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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Worked in delivery and project management with clients across Retail, Fund Management, Advertising, Manufacturing, Not-for-profit and professional services industries to optimise their budgeting, planning and reporting capabilities. Account management of existing clients and pre-sales with prospective clients. Achievements include:- Redesign of planning models and reporting optimisation leading to a 50% reduction in planning time and reporting delivered in minutes not days.- Improved efficiency of a client's critical reporting, ensuring efficiency of their planning instance and reports running in less than 1 minute against 15 minutes before changes.- Ensuring that, post acquisition, a changed financial reporting year was delivered on time and on budget including delivering additional model capabilities

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

At QMetrix we provide professional advisory services that empower our clients to operate with the agility needed in today’s business environment. Our corporate Budgeting and Planning, Master Data Management, and Business Intelligence and Analytics solutions help to drive better business performance. We work together with clients to achieve the right outcome for their unique business, providing end-to-end solutions from analysis to design and delivery. We serve clients across Australia and have offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Singapore.At QMetrix, my role is to lead the implementation of Budgeting & Planning solutions using Workday Adaptive Planning.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Responsible for helping to improve the processes and procedures in relation to reporting, forecasting, annual planning and ongoing reporting.Accomplishments in the role include:- Designing a single template for the manufacturing business and for the service business showing actual results, performance against budget and forecast and allowing the business unit to re-forecast based on the latest trends- Redesigning JDE hierarchy to enable simplified reporting structures- Leading the preparation of the MaxiTrans H1 FY20 ASX investor presentation

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for partnering with the retail product and marketing teams to deliver financial outcomes and implement on strategy across the Dodo, iPrimus and Commander telco brands.Accomplishments in the role include:- Completed product level analysis of customer value and modeled price rises scenarios, working with the senior management team to enable a pricing decision which will improve GM by $2m in FY20- Designed an automated financial reporting pack to allow business and finance stakeholders to drill down into live financial results and easily see trends and performance against budget and forecasts

Melbourne, Australia

Managed a team of 6 state accountants responsible for budgeting, forecasting, reporting, analysis, insights and acquittals for Australian domestic programming.Accomplishments in the role include:- Provided a leadership role in the ‘Fit for Future’ strategic review into Australian domestic programming which has resulted in significant operational savings and flatter and more responsive operations within AP- Rebuilt the Australian Programs monthly reporting pack to focus on stakeholder needs, highlighting recoverability of costs, reviewed processes and saved >0.5 WD per month by eliminating inefficiencies

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for managing the Business Performance Analytics and Insights team responsible for operating expenses. Managed a team of 9 qualified accountants responsible for budgeting, forecasting, reporting, analysis and insights for circa $1.6Bn of operating expenses (Opex) in the Consumer and Small Business business unit.Accomplishments in the role include:- Rebuilt the Consumer & Small Business Opex team after a restructure in May 17 and created a lean, high performing team which worked with their business stakeholders to drive achievement of an $80M saving FY18 budget- Created Opex financial reporting based on value drivers such as FTE, # of calls, etc which enabled the financial results to be easily understand by the business stakeholders and allowed for action-oriented performance conversations

Melbourne, Australia

Worked with internal business stakeholders and McKinsey consultants to build business cases for the end to end fitter and faster program which aimed to identify and eliminate customer experience pain points across Telstra.Accomplishments in the role include: - Provided business case and solution design support to the Business NBN program and drove 10 initiatives to funding stage- Contributed to the pre-workshop discovery documentation and participated in the workshops for Business NBN and Consumer Fixed Broadband

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for ensuring accurate budgets and forecasts for product activation and recontract volumes, reviewing competitor offerings to ensuring product offerings are competitive within the market via a deep knowledge and insight by sales channel and partner and reviewing and agreeing quarterly product release schedules and featured product sets. Accomplishments in the role included:- Successfully stepped in to run the FY16 budgeting process and ensured channel and product alignment for activation and recontracting targets, my contribution was recognised with a GMD award- Partnered with the Platinum product lead to build a plan to turn around the under performing Platinum product. Took a secondment in the Platinum team and successfully implemented the improvement plan leading to a dramatic improvement in performance from -40% to FY15 plan to +25% to FY16 plan- Created usage reporting which supported the review of the launch of the 3 for free Companion SIM offer including a proxy for regular usage customers to allow communications with customers to be tailored. Highlighted inappropriate channel behaviours, allowing corrective actions to be taken early which included undated incentives and limits on eligible services- Frequently managed both the Consumer and Small Business weekly sales meetings, ensuring actions were assigned and sales performance was discussed for all appropriate products

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for ensuring that channel and corporate sales targets were aligned and that channel splits were financially optimum.Accomplishments in the role include:- Successfully split Small Business and Assigned commissions for mobility and ensured FY15 plan was split by segment to allow the segments, which were managed separately, to have their own commission budget for the first time- Identified an opportunity to amortise commissions costs and successfully delivered it, resulting in a $10M in year P&L benefit in FY14

Melbourne, Australia

Responsible for the budgeting, forecasting, reporting and analysis of Telstra Business (TB) and Telstra Enterprise (TE) mobile hardware revenue and expenses and business partner to the Director of mobility for TB & TE. Accomplishments in the role include:- Led the delivery of a $100M+ saving against FY12 Subsidy Expense budget in TB, by implementing Monthly Repayment Option (MRO) accounting to TB. I assisted the team with understanding the accounting treatment of MRO, modelled scenarios to show P&L impacts and worked through the execution of the move to MRO and gained agreement from the Director of mobility for TB & TE

Melbourne, Australia

Business partner to the Operations and Maintenance MD and their direct reports and responsible for budgeting, forecasting, reporting of actual performance and working with the O&M team to understand and eliminate variances, I was also required to maintain a visible presence across the Melbourne Water operating sites and was responsible for the management and mentoring of 1 part qualified employee Accomplishments in the role include:- Redesigned the monthly MD report with a standardised format across all groups and automated the consolidation, saving 1.5 work days per month, thus allowing more time for detailed results analysis- Reviewed imported versus self-generated electricity at the Eastern Treatment Plant (ETP) resulting in a $100k saving during FY09/10- Built a unit costing model for sewerage costs, allowing decisions on where to treat sewerage to be made on a financial basis rather than ‘gut feel’

London, United Kingdom

Oversaw a team of 5 staff (3 part qualified management accountants and 2 AP staff) with responsibility for delivering all budgets, forecasts, management reporting and business case reviews as well as liaison with internal and external auditors for the UK business. Selected Accomplishments: - Rewrote the Expenses policy and ensured strict policy compliance saving 30% (£360k pa)- Redesigned & automated the complete management accounts pack, saving all finance staff at least 1 work day per month in manual processing during the busy month end period- Designed & Implemented Cost Centre Reporting with, quarterly reviews with cost centre owners and monthly reviews with department heads, non-salary Opex reduced by 5% (£800k pa)

London, United Kingdom

Outline of Achievements & Responsibilities:- Design & production of an expenses analysis reporting suite which was distributed directly to the departmental heads. The reports contained per person summaries with RAG status with additional detail for high spenders- Design & production of a weekly sales performance pack for the UK sales force showing sales & cancellation performance, pipeline strength & performance against target. I frequently presented the sales performance to the senior sales leaders & the sales teams at their weekly review meetings- Assisted my colleagues in the Decision Support Group & the wider finance team with several process automation projects (e.g. designed a macro to capture Threats & Opportunities data from 65 files) resulting in several man days per month savings on an ongoing basis & allowed my colleagues to focus their energies on value adding activities- Led a project to clean up the TR territory list (only report available to determine client, product or country run rate). Worked closely with sales leaders in each of the 15 geographic/product teams to validate the data and ensure all clients were being billed correctly. Produced £200k per month revenue upside- Heavily involved in pulling together information & preparing slides for Executive Committee meetings & regional performance ‘deep dive’ meetings, often at short notice- In addition, I produced the monthly headcount analysis reporting to senior managers, have assisted in the 06 & 07 price rise process, & been involved with the 06 & 07 planning processes

London, United Kingdom

Outline of Responsibilities & Achievements:- Managed the project in collaboration with Accenture to transition to a new version of Siebel (inc. Analytics).- Created a single finance dashboard on the Siebel Analytics platform where there had previously been 12 dashboards. Presented the progress to key users at regular intervals & solicited their feedback- Successfully came on board mid project, ensuring that the project plan was adhered to & deadlines were met.- Assisted with all elements of system testing- Designed a training suite which provided a high level summary of the features of the new dashboard in order to secure user buy-in & provided detailed instructions on how to effectively use the new dashboard

London, United Kingdom

Outline of Responsibilities:- Providing support & advice to local market Sales Planners & the European Sales force- Ensuring that all management reporting (Operating, Implementation Effectiveness, Sales Productivity & Pipeline Analysis reports & Incentive Outputs) were distributed accurately & on time to the local markets- Coordinating the monthly Commercial Card Europe Win Loss report for New York- Ensuring that Sales force incentive outputs are accurate & are signed off by local markets before issuing timely payroll instructionsSpecific Achievements:- Heavily involved in the design & documentation process for the 2005 Corporate Card Incentive planning process, which involved conducting a survey to review 2004 Incentive plan, researching industry best practice, reviewing best practice from other Amex regions & contributing solutions where issues were identified- Taken over the management of the KPI (Management Reporting) database from external contractors, FileM. Worked with both FileM & the local market sales planners to make the monthly process a smoother process where deliverables are now consistently delivered to expectations- Designed an Implementation Effectiveness Report which showed how quickly the business was implementing the new business, allowing markets to better understand local market dynamics & forecast more accurately.- Designed & implemented a monthly performance table for the Mid Market Sales team with monthly and quarterly cash rewards. Mid Market sales increased by 50% over prior year after introduction

London, United Kingdom

Tool Development Team Lead, within the newly created UK/Ireland Finance Operations Shared Resource Team (SRT) & Single Point of Contact (SPOC) for the Resources Europe, Middle East, Africa & Latin America Operating Unit (EMEA & LA OU) within the SRTOutline of Responsibilities:- Team Leader (2 people)- Automation of processes in order to increase value adding activities for all members of the SRT- Liaison with internal Process Re-engineering Consultants & Business Unit Finance LeadsSpecific Achievements:- The SRT was given 5 critical tasks to deliver on by the UK/Ireland finance leadership team, of these, 4 were delivered by my team & 3 by me personally- Design & production of the Sales & Backlog report for all entities within EMEA & LA, including a focus on Negative Backlog (US GAAP issue)- Design & production of an Inventory & Receivables report for all entities within EMEA & LA, including a focus on unbilled Inventory >60 days- Design of a below Client margin reporting tool for the UKI Business Units, which allows the user to analyse costs at a line number level, project level or transaction detail level- Automation of reports for the Geographic Services Department which resulted in results being available earlier & saving approx 1.5 man days per month

London, United Kingdom

Outline of Responsibilities:- Liaison with Geographic Finance Leads to ensure accurate & timely delivery of Plan & subsequent Quarterly Forecasts.- Production & distribution of KPIs to senior management- Flash Production – bi-monthly interim results & projection of full month results- Extensive analysis of EMEA & LA Management Spend, providing Drill down analysis where necessary- Ongoing management of the Organisational DatabaseSpecific Achievements:- Design, Implementation & monthly production (including commentary & analysis) of management reports focusing on Profitability, Growth & Productivity- Design of Excel Tools, which permit users to select different views using drop down menus & radio buttons- Production of EMEA & LA Management Plan for FY02, FY03 & Quarterly Forecasts using Cognos

London, United Kingdom

Outline of Responsibilities & Achievements:- Management Accounts Team Leader (2 staff)- Produced monthly analysis of departmental performance & conducted Quarterly performance reviews with department heads- Produced monthly management accounts. Key tasks included; ledger & bank reconciliations, cost center management, budgeting & extensive variance analysis- Responsible for a wholly owned subsidiary company (turnover £3m) balance sheet, P&L, billings & inter-co reconciliations- Responsible for ensuring European VAT compliance & all European VAT returns (8 countries)

Professional Qualification, Accounting And Business/Management

The Chartered Institute of Management Accountants qualification. www.cimaglobal.com

Bachelor'S Degree, Economics, 2:1

Mention Passable, Sciences Economiques Mention Analyse Et Politique Economiques