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Melbourne, Australia

Key Responsibilities include: Preparation and presentation of weekly performance results to the Customer leadership (CLT) and Residential (RLT) teams.Presenting weekly insights, statistics and performance results to stakeholders within the customer businessPreparing and presenting monthly performance scorecards to the Customer Leadership (CLT), Residential Leadership (RLT) and Operational leadership teams each month. Preparing monthly consolidated customer business review reports (BRR), providing detailed and insightful commentary (highlighting key events and market trends) to the Chief customer officer and Finance business partner for the Customer team each month.Oversaw the successful implementation of the Voice Analytics system (Nexidia) on behalf of the Customer business. Building queries, dashboards and showcasing the advantages of this tool to both onshore and offshore agents and numerous stakeholders within the customer business.Am a Risk Champion on behalf of the performance and analysis team.

Melbourne, Australia

Key Responsibilities included:Prepared and delivered the annual business plan and multiple forecasts for multiple areas of the Customer Business (Operations, C&I and Residential and Small Business) preparing and presenting plan presentations packs to senior members of the retail business and always adhering to deadlines and ensuring it was aligned to the customer strategy.Prepared and reviewed business cases on behalf on the customer team and finance teams. This included reviewing financial models, challenging key assumptions and providing recommendations from a commercial and financial perspective to ensure investments decisions were made with a good understanding of expected financial impacts and risks.Created and implemented detailed financial modelling in relation to operational expenditure, liaised with key stakeholders with the customer business (strategy and pricing teams etc) to determine the retail gross margin, Prepared monthly management reports including commentary on OPEX and Gross margin (Actuals vs Plan and Prior year) to the Commercial and Industrial (C&I), Customer Operations and Customer (Residential and Business) teams. Produced and presented detailed variance analysis, monthly business reporting and provided monthly commentary to senior members of the Customer and Finance teams.

Melbourne, Australia

Key Responsibilities included:Prepared and presented annual business plan for the C&I and (this involved liaising with key members of the C&I business to ensure timeframes and key inputs (i.e. Sales volumes and margins) were received within the required timelines.Collated and reported key customer information for the investor relations team within CLP (and providing explanations and feedback where necessary).

Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne, Australia

Key responsibilities included:Preparing monthly management reports for the states and providing MTD and YTD commentary (Actuals vs budget) This included detailed variance analysis.Completing quarterly forecasts in co-ordination with national facilities and operations managers.Managing the retail budgeting process for Victoria, South Australia and West Australia portfolios. This included setting budget assumptions, analyzing and preparing budget packs and co-coordinating information flows between the businesses.Identifying and implementing improvements to provide additional analysis for internal and external customers.Preparing month-end journals for premises costs e.g. rent accruals, legal accruals, outgoings accruals in consultation with state and national operational staff.Reviewing and writing procedures to identify Capital expenditure and Operating expenditure.

London, United Kingdom

Key Responsibilities included:Ensuring monthly accruals adjustments were completed on time and accurate within the agreed timeframes.Producing timely and accurate financial information, this included producing monthly budget statements, payroll summary reports and detailed board reports for budget holders within the Estates and Facilities team.Reviewing invoices and advising budget holders of relevant account codes to use when approving expenses.Generating and reviewing weekly and monthly payroll files, making adjustments where necessary.Distributing and monitoring internal control forms for internal payroll adjustments within each department.Raising monthly & quarterly recharge invoices (sales orders) for different NHS trusts and external customers.Maintaining accounting procedures & processes.Maintaining and creating strong working relationships with fellow team members, budget holders and key stakeholders within the trust.Completing ad hoc tasks as requested by the head of corporate landlord.

Melbourne, Australia

Key responsibilities included:Managed a team of 4 people.Performing and administering consolidated balance sheet reconciliation’s for COCO (Company Owned Company Operated) operations in accordance with BSI (Balance Sheet Integrity) standards.Performing weekly intercompany account reconciliations to identify and resolve issues.Generating and monitoring monthly account and debt reports for the retail network.Conducting quarterly risk reviews and performing audits of merchant commissions.Streamlining processes and procedures to improve the relevance of information provided to the COCO network in accordance with industry best in class standards.Maintaining up to date administrative and accounting records within a strong financial control environment for COCO and BFF (Business Funded Format) businesses.Creating and maintaining financial reporting tools via business warehouse (R3) to ensure the accuracy of results were in line with business requirements and IFRS Standards.Coordinating month end activities to ensure month end timetables and global deadlines were adhered to.Preparing and submitting BAS to Elite’s indirect tax team on behalf of BP Retail and in accordance with world class deadlines.Acting as a business advisor to senior members of BP Retail on gross profit, sales and payroll analysis.Performing, calculating and providing analysis for weekly fuel, project cost and sales reporting,while acting as a global super user within business warehouse (R3).

Melbourne, Australia

Key responsibilities included:Providing accounting services to external clients such as Multi Site Franchisees (MSFs). Reconciling MSF general ledger accounts and bank statements on a daily basis.Analysing monthly purchases, expense and fuel account by MSF owned petrol sites throughout Australia.Reviewing and analysing monthly balance sheets, profit and loss reports and gross profit reports for MSF clients on a monthly basis.Reviewing monthly and quarterly BAS statements for MSF’s.Providing regular support to management and fellow team members.