Robert Paul Callander Email & Phone Number

Brisbane, Australia

• Initially to setup a new company: Chart of Accounts, Suppliers, Project Ledger, Fixed Assets, Inventory and Plant Maintenance in Pronto for the newly acquired Roma Shelf assets.• Setup all the accounting and commercial processes and train the necessary non-finance staff to use the new systems.• Worked closely with internal and external stakeholders to restart the newly acquired Roma Shelf assets. Over the course of a year the oil wells, the processing plant and the gas wells were successfully restarted.• Involved in the annual drilling campaigns and well interventions, from planning, cost control through to reporting on activities.• Monthly month ends process, reporting and analysis.• Support the Kincora site in all things commercial.• Kincora annual budget preparation.• Involved in most Authority for Expenditure (AFEs) providing commercial and financial analysis and guidance as well as an overall sense check.• Recently rolled out the preventative maintenance module for the Kincora site.• Several ad-hoc tasks, such as process improvement, production analysis, preferred suppliers, R&D claims and GAP funding.• Acting Financial Controller while current Financial Controller was on maternity leave.

Brisbane, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

Brisbane, Australia

• Initially to setup a new company: Chart of Accounts, Suppliers, Project Ledger, Fixed Assets, Inventory and Plant Maintenance in Pronto for the newly acquired Roma Shelf assets.• Setup all the accounting and commercial processes and train the necessary non-finance staff to use the new systems.• Month ends process, forecasting, reporting and analysis.• Process improvement, identification of bottlenecks, creation of dashboards and selection and review of relevant KPIs.

Hamilton Harbor, Brisbane

Devine operates in Queensland, Victoria and South Australia with 4 divisions – Land, Integrated Housing, Apartments and Construction. I was part of the team that looked after the Queensland Land and Integrated Housing which had annual revenue of $115m. The team consisted of a Finance Manager, Financial Accountant and myself (Management Accountant). My role consisted of:• To support the Finance Manager in ensuring a high standard of financial accountability, financial advice and reporting and contribution to positive business outcomes for the Queensland House and Land business.• To provide direct support to Development Managers and the Qld Housing Manager in identifying and recommending financial and operational outcomes to support commercial objectives • Maintaining an accurate and compliant financial reporting environment through management accounting responsibilities.• To identify and assist in implementing ongoing process improvements

Brisbane And Bowen Basin

Worked as the mine site accountant for the South Walker Creek Mine spending two weeks a month onsite and the remainder of the time in Brisbane. My core responsibilities were to perform month end reporting tasks, including, accruals, allocations, other journals, month end review, month end reporting, prepare month end forecast, budget preparation, loading and support, budget book preparation, cost reviews and associated actions where required and accounting support.

Brisbane, Australia

Principal analyst heading a team of 3 looking after the commercial function for the Saraji Mine.

City Of London Wc1X 8Rx, United Kingdom

Monthly management accounts and reporting, forecast and variance analysis, billings and income forecasting, control of the treasury, ensuring payments were made correctly and on time and client profitability analysis.

London, United Kingdom

I supervised a small team who prepared the annual budget and quarterly forecast, monthly and year end financial accounts and quarterly value added tax (VAT) returns. I managed capital expenditure and the fixed asset register, payroll and the expatriate payroll, credit control, intercompany loan accounts and billing.

When Harrison Troughton Wunderman, Wunderman Impact and Wunderman Automotive merged to become Wunderman UK I was responsible for merging the accounts and payrolls (approx 750 people) into one. I also created a compensation forecasting model for this new payroll.

For both Zenithoptimedia UK Ltd and Starcom Worldwide Ltd I compiled full sets of Sarbanes Oxley compliant process narratives, assessed all departments for Sarbanes & Oxley compliance, created action plans and worked with all departments to ensure Sarbanes & Oxley compliance, assisted with the internal Sarbanes & Oxley audit of other Publicis Agencies such as Saatchi & Saatchi, ResourcesUk and assisted both Agencies with the external KPMG and Earnest & Young audits.

I completed my five year training contract as mandated by the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA). I started as a traineed auditor and finished as an audit senior.

Education record

Bachelor’S Degree, Business/Managerial Economics

B.Compt, Audit / Accounts

Education record