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Auckland, Nz

Auckland, New Zealand

Accountable to provide IT-wide leadership to govern, manage and measure the operational and financial performance of the IT function at One NZ.Lead a shared service function to support all core IT functions including strategy, delivery and operations.

Auckland, New Zealand

Transformation Principal, leading the Procurement Operations and Excellence team within Finance at One NZ.Responsible for embedding the Source to Pay framework, including uplifting One NZ's capability across people, process, and technology. This includes performing the role of Product Owner (SAP-Ariba and S4) for the Procurement and Supply Chain squad, working within the Business and Technology Enablement Tribe.

Auckland, New Zealand

As part of the IT Leadership Team (ITLT) and Senior Leadership Group at Vodafone I am accountable for all commercial outcomes, performance, planning and reporting, vendor management and contract administration across the IT department.This role is also the IT transformation lead responsible for driving tangible financial performance and organisational health initiatives. A key aspect of my role is leading the IT Strategy, including working with internal business partners (Finance, Procurement etc.) and external partners (system integrators, software vendors, consultants etc.) to ensure IT objectives are met and creating a direct link between performance and consequence. Most recently I have supported the IT delivery transformation to modern ways of working, including agile methodologies, establishing DevOps tooling and practices.

Auckland, New Zealand

Leadership role responsible for leading cross functional teams to drive efficiency related initiatives, lift capability and deliver sustainable change.Leading teams with expertise including project and transformational change management, data and business intelligence, business process and technical capability.Ownership for the delivery of all efficiency related initiatives and associated targets that make a measurable and sustainable difference to business performance.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsible for leading and supporting the delivery of a mix of strategic, business change, compliance and technology projects across Fonterra’s value chain.

Auckland, New Zealand

One-year secondment to deliver a step change in embedding Social Responsibility within the global organisation at all levels.This role required interaction with many stakeholders across the business, operating to different levels of maturity in given Social Responsibility topics to help them develop capability and stay engaged to accelerate the delivery of Fonterra’s Social Responsibility plan.

Responsible for management of the central project portfolio function, the NZ Milk Products prioritisation process and coordination of the functional project portfolios. Responsibilities include design and implementation of the portfolio and strategic initiative review process, associated reporting for NZ Milk Products Leadership Team and ongoing assessment of deployment impact of all initiatives on the business.

Auckland

Value Stream Optimisation (VSO) was a NZD 115m people, process and technology (SAP) project to improve and align data, processes, systems and structures across Fonterra.

Auckland

Delivered business analysis to evaluate requirements to re-engineer the ASB and Sovereign Kiwi Saver fund management business models.

• Perform detailed analytical and evaluative review of specific investments, historic market and portfolio performance across a wide variety of asset classes.• Generate investment performance and asset allocation reports, assist in analysis of investment policy and/or asset allocation; set forth data which support or refute the desirability of such recommendations.• Engage with and provide business analysis and planning advice to the fund management, sales, relationship and product specialist teams. • Risk identification and management - implement and maintain controls to ensure risks are identified and escalated as appropriate.

• As team leader of 11 members my primary responsibility was to ensure accurate reconciliation of cash accounts, as well as accurate and timely delivery of client reports. • Provided reports in relation to over ₤10 billion of assets under management across a wide variety of investment vehicles including money markets, fixed income bonds, derivatives currency funds, and futures. • Worked with major custodians from Europe, North America and the Pacific Basin (including JPM Chase, BONY, State Street, ABN Amro Mellon) to build relationships and develop processes and procedures to streamline and automate the business workflow.Additional Achievements • Increased team performance in relation to completion of daily cash reconciliations during the reporting period from 70% to 95% within 6 months;• Streamlined and automated the client reporting process, significantly reducing the client reporting cycle from 15 business days to less than 10 business days.

As an Assistant Manager I was an integral part of Business Banking’s service proposition. I was responsible for managing a portfolio of small to medium business customer relationships covering a broad range of industries.The major responsibilities of this role included:• Developing new business opportunities with existing clients and increasing the portfolio with new clients through a commitment to sales and marketing;• Identifying opportunities, monitoring and analysing customer financial statements and strategies;• Accurately identifying key risk factors pertinent to the customer, and planning and executing risk mitigating procedures;Additional Achievements • Top 10% of ANZ Assistant Managers nationwide for customer service and satisfaction 2004.