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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

• Developed and managed complex budget builds with multiple Directors, while anticipating and managing risks; negotiated for necessary resources from corporate budgets and other sources while ensuring value for investment was achieved.• Identified processes, tasks and resources required to achieve goals; identified more and less critical activities and operated accordingly, and developed and implemented systems and procedures to guide work and track progress• Provided advice to divisions for workforce management, seeking to understand the division’s requirements and proactively work with the division to find solutions.• Built strong and effective working relationships with divisional executives, coaching for change and taking on the resolution of particular issues for divisions and groups.• Drive the annual business planning and budgeting process with the divisions, working with individual Executives and Directors to understand their work program and build an appropriate budget.• Ensured divisional executives are able to take advantage of opportunities or meet their corporate obligations, as required.• Provided informative reporting information to executives on a monthly basis so that they understand and can make decisions about division’s performance.• Involved in the rollout of new finance systems including Oracle, Axiom and Tableau

Melbourne, Australia

• Provided high quality financial and policy analysis to senior management on departmental, group, and whole of government issues• Developed an in-depth understanding of business drivers and priorities, and used these to provide targeted advice to stakeholders, finance and planning and senior management• Assisted groups in the management and delivery of strategies, programs and projects• Undertook research activities and prepared submissions, reports and briefing materials for senior management on a range of strategic financial management and budgeting issues• Assisted groups on business cases, proposals and submissions for new projects• Undertook ad hoc projects, initiatives and functions as required by management• Built and maintained effective partnerships and strong working relationships with stakeholders

Melbourne, Australia

• Defined and implemented commercial strategies and best practice techniques in management and proactively collaborate with internal and external stakeholders• Managed the development and completion of the annual budgeting, quarterly & monthly planning process.• Prepared annual business and strategic plan• Provided insightful reporting and analysis, in order to add value to the decision making process • Supported project managers by providing accurate and timely data, financials and reporting• Continually supported financial negotiations with respect to financial drivers supporting customer contracts• Successfully prepared and presented monthly management reporting packs with in-depth reporting and analysis of company’s financial position against budget

United Kingdom

• Project lead for program administration ensuring that finances are maintained in an accurate and timely manner in line with project deliverables• Completed project budgeting and forecasting• Built and maintained project delivery model• Prepared and maintained program budgets and targets of £15 million and delivered these successfully• Prepared regular project and management reports• Developed log framework used in the designing, monitoring, and evaluating projects• Established and maintained system controls for sound financial management liquidity and cash flow which posed big risks in the continuation of many projects within the program, due to the nature of the ‘cash economy’ in Ghana• Implemented a robust electronic cash request and cash transfer process to mitigate risk based on bespoke automated forecasting models, project financial requirements and approved budgets• Implemented financial policies and procedures, ensuring compliance with program, donor and statutory requirements• Lead stakeholder manager between the UK and Ghanaian government, international aid organisations, consulting firms, work stream leads and project managers in the UK

Ghana

• Developed project management framework as project lead between the Ghanaian Government, the Management Unit, and UNICEF to prepare work plans for the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) program expansion rollout activities from inception to completion with US$2 million budget which was delivered successfully and on budget.• Identified areas of financial support needed by the LEAP team, produced activity budgets, and supported the government to submit activity and financial reports to UNICEF• Worked closely with other development partners (World Bank, UK Department for International Development) to roll-out LEAP and integrate strategies• Identified suitable companies to be invited for bidding to provide the mobile targeting services using mobile tablet technology, developed the terms of reference for this provider, and finalised and lead the approval of the RFP.• Built relationships and identified common issues for multiple stakeholders including the government of Ghana as the main beneficiary, the Department for International Development (DFID), as well as the private companies tasked with data collection and providing electronic payments• Developed capacity by incorporating project management practices that take into account stakeholder management, risk management, budget, people management, quality and scope management.• Provided authoritative and timely advice to senior stakeholders on project progress, benefits and aims, and sought innovative solutions to resolve stakeholder issues• Successfully supported the roll-out of field surveys including reviewing survey software applications, training of enumerators, quality assurance checks on data collected, data entry and selection of beneficiaries • Built and maintained model for project tracking, delivery, and future expansion considerations

London, United Kingdom

• Successfully oversaw the ‘Commercial Simplification’ program to integrate procurement process between the Carphone Warehouse and Dixons to bring about desired cost savings of £1.5 million (approximately 12% of cost of goods sold) by simplifying and integrating the organisations procurement processes to improve the way it purchased its stock across markets, and thereby achieve maximum cost saving• Created a central cost savings tracker using defined inputs from group teams• Supported the group commercial team with commercial negotiations by forecasting cost savings for different attributes of the program• Managed relationship with local FDs, Commercial Directors and group commercial team• Reported on group wide savings achievable from procurement centralisation

Slough, United Kingdom

• Developed and delivered finance processes required to deliver to budget for the Smart Meter Program as declared in the contract between Telefonica UK and the British Government, ensuring ownership across the finance community• Completed budget planning and forecasting cycles ensuring all stakeholders at a local and Group level were aligned with the overall business case and contract• Developed a ‘live’ project model to determine the exact financial position of the program at any given moment. Due to the extremely low margins O2 was working with on the £2 billion project, this was vital in trying to mitigate the company’s financial exposure in order to be able to deliver the project on time, and with profit• Successfully tracked & managed all financial risks & opportunities through monthly reporting working closely with project managers, senior management & workstream leads to have definitive action plans in place to deliver on budget and within contractual targets. • Analysis of monthly performance highlighting key drivers and risks affecting the results and delivering the insight that steered the decisions taken to drive future performance on a weekly and monthly basis• Analysed, reviewed & controlled all aspects of cost performance for both opex and capex including prioritising spend, headcount/payroll costs.

Dusseldorf, Germany

• Finance Business Partner for Vodafone Global Enterprise in Central Europe providing dedicated finance and analytical support to the VGE Central Region Sales Director and his team in Germany, Romania, Hungary and Czech Republic• Managed four remote teams across central Europe in delivering an operational plan to provide dedicated finance and analytical support to the Vodafone Global Enterprise Central Region Sales to an annual turnover of 150 Million Euros.• Proactively provided commercial decision and analysis support to VGE teams that influenced commercial outcomes, and delivered lower cost strategies with savings of €12 million during my tenure• Developed a trusted relationship between finance and the business to deliver value added activities and processes • Drove strategic realignment of Vodafone customer accounts for VGE Central Europe• Conducted data migration and cleansing activities and associated systems & process changes• Completed business cases for new business initiatives ensuring viability both from a financial and operational standpoint • Prepared reviews of major projects and capital investments

Slough, United Kingdom

Telefónica UK Limited (trading as O2) is a telecommunications services provider in the United Kingdom, owned by the Spanish multinational Telefónica. It is the second-largest mobile telecommunications provider in the United Kingdom.TASKS• maintained and coordinated group completion of financial review templates and meetings• prepared consolidated forecasts and budgets models and analysed trends in revenue and expense• provided analytical support to the finance team and took ownership of the timeliness, relevance and accuracy of monthly reporting across assigned areas including actuals and variances to budgetACHIEVEMENTS• developed and built forecasting models to enable accurate, timely, reliable, efficient processes for budgeting, forecasting and strategic planning based on key drivers of business performance,• maintained and coordinated group completion of financial review templates and meetings • delivered a successful 2012 Budgethttp://www.o2.co.uk

London, United Kingdom

EE is a British mobile network operator and Internet service provider. It was established in 2010 as a 50:50 joint venture between Deutsche Telekom and Orange S.A. (formerly France Telecom) through the merger of their respective T-Mobile and Orange businesses in the UK. It is the largest mobile network operator in the UK.TASKS• Provided decision support for the management of commercial relationships and analysis of roaming and interconnect revenues, costs and volumes• Ensured new strategic wholesale roaming agreements are agreed and met for EE as the consolidated entity of Orange and T-Mobile• Ensured commercial tools were fit for purpose and maintained• Provided regular reporting to enable monitoring of the roaming business• Completed discount and settlement calculations alongside commercial finance teamsACHIEVEMENTS• Built detailed deal tracker model that consolidated inbound and outbound roaming services for Orange and T Mobile partner agreements worldwide• Continually provided ongoing analysis and information to optimize steering roaming traffic• Prepared data for budget and forecasthttp://ee.co.uk

London, United Kingdom

Colt Technology Services is a multinational telecommunications, and data centre services company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. COLT specialises in providing data, voice and managed services to major businesses, SMEs and wholesale customers. COLT operates a 13-country, 25,000km network that includes metropolitan area networks in 34 major European cities. TASKS• Monthly sales report and analysis with expectations to support management decision making• Sales incentives, compliance and administration• Yearly revenue and commission budget and forecasting for Wholesale Department sales staff• Supported wholesale segment programs and initiatives at business unit level• Monthly voice trading margin analysis versus budget, and switch interconnect savings validationACHIEVEMENTS• Supported and identified the strategic revenue and sales elements to the wholesale business that not only increased customer revenue, but incentivised sales staff• Wholesale lead for the roll out of Varicent sales incentive tool, responsible for project scoping, data migration, user acceptance testing and end user training• Successfully completed role migration to Colt Indiahttp://www.colt.net

• Feb 2006 – Mar 2007 Ealing Council Position: Finance Analyst• Sep 2005 – Jan 2006 The Health Foundation Position: Management Accountant• Oct 2004 – Jul 2005 Southwark Council Position: Excel Accountant• Sep 2004 Shell International Position: Project Assistant• Jun 2004 – Aug 2004 Sauflon Pharmaceuticals Ltd Position: Management Accountant• Oct 2003 – Mar 2004 National Fleet Network Position: Asset & Contracts Accountant• Jan 2003 – May 2003 The Carphone Warehouse Position: Accounts Analyst• Sept 2002 – Dec 2002 Walt Disney International Position: Sales Audit• Mar 2002 – July 2002 BAA (British Airport Authority) Position: Financial Accountant• Oct 2001 – Jan 2002 NFO World Group. Position: Management Accountant• June 2001 – August 2001 Citibank International Plc. Position: Accounts Assistant