Strategic business partner and counsel to the ANZ director of supply chain during a time of significant structural change in the operations. Reporting to the ANZ CFO with dotted line responsibility to the APAC and Global supply chain finance leadership., I had a team of 4 direct reports, 2 of which were remote plus virtual product costing and financial accounting team.• Successful completion of significant supply chain restructuring program including financial analysis, recommendations… Show more Strategic business partner and counsel to the ANZ director of supply chain during a time of significant structural change in the operations. Reporting to the ANZ CFO with dotted line responsibility to the APAC and Global supply chain finance leadership., I had a team of 4 direct reports, 2 of which were remote plus virtual product costing and financial accounting team.• Successful completion of significant supply chain restructuring program including financial analysis, recommendations to global leadership, implementation and control. The project included the closure of a local manufacturing site, transition of the manufacturing of the highest volume and most iconic brand offshore and transition of warehouse operations in Australia to third party provider. This project was on track to deliver business case savings in both ANZ and the supplying manufacturing sites, allowed faster introduction of innovation to the market driving top line growth and avoided significant incremental capital spend.• Strategic review of manufacturing operations, working with global strategy team to investigate and recommend to the global board the optimal footprint for supply of product for the ANZ market.• Implementation of Integrated Business Planning (IBP) for supply chain finance as well as regional forecasting and analysis of product costs working across the local and regional supply chain operations to achieve and informed, connected plan. This provided earlier and better insight into potential issues and opportunities allowing timely action to be taken to avoid cost or plan for price increase discussions.• Implementation of analysis of change (AOC project) - global project to provide automated consistent, and comparable analysis of historic supply chain costs. Project lead for APAC from project inception enabling identification opportunities from historic activities and freeing time from routine activities Show less

Lead the finance function across the commercial divisions of the ANZ business (3 divisions) with a team of 4. Provided counsel to the business on sector strategy and product initiatives, advertising spend and lead the forecasting and budgeting process including monthly IBP forecast, quarterly forecast and annual target for the ANZ business. The role also included reporting of monthly results to the board and regional leadership.• Implementation of Anaplan forecasting furthering the IBP… Show more Lead the finance function across the commercial divisions of the ANZ business (3 divisions) with a team of 4. Provided counsel to the business on sector strategy and product initiatives, advertising spend and lead the forecasting and budgeting process including monthly IBP forecast, quarterly forecast and annual target for the ANZ business. The role also included reporting of monthly results to the board and regional leadership.• Implementation of Anaplan forecasting furthering the IBP and planning process: Implementation in sales and marketing, including partnering with our Korean operation as pilot sites across the region and establishing regional framework in partnership with APAC reporting team.• Established consistent, repeatable information pack for the leadership team for monthly IBP meetings and monthly results.• Strategic Problem Solving program APAC trainer - joint KC and BCG course for which I then became a trainer, providing the first training session in APAC independent of global team.• Worked with the marketing and product planning team to establish evaluation of A&CP spend and prioritisation of marketing projects. Show less

Managed the Corporate Finance function for the ANZ business including financial accounting, reporting (internal and external), internal control, payables (via shared services), receivables, tax, superannuation and insurance and was responsible for the general and administration spend and co-ordination of the quarterly forecast and annual budget process. • Migration of KCA Superannuation fund to third party provided and oversaw the closure of the fund.• Financial control… Show more Managed the Corporate Finance function for the ANZ business including financial accounting, reporting (internal and external), internal control, payables (via shared services), receivables, tax, superannuation and insurance and was responsible for the general and administration spend and co-ordination of the quarterly forecast and annual budget process. • Migration of KCA Superannuation fund to third party provided and oversaw the closure of the fund.• Financial control, reporting and accounting guidance for restructuring of tissue business.• Spin off of Healthcare division – managed the ANZ finance component including working closely with the global team on establishing framework for allocation of assets and funds which was then rolled out to other regions.• Led project to achieve significant reduction in G&A costs ($5m in annual reduction) as well as the financial proposal, closure and transition of supply of non-woven materials manufacturing site.• Oversaw the completion of multi-entity financial statements, met compliance with new accounting standards, both A-GAAP and US-GAAP, multiple years of high internal controls ratings by internal audit team, including compliance with Sarbanes Oxley.• Part of team that successfully defended tax position, for previous acquisitions and debt, with ATO with $22m at stake as well as various other ATO reviews. Show less

Managed the compliance with US GAAP accounting standards and internal financial standards across APAC as well as providing expert and oversight to acquisitions and buy-out of joint ventures across APAC. • Managed the successful transition of ANZ business to IFRS for local reporting (in addition to US-GAAP and provided guidance to other entities across APAC on transition.• Provided accounting guidance for buy-out of several joint ventures and acquisition of several entities under… Show more Managed the compliance with US GAAP accounting standards and internal financial standards across APAC as well as providing expert and oversight to acquisitions and buy-out of joint ventures across APAC. • Managed the successful transition of ANZ business to IFRS for local reporting (in addition to US-GAAP and provided guidance to other entities across APAC on transition.• Provided accounting guidance for buy-out of several joint ventures and acquisition of several entities under the APAC structure as well as accounting guidance on repatriation of cash through the corporate entity chain.• Accounting guidance on complex lease arrangements for supply chain and accounting guidance for restructuring projects.• Managed the implementation of Blackline balance sheet reconciliations – APAC were the leaders across the globe in adopting Blackline, the template for which was adopted globally and provided efficiency, integrity and visibility to status of balance sheet.• Established and led APAC accounting and controls forums the purpose of which was improving the accounting and control expertise across APAC. Show less

Started at PW in internal accounting while doing undergraduate accounting degree. Transferred to professional staff in the Business Advisory section. Established payroll and expat outsourcing service, audits, and provided accounting expertise to inbound investment clients.