Peter Jackson Email & Phone Number

Sydney, NSW, AU

Sydney, Australia

Reporting to the Worldwide VP of Sales Finance, and to the Senior VP of Sales for Asia Pacific. Responsible for budgeting, planning, forecasting, accounting and tax, reporting and analysis, and profit overview and structuring of major deals, tenders and long term contracts, and for the implementation of major efficiency initiatives with Asia Pacific.

Sydney, Australia

Reporting to the VP of Finance for Asia Pacific, and to the VP of Sales for ANZ and ASEAN. Responsible for budgeting, planning, forecasting, accounting and tax, reporting and analysis, and profit overview and structuring of major deals, tenders and long term contracts.Five direct reports, plus several dotted line reports. Annual product sales revenue of.

Sydney, Australia

• Most senior finance role in Australia, reporting to the VP of Finance for Asia Pacific, and to the VP of Sales for ANZ. Responsible for budgeting, planning, forecasting, accounting and tax, reporting and analysis, and.
• Significant improvement in control posture implemented within 90 days and maintained since
• Leader of cross functional, business-wide team which has driven, and continues to drive multiple projects and initiatives to improve efficiency and effectiveness, and reduce manual workload
• Influencing the re-alignment of sales strategy to actively promote more annuity sales which provide more robust financial long term health, and also using internal benchmarks from overseas countries to re-balance the.
• Substantial collaboration with Sales Directors and Senior Legal Counsel to develop a variable consumption model, which is being used as the foundation for a world wide offering

• Senior regional finance role, reporting to the VP of Finance for Asia Pacific, and to the VP of Sales for ANZ, ASEAN and Korea. Responsible for budgeting, planning, forecasting, reporting and analysis, and profit.
• Played a key role in driving a return to profitable growth for ASEAN and Korea
• Reduced forecasting effort by the Sales and Finance Teams by over 20%, with no reduction in forecast accuracy
• Influenced Sales leaders in each region to adopt a consistent forecasting format, resulting in increased sales time and a 10% reduction in Finance workload during each forecasting week
• Eliminated Sunday work from weekly forecasting process, which has had a hugely positive impact on morale and staff retention

• Most senior finance manager in Australia, reporting to the Asia Pacific Senior Director of Finance, and the Vice President of Sales for Australia / New Zealand.Five direct reports, with annual revenue approx. $US 1bn.
• Worked closely with the Director of Business Ops to enable an objective comparison of Cisco ANZ sales results with external market shifts and trends
• High level involvement in strategic re-shaping of sales team into a new structure to better align with market opportunities
• Eliminated standalone Access database for Channel Reporting, which resulted in monthly reports being available a week earlier, and saving time previously wasted in reconciling the Access database to the Oracle reports
• Chairman and speaker at 2011 CFO Summit (Marcus Evans)
• Comment from internal audit leader in 2009 audit: “the control environment in ANZ is one of the best that I have come across not just in APAC but also around the world”

• Responsible for all finance and operational aspects of Cisco Leasing in ten countries across Asia Pacific, including accounting, planning, pricing, taxation, systems, lease documentation, accounts receivable, end of.
• Worked closely with the Leasing Sales Director and Senior Legal Counsel to establish wholly owned leasing subsidiaries in nine countries in Asia Pacific
• Insourced leasing system – completed an analysis of alternative new leasing systems, and implemented a new leasing system which is still in use today

• Most senior accounting officer within the region. Reporting to the CFO of ANZ, but with major dotted line reporting and operational accountability to the CFO’s in each country and to the Director of Accounting in New.
• Reduced staff resignations from 48% in 1996 to 8% in 1999 and 2000.
• Saving of 20% in cycle time for monthly accounting closing process
• Complex Business Process Re-Engineering of Greater China Group and Korea accounting resulted in annual cost savings of 25%.

Two year assignment, based in Wellington, New Zealand. Fourteen direct reports

A sales position, I was one of two salesmen responsible for the acquisition and sales of used IBM equipment throughout Australia and New Zealand.

Various positions with IBM Australia, including senior individual contributor roles within pricing, planning and business evaluation, as well as three management roles from 1988 onwards: Payroll Manager, Accounting and Planning Manager for IBM Leasing, and Operations Manager for IBM Leasing

Commerce, Accounting Finance And Systems

Bachelor of Commerce (with Merit) majoring in Accounting, Finance and Systems

Education record