Experience

Agilis Airports

• Australia
• Airlines and Aviation
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Group Aviation Business Development Advisor

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  Delivering airline capacity growth to the Sunshine Coast and Coffs Harbour Airports. • Support the day-to-day business development & account management of domestic carriers. • Support the growth of airlines on the domestic network. • Work with industry aviation data and insights to build compelling business cases for capacity growth to: o Establish services to new and additional Domestic and International destinations from our airports. o Monitor & evaluate Domestic and Australasian aviation trends to identify opportunity for growth. • Manage production, presentation & distribution of passenger, cargo and airline data, outlooks, and business opportunities to internal and external stakeholders such as tourism partners, freight industry, government bodies and partners. • Proactively support the management of airline relations within various functional parts of airlines network planning, alliances, pricing & revenue management, network scheduling by: o Support the management of airline relations to promote increased level of traffic leading to opportunities for capacity growth. o Develop and manage relationships with freight, logistics and aviation related businesses to maximise revenue opportunities for airlines and wider industry. Show less



Sunshine Coast Airport

• Australia
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

  • Feb 2021 - Jul 2022

  • Provide effective and efficient analysis support to the Finance Manager, CFO and the broader business. • Lead or assist with the budget and forecast preparation to ensure the process from initial template stage to final report writing runs smoothly and on time. • Manage and coordinate the annual budget, business plan and forecasting cycles and all associated reporting. • Proactively partner with Executives and Managers to provide decision making support, financial analysis and advice to ensure the Group achieves its business goals. • Assist the CFO in undertaking the calculation of interest and hedging payments required under the Group's Debt portfolio and preparation of Quarterly Compliance Certificate requirements. • Develop and implement a rolling forecast framework to align with SCA priorities. • Partner with functional leaders to enable informed analytics-driven decision making. • Evolution and maintenance of financial models and projections including the operating model, budget business plan, bank model and valuation model. • Undertake effective and informative analysis to ensure appropriate operational and capital expenditure is managed within budget. • Provide and drive insightful analysis and commercial decision support including business cases. • Provide support for the aeronautical pricing model and negotiations with the airlines. • Development, maintenance and review of business processes with a commitment to continual improvement. • Support the CFO in business development activities including due diligence, financial modelling, valuation and investment analysis. • Develop tools and systems to monitor revenue streams and provide timely feedback where issues may arise. • Develop, maintain and provide appropriate financial reporting to track the financial status of all operational and capital projects to ensure effective monitoring and control. • Develop and maintain standardised processes and reporting to drive efficiencies. Show less


KILCOY GLOBAL FOODS
• Australia
• Food and Beverage Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Finance Business Partner - Commercial Sales & Marketing

  • Nov 2019 - Feb 2021
• Financial Planning and Analysis Manager

  • Oct 2018 - Oct 2019

  • Provide effective and efficient analysis support to the Finance Manager, CFO and the broader business. • Lead or assist with the budget and forecast preparation to ensure the process from initial template stage to final report writing runs smoothly and on time. • Manage and coordinate the annual budget, business plan and forecasting cycles and all associated reporting. • Proactively partner with Executives and Managers to provide decision making support, financial analysis and advice to ensure the Group achieves its business goals. • Assist the CFO in undertaking the calculation of interest and hedging payments required under the Group's Debt portfolio and preparation of Quarterly Compliance Certificate requirements. • Develop and implement a rolling forecast framework to align with SCA priorities. • Partner with functional leaders to enable informed analytics-driven decision making. • Evolution and maintenance of financial models and projections including the operating model, budget business plan, bank model and valuation model. • Undertake effective and informative analysis to ensure appropriate operational and capital expenditure is managed within budget. • Provide and drive insightful analysis and commercial decision support including business cases. • Provide support for the aeronautical pricing model and negotiations with the airlines. • Development, maintenance and review of business processes with a commitment to continual improvement. • Support the CFO in business development activities including due diligence, financial modelling, valuation and investment analysis. • Develop tools and systems to monitor revenue streams and provide timely feedback where issues may arise. • Develop, maintain and provide appropriate financial reporting to track the financial status of all operational and capital projects to ensure effective monitoring and control. • Develop and maintain standardised processes and reporting to drive efficiencies. Show less



Meat & Livestock Australia

• Australia
• Research Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Commercial Analyst

  • Sep 2017 - Oct 2018

  • Business partnering. Proactively engaging with internal R&D, Marketing and International Markets internal stakeholders to assist them in managing their project investments. The focus will be on spending within budget, ensuring adequate funding and the delivery of milestones are on time and the desired outcomes are achieved. • Monthly and quarterly analysis of financial and non-financial performance (eg KPIs, operational statistics). Distilling this analysis into commentary, reporting and presentations for internal and external stakeholders. • Preparation and enhancement of management reports and management dashboards • Quarterly rolling forecasts using Oracle Planning and Budgeting Cloud Service (PBCS). • Sign off on new project investments if they are budgeted for and adequately funded. Also working with the PMO to ensure that projects are correctly setup and accounted for in SAP • Assisting with the preparation of the Annual Report, Annual Investment Plan and Strategic Plan. • Development of ad hoc financial models Month-end reconciliations and assisting with the day to day maintenance of PBCS. Show less



Penguin Random House Australia & New Zealand

• Australia
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Commercial Business Partner-Sales & International

  • Oct 2014 - Sep 2017

  Responsibilities: • Work with Publishing Director on Australian publishing strategy and assist with implementation. • Analyse competitor and market trends to develop internal strategy presentations. • Provide financial education to publishing staff to increase financial awareness of company objectives. • Conduct monthly review and analysis of Australian publishing financial performance and present results and recommendations to the Publishing team. • Review title acquisitions, ensure guidelines and profit targets are adhered to, and assist with setting and monitoring publisher targets. • Drive the preparation and production of annual budgets, as well as re-forecasts for publishing. • Monthly financial reporting • Oversee local re-print process • Oversee obsolete and slow moving stock • Provide assistance with royalty provisions including preparation and revision of author advance write-off calculations Achievments: • In charge of designing a new process to upload budget and forecasts into business objects • Led a project to build a new daily sales report which included designing the layout of the new report, building the report in business objects, working with stakeholders to decide on useful information, liaise with IS to bring new information and mappings into our data warehouse. • Developed a forecast template which automated monthly phasing and variance commentary to previous forecasts as well as streamlined the actualization process. Show less



News Corp

• Technology, Information and Media
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Analyst

  • Sep 2013 - Oct 2014

  Responsibilities: • Assist with the preparation of annual and half yearly revenue and expense budgets and revenue forecasts and phasing for business generating several million dollars a quarter. • Develop new tools to aid variance analysis to budget, last year and forecast by account manager and major revenue category for over 100 publications. • Provide performance analysis for the account managers and sales directors on a weekly and quarterly basis to aid in incentive alignment and revenue generation. • Provide overarching business commentary on performance to budget, last year and forecast figures on a weekly basis. • Complete accurate analysis on client specific advertising spend variances year over year and week over week and use this information to develop new sales targets. • Liaise with various internal and external stake holder to gather relevant data and communicate the operational results • Prove quick feedback on ad hoc requests for financial analysis and variance commentary to high level management on a national level. • Professionally trained in Salesforce and Business Objects and utilized database tools such as TM1 and Microsoft Access on a daily basis. Achievements: • Develop, maintain and update the client rate calculator tool used to price all advertisement sales. • Automate manual processes to achieve time efficiency on daily and weekly tasks that also aid in accuracy and timeliness of my reports to senior management. • Create a new weekly forecasting method that allowed weekly reporting to be quicker, more consistent and more accurate based on current run rates. Show less



Allstate Financial

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Financial Analyst

  • Aug 2012 - Aug 2013

  Responsibilities: • In charge of innovating and designing the periodic updating of financial models for a fortune 100 company • Responsible for designing plans and forecast tools in excel for areas of business utilizing over 100 million dollars • Strong proficiency in Excel, SAP, cubes, SQL, Business warehouse • Extract large amounts of data to use in cost and headcount analysis • Responsible for processing the timesheets for any offshore resources in technology • Managed the vendor payments by paying invoices through our APAY accounting system • Allocated expenses and headcounts to specific projects to produce project based expense reports to senior managers in technology and project managers in multiple areas of business. • Experienced in presenting planning and analysis models to clients and explaining variances through oral and written commentary Achievements: • Used proficiency in excel and understanding of employee related expenses to create new financial models from scratch to forecast the next 5 years of employee related, professional services and other expenses for multiple areas of business. • Acted as a liaison between internal stakeholders, CFO and technology senior managers to reconcile budget expectations and prioritize technology projects to meet corporate budget. Show less

• Planning and Analysis Intern

  • Jun 2011 - Aug 2011

  • In charge of multiple projects to make periodic updating of financial models more efficient • Analyze historical data to build a forecasting model • Present and explain outcomes of specific projects to finance department • Expanded technical and analytical skills in excel and powerpoint • In charge of multiple projects to make periodic updating of financial models more efficient • Analyze historical data to build a forecasting model • Present and explain outcomes of specific projects to finance department • Expanded technical and analytical skills in excel and powerpoint



Northwestern Mutual

• United States
• Financial Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• College Intern

  • Apr 2010 - Dec 2010

  •Assist client base of 300 with risk management, wealth accumulation & preservation, and estate planning •Responsible for preparing specific financial needs analysis for clientele •Sold over $500,000 in premiums of life, accident, health, or long term care insurance •Assist client base of 300 with risk management, wealth accumulation & preservation, and estate planning •Responsible for preparing specific financial needs analysis for clientele •Sold over $500,000 in premiums of life, accident, health, or long term care insurance