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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 Cristina.

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 include Recruitment Management Services, Apprenticeship Network Provider, Training & Education.Corporate financial planning and reporting role supporting and advising the business as a whole. Key customers included board of directors, & senior management.• 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 investment. Business units include Recruitment Management Services, Apprenticeship Network Provider, Training & Education.Corporate financial planning and reporting role supporting and advising the business as a whole. Key customers included board of directors, & senior management.• 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.• Responsible for coordination and consolidation of input from business units into forecast & budget, ensuring version control and accurate capture of senior management feedback.• Responsible for preparation of monthly board report group financials and KPI’s. Show less

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 overseas. Key customers included board of directors, internal & external auditors & senior management.• 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 with six business units including two overseas. Key customers included board of directors, internal & external auditors & senior management.• Responsible for monthly board report commentaries by compiling and editing inputs from business unit financial controllers.• 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.• Responsibility for monitoring and reporting of rebranding spend to budget.• Financial accounting for business units in Asia including consolidation into Australian divisional results.• Managed workflow of Financial Analyst including timetabling and validation of output including board report financials, management dashboards and weekly management reports.• Various projects including process streamlining and documentation, annual leave analysis, accounts payable optimization, insurance claim analysis, coordination and collation of various returns from business units. Show less

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 units.Prepared quarterly forecasts, managing versions from business units and collation of total business forecast for senior… Show more 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 units.Prepared quarterly forecasts, managing versions from business units and collation of total business forecast for senior management review and feedback. Show less

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 throughout budget setting process. Partnered with commercial teams.• 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 pharmaceuticals & consumer healthcare multinational corporation.Prepared monthly gross margin reporting, sales forecasts, consensus forecast presentation dashboard. Liased with cost centre managers throughout budget setting process. Partnered with commercial teams.• 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 with increased confidence in version control.• 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 required timeframe during a period of significant change.• 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. Recognised by directors for delivering a format that had the right balance of strategy, team information and building team spirit.• Received several awards for customer focus where recognition was given for stepping up and going the extra mile to get the job done. Show less

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 with variance analysis against prior year, forecast and budget. Ensured best practice finance processes were in place and continuously reviewed these to highlight opportunities for improvement.• 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 destruction solutions.Produced monthly local and quarterly US corporate financial results with variance analysis against prior year, forecast and budget. Ensured best practice finance processes were in place and continuously reviewed these to highlight opportunities for improvement.• 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 Financial Accountant. Preparation of balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and correcting variances. Coordinating team activity during month end process to ensure on time delivery.• 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 legal entities within group structure. Managed and coordinated work of Assistant Financial Accountant. Preparation of balance sheet reconciliations, investigating and correcting variances. Coordinating team activity during month end process to ensure on time delivery.• 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.• Assisted in ERP implementation of new payroll system advising project team by sharing knowledge gained.• Payroll team nomination for SHINE employee recognition award under teamwork category for training given to payroll team to ensure that they were adequately skilled to prepare reconciliations. Show less

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. Responsible for accounting for international sales & marketing, head office programs, loyalty marketing, centralised travel agent commissions, IT recharges, royalties, intercompany loan movements and interest, subsidiaries and reconciling accounts for consolidation purposes.… Show more 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. Responsible for accounting for international sales & marketing, head office programs, loyalty marketing, centralised travel agent commissions, IT recharges, royalties, intercompany loan movements and interest, subsidiaries and reconciling accounts for consolidation purposes. Prepared monthly bank and balance sheet reconciliations.• 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 study into the purchase and implementation of a new accounting system. • 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 requirements were achieved. • 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 on an ongoing basis. • Set out objectives, lead and instructed project personnel in order to meet objectives. Tasks were delegated to project team members to ensure that work was done in a coordinated and timely way. Team progress was tracked and necessary action was taken to meet objectives. Show less

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 management accountant with ad hoc queries. Notable contributions included helping to develop more efficient data entry practices reducing… Show more 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 management accountant with ad hoc queries. Notable contributions included helping to develop more efficient data entry practices reducing unnecessary duplication of work. Show less

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 Excel and the in-house accounting package, controlling petty cash including reconciliation of imprest account. Accomplishments included… Show more 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 Excel and the in-house accounting package, controlling petty cash including reconciliation of imprest account. Accomplishments included reviewing the way documents were being transferred internally and implemented new ideas to streamline this, designing new forms for time sheets, expenses and project registration forms, and assisted staff on the use of Excel. Show less

Education record

Education record

Ba (Hons), Accounting & Finance