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Graymont is a world leader in the production of Lime and Limestone products with operations in the Americas and Asia Pacific.- New role created in APAC after being a global role. Reporting to APAC Finance Director, leading the Finance Business Partner team (three reports), in supporting all areas of the business. - Left for a career break and travel in March 2024.Financial Management and Reporting- Budget process end to end, supporting sales team, leading the regional plant accountants, operations and engineering in delivering production costs and capital spend.- Month end reporting for Asia Pacific region and presentation of results and analysis to the senior leadership team. Partnering with the APAC Financial Controller. - Sales reporting and analysis to support the sales team. Capital project reporting and analysis, ensure compliance to capex policy, training in capex web-based portal. - External audit with focus on inventory, costing, goodwill and impairment testing.People Development and Management- Managed three reports (across Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia)- Ensured training and development of three Finance Business Partners across Asia Pacific, as well as to operations and sales teams.Process Improvements- Drove project to improve system reporting and automation of processes from 2021, with finance counterparts and the corporate finance and information systems teams in Sydney and Vancouver. - Led development with IS team, of ERP-based reporting to improve efficiencies and access to information.

- Supported various activities outlined in the FP&A role above, as the FP&A role was developed as a new role in the APAC structure.- Costing Analyst role during Graymont integration, to April 2020. - Business-partner support to eight plants/mines and six warehouses across Australia, working heavily with the Operations Director, and plant managers.Financial Management- Month-end reporting and analysis, presented to Finance Manager and Director.- Supported budget process (production costs and capital), and regular forecasting.- Royalty/rebate accruals and submissions, NGERs/NPI.Governance/Compliance- Monthly stock take, quarterly stockpile surveys, production review, costing and stock valuation.- Supported external audit with focus on inventory, costing, goodwill and impairment testing.People Development and Management- Called on by management to support the other regional controllers, developed templates and processes to role out across APAC.- Roll out of JD Edwards ERP, training operations and administration teams, after integration into Graymont.

- Sibelco Lime acquired by Graymont (Australia) Limited, moved to Graymont.Financial Management and Reporting- Inventory costing function, responsible for inventory revaluation, calculation manually, reconciled to a costing run to Infor BI.- Inventory master data of approx. 2,000 stock codes over 80 locations/25 parent plants in Australia, New Zealand and Indonesia.- Assist with month-end processes: ERP consolidation, Tagetik report uploads and commentary, Blackline administrator while FA role was vacant (four months).- Support to regional accountants with costing/work centre-related issues.People Development and Management- Roll out of ERP and production-entry templates to two sites in Indonesia, training and support to Finance and Operations.Process Improvements- Ran project to review production processes, roll out daily production entry and simplify collection of statistical data (OPSCON simplification).- Conducted reviews at mine sites, internal audit, costing review, production-entry process overhaul, automation of processes and consolidating to one source of data to improve accuracy and efficiency.- Development of Excel templates for a wide range of purposes.

Buzz is a global creative agency that solves marketing and business challenges through product design solutions. Clients include international airlines (amenity), breweries and retail. Buzz manages the entire product development process from concept ideation and design, through to production and delivery.- Left role to relocate to SydneyFinancial Management and Reporting- Managed project & sales job reviews, Salesforce administrator, reporting and data management.- Preparation of weekly/monthly and yearly cash flow modelling. Provided insights into short-term and long-term cash requirements. - Month end accruals and reconciliation on revenue, royalties and quality control costs. People Development and Management- Systems (SAGE ERP & Salesforce) and business-process support and training to system users.Process Improvements- Process review and implementation (MYOB to SAGE).Business Partnering/Strategy- Key business partner to the sales and marketing teams.- Partnered the business in tendering to customers and developing financial models. Worked with the sales team to monitor and review costs. - Supported Sales & Marketing, to budget for advertising, trade show and other promotional activities.- Filled in for Supply Chain Controller role whilst vacant (Mar-16-Oct-16).

- Recruited to be involved in new system implementation process (SAGE), new processes, import templates.Financial Management and Reporting- Job/project review- Job P&L, quarterly KPI review (Approx 300 jobs per quarter).- Financial reporting.- Involved with change to reporting structure, to introduce cost centres.- Cash-flow projection (Pulse, also purpose-built Excel templates), monthly financial reporting-pack, dashboards.- Review of Accounts Payable and Accounts Receivable transactions.- Export grant/VAT returns.- Reconciling inter-company transactions/loans .People Development Process Improvements- Facilitated training of other staff in accounting systems and processes, as well as establishing and monitoring new processes. Reviewed and reduced period to close month-end.

Financial Management and Reporting- Started as Accounts Receivable officer, moved on to Accounts Payable, Payroll and financial accountant role - Overall financial/management accountant role responsible for financial reporting, inventory management, payroll, GL reconciliations, budgeting, asset management and overseeing AP and AR, preparation for annual audit - Reported on cash flow, pricing reviews, ROI, sales and inventory reports - Managed import shipments from China, Indonesia, Italy and The Netherlands. Monitored and maintained stock levels at warehouses in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth - Payroll for 40 employees, BAS/PAYG for three entities - Accounts Receivable- Maintained a ledger of 500+ debtors. Reduced 90+ days to less than 3%, 60 days to less than 1% People Development and Process Improvements- Facilitated training of other staff in accounting systems and processes, as well as establishing and monitoring new processes. Reduced month-end close to two days - New product development, AQIS permits, electrical compliance and BOM set-up in system. Involved with EDI set-up, barcoding to retail (Target, Officeworks, Woolworths, Bunnings, The Good Guys, Harvey Norman) - Worked with CFO in the design and implementation of new accounting software (GP) in 2008. Prepared changes/review of system and C of A in 2011 - Worked with CFO to change month end reporting by state to business unit

- Commercial windows and doors for apartment buildings, warehouses and offices- Set up MYOB Premier, completed records for prior three years- Established accurate estimating process for large-scale projects, tendoring to customers such as S.J Higgins, L.U. Simon and Hansen Yuncken- Processed AP, AR (Progress Payments), inventory, payroll (including adhering to CFMEU requirements) and tax lodgements- Saw company grow from 6 to 25+ staff, taking on larger more long-term projects