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Australia

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Ensure accurate and timely delivery of managerial and statutory accounts.• Maintain local tax compliance.• Lead the budgeting and forecasting process in collaboration with department and country managers.• Manage business system upgrades and implementations.• Support commercial sales teams with pricing management.• Oversee treasury and cash management for Australia, focusing on working capital optimization and cash flow initiatives• Establish cash flow analysis and forecasting processes.Achievements: • Successfully established offshore support team with four indirect reports• Identified and claimed loss payroll tax incentives AUD 200k• Introduced finance factoring to improve working capital• Led the server cloud migration project to enhance technical readiness for site relocation and long-term scalability

• Coordinated budgeting and long-term planning processes for the Construction System Business Unit.• Developed forecasting templates at regional and group levels.• Ensured business forecast assumptions included growth factors, product mixes, price increases, and strategic initiatives.• Managed the IBP/S&OP process, ensuring engagement from sales, marketing, logistics, and operations.• Acted as the point of contact for the IBP transformation team.• Partnered with key operational stakeholders to support strategic decision-making.• Managed risks and identified opportunities through the S&OP process.Achievements: • Provided financial analysis support for a plant expansion project exceeding AUD 100 million.• Identified production defect issues, successfully reduced secondary stock balance.

• Recruited and coached two finance team members (indirect reports).• Partnered with national sales, warehouse, and supply chain managers.• Assisted in preparing business reviews with the regional management team.• Ensured timely and accurate annual audits with no major findings.• Successfully assisted in implementing an ERP upgrade within a limited timeframe.• Managed CAPEX projects, including depreciation, additions, disposals, and transfers in ERP.• Ensured accurate costing and inventory balances through inventory revaluation and reserve reviews.• Led the annual cost roll, reviewing activity rates, freight costs, and overhead rates.Achievements:• Improved the budgeting process by enhancing data source traceability and scenario options.• Introduced a cycle count procedure, replacing the annual stock take with approval from external auditors.• Successfully managed the migration of the fixed asset register for over 3,000 assets to the ERP system.• Developed a paperless process for full accounts payable functions without additional software expenditure

Greystanes, New South Wales, Australia

• Managed the annual budget and maintained financial data accuracy in SAP and Hyperion.• Partnered with operation and commercial teams including product management, warehouse, and production• Led the annual cost roll, reviewing activity rates, freight costs, and overhead rates.• Developed costing models for new product development.• Conducted margin analysis to ensure profitability across all product categories.• Act as the lead contact for internal SOX compliance and external statutory audits.• Developed operational KPIs for sales, warehouse, and production.• Managed one indirect report.Achievements:• Collaborated with product managers and demand planners to reduce obsolete stock from 16% to 10% within six months (AUD 14 million of total inventory).• Developed new operational KPIs to track business activities.

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Processed monthly journals and prepared management reports.• Assisted in monthly reconciliation of balance sheet accounts.• Maintained the fixed assets register for all Australian entities.• Assisted with budget and forecast preparation.• Provided key financial data (budget tracking) for relevant stakeholders in the APAC region.• Collaborated closely with finance teams across EMEA, APAC, and America.• Developed debtors reports to help sales managers identify business sales issues.• Managed multiple indirect reports.Achievements:• Developed a project tracking tool to monitor and maintain budget expenses

Sydney, Australia

• Prepared and processed monthly journals, including accruals and prepayments.• Prepared and submitted CAPEX reports.• Liaised with intercompany contacts in Asia Pacific, UK, Americas, and Europe to ensure month-end intercompany balance reconciled.• Prepared monthly reconciliations of balance sheet accounts and other assigned accounts.• Ensured accurate allocation of customer receipts in the accounting system, including electronic bank receipts, cheques, and credit card receipts.• Managed the SAP Dunning process weekly to provide clients with current positions on overdue invoices.• Managed multiple indirect reports.Achievements:• Prepared business analysis reports by streams and margins for management review.• Reduced debtors’ Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) to a record low compared to the previous three years.• Developed a credit note analysis report to help management identify hidden business risks

• Verified supporting documents for the billing process.• Monitored job status and maintained sales report• Liaised with technicians and customers to schedule suitable delivery time and location to improve job efficiency. • Managed sales order cycle, includes creating quotation and sales orders, assigning deliveries/pickup time and location, and issuing invoices for customers. • Investigated historical job orders which were not invoiced to recover unbilled revenue

Master Of Applied Finance, Fund Management And Treasury

Bachelor Of Commerce, Accounting