Experience

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  AVADA Group Limited

  • Commercial Finance Manager

    • Sep 2023 - Present

    AVADA owns and operates a group of traffic management companies with annual revenues of around $200 million.Highlights:• Created new management reports, dashboards, and budgeting templates.• Consulted on the Business restructure.• Lead the Finance team to chase Debtors leading to over $1.5m of cash from 60+ days overdue debts in a few weeks.

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  ABL Corp

  • Financial Controller - CFO advisory Services

    • Oct 2022 - Jun 2023

    ABL Corp is a CFO advisory, accounting, taxation and lending consulting firm to small-medium size clients.Highlights:• Engaged with various clients providing CFO advisory services. • Presented financials, forecasting models and KPI driver analysis to clients.• Created BI reporting tools, KPIs and automated Cash flow forecast modelling.• Review and lodge financial accounts and tax submissions.• Conducted price reviews and new leasing arrangement models.

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  Isentia

  • Corporate Finance Manager

    • Jan 2020 - Aug 2022

    Isentia is a global media monitoring and intelligence company with annual revenues of around $120 million.Highlights:• Prepared the financial statutory accounts for reporting and liaised with auditors. • Responsible for the Accounts Payable and Payroll team.• Prepared monthly presentations to the internal Audit and Risk Committee on financial, tax and audit updates. • Implemented a task list of responsibilities for month end which resulted in closing accounts 1 day earlier.• Responsible for labour Capex, intercompany journals, and impairment calculations.• Calculation and lodgement of tax requirements including GST, FBT, Payroll tax, WHT, EOY and R&D taxes.• Identified 8 global Audit risks and co-ordinated solutions to mitigate risks in each country.• Worked on and implemented the Executive team incentive bonus and sales commission policy, resulting in a more efficient and effective process and an increase of over 1000% in long-term contracts.• Responsible for cash flow, transitioning to a new bank facility and creating a cash flow forecast model assisting in investment decisions and also led the company through a cyber-attack.

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  Grant Thornton Australia

  • Business Performance Manager

    • Jan 2018 - Jan 2020

    Grant Thornton is the seventh largest global mid-tier profession services firm offering Consulting, Financial Advisory, Audit, Tax and other services.Highlights:• Full responsibility for the financials of the Consulting business, this includes two newly acquired businesses.• Led the reporting, budgeting and KPI setting for the consulting business units and partnering with business areas to provide insightful analysis for strategy and operational change.• Created analysis for pricing, product, and staff mix leading to $6m increase of sales and margins.• Provided detailed client analysis on size, sector, and product offering, empowering the business to execute a sales and marketing strategy that led to a $1.3m increase in profit margins. • Worked on the strategy, execution and reporting to integrate the 2 newly acquired Consulting businesses. • Payroll analysis and reconciliation for Grant Thornton, including Partner wide remuneration calculations.

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  Bupa

  • Senior Commercial Analyst

    • Apr 2017 - Jan 2018

    Bupa is global health services company providing insurance, health and aged care services with annual revenues of around $26b.Highlights:• Finance Business partner for over 20 aged care and practitioner centres generating over $200m of revenue p.a.• Led month end GM meetings, created insightful reporting, developed revenue and cost saving initiatives driving an ($8m) unfavourable result to achieve budget. • Prepared month end analysis, presented monthly reports and delivered full year budget.• Worked on labour initiatives and insights, providing a best practice rostering and a $6m decrease in wage costs. • Created customer modelling on current and potential residents to maximize subsidies and identify slippages leading to an increase of $0.7m of revenue and an uncovering of $0.2m of unreceived revenue from previous year. • Performed an internal audit review of labour processes and systems, identifying risks, data cleansing and creating new processes and reports which lead to a mitigation of compliance and payment risks.

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  Australia Post

  • Australia
  • Consumer Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Finance Analyst - Trusted & eCommerce Solutions Lead

    • Jan 2014 - Apr 2016

    Australia Post is the largest Parcels business in Australia and provides Retail, eCommerce, FMCG, mail and Service products with annual revenues of around $9 billion.Highlights• Led the development of a Tableau reporting dashboards to provide automated reports for the business (including reports for sales, products, parcels, stock management, customer analysis and cash-flow). • Part of the working group standardising and automating reports and discontinuing over 120 reports.• Developed reporting and budgeting processes and templates for deeper analysis and efficiencies.• Responsible for calculations and analysis of an activity-based costing model for product profitability analysis.• Led the creation of a TM1 cube system used for transfer pricing, store and parcel reporting.

  • Management Accountant (Retail Finance)

    • Apr 2011 - Dec 2013

    Highlights• Compile monthly results and create management packs, commentary and analysis.• Coordinated budgeting, reporting and KPI setting in the retail division (including Retail, Operations, Communications, Merchandise, Identity and Commercial Services) with approximately $1b of combined revenue. • Coordinated budget and quarterly forecast timelines and validate submissions. Including creating templates, risks / opportunities analysis, scenario modelling, system uploads and presentations the leadership. • Created financial risk management reports optimising working capital and financial arrangements.• Business partner with the confectionary product manager providing pricing guidance, promotional analysis and stock management to successfully uplift revenue by $14m.

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  Coles

  • Project Analyst (Property Finance) & (Store Development Finance)

    • Jul 2008 - Mar 2011

    Coles is the second largest Australian Supermarket with annual revenues of about $9 billion.Highlights• In the project management team assisting in the commercial and operational tasks of a $800m p.a. expenditure program, then promoted to the Finance team to lead the development of a Project Management system.• Led the development of an inhouse web-based SQL activity-based Project Management system, including information gathering, process mapping, project management, testing and training. This led to efficient allocation of resources, effective reporting and forecasting, and internal controls being met.• Prepared and presented business cases to senior leadership assisting in the turnaround sales by 22%.• Drove the reporting and analysis of projects, including business benefits, costing, resourcing of assets and initiatives and activity stage gates leading to over $14m of cost savings.• Coordinated project reporting, budgeting, forecasting, assisting in decision-making and implementation, asset management and accruals for project initiatives.• Create business requirements for project processes.

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  Pentana Solutions

  • Financial Accountant

    • Jun 2007 - Jun 2008

    Pentana solutions is a Global IT Company in the automotive industry with annual revenue of around $100 million.Financial and management reports for 25+ business units, including Auditors queries, and tax compliance.

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  Moore Global

  • Business Consultant

    • Feb 2006 - May 2007

    Moore Global is a global mid-tier profession services firm.Financial accounts and tax returns for various clients, including consolidation journals and statutory reporting.