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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Reporting to the FP&A Manager providing management reporting and analysis to the ELT, with business partnering responsibilities.

Sydney, Australia

Reporting to the FP&A Manager provided management reporting and analysis to the CFO, in this newly created team. Business partnering responsibilities.• Set up and lead the project accounting for major organisation transformation journey. This involved development of spend trackers, review of accounting treatments and maintaining key information that supported critical audit requirements. • Key business partner to Transformation executive to give visibility on transformation costs. This enabled monthly analysis of actual spend vs budget for the project, and action to be taken to bring costs within budget at an Exec level.• Supported the build out of a new FP&A function including bottom up driver-based budget models, with buy in from costs centre managers and influence of key spend assumptions• Revised the management accounting hierarchy to deliver more insightful reporting including documented coding guidance• Automated monthly reporting using Velixo reporting tool for MYOB that enabled monthly analysis of actual vs budget for expenses

Sydney, Australia

Reporting to the Corporate Commercial Manager provided decision support to the CFO and Executive Leadership Team. This included variance analysis, preparation and reporting of monthly management accounts, board reporting, budgets, forecasts, external half and full year reporting, ad hoc analysis and automation of reporting using BI tool (Jedox). Business partnering responsibilities for Corporate function.

Sydney, Australia

This was the second of two contract roles I took following my relocation to Sydney from New Zealand. I provided trading performance analysis, forecasting and commentary of key insights.

Sydney, Australia

This was the first contract role I took after moving to Sydney, it was a project role tasked with identifying the key drivers of performance and redesigning the reporting framework for all Asia Pacific entities. Reported to GM of Finance.Key Achievement:• Detailed analysis of historical performance of SBU’s using financial (using TM1) and non-financial information and KPI’s. This was used for ongoing reporting of performance, and also resulted in key decisions such as divestiture of some of the units.

Auckland

This role focused on business and financial analysis to support decision making by the Executive Team. Reported to CFO.Key Achievements:• Implemented ”multi lens analysis” of significant promotions. This resulted in the improvement in the quality of analysis for the Marketing and Executive Team, including product offers and / or category overlays, credit overlays, Fly Buys, and direct marketing offers. • Partnered with Marketing team to predict return of investment of suggested promotions and campaigns and influenced decisions in the quarterly meeting. • Led the turnaround of the profitability of the warranty category.• Partnered with external finance providers (GE and Finance Now) to ensure the highest possible returns for the business.• Automated Business Objects reporting. This improved the speed of distribution of key analysis, and saved approximately five hours of analysis time a week.

Auckland

In this role I monitored store performance and identified opportunities for improvement. Reported to Senior Commercial Analyst.Key Achievements:• Completed store development feasibilities, post implementation reviews, store performance reviews and store closure analysis, to ensure the business was getting an appropriate return on investment. • Formulation of a property strategy, based on estimated appliance spend, allowed the business to identify areas where they were under or over represented, and make the appropriate investment decision. Automation of key reports using Business Objects, to provide analysis by company, brand, product and store, for weekly sales meeting. This saved one hour of analysis time a week.

Auckland

Preparation of monthly accounts and reporting of sales and marketing forecasts. Reported to Finance Manager.Key Achievements:• Timely preparation of monthly financial and management accounts and country reporting.• Closer liaison with the sales and marketing teams resulted in improved forecast on expected sales revenue and marketing spending.

Auckland

Preparation of monthly accounts and forecasting product demand to minimise stock outs. Reported to Finance Manager.Key Achievements:• Timely preparation of monthly financial and management accounts and country reporting, and preparation of annual budget.• Stock out minimisation through regular review of stock levels, forecasting of sales, and liaising with the suppliers to adjust delivery times where possible.

Auckland

On returning home from my overseas experience, I took a project role at Alston to review the profitability of the Petone rail workshop in Lower Hutt. Decision to close, as a result of the review.

Toronto, Canada Area

Whilst on a working holiday in Canada, I took a short term contract in which I improved preparation of monthly accounts and technology project reporting.

London, United Kingdom

I worked for the BBC whilst on a working holiday in London. Here I focused on the preparation of monthly accounts and project reporting. Reported to Finance Manager. Key Achievements:• Improvement in the timeliness and accuracy of project reporting for the property division.• Implementation of SAP, including user acceptance testing, user testing of data migration and developing reporting using SAP.

Auckland, New Zealand

Starting my career straight out of University, I joined KPMG as a Audit Junior, over time I progressed to Audit Supervisor. Key Achievements:• Carrying out financial audits for a variety of clients in the Property, Airline, Information Technology, Manufacturing, Banking and Superannuation, and FMCG sectors.• Leading a team of 6 people.• Seconded to KPMG London for 3 months based on performance.

Diploma Of Commerce, Commercial Law

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom), Accounting