Sam Williams Email & Phone Number

- Key lead and full responsibility for the Development Pipeline- Negotiation of development transactions including potential development agreements, limited partnerships and joint venture arrangements.- Member of the Property Leadership Team

- Developments include: PwC Centre, 100 Cuba Street, Site 9, Blue Mountains Campus.
- Feasibility analysis on new and current deals
- Lease negotiations; commercial and retail
- Management of design and construction process
- Management of consultants
- Investor reporting
- Council liaison
- Marketing
- Building sale negotiations

London, United Kingdom

• Process Improvement• Project Management• Financial Statements• Management Accounts• Investment Analysis

London, United Kingdom

• Develop a number of models to analyse and review the current and future UK store estate for sales and profitability. Analysis completed at a site, region, store format and overall basis.• Development of the models required collaboration with Head of Property, Head of Property Finance, Local Planning Teams, Estates Maintenance Team, CFO and other senior management. The outputs from the model were used by the CEO, CFO and senior management.

London, United Kingdom

• Model and analyse new investment opportunities for ROI and decision making• Create and stress test 30 year financial plans evaluating development capacity and financial strength (eg gearing and interest cover covenants) to present to senior management to aid their decision making• Participate in project review meetings with the Executive Leadership Team• Business Partner with Development, Corporate Finance and Executive Team

London, United Kingdom

• Create a model to reconcile investment balances at group, consolidated and individual levels in a short amount of time during financial year end (the model reduced the timeframe from 8 weeks to 2 weeks). The output created a cohesive story of investment balance movements (Opex and Capex) that was communicated to Finance Managers, Financial Controllers and CFOs• Business partner with Corporate Finance, Investment, Development and IT to develop a financial model, using best practice, to forecast project profits at multiple levels of detail, interact with two accounting systems (JD Edwards, Hyperion), provide variance analysis and produce risk and opportunities for projects• Improve the process of pre-development reporting for accuracy, efficiency and usefulness for the Investment, Finance and Development teams• Systems implementation for new JDE and Hyperion accounting systems

London, United Kingdom

• Production of Opex budget / forecasting packs and presentations to senior stakeholders• Business partner with subsidiaries in across the world (eg France, Italy, Australia), United States head office, UK controllership and FP&A to develop budgets, quarterly forecasts and identify risks and opportunities• Management of quarter close process including review of opex position, accruals and performance analysis• Process improvement for overhead forecasting and reporting; including building models for more accurate and quicker forecasting• Scrutinise Capex requests for the authorisation process• Headcount reporting

Wellington

• Business Partner to Project Managers, Project Directors, Sales Directors, Global Controllers from New Zealand and Australia and the Asia Pacific CFO.• Responsible for the finance of 10-20 projects, between £200k - £5m, dealing with 8-15 Project Managers at any one time• Sales forecasting, variance analysis, tracking project profitability and reporting for stakeholders• Analyse and provide succinct commentary on project / business unit performance across KPIs eg gross margin• Participate in project governance and risk reviews and monthly meetings with the APAC Sales team• Analyse Capex (WIP and CTC) and provide monthly commentary• Determine revenue recognition for projects and review project contracts• Responsible for monthly accruals and prepayments on my programme and projects• Develop and undertake training to improve financial literacy of Project Managers. This includes enhancing documentation to convey messages more simply and provide additional context and value to the trainees

Wellington, New Zealand

• Corporate Finance purchaser due diligence and valuations• Tax due diligence for IPO• HRL Morrison Co / Infratil secondment for 3 months to support the CFO for structuring and other consulting• OMV secondment for 5 months as interim Tax Manager• Help manage Employment and Wealth team including training younger staff, performance feedback evaluation and manage team workload to meet KPIs

New Zealand

• Consulting on Telecom New Zealand demerger (largest demerger in New Zealand history• Consulting and compliance work for oil and gas, telecommunications, funds and other business• Perform monthly presentations to clients on legislative updates and technical case studies• Write PwC publications for wide distribute

New Zealand

New Zealand

New Zealand

Graduate Diploma In Professional Accounting And Bca In Accounting And Commercial Law, Accounting And Commercial Law

Ncea Level 3

Activities and Societies: Board of Trustees Representative 2005, Halberg House Captain 2005