Experience

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  Kordia

  • New Zealand
  • Telecommunications
  • 500 - 600 Employee

  • Finance Manager

    • Dec 2019 - Present

  • Senior Financial Analyst

    • Sep 2019 - Dec 2019

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  ASB Bank

  • Senior Management Accountant

    • Jan 2017 - Sep 2019

    Responsibilities:• Produced key performance reporting documents on a monthly basis to enable decision making at the highest level of management.• Ensured integrity of the monthly operating expenditure and loan impairment expense through timely and insightful analysis during month end close out periods.• Prepared board reports and supplementary analysis to explain the year to date financial results.• Prepared analytics and insightful commentary on operating expenditure portfolio of circa $800m per annum and loan impairment expense of circa $70m per annum. This included variances to plan and forecast and year on year variances.• Built relationships across the wider business to ensure understanding and enable consistency of reporting of ASB’s financial performance.Achievements:• Partnered with my manager and the CFO to prepare an overview pack briefing an incoming CEO on the financial performance of the company.• Ensured consistent and timely delivery was maintained through a period of high turnover. Delivered quarter end reporting usually completed by 5 FTE with only 2 FTE. This enabled smooth Board and Audit sign-off of the financial result.• Enabled executive management to better understand and gain further insight each month of a key metric. This was achieved through preparing documentation explaining a proposed change to a key executive management performance reporting document. This documentation was used to get approval from the CFO to implement the change. • Implemented efficiencies equivalent to 160 hours saved a year.

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  Spark New Zealand

  • New Zealand
  • Telecommunications
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Finance Analyst

    • Feb 2015 - Dec 2016

    Responsibilities:•Managed a portfolio of operating expenditure. Annual forecasting, accruals and variance analysis, including impact on annual forecast. Tracked savings and increases to budget. $100m.•Managed business unit capital expenditure. Monthly forecasting, accruals, variance analysis and annual outturn. 5 virtual team members, circa $300m.•Conducted financial reviews on several business cases up to $1m each. Verifying financial and risk assumptions, checking NPV, IPR and ROIC calculations and confirming correct accounting treatment.•Assisted the business in understanding financial information. Business partner for two General Managers. Present monthly P&L results to the General Managers and their teams.•Lead the creation of a standardised labour recovery model across 13 General Manager areas and 2500 employees, enabling accurate margin analysis, correctly valued assets and reduced risk to the company.Achievements:•Mitigated audit risk, enabled assets to be correctly valued and margins to be accurately measured through the creation of a simplified and standardised labour recovery model spanning 2 Executives, 13 General Managers and encompassing 2500 FTE.•Improved EBITDA through advising and reporting on a General Manager’s P&L. Enabled the area to turn around from $200k adverse to budget to flat to budget within 4 months.•Reduced cash payments by $1.2m by finding a rebate that had been earned but not claimed and working with procurement to receive the appropriate credits.•Enabled better management of circa $300m capital guidance for the year by leading improvements to the capital financial management process. Realigned capital delivery portfolios and set up management reporting and meetings ensuring timely and accurate actual and forecast information was received.•Partnered in the reduction of an expense portfolio by 60% ($40m) through the validation and tracking of cost reduction initiatives.

  • Finance Analyst

    • Sep 2013 - Feb 2015

  • Graduate Accountant

    • Jan 2011 - Sep 2013