Michael Bruce Email & Phone Number

Carrum, Vic, Au

Australia

Australia

East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Key Responsibilities: Budgeting | Quarterly Reporting | Analysis | Forecasting • Led consolidation and reporting of the 2023 MACS group budget totaling $2.3 billion, comprising 296 schools utilising multiple financial systems (Technology One, MYOB Greentree, Synergetic and SAS). Budget presentations and insights, to improve financial performance of schools, were Board ready within three weeks after individual school budget submissions. • Responsible for inaugural quarterly board finance reports, to the MACS Finance and Audit Committee and MACS Board, that provide timely insights. As well as including a financial performance overview, the reports included staffing, student enrolment, sensitivity analysis and statistical insights to support strategy and decision making. • Created and presented annual finance update to 265 school Principals and 60 Business Managers to assist with school budget preparation. Presentation included explanations of complex funding models, key income updates and headwind analysis of expenditure drivers. • Led financial planning, sensitivity analysis and forecasting for new Enterprise Agreement for 35,000 staff in Catholic education in Victoria. Aided Employee Relations team with negotiations with the Independent Education Union and influenced discussions with key financial analysis. • Guided and mentored team members to successfully complete $60 million backpay project in under four weeks for 35,000 staff in Catholic education in Victoria as a result of enterprise bargaining.

East Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Key Responsibilities: Budgeting | Biannual Reporting | Analysis | Forecasting • Led the inaugural short- to mid-term forecast for MACS. This included modelling each key profit and loss item, creating a forecast cashflow, developing a mid-term overview of the financial statements and highlighting predominant headwinds, risks and opportunities. • Created the annual financial statement (AFS) template used by all 500 Catholic schools in Victoria. Used VBA in Microsoft Excel to automate the tool to account for varying circumstances at schools. Included multiple controls to ensure accuracy and consistency of data. Consolidated data from school AFSs to complete legislated reporting to various government departments (Department of Education, Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission etc.) to secure the provision of over $2.5 billion in recurrent government grants annually. • Led the development and consolidation of the inaugural 2022 MACS group budget, totaling $2.1 billion, comprising 290 schools utilising multiple financial systems. • Designed and created the MACS school financial dashboard, in Tableau, that is used to manage schools’ financial performance. The dashboard is used by 265 schools and contains financial information, ratios and key drivers benchmarked against school segment and all primary schools in Victoria. Principals have described it as containing all information required to run a school. • Introduced half-yearly finance reports to the MACS Finance and Audit Committee and MACS Board to provide more timely financial information. Reports provided enrolment and statistical insights to support strategy and decision making. • Led the development of the School Data Snapshot and VCE Data Snapshot, comprising a series of dashboards displaying key metrics such as NAPLAN results, student retention, financial management and school culture. Provided schools with a consistent reporting suite to benchmark performance to similar schools.

Melbourne, Australia

Key Responsibilities: Catholic LSL Scheme Systems and Reporting | Analysis • Led the systems update for the Catholic Education Long Service Leave Scheme (Victoria) (LSL Scheme) from the introduction of the Long Service Leave Act 2018 (Victoria) and the Victorian Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2018. Both projects were implemented in under two months (including user testing period). The LSL Scheme holds the liability of 40,000 employees across 500+ participant employers and manages assets over $430 million. • Managed the financial analysis for the Victorian Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2018. Created a staffing model for 40,000 employees to understand the impact of each proposed change. Delivered key insights to the Employee Relations team to facilitate the signing of the Enterprise Agreement in February 2019.

Preston, Victoria, Australia

Direct reports: 5 Key Responsibilities: Staff Training and Mentoring | Supplier Management

Daylesford, Victoria

Direct reports: 5Key Responsibilities: Kitchen Budget | Staff Roster | Supplier Management

Daylesford, Victoria, Australia

Direct reports: 5Key Responsibilities: Kitchen Budget | Staff Roster | Supplier Management

Daylesford, Victoria

Graduate Diploma Of Chartered Accounting, Accounting

Full member of CAANZ

Bachelor Of Accounting, Accounting, 84.13 Wam

Completed with a WAM of 84.13. Two-time recipient of the Pro Vice-Chancellor’s Commendation, a certificate of achievement in recognition.

Bachelor’S Degree, Agricultural Science/Business

Activities and Societies: La Trobe Ag Society

Cert Iii, Commercial Cookery