to establish National SAP practice when SAP first came to New Zealand. Involved in Sales, Pre-Sales, consulting and implementation services Customers included; TVNZ, Foodstuffs NZ, Wella NZ etc

Ran the Finance1 practice and project managed large scale Financial Systems Implementation projects for Government and large multi-entity corporate customers, eg; Housing NZ, MAF NZ, MOFFAT NZ, INL, Waikato University etc Ran large scale implementation teams with contracted resources from KPMG and

I was a 50% partner in this startup partnership. We built a consulting practice specialising in assisting clients in the selection, evaluation and implementation of financial, distribution and manufacturing systems. Included writing RFPs, tenders functional and technical requirements specifications, project planning and implementation management. Exposed to and implemented numerous systems for numerous corporate clients.

This role encompassed all aspects of Financial Management and accounting for a dynamic, medium-sized, rapid growth organisation, including ground up implementation of end-to-end financial systems and processes. Import, distribution, product costing, forecasting, budgeting, cashflow control, financial reporting and General Management of company when MD was periodically overseas.

These roles encompassed continuous manufacturing experience, co-products, bi-products, detailed product costing and modelling across extensive product ranges, inventory control and analysis, Implementation of comprehensive group-wide fixed asset system, multiple entity financial accounting, consolidations, currency conversion, monthly and annual group reporting etc

This role encompassed all aspects of accounting for companies, partnerships, sole traders and trusts including preparation and delivery of full sets of books, cashbooks, journals, tax returns , banking, accounts receivable & payable processing, bank reconciliations, statements of affairs, liquidations and auditing etc