Experience

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  HealthPost Ltd.

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Head of Finance & Commercial

    • Jun 2021 - Present
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    https://www.healthpost.co.nz

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  Lifestream International Ltd

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Financial Controller

    • Jul 2019 - Jun 2021
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    https://www.lifestream.co.nz/

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  HuckleberryNZ

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Finance Manager

    • Jan 2018 - Jul 2019
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    https://www.huckleberry.co.nz

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  Brunswick Group

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Finance Manager

    • Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
    • London, United Kingdom

    https://www.brunswickgroup.com/home/My third major role in London where I covered a maternity period and stayed on to completion of the statutory audits. Brunswick is a public relations and advisory firm specialising in business critical issues for a wide range of clients across the world. I was responsible for the UK business and worked with a small finance team on the daily finance operations and was in charge of producing various monthly deliverables to group. A point to note is the business underwent a change in year-end whilst I was there.

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  MerchantCantos

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Finance Manager

    • Jun 2014 - Dec 2015
    • London, United Kingdom

    https://www.merchantcantos.com/My second major role in London where I covered a maternity period initially and was then retained for a further period afterwards. MerchantCantos is an international creative communications agency with a head office in London. It was my role to manage the day-to-day operations of the small London finance team but also to work alongside the international finance members to bring together the monthly group reporting.

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  AMC Networks International UK

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Senior Management Accountant

    • Jul 2012 - Apr 2014
    • London, United Kingdom

    http://www.uk.amcnetworks.com/My first major role in London where I was initially employed as a Management Accountant for Chello Zone, a leading international television broadcasting company, affiliated with US giant Liberty Global at the time. I was promoted to Senior Management Accountant at the first promotion opportunity and picked up greater responsibilities. The company was later sold to AMC Networks and subsequently rebranded to AMC Networks International.

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  The Professional Bar and Restaurant School

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Finance Manager

    • Jan 2012 - May 2012
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    http://www.pbrs.ac.nz/This was a KPMG client secondment role to cover a staff transition and restructuring period implemented by the Board of Directors. I was also involved in the recruitment of new hires within Senior Management. This role accounted for the majority of my time during my final months at KPMG Auckland.

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  KPMG New Zealand

  • Auckland, New Zealand

  • Assistant Manager - Business Advisory

    • Mar 2008 - May 2012
    • Auckland, New Zealand

    https://home.kpmg/nz/en/home.htmlDuring my time in the KPMG Auckland Business Advisory (BA) team I worked my way up from Graduate Accountant to Assistant Manager, being successfully promoted every year. The BA team is fairly unique in terms of the Big 4 environment, whereby it specialises in a wide range of services for small to medium sized, privately owned businesses. I consider my experience at KPMG to be extremely valuable due to this diversity across many types of clients . Note I also completed my Chartered Accountancy during my time at KPMG Auckland with a first time pass.

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  KPMG US

  • Houston, Texas

  • Senior Associate - Audit

    • Dec 2010 - Mar 2011
    • Houston, Texas

    This opportunity was part of the global KPMG short-term secondment programme, where I was placed in Houston, Texas for a 4 month assignment. During this time I worked on two separate audit engagements through to sign-off, including one large, listed client with SEC filing requirements.

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  Diagnostic Medlab

  • Auckland

  • Financial Accountant

    • Nov 2009 - Mar 2010
    • Auckland

    This was a KPMG client secondment role to assist with staff cover and other projects during restructure and significant down-sizing of the business. This opportunity arose relatively early on in my employment at KPMG which was both pleasing and exciting.

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  Healthwise Ltd

  • Auckland

  • Accountant

    • Mar 2006 - Oct 2006
    • Auckland

    Healthwise was small medical group with a couple of practices for whom I had a part-time accountant and book-keeper role during my University studies.