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Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Tauranga, NZ

Stepping in to cover both CFO and Financial Controller roles, until new CFO starts. Quickly up to speed with multiple entities and month end reporting. Lead on strategic project to convert to Amazon Seller Central in Europe

Strategic planning, modelling and forecasting. Review of manufacturing costs and rebuild of inventory valuation. Built data models and dashboard to provide vital business information.

Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, NZ

Preparation of due diligence material, full review and revision of fixed asset register, preparation of information for tax returns.

Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty, NZ

C3 provides port services across NZ including marshalling, stevedoring and materials handling. During my time with C3 I reorganised and restructured the Finance department, significantly improving culture. I ran the project to successfully condense the month end process from 2 weeks to 3 days and changed the perception of Finance from transactional to.

Auckland CBD, NZ

Intueri Education Group was a publicly listed company which owned a number of private tertiary education providers across New Zealand and previously Australia. I was appointed CFO following the incumbent CFO moving to Interim CEO role. I had responsibility for Finance, IT, Business Performance and Commercial Services teams, and all financial reporting for.

Auckland CBD, NZ

My role had responsibility for all Finance, IT and Business Performance teams.During this period, Intueri moved from private equity ownership to being listed on both the NZX and ASX. I successfully managed the transition following IPO from private to public external financial reporting.Whilst in the role, a number of acquisitions were successfully.

The Professional Bar & Restaurant School (PBRS) is a private tertiary education facility. Following a restructure of PBRS I was appointed GM, reporting to the Board, with complete accountability for managing the organisation.

I was brought into the company to increase the ‘horsepower’ at the executive level with an understanding that substantial international expansion would follow. Following a significant restructure I was appointed General Manager for PBRS.

NZ

Once the new CEO commenced at Jasons, I reverted back to my previous position as Financial Controller.

NZ

I was promoted to CEO (Acting) for a period of 5 months whilst the Board recruited a new CEO. During this time I led strategic direction, planning and reporting for the company, including a major website upgrade.

NZ

Responsibilities include control and reporting on all aspects of the company’s finances to the CEO and the Board. Active involvement in company wide strategic direction including identifying, analysing and implementing innovations, 3 year plan, targets and KPI's.

Brightstar NZ offers supply chain optimisation and third party logistics and distribution services. In this role I formed a complete Finance team from scratch in a little over 2 months. I also led the implementation of all finance related processes, systems and policies with go live achieved in 3 months.

Transport Specialties (Transpecs) is the leading distributor of heavy duty transport equipment in NZ. Overall management and control of the company's financial and accounting activities.

New Bremen, Ohio, US

Crown Lift Trucks is the UK subsidiary of Crown Corporation, a privately owned group specialising in the manufacture and sales of fork lift trucks worldwide.

Morgan Crucible is a UK based, publicly quoted, global engineering group, with revenue of GBP 1 billion.

Privately owned UK engineering and construction group, revenue GBP 80m.

US

Qualified as ACA in 1992.