Highly experienced commercial finance professional, big 4 trained CA, with a track record of business partnering through change to drive profitable growth in ASX listed, global multinational and start-up organisations. A customer and commercially focused leader who has successfully leveraged strong analytical skills and completed an MBA to broaden capabilities and take-on diverse assignments, ranging from developing joint ventures in Malaysia, to negotiating EBA’s, to leading property developments in Hong Kong and Los Angeles, to CFO ANZ of a multinational beauty company, to CFO of a rapidly growing e-commerce start-up.KEY AREAS OF EXPERTISEBusiness Partnering Through Change: Valued business partner to CEO/MD/GM, who challenges the status quo using strong influencing and stakeholder management skills. Consistently delivers revenue and profit growth, despite organisational restructures, mergers and acquisitions, disposals and new systems. Customer Focused Commercial Leadership: Advanced decision support and business case evaluation capabilities across three customer focused organisations, Qantas, Coty & Koala. Effectively balance competing customer, service delivery or brand building priorities with supply chain constraints and financial targets. Negotiated contracts and developed supplier relationships across ANZ and, Asia and Europe to achieve cost targets.Equity Raising & Investor Relations: Strong capability to effectively communicate with external audiences, ensuring credibility, reputation and valuation of the company is enhanced, whilst providing confidence to investors, through extensive due diligence that their money is in safe hands.Simplification: Excellent presentation and financial modelling skills, with ability to simplify and present complex data to develop compelling business cases required for decision making, such cost restructuring programs, labour outsourcing, retail installations, facility shut-downs and property investments.Stakeholder Management: Extensive experience managing diverse external relationships, from investment banks, investors, insurers, strategy consultants, legal and tax advisors, to architects and builders. Led matrixed and cross-functional teams across Customer, Sales, Marketing, Supply Chain, Property, HR and IT