Experience

Zurich Australia

• Financial Services
• 400 - 500 Employee

• Finance Business Partner / Expense Manager Shared Services

  • Oct 2017 - Present

  As a key contributor to the monitoring, control and reporting of shared services expenses, I am responsible for accurate reporting to senior stakeholders across Shared Service, Life and General Insurance PPM and Regional teams. I work with Executives, cost centre managers and senior finance personal in development of annual expense plans and quarterly forecasts and management of expenses to help meet overall business objectives. • Annual planning and quarterly forecasting• Prepare and participate in monthly reviews with departmental heads and their management team to discuss actuals and forecasts and any necessary action plans• Monthly Cost Centre reporting to track and manage expenses to plan and forecast• Liaison with Life and GI PPM teams regarding their allocation of Shared Services cost• Expense Management, reviewing actuals to plan, ensuring correct treatment of cost• Ad hoc assistance with management of IT, Property and other projects financials• Decision support and advice to Shared Services stakeholders (Benchmarking, runrate savings etc) • Key point of contact for FAR for month end and year end• Preparation of month end journals, accruals, Group and Regional recoveries and capitalisation• Shared Services include IT, HR, Finance, Legal, Risk, Property, Procurement.



IAG

• Australia
• Insurance
• 700 & Above Employee

• Management Accountant

  • Apr 2015 - Oct 2017

  • Understanding the detail underlying the Expenses for Technology area. • Cost centres management.• Budgeting and forecasting. • End of month journals and accruals.• Monthly dashboard preparation with variance commentary. • Managing of major contract recharges.• Supporting transition and integration projects.• SAP, TM1, Clearcost

• Commercial Analyst

  • Jul 2013 - Mar 2015

  •IT Opex cost and budget management including setting up cost tracking tools in Excel, contractors cost analysis, monthly detailed analysis of expenses.•IT BAU Capex cost and budget management including setting up cost tracking spreadsheets, arranging approval of Capex spend, monthly reporting, quarterly forecast update. •Assisting with annual budget preparation •End of month journals and accruals•Processing of vendor and intercompany invoices for IT



Barangaroo Delivery Authority

• Management Accountant

  • Aug 2012 - Jun 2013

  • End of month journals and accruals• Balance sheet reconciliations• FBT, GST calculations and lodgement of activity statements to ATO• Maintenance of fixed asset register • Processing of invoices: approval, coding, creation, liaising with vendors • Weekly cash flow forecasting to ensure adequate funds are available to meet statutory and business requirements• Overseeing of procurement function – creation of purchase orders and ensuring all services / goods are procured correctly as per procurement policy of the authority• Assisting with managing external audit process• Monthly and ad-hoc reporting across sub-projects



Optus

• Australia
• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Accountant

  • Jul 2010 - May 2012

  Support and reporting to internal stakeholders to ensure monthly and full year KPI for forecast accuracy are metProvide accurate and timely commentary on monthly, YTD and Full Year variances and prepare monthly SLT / BPR slidesPurchase orders and goods receipt - creation, support across division for project coordinators, improvement of process, resolving legacy itemsEnd of month journals for clearing accountsWork in Progress: review and capitalisation Support and reporting to internal stakeholders to ensure monthly and full year KPI for forecast accuracy are metProvide accurate and timely commentary on monthly, YTD and Full Year variances and prepare monthly SLT / BPR slidesPurchase orders and goods receipt - creation, support across division for project coordinators, improvement of process, resolving legacy itemsEnd of month journals for clearing accountsWork in Progress: review and capitalisation



Sakhalin Energy

• Oil and Gas
• 700 & Above Employee

• PSF Project Assistant Accountant

  • Oct 2008 - Dec 2009

  Sakhalin 2 is currently the biggest integrated oil and gas production and export project in the world; I worked on the subproject responsible for building production support facilities and developing infrastructure, such as roads, bridges, accommodation facilities, and marine bases. My duties included : Invoice processing End of month accrualsMonthly cash forecast Maintenance of SAP project records including creation /close out of networks, orders, purchase requisitions.Project capitalization, variance analysis and other ad-hoc duties supporting senior project accountant.

• Transition Accountant

  • Nov 2007 - Sep 2008

  Transitioning projects finance into the asset organisationMy duties included:preparation of cost registers that accumulated projects costs in order to facilitate transition of the company from the project to an asset organisation. End of month reporting on the progress of transition process.



Bouygues Construction

• France
• Construction
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant of Finance Manager

  • Apr 2004 - Jul 2007

  The subsidiary in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Russia was a chief contractor for Exxon Mobil and constructed their regional head office in Sakhalin. I was responsible for month end closing – allocation of expenses to the various cost codes; Monthly inventory reports, certificates of payment for subcontractors; verification of invoices against contracts; overseeing all logistical processes including liaising with clients, subcontractors, customs brokers, suppliers of materials, preparation of necessary documentation for acceleration of customs clearance; Travel arrangements including booking of flights, hotels, cars, etc.; translation services