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Sydney, Nsw, Au

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Reporting into the CFO, I was brought on board to:• Establish budgeting and forecasting function for the group.• Ensure best-in-class processes and procedures and develop a corporate performance reportingsuite.• Rollout of technology solution for effective reporting• Act as the principal finance business partner to key stakeholders within the group whilstmaintaining financial governance and accountability.• Lead and develop financial modelling to support business cases, new initiatives, and potentialJV activity.• Manage and adopt effective planning processes to facilitate identification of budget risks andpotential opportunities.• Review month end management reporting and provide meaningful analysis and commentary onresults / budgets / forecasts.• Highlight drivers of performance, opportunities, risks, and implications for the outlook period.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for planning and operating short, medium, and long term commercial strategy & driving performance.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Hired in a newly created role to drive improvement in stakeholder P&L management, and in the Planning & Reporting domain as the company undergoes rapid growth and global expansion.I owned the planning and reporting of the consolidated 3-statement financial model.In 2022, I was awarded the company-wide SuperSonics Innovation award for my persistent effort in driving the business forward by architecting and designing our implementation of Power BI to be used by circa ~50 users for financial and sales reporting and analysis.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Working in a purely commercial role to guide my Category Manager stakeholders (Non-Food / Merchandise) with insights centred on price & promotion optimisation, range & mix planning, competitor analysis, and margin preservation.

Sydney, Australia

Key business partner for all facets of the business - represented by multiple brands and departments within the shared services, including Operational, Product, eCommerce, Property, Loss Prevention, and Payroll. I combined my accounting background with my love of all things retail to be a trusted resource with all the various stakeholders of the business to drive commercial objectives and help translate financial outcomes to non-financially backgrounded managers.Main highlights during my time with RAG: - Provided analytical support and managed requests for data throughout seperate IPO and Trade Sale due diligence proceedings operated by external parties. - Project managed and architected RAG's transition to a new Financial Reporting, Planning, and Analysis platform - Primary role in establishing the Loss Prevention department of RAG.

Sydney, Australia

Reporting directly to the Managing Director, I was afforded freedom and space to analyse and help the business evolve. I drove a culture of financial and data literacy which remains today, through a combination of project management along with rolling up my sleeves and getting deeply embeded in the various opportunities, including advancing eCommerce prescence, Operational reporting and dashboarding, and Financial reporting.

Sydney Area, Australia

Working with senior and C-level management, I designed and developed FP&A reporting models in the Retail industry, from both a financial and operational standpoint, and drove a culture of change to embrace data. This was performed in the PowerOLAP reporting system (similar to IBM TM1)

Education record

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting

Higher School Certificate