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Blackburn, Victoria, Australia

GWA Group Limited is Australia’s leading supplier of building fixtures and fittings to households and commercial premises.The Company is the owner of an extensive range of well-known brands including Caroma, Dorf, Fowler, Stylus, Clark, Austral Lock, Gainsborough and API Locksmiths, and is the exclusive Australian distributor of other brands including.

Melbourne, Australia

• MEGT provides employers with strategic guidance, performance improvement solutions, actionable insights, consulting expertise and talent development services to maximise their workforce investment. Business units.
• Finance SME in… Show more MEGT provides employers with strategic guidance, performance improvement solutions, actionable insights, consulting expertise and talent development services to maximise their workforce.
• Finance SME in Corporate Performance Management project involving the development, testing, and deployment of functionality during the implementation of IBM Cognos Express business intelligence tool.
• Leveraged IBM Cognos Express and TM1 Perspectives to develop and optimise reporting to meet management informational requirements.
• Finance lead for developing and delivering training to upskill the business to gain better business insight by using IBM Cognos Express functionality.
• Partnered with Education BU to design and build revenue models to enable to better understanding and business operations.

Melbourne, Australia

• Working in the Toll Global Express Division - a market leading express freight operator in Australia providing time sensitive freight distribution.Divisional role partnering with six business units including two.
• Responsible for monthly board report commentaries by compiling and editing inputs from business unit financial controllers.
• Developed reporting to facilitate… Show more Working in the Toll Global Express Division - a market leading express freight operator in Australia providing time sensitive freight distribution.Divisional role partnering.
• Developed reporting to facilitate volume-mix analysis.
• Built bridging reports to enable business units to identify causes of variances.
• Responsible for coordination and consolidation of forecasting input from business units into divisional forecast, ensuring version control and accurate capture of senior management feedback.

Essendon Fields, Melbourne, Australia

Largest privately owned logistics company in Australia delivering service excellence and adaptable supply chain solutions across Asia Pacific.Head office role interfacing with Board and four business units. Involvement with monthly board report preparation with respect to all financials and dashboards. Coordination of board report inputs from business.

Abbotsford, Melbourne, Australia

• Australian arm of pharmaceuticals & consumer healthcare multinational corporation.Prepared monthly gross margin reporting, sales forecasts, consensus forecast presentation dashboard. Liased with cost centre managers.
• Developed an interactive dashboard template that summarized actual, forecast and budget sales and marketing data by brand. Trained business partners to use the template for commercial… Show more Australian arm of.
• Developed an interactive dashboard template that summarized actual, forecast and budget sales and marketing data by brand. Trained business partners to use the template for commercial presentations. Provided directors.
• Partnered with external consultant during the upgrade of planning software resulting in on time project delivery and $10k cost saving.
• Built a data extraction utility as a workaround solution during the rollout of SAP ERP (JDE legacy system) resulting in substantial additional analytical capacity which contributed to delivering a budget within the.
• Volunteered to join a committee that acted as a voice for wider finance team during a period of significant change due to reorganisation. Participated in re-designing and hosting of the new format for team meeting..

Hawthorn East, Melbourne, Australia

• Asia Pacific branch of US owned corporation specialising in comprehensive records management, data protection, and information destruction solutions.Produced monthly local and quarterly US corporate financial results.
• Reviewed and documented procedures for loading budgets into accounting… Show more Asia Pacific branch of US owned corporation specialising in comprehensive records management, data protection, and information.
• Reviewed and documented procedures for loading budgets into accounting system.
• Produced process notes for monthly reporting tasks for this role. Show less

Melbourne, Australia

• Leading hospitality and entertainment groupDirected monthly preparation of analytical reviews used to monitor and control accounts of legal entities within group structure. Managed and coordinated work of Assistant.
• Designed and implemented analytical review report, incorporated it in… Show more Leading hospitality and entertainment groupDirected monthly preparation of analytical reviews used to monitor and control accounts of.
• Designed and implemented analytical review report, incorporated it in monthly process. Received recognition from audit team in management letter for providing high quality information.
• Responsible for final migration of Tab Ltd corporate finance function processes and knowledge transfer to head office Corporate Finance.
• Designed annual and long service leave provision calculation models, taking into consideration changes in legislation and accounting standards. Models were rolled out as group wide accounting policy.
• Designed and built a tool to translate payroll data into Oracle journal during a transition period where the payroll system became unsupported as the new accounting system was implemented.

Hertfordshire, United Kingdom

• Corporate role at global leader in hospitality industry.First point of contact for international hotel Finance Managers. Coordinated the flow of transactions between head office and the international hotels..
• Reduced intercompany balances significantly ($6m to $2m) by rebuilding working relations with international financial controllers and by seeking proactive solutions.
• Reviewed weaknesses within processes and implemented changes to streamline and standardise them.
• Identified and presented to management that existing interhotel statement reporting structure was inefficient and highlighted potential benefits of using web-based reporting. This was part of an overall feasibility.
• Assisted our joint venture companies in the implementation of their web-based billing infrastructure by acting as a point of contact between them and the hotel financial controllers to ensure that information.
• Sought feedback from team members and hotel financial controllers to identify opportunities to improve the quality of the service provided by our team. These changes were implemented and documented in procedure notes.

London, United Kingdom

Accounts Assistant in finance team of a film post production facility reporting to Management Accountant. Responsibilities included managing the staff expenses ledger, liasing with subsidiary in producing the month end work-in progress schedule, maintaining the fixed assets register, producing month end reports for management accounts and assisting.

London, United Kingdom

Accounts Assistant within a chartered surveyors and building consultancy firm. Responsibilities included maintaining and controlling the purchase ledger, reconciling supplier accounts and investigating discrepancies, ensuring time costs and expenses were up-to-date to facilitate correct and timely billing, producing ad-hoc reports for management using.

Education record

Education record

Ba (Hons), Accounting & Finance