Experience

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  One New Zealand

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Head of Finance

    • Apr 2023 - Present
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Head of Finance - Enterprise, Commercial Finance

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  Vodafone New Zealand

  • New Zealand
  • Telecommunications
  • 500 - 600 Employee

  • Head of Finance

    • May 2022 - Present

    Head of Finance - Enterprise, Commercial Finance

  • Acting Head of Commercial

    • Oct 2021 - May 2022

    Acting Head of Commercial, Digital Accelerator

  • Commercial Lead

    • Sep 2020 - Oct 2021

    Commercial Lead, Digital Accelerator

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  Bionic Business

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Commercial Finance Manager

    • Oct 2018 - Sep 2020
    • London, United Kingdom

    Commercial Finance Manager, Finance- Managed a team of 6 accountants with responsibilities ranging from accounts receivable, accounts payable, treasury, payroll, capex, balance sheet reconciliations, daily trading and management accounts. - Owned the group budget and forecast processes including leading the finance team during the detailed bottom up budget build and driving the top down challenges to improve the consolidated position. - Primary finance business partner to the group’s largest subsidiary and led system implementations, developed daily and monthly reporting and identified cost savings and revenue growth opportunities. - Managed the groups key projects, reporting on actual spend and working closely with the directors, PMO and managers to forecast future spend and provide commentary on variances to the business cases for inclusion in the board report.- Owned the group cashflow forecast and bank covenants.

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  BT

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Finance Manager

    • Mar 2017 - Oct 2018
    • London, United Kingdom

    Finance Manager, Competition Finance- Managed a team of 9 finance professionals and finance analysts who operate over 100 financial models, provide commercial insights and analysis and business partner with the Lines of Business, specifically Group, Technology, Wholesale and Openreach, within the production of the Regulatory Financial Statements.- Embedded a culture of continuous improvement in the team, in particular driving modelling improvements.- Developed, operated and managed compliance of robust control processes, reducing the occurrence of both material and immaterial errors. - Introduced Microsoft Power BI as a visualisation tool to replace the existing analysis tool.

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  Global Reach Group

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Commercial Finance Manager

    • Dec 2016 - Mar 2017
    • London, United Kingdom

    Commercial Finance Manager, Finance- Reported directly to the CFO with responsibilities for management, board and investor reporting, business partnering, budgeting, and commercial analysis / financial modeling across the entire P&L and balance sheet. - Drove process improvements and standardization following the integration of a recent acquisition and lead several projects including information gathering and support for external consultants and project managing the build of a data mart and Microsoft Power BI visualisation tool.

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  Vodafone

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Financial Analyst

    • Jan 2015 - Sep 2016
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Financial Analyst, Commercial Finance- Business partnering, budgeting & forecasting, management reporting, business case reviews, and commercial analysis / financial modelling for operational expenses (opex) across Consumer, Wholesale and Customer Operations functions, with key stakeholders being the Directors and their direct reports, the HR Business Partners and the Finance Leadership Team.- Delivered various company-wide projects, including building a detailed segmentation profitability model, improving the long-range plan model and benchmarking against other international Vodafone entities. - Led the finance graduate programme with responsibilities for recruitment, coaching and career advice.- Led the Finance Improvement Group and the Finance Social Committee.

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  EY

  • Senior Associate

    • Oct 2013 - Jan 2015

    Senior Associate, External Audit- Client portfolio included the Bank of New Zealand, one of the main four retail banks in New Zealand with NZD 80b of assets, the New Zealand Superannuation Fund, a NZD 26b Government investment fund, and AMP Life Insurance with 90b of assets. Other clients included Bluescope Steel, a mining and manufacturing company, a group of retirement villages, a pulp and paper manufacturing plant and a private retirement fund.- Planned and executed external client audits of varying size and complexity, managing teams of up to 8 junior staff and applying both GAAP and IFRS accounting standards. - Led the Reuters Valuation Team responsible for valuing shares, bonds and derivatives.

  • Accounting Associate

    • Feb 2011 - Sep 2013

    Accounting Associate, External Audit

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  Broadlands Finance Limited

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Management Accountant

    • Jan 2008 - Feb 2011
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Management Accountant. Developed and maintained the group’s daily cashflow model, managed tax, accruals and provisions, performed all monthly balance sheet reconciliations and completed company secretarial functions. Prepared the annual and half year financial statements, including automation of the working files and supporting the auditors with their queries, and provided input into the registered prospectus.