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Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Working as a Medical Courier, collecting specimens from hospitals around Melbourne and Victoria and delivering them to the laboratory.

South America & Antarctica

Enjoyed a career break and travelled to South America & Antarctica for 3 months

Melbourne

• Finance Systems Support for Adaptive Planning.• Maintained master data in Adaptive Planning• Loaded and reconcile Workday monthly data to Adaptive planning.• Investigate and problem solve data integrity issues across multiple Finance system integrations.• Prepared the Adaptive planning system for quarterly forecasting and budgeting.• Develop robust reporting solutions in Adaptive Planning and AP Office Connect. • Build relationships with key finance systems support staff and Finance end users.

Melbourne, Australia

Systems Used: Adaptive Insights• Finance SME systems support for Adaptive Planning.• Closed and rolled the BST system at month end.• Maintained GL accounts and cost center master data in BST and Adaptive.• Loaded and reconcile BST trail balance to Adaptive planning.• Prepared the Adaptive planning system for quarterly forecasting and budgeting.• Assisted in the design and build of the new Adaptive planning system, security setup, report design & build, Training, UAT, Master data builds, data interface design.

Melbourne, Australia

Systems Used: SAP BPC, SAP COPA/BI, SAP FI/ECC Hyperion Planning, HFM, SmartviewResponsible for operating as the primary business contact between finance, technical IS teams and 3rd party SAP consultants. The role included:• Preparing & administering quarterly & annual P&L's in the SAP BPC/BI planning system by loading & reconciling data for business finance reporting teams.• Investigating and resolving month end data and system defects across SAP modules and HFM reporting system to improve data integrity to benefit the finance teams.• Training new staff on all systems modules used by the Finance teams.• Assisting in preparing month end, forecasting and budgeting packs for senior management.Selected Achievements – (Improving user experience and reporting timelines) • Successfully worked in a team in the transformation of data from JDE to SAP, Hyperion Planning/MRS to SAP BI resulted in correcting up to $40 million of allocated costs.• Project managed improvements and upgrades on the SAP BPC planning system post go live, meeting budget and improving reporting time lines. • Initiated system server upgrades resulting in significant technical performance improvements from hours to minutes in runtime.• Initiated and project managed the roll out of SAP Analyser for MS Excel to 400 users.• Established the business requirements for new reports to be built in SAP BI.• User acceptance testing across all SAP system modules ensuring standards were met.

Systems Used: Pronto, Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), ExcelResponsible for setting up and establishing mine site start up, systems and processes for the finance team. Assisted the Finance Manager with accounting duties. This role was FIFO. The role included:• Subject Matter Expert (SME) for all Pronto modules, general ledger, job costing, plant maintenance, and the relationship with each module using product and cost category tables and chart of accounts.• Assisting the Pronto Systems Accountant in providing business requirements for the implementation of the job costing, plant maintenance structures for start up operations.• Liaising with engineers to collate mining & production grades and recoveries data for group reporting.• Performing month end tasks, inter/co reconciliations, accruals, revenue analysis, and data loads to HFM • Providing Pronto system support to site users.Selected Achievements • Initiated, created and implemented excel models to forecast job costing for site and group reporting requirements, allowing visibility to data and improved business decisions.• Corrected and recorded Pronto system integrity issues quickly improving month end timelines from 7 to 4 days.

Perth, Australia

Systems Used: Hyperion Financial Management (HFM), Financial Data Management (FDM), ExcelResponsible for Implementing HFM and supporting the group management accountant on all forecasting and reporting requirements. Selected Achievements – (Improving user experience and reporting timelines) • Successfully project managed all stages of the end to end implementation of HFM for group finance.• Assisted the consulting technical lead in all aspects of the design, build and testing of HFM & FDM, by creating master data, business rules, data mapping, Inter-company data web-forms.• Created automated Hyperion analysis reports and presentation packs. Allowing users to stop using Excel reporting and running reports and packs direct from the system.• Developed training documentation, process flowcharts for group and mine site finance staff• Developed Hyperion smartview excel models for management and statutory accounting purposes to meet business user requirements.• Travelled to Africa, Vancouver and the UK to train end users and document process improvements.• Assisted the group management accountant in all aspects of monthly reporting, forecasting/budgeting of mine site production results.• Liaised with the Pronto system administrator to ensure data interfaced with Pronto to HFM via FDM. • Liaised with the IT, 3rd party consulting firms to significantly improve system performance. • Created data load excel models for forecasting and budgeting in HFM.

Melbourne, Australia

Systems Used: Excel, Hyperion (HFM), SAPResponsible for assisting Systems team to upgrade processes. The role included:• Updated Balance sheet tracker to incorporate the NZ GL chart of accounts.• Created SAP – HFM mapping tables, for legal consolidation entities for loading data into HFM.• Created excel upload templates to interface monthly SAP data to HFM.

Geelong, Australia

Systems Used: Excel, NXG Accurate, SAPResponsible for assisting Supply Finance Team with process upgrade. The role included:• Created a reconciliation process to ensure data integrity of oil company barrow and loan volume.• Maintain daily pricing rates and manage crude and products transfer pricing spreadsheets• Manage monthly buy/sell pricing and volume reconciliation activities with other oil companies, and liaise closely with supply finance to ensure minimum reconciliation items.• Identify improvements in the finance systems information flow process, between supply and finance departments

Melbourne, Australia

Systems Used: Excel, Hyperion Enterprise, Hyperion Reporting, HAL, Autopilot •Responsible for supporting systems team in administrating Hyperion Enterprise system. The role included: • Review, load and consolidated monthly and statuary data submitted from Amcor’s global companies• Data mapping and reconciliation of financial and management information• Assisted with quarterly application rebuilds for distribution to Amcor business groups• General systems administrative maintenance of Hyperion Enterprise• Provided technical advice, training and support to business usersSelected Achievements:• Documented improvements to Hyperion by introducing change control register to track system issues to ensure data integrity of the system, for the accounting and reporting team.• Created management and financial automated reports for business users, improving month end timelines and efficiency.

London, United Kingdom

Systems Used: Excel, Hyperion Planning/EssbaseResponsible for supporting the group management accountant on all forecasting and reporting requirements. Also assisting the Hyperion consultants in the development of Hyperion planning . The role included:• Preparing IT monthly reporting analysis during the merger of DHL, Danzas, DPEE.• Preparing budget management packs for the Finance Director to present to the board.• Preparing monthly management reports for IT regional controllers globally.• Consolidating and reconciling monthly general ledger data into a single reporting system.Selected Achievements – (Improving user experience and reporting timelines from 2 weeks to 2 days) • Assisted in the development of Hyperion Planning to support the global DHL IT accounting team• Created data load rules & calculation scripts to load and consolidate data within the application.• Created and maintained Hyperion Planning web forms and business rules• Maintained and set-up security access for 200 users.• Created run rate and variance analysis web based reports using Hyperion Reports.• Testing the application to ensure data integrity and transparency was achieved.• Conducted training and prepared end user documentation for managers and regional controllers

London, United Kingdom

Systems Used: Excel, JD Edwards, Hyperion Enterprise• Review and maintain the approval process for 90 merger integration projects. • Implemented and produced monthly project and redundancy management reports.• Liaised with cost centre managers and financial analysts.• Posting of monthly journals, and inter-company invoices.• Reconciling balance sheet accruals and depreciation accounts. • Assisted in the administration for system integration of JD Edwards. • Assisted in the administration Hyperion Enterprise system