Australia and New Zealand's largest independent music and entertainment group; home to the most respected names in Australian music. The Group, founded in the 70's by Michael Gudinski is comprised of 30+ companies, incorporating record labels, touring, publishing, booking agencies, artist management, film & television, merchandising and creative services.

Develop and lead a team responsible for the provision of high quality financial analysis, mentoring and timely visibility of the organisation’s financial performance to all internal stakeholders. Build financial management capability within a matrix organisational structure via a business partnering model with active oversight of the analysis and provision of financial recommendations for tendering and the assessment of major organisational projects.

Lead a National team in all financial functions; including, financial accounting, compliance, reporting, credit and billing, budgeting and forecastingImplementation of tranformational change projects, adopting a continuous improvement framework to deliver best practice in all aspects of financeOwner of statutory, internal and external audit programs; managing engagement with domestic and international stakeholders - leading the company through the SOX (Sarbanes Oxley) framework, ensuring compliance in accordance with Brookfield (parent company) requirements

Managed ~$400M turnover; steering $30-40M per annum of capital projectsMember of the Veolia Finance Advisory Committee; responsible for developing local policies and procedures in addition to rolling out International Group policyLead the Victorian and Tasmanian finance, administration and commercial teams supervising and mentoring a team of financial and management accountants in New ZealandFP&A activities for the region, including the delivery of a budget and forecast for over 70 trading profit centres ; including preparation and presentation of management pack to Veolia National ExecutiveRegional strategy development including facilitating 3 day strategy conferences; accountable for financial, people, environmental and safety initiativesIdentification and delivery of in excess of $5M in annual savings through implementation of a continuous improvement programsManage the due diligience process of a strategic acquisition; communicating the proposal and strategic alignment to French Veolia Group Executive for decision and taking the lead on assimilating the business, it's systems and processes

Management of ~$180M turnover; responsibility for state based compliance signoffsLead Victorian and Tasmanian finance team; comprising financial and management accountants and credit functionsFinance approval for all commercial tenders for the Victorian and Tasmanian businessManage the preparation, signoff and presentation of budgets for over 50 trading profit centres Promoted to Executive Leadership Team, contributing to the development of state strategiesSuccessful integration of three Veolia divisions in to the Victorian business; steering each through a complicated change process, requiring alignment with local and international complianceCore member of the due diligence team of a strategic business acquisition; successfully integrating the business in to all Veolia systems and policies

Manage the Victorian budget and forecast process; including accountability for the adherence to deadlines and presentation to the Victorian ExecutiveDeliver analysis and KPI reporting following strategic collaboration with operational stakeholders to enable better decision makingChampioned strong business partnership within the business to drive commercial synergies across all divisionsEstablished relationships across all functions of Veolia; from operations to executive managers; in order to identify and mitigate cost overruns and ensure successful commercial outcomes are achieved

Manage full accounting function and team for 10 trading companies within the Group with an annual turnover of $95MPreparation of Joint Venture financial statements within the Group including International settlements and related tax implicationsManage the department workflow, deadlines and preparation of senior management reports and briefing; including management of record label royalty system and royalty administratorDesign, develop and deliver systems to digitise the processing of income and forecast costsNavigate and champion new systems for budgeting activities within the GroupMentored non-financial business stakeholders in revenue and expense management with a focus on developing their financial acumen