Tim Chapman Email & Phone Number

Auckland, Nz

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsibilities: • Provide technical expertise in support of Finance & Actuarial and Investments projects and initiatives. • Assist with local support of key Finance and Investment systems and related processes, including: - Providing support in relation to the SimCorp Dimension (ICE) investment management platform. - Providing appropriate local support in relation to the operation of SAP systems and/or liaise with relevant AIA Group teams supporting these systems. • Mentor, share knowledge and train other team members to increase overall team capability.• Complete month-end and year-end procedures and other system admin tasks. • Monitor overnight and during day processes and resolving issues that may arise. • Make or request system changes as requested by NZ users following relevant local or AIA Group standards or procedures. • Assist with testing as part of system upgrade projects (including for ICE) and other technology changes. • Respond to audit requests, and manage user access reviews, recertifications and terminations. • Work with system vendors or AIA Group teams to report bugs, problems, and questions on system functionality. • Report development and process automation. • Configuration set up and development of functionality within the ICE and, to the extent required, Finance One applications using the built-in functionality and toolsets. • Take a lead on work or projects to improve processes in the Finance & Actuarial division and the Investments function. Key Achievements: • Annual upgrade successfully completed on time and within budget each year with the UAT testing largely being a support team function.• Completed biannual user reviews across 3 systems as scheduled and to the satisfaction of external auditors and group.• Development of Trial Balance upload process. This involved analysing data from an external source then providing the specifications for data warehouse output for input into a SAP journal template.

Auckland, New Zealand

Same responsibilities as Senior Finance & Investment Support Analyst role above.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsibilities: • Subject matter expert for the Fixed Asset and Project migration from local Finance One GL to group SAP GL• Evaluate the existing Finance One fixed asset register to identify any assets that can be removed and any errors that exist• Provide user training and go live support • Recategorize assets into new groupings and reconcile between systemsKey Achievements: • The asset migration was completed on the due date along with the rest of the migration.• Over 10,000 assets were removed from our local GL which left only 5,600 to be migrated which greatly reduced risk and complexity. The GL process to do this had to be researched and tested and a paper for the CFO to approve also had to be produced. Several complicated errors were also identified and resolved.

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsibilities: • Perform the monthly fixed asset process which includes adding new assets to the register, run depreciation, produce monthly depreciation reports for saving and distribution• Preparation of monthly expense review to be presented to Business Partnering Manager including accrual analysis for CFO meeting• Preparation of expense analysis data including preparation of prepayments scheduleKey Achievement: • Established calculation of aging values for expense accounts to be provided monthly to group

Auckland, New Zealand

Responsibilities: • First line Simcorp Dimension (ICE) system and process support for the Investment Operations and Investment Solutions teams.• First line Finance One system and process support for the Finance team.• Complete month and year end tasks for both ICE and Finance One to meet with reporting deadlines for both groups of usersAchievements: • Reduced risk and complexity through the completion of planned and ad hoc requests via automation.

Auckland, New Zealand

• A key part of the Simcorp Dimension project prior to and during the system launch in March 2004 which included testing, patch loading and creating all of the system security and access setups for users when we went live. This was followed by the on-going maintenance of Simcorp Dimension in regards to system security and user access.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Performed fund investment for various unitized investment products as per benchmarks and the maintenance of asset allocations. This also included the purchase of foreign currency hedges and managing cash holding across all investment groups to ensure sufficient funds available for redemptions and expenses as well as investing funds if cash levels rose above mandate.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Monitored Information Services Capital budget (usually around $20 million) and produced a monthly board page summarising actual and forecast expenditure. • Controlled Technology and Operations budget process involving 360 staff and $60 million expenditure. This included resolving resource level issues and allocating changes and cuts.

Auckland, New Zealand

• Developed and provided training for staff on computer based applications

National Diploma Of Accounting

Full Member