Property & Infrastructure Management ConsultingReporting to the CFO and leading a terrific team of Finance Business Partners and Finance Analysts, working in close collaboration with all finance members, the executive team and BU leaders, in a role with significant opportunities to improve FP&A capabilities and business advisory services across the board and drive positive business performance.

Head of FP&A and Financial Business Advisory at NSW Environmental Protection Authority (EPA). Reporting to the CFO in a newly created role responsible for the development of an FP&A and finance business advisory team with 6 direct reports. Key Responsibilities:• Directed all business and financial advisory services, including budgeting, forecasting, labour analytics, divisional management and performance reporting, providing analysis and advice on financial results, initiatives, and projects.• Established and maintain effective financial systems and controls and lead financial and business reviews to improve and strengthen internal business processes and financial sustainability controls and solutions.Key Achievements:• In a newly created role and finance support structure, directed the development and operation of all aspects of reporting, forecasting and budgeting, supporting all divisions, partnering closely with leadership teams to introduce insightful business advisory services to deliver effective decision-making and manage budget risk.• Introduced monthly executive team reporting and divisional reporting and forecasting that focused on identifying business risks and impact on financial goals.• Managed the development of the business advisory finance team of six members, encouraging collaboration and high performance, motivating the team during a period of organisational change, directing task allocations, improving financial processes, training team members and building reporting and forecasting capability across all EPA divisions.

Directed the business activities of a hospitality business with overall responsibility for financial and operating performance.Key Achievements:• Directed all revenue forecasting, sales and data analytics, market trend analysis and pricing strategy, managed inventory and optimised booking channels resulting in greater than 20% year on year increases in occupancy rates and room revenues.• Developed sales strategies utilizing online travel agency systems and formed travel agency relationships.• Continually gathered viewpoints to improve the guest experience, introducing new facilities and services driving increased return guests and revenue growth.• Received multiple industry awards recognising excellent service and consistently high ratings from guests.

Reporting to Regional Head of GTS Sales, responsible for providing strategic support to treasury services leadership and sales teams, managing performance reporting and sales pipeline across 12 countries with annual revenues >US$650m.Key Responsibilities:• Directed decision support, reporting and trend analysis, sales planning and forecasting processes, coordinating sales officer targets and subsequent sales performance reporting to optimize revenue growth opportunities.• Lead a team of business managers, facilitating efficient execution of regional initiatives, perform client and market analysis, deliver financial modelling for treasury sales, covering key segments of financial institutions and large corporates, leveraging treasury and investment banking clients.• Collaborated with HR, Marketing, Compliance, Finance, Technology, Information Security and business operations on strategic projects and initiatives affecting the regional GTS business.• Directed the integrity and data quality of the APAC deal pipeline, ensuring sales officers adhere to global guidance. Key Achievements:• Initiated a reporting system change, directing a team of SMEs through design, development, implementation, training and operation of the Salesforce deal management system and Qlikview analytics system, delivered within strict timelines, resulting in significant FTE and operational efficiencies and contributing to APAC Sales and Revenue growth. • Partnered with compliance and information security to pass regulatory hurdles implementing a cloud-based system in 12 APAC countries.• Received a Global Recognition Platinum Award as an invaluable resource supporting regional sales team members.• Designed, implemented and managed reporting systems and business processes directed at improving regional sales team productivity, business operations and performance.• Streamlined the planning & forecasting process, removing multiple iterations, improving FTE efficiency.

Reporting directly to the Global Head of FP&A and Regional CFO, this newly created role was responsible for all aspects of Forecasting, Planning, Analysis and Reporting for Asia Pacific across 8 countries, supporting the Regional APAC CEO and CFO, Front and Back Office Leads with 780 Asia Pacific employees.Key responsibilities:• Manage all aspects of regional performance reporting for all business stakeholders.• Responsible for managing and coordinating the annual budget process for the APAC region.• Design and management of regional organisational hierarchies for reporting of management profitability, in coordination with global reporting structures.• Advise senior internal stakeholders in responding to queries, reporting methodologies and current financial issues.• Manage development of new reporting models, analysis and review of strategic performance.• Coordinate the regional cost allocation process and recharge of APAC Executive costs.• Coordinate local finance team actions in regards to all decision support activity, acting as regional point of contact in managing global FP&A requirements.Key Achievements:• In a newly created role, directed the development and operation of all aspects of FP&A and Reporting for APAC across 8 countries, partnered closely with regional leadership and functional business units, introducing reporting, planning, rolling monthly forecast model and cost allocations to support transparent decision making.• Restructured the organisational hierarchy, significantly simplifying cost center structures and aligning divisional headcount.• Directed all regional budgets and forecast processes on a timely basis, coordinating with all regional stakeholders.• Designed and developed all APAC regional management reporting in Hyperion, following the transition to Oracle.• Relocated to Singapore in 2011 to join the leadership team, as request by Senior Management and APAC CEO.

Reporting to the Head of Finance, responsible for managing the activities and performance of the Financial Planning and Reporting team, comprising 5 team members for the London Branch and providing services to two legal entities.Key Responsibilities:• Manage the annual budgeting and planning process for presentation to the Euroclear UK & Ireland Executive Management Committee and Board of Directors.• Manage the month-end financial review process and preparation of monthly management reports to the Executive Committee and FSA.• Preparation of quarterly finance reports for presentation to Euroclear UK & Ireland Board of Directors and Audit and Compliance Committee.• Management and coordination of interim forecasts and annual budgeting processes.• Manage the development of financial modelling, scenario analysis and methodologies including financial analysis and review of project or investment appraisals and strategic plans.Key Achievements:• Re-engineered management and board reporting into one consolidated standardised reporting package, reducing ad hoc reporting and effectively automating the process and lowering the production times.• Successfully managed the quarterly board and audit committee deliverables given the stringent deadlines and required sign off by multiple parties. • Supported the oracle implementation from an FP&A angle, revising processes and enhancing reporting structures.• Encouraged and empowered the reporting team to improve performance and productivity via constant feedback and open honest communication and sharing of vision and ideas.

Reporting to the Regional Financial Controller, responsible for managing all aspects of statutory accounting, management reporting, forecasting and budgeting for the London office and consolidation of the UK region and leading the 10-member Reporting Team.Key Responsibilities:• Accountable for managing direct reports on all aspects of budgeting, forecasting, cash forecasts, monthly and statutory accounting and audit process for the UK region.• Mentor finance and non-finance personnel on accounting and reporting statistics, connecting with business leaders to implement processes and procedures to ensure financial control, data integrity and consistency.• Prioritise and identify areas of concern requiring management review, preparing presentations, financial insights and managing queries on financial and operational issues to Partners, Practice Areas and Business Services.• Partner with senior managers to aid the development, skills and career development of members of Finance and direct reports, additionally managing performance reviews and consistent feedback.Key Achievements:• Successfully restructured the reporting team to provide focused client service, managing non-performing staff and recruiting personnel to improve capabilities.• Redesigned the budgeting model and processes, resulting in clear improvement, simplifying reporting structures and reducing approval timelines. • Introduced a quarterly presentation for the London Management Group to compare strategic direction with forecasted objectives to encourage strategic thinking and support decision making.

Responsible for the overall financial management for one regional operating unit and additionally responsible for leading the regional geographic services team overseeing APAC overheads. Implemented and improved the sales operating unit sales forecasting process, directed the consolidated budgeting process across all regional operating units, managed the implementation of the finance operations shared services team in Dalian, lead the design and development of reporting and variance analysis, acted as SME in SAP implementation incorporating business requirements into reporting framework.Key Achievement:• Represented APAC Finance over a 7-year period on 3 secondments to head office in Chicago to progress global forecasting, reporting and planning, balancing regional viewpoints within the global framework.Accenture Roles:• APAC Government Operating Unit and GS Finance Lead (May 2004 – April 2005)• Asia Pacific Finance Operations and Geographic Services Lead (June 2003 – May 2004)• SAP Implementation Finance Manager (August 2002 – June 2003) Chicago/Barcelona• ANZ Reporting and Planning Manager (May 2000 – July 2002)• Asia Pacific Business Integration Reporting & Planning Specialist (July 1998 – April 2000)

Managed the preparation of Group and Subsidiary UK Statutory and Interim Accounts from TB to Annual Report completion. Responsible for all UK business management reporting including capital expenditure reporting, monthly board presentation and executive review pack, annual budget process and quarterly forecasting coordination, and designed quarterly Balance Sheet review reporting.