Experience

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  New Zealand Window Shades

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Company Accountant

    • Oct 2022 - May 2024
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Contract role for maternity leave cover.

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  Inzone Industries Limited

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Management Accountant

    • Nov 2017 - Oct 2022
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Initially a contract role, became permanent after 1 year.

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  Fisher & Paykel Appliances

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Financial Accountant - Distributor NZ

    • Nov 2016 - Sep 2017
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Contract role to provide cover while a permanent replacement was found. Further staff changes in the Finance department contributed to this role being extended several times.

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  Cottonsoft Limited

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Financial Accountant

    • Nov 2015 - Sep 2016
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Contract role to provide additional resource for upcoming end of financial year. The contract was extended several times while the role was being filled permanently.

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  Carters Building Supplies

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Branch Accountant

    • Jun 2015 - Sep 2015
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Contract role to provide additional resource while new staff were trained.

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  McPherson's Consumer Products NZ Ltd

  • Auckland

  • Contract Accountant

    • Apr 2015 - May 2015
    • Auckland

    Contract role to provide additional resource following recent restructuring.

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  Rakon Ltd

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Group Financial Accountant

    • Mar 2014 - Feb 2015
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Contract role to cover year end requirements while a permanent placement was found.

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  Fisher & Paykel Appliances

  • Corporate Accountant

    • Jun 2013 - Dec 2013

    Contract role while the finance department staff requirements were being reviewed following the Haier takeover in October 2012. The role was mainly focussed on the monthly group consolidation and intercompany reconciliations, including detailed reporting to local management, the F&P board of directors and Haier head office in China.

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  Bridgestone NZ Ltd

  • Auckland

  • Financial Accountant

    • Jun 2012 - Feb 2013
    • Auckland

    National Support Office role for maternity leave cover. Reasonably standard Financial Accountant role covering monthly financial reporting, group consolidations, treasury, cash forecasting, board reporting, balance sheet account reconciliations and review.

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  Sleepyhead Manufacturing

  • Financial Accountant

    • Feb 2011 - Jan 2012

    Fixed term contract role as Financial Accountant for the Australian Bedding operation. The main focus of this newly created role was the integration of the Australian bedding operation that was acquired from Pacific Brands in March 2011 into the existing Sleepyhead structure.

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  Fonterra Brands

  • Management Accountant - Export

    • Sep 2010 - Dec 2010

    Caretaker role while a permanent placement was made via internal process.

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  Interclean Industrial Services

  • Financial Controller

    • Nov 2008 - Jul 2010

    Initially a 6 month contract role to bring the accounts up to date as they were about 2 years out of date when I started. The initial contract was extended indefinitely given the extent that the business needed to be reviewed from a financial perspective. I put in place internal processes to ensure timely and accurate reporting and streamlined the treasury function.

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  Excell Corporation

  • Auckland

  • Northern Regional Accountant

    • Apr 2008 - Nov 2008
    • Auckland

    Management accounting role supporting Contract Managers with variance and profitability analysis. This included a detailed review of the contract retentions provision which resulted in subsequent recovery of uninvoiced amounts from some contracts. This position was unfortunately disestablished following the acquisition of Excell by Downer EDI.

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  PlaceMakers

  • Financial Accountant

    • Feb 2007 - Mar 2008

    National Office role for 1 year as maternity leave cover. Involvement in several I.T. related projects as well as regular monthly financial reporting.

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  Kerry NZ Ltd

  • Auckland

  • Industrial Division Accountant

    • Jul 2006 - Feb 2007
    • Auckland

    Management accounting role supporting the bulk oil division of this import and distribution operation. This included reconciliation of bulk oil stocks with external storage facilities and preparation of stock costings for bulk oil receipts. This also included a detailed review of historical purchase price variances that needed to be released from the clearing account. The minority shareholder of this company sold his shares to the offshore parent and all finance functions are now handled by that parent company.

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  Fonterra Brands (Tip Top Ice Cream)

  • Auckland

  • Business Analysis Manager

    • Apr 2006 - Jun 2006
    • Auckland

    Caretaker role while a permanent placement was made through internal process.

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  Cavalier Corporation Ltd

  • Auckland

  • Project Accountant

    • May 2005 - Mar 2006
    • Auckland

    This was a fixed term project driven role which covered several areas including budgeting, insurance renewals, implementation of new systems and treasury management. Due to a sudden resignation during the term of this contract I also prepared the monthly management accounts for the manufacturing operations of the company until a replacement was found for that role.