Experience

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  Millennium & Copthorne Hotels

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Management Accountant

    • Nov 2017 - Present
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Responsibilities• Capex Reporting-Working with Hotel GMs to develop Capex and Project budgets to compiling of Group Capex budgets to preparing Board Reports to Regional Reports on Capex Spend and 3+ years Capex Projections. Responsible for the overall maintenance of the fixed asset registers• Integrated General Managers Reporting- From setting up to collating GM reports of 16 hotels to ensure the integrity of monthly financial reporting to UK.• Regional Reporting – Commentary on Regional Report of Hotel performance to support Management with analysis and insight into Hotel operations• Revenue Reports- Reporting on Revenue Generation and Cost efficiencies to UK on Hotel GOP Conversions on weekly basis• Investigation, analysis and reporting of variances on the monthly KPIs of the hotels to Singapore Regional Office• Back up to the Group Financial Accountant for the administrative support of Hyperion Financial Management, Monthly consolidation to Preparation of annual financial statements for property and other small corporate entities• HFM reporting on Daily Revenue-Loading Monthly Budgets, Forecast of Daily Revenue to HFM.• Ad hoc projects- Assists with the preparation of working papers for interim and year end reports for senior management and other internal stakeholders• Support Procurement Manager with analysis of various options on costing of Hotel purchases• SBIT Report- Environmental Reporting to UK on energy efficiencies, waste management and Travel data

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  The Roof Tile Group, Fletcher Building

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Group Accountant

    • Nov 2014 - Nov 2017
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    • Responsible for the consolidation of financial reporting and consolidate RTG results in Hyperion, preparation of consolidated weekly forecast and RTG forecast for review by RTG management• Capex consolidation and seek CAPEX approvals from FB as required. Monitor expenditure• Manage inter-company eliminations and RTG admin profit centers (Engineering and Technical, Group IT and RTG corp) including journals, accruals, budgets and internal recovery rates• Review monthly profit centers and investigate anomalies. Analyse and report KPI indicators to FB Group Finance. Lead and liaise with FB on monthly, half yearly and full year reporting requirements of Hyperion including budgets and strat plans• Prepare statutory accounts and RTG tax• Business analyst responsibilities from July-Dec15 including margin analysis, follow up with sales/operations and exports on unusual margins, hedging profit/loss calculation, accruals, freight and commission reconciliations, trade credit insurance monitoring and weekly and monthly forecast for Africa region

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  Fletcher Building

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Group Finance, Treasury – Finance and Settlement Assistant

    • Feb 2014 - Oct 2014
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    • Manage daily foreign currency, funding and treasury settlements worldwide, across all the business units including settlement of daily FX, money market swaps and commodity deals• Prepare group recharges worldwide and identify, troubleshoot and simplify the process• Collate, compile and review sign offs from business units including Internal Controls and GAAP questionnaires• Assist Group External Reporting Manager and liaise with company secretariat team to help KPMG over year end

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  Firth Industries

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • 2 IC NSO Administration

    • Jan 2002 - Feb 2014
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    • 2IC-Team leader overseeing a team of eight along with Admin Manager• Prepare Financial Statements for Firth’s associate company, Byfords Readimix. Filed FBT, NRWT, GST returns and complete general ledger reconciliations• Responsible for daily banking download and allocation of over $20m of incoming funds for a month, and liaising with the bank• Payment administration and processing and authorizing of over $18m a month • Deal with supplier queries, maintain supplier information database and coordinate purchasing cards• Manage Firth treasury function including estimating daily and month end funding requirements and foreign currency purchases.

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  EY

  • Accountant

    • 1998 - 2000

    • External and internal Auditing of large SL corporate companies predominantly in the Service Sector• Financial Performance Reviews, Financial Systems and Management Control Reviews, Operational Procedure Reviews