Finance Manager for six months and then Chief Financial Officer and Company Secretary. Responsible for Finance Division team and delivery of their performance.Ensured accurate and timely financial reporting to the management team and to the Board and outside stakeholders.Ensured proper controls to safeguard the assets of the company.Provided annual budgets and periodic forecasts for financial management of the organisation.Developed financial modelling with activity based costing to successfully negotiate annual grant income from the Department of Health and Ageing.Supervised production of annual accounts to satisfaction of ANAO audit.Facilitated Board Audit Committee including organising internal audit function and production of all Committee papers.Attended every Board meeting from June 2007 as Company Secretary and presented company financial statements with explanations. Contributed to Executive Management Team and Quality Agency Board decisions and management.

Established the financial function for a start-up professional services business. This initially involved completing financial projections to establish the feasibility of the business.

Managed the Strategic Sourcing role while a replacement for the previous incumbent was recruited. The role involved the management of all financial elements of the $224 million IBMGSA IT outsource contract by providing quality information for effective decision making.

Obtained experience in Financial Planning and provided Accounting, Secretarial and Financial Modelling services to corporate clients.

Provided the economic and strategic analysis for proposals to change product features and customer service of the bank’s transaction accounts. April 2000 to June 2004;Consultant to seven of the General Managers of Banking and Financial Services and their staff. Provided advice and support in all matters financial including business case development and review, budgets and forecasts, and monthly results analysis. March 1998 to April 2000;Completed annual budget and quarterly forecasts; responsible for correct allocation of all income and expenses through the General Ledger to fifty costs centres, seven divisions and four companies; and provided management reporting including analysis of monthly results. May 1995 to February 1998.

Various Consulting RolesContract assignments included nineteen months advising the WGP Worley Engineering Groupon administration and financial reporting.Accomplishments:* Restructured the tasks and responsibilities in the accounting departments throughoutAustralia. This resulted in streamlined financial reporting delivering more meaningfulinformation in a much improved useful time frame.* Managed the transition of the accounting function of the South East Asian businesses to theAustralian Head Office on the resignation of the overseas Financial Controller. Ensuredcontinuity of accounting information held by one person in South East Asia who left afteronly one week's notice.* Selected, recommended and installed a project reporting and accounting software to suitthe specific business needs of the client. This provided project reporting for the first timeallowing a full understanding of the profitability of each project where the company'sbusiness is based on projects.