Experience

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  Commerce Commission

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Senior Analyst

    • Jan 2021 - Present
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Te Komihana Tauhokohoko / The Commerce Commission is New Zealand’s competition, fair trading and consumer credit and economic regulatory agency. Its mission is to make New Zealanders better off by ensuring our markets work well and consumers and businesses are confident participants in those markets.This role provides sound financial and economic analysis and expertise in relation to regulated industries.Key Achievements:• Part of the team that successfully developed a new Fibre regime within tight timeframes• Made a significant contribution to Information Disclosure (ID) and Regulatory Asset Base workstreams by keeping these on track and helping ensure quality outputs• Developed a quality assurance approach that gave decision makers the confidence to delegate sign-off of key ID outputs to staff and informed the development of the quality assurance approach for the wider Fibre programme

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  Ministry of Education of New Zealand

  • Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

  • Business Support Manager

    • Oct 2014 - Dec 2017
    • Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

    In this multi-faceted role, provide business support services to both Education Payroll Services (EPS) responsible for schools payroll (up until June 2015) and Education Infrastructure Services (EIS) responsible for schools infrastructure (payroll, property, technology and transport). This varied role includes management of a team and oversight of administration/support, planning and reporting, and human resources.Key Achievements:• Oversight of EPS business functions, including development of integrated dashboard reporting• Playing a key role in the successful transition of the (Novopay) schools payroll to a new crown entity and the integration of the schools payroll team into EIS• Delivering cost savings through efficient workforce planning, including reducing the high contractor workforce through conversion to employees and/or reducing agency margins• Developing and successfully harnessing the virtual support team of 10 to ensure quality and consistency of service and arming/enabling their managers to better manage.• Ensures improved capability across the business – recruiting the right people and playing a key role in educating the workforce.• Enables improved decision making and user confidence by improving data accuracy and reporting

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  New Zealand Post

  • Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

  • Decision Support Manager, Member of the Finance Leadership Team

    • Jan 2013 - Jun 2014
    • Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

    In this newly created role/function, lead a team to deliver the appropriate tools, templates and BI frameworks and systems expertise to inform quality decision making to help the business improve commercial outcomes.Key Achievements:• Building a reputation as trusted advisers to the business• Development of monthly reporting process and performance metrics to enable continuous improvement• Standardised Board and management reporting within reduced delivery times.

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  Telecom New Zealand

  • New Zealand
  • Telecommunications
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Group Pricing Manager - Analytics

    • Oct 2010 - Jul 2012

    In this newly created role/function, lead a team of six to support the Head of Pricing Strategy and Management to deliver pricing excellence, partnering with the business to make holistic commercial decisions that optimise group financial performance. Key Achievements:• Strengthening of stakeholder relationships – building of trust, respect and confidence in the team that enabled effective collaboration• Development of employees which saw many promoted and operating at higher levels of the business today

  • Senior ROI Analyst

    • Nov 2008 - Sep 2010

    In this newly created role, work between Business Unit marketing teams and Retail Finance to determine financial effects of, challenge and shape: marketing offers, new products and pricing changes. Key Achievements:• Development of standardised ROI process and methodology• Visibility of ROI across the business

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  Model Business Solutions

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Business Consultant

    • 2000 - 2009
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Self-employed consultant, specialising in the fields of finance management, information systems, process and systems improvement and economic analysis. Key Achievements include:• Jordan Investment Board (2007/8): worked on the international project team to deliver 75 pre-feasibility studies to attract US$3B investment to Jordan. • Nepal Electricity Authority (2004): strengthened finance and accounting capability, including in FMIS, billing performance and staff capability.• Bhutan Department of Power (2000-2): strengthened finance and accounting capability in FMIS, billing performance and staff capability, as part of a multi-faceted project to prepare DoP for corporatisation.• NZ Dairy Foods (2001): developed Excel model that identifies production and external supply capacity constraints and enabled operational excellence.

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  PA Consulting Group

  • Auckland, New Zealand and Cambridge/London, England

  • Group Accountant/Consultant Analyst

    • 1991 - 1999
    • Auckland, New Zealand and Cambridge/London, England

    PA Consulting Group is a global management and technology consultancy headquartered in the UK and operating out of offices in North America, Europe, the Nordics, the Gulf and Asia Pacific. As a Consultant Analyst, specialised in the fields of financial analysis and management, information systems and process improvement. Also has experience in programme management.Key Projects include:• Yunnan Electric Power Group (YEPG), China: strengthened finance and accounting capability part of a multi-faceted project to corporatise YEPG.• Carter Holt Harvey – project manage resource contention on 20+ IT projects. • ECNZ: developed capital and on-going budgets and cash flow models. • Countrywide Bank: evaluate forecasted performance and identify potential for cost savings.• North Health: built a fraud concept model.• Cubiks: built models (Excel) to determine the effect of bonus scenarios on company performance and to calculate individual bonus payments.Cambridge/London, EnglandSystems Accountant on the design and implementation of an integrated FMIS application and the business processes surrounding that system. This application replaced various systems used in over 20 countries (now 35 countries).Key Achievements:• Significantly reduced month-end reporting times world-wide• Introduction of standard global processes and reporting• Global consolidation at the push of a buttonBetween 1991 and 1995, held the position of Group Accountant in New Zealand. Principal accountabilities included: financial and management reporting, budgeting, variance analysis, group accounts and audit thereof. Computerised many manual processes and significantly reduced month-end (20 days to 3 days) and annual reporting times.

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  Ahead Group Limited

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Group Financial Accountant

    • 1989 - 1990
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Ahead Group consisted of four divisions; being a building supplies operation, sawmill, housing manufacturer and housing franchise.Principal accountabilities included: staff management, financial and management accounting for the housing division, group accounts and audit thereof, tax and statutory reporting. Key achievements included: shortened reporting times and the implementation of new computer systems.

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  Ceramco Corporation

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Company Accountant, Accountant, Assistant Accountant

    • 1987 - 1989
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    Successively held positions from Assistant Accountant to Company Accountant for this stock exchange listed group of manufacturing companies. Principal accountabilities included: staff management, financial and management accounting, analysis of production variances, tax and statutory reporting. Key achievements included being given sole-charge finance position of a new subsidiary after one year and set-up of the team and systems.