Experience

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  Capital & Coast District Health Board

  • Wellington, New Zealand

  • Finance Business Partner/ Sr. Management Accountant

    • Mar 2024 - Present
    • Wellington, New Zealand

    Finance Business Partner working alongside General Manager and Managers overseeing Non clinical Services. Responsible for preparing budget, monthly management reports with variance analysis, Balance Sheet reconciliations, and assisting stakeholders with business cases, investment proposals and contract negotiations.

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  Electricity Authority I Te Mana Hiko

  • Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

  • Finance Business Partner

    • Jun 2023 - Dec 2023
    • Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

    Delivering Electricity Authority's budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and reporting for each cost center, group, and the entityDeveloping relationships, building trust, and being recognized as a trusted financial advisorWorking with General Managers and Managers in presenting business cases, and investment bids and providing insightful analysis, modeling, and costingPresenting monthly outcomes and reports to the Chief Executive and Leadership Team

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  Te Aka Whai Ora | Māori Health Authority

  • Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

  • Finance Business Partner

    • Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
    • Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

    - Provide finance leadership and support across the organization to ensure operational and organizational targets are achieved.- Develop key relationships within directorates in the role of a trusted advisor.- Coach and mentor from a financial and operational perspective.- Deliver on a collaborative and partnering approach to directorates.- Take financial lead on analysis and cost optimization opportunities.- Develop measurable targets and reporting systems.- Highlight/contribute to business process improvement opportunities.- Support and be involved in projects and initiatives as required.

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  Ministry of Education of New Zealand

  • Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

  • Senior Financial Planning Advisor

    • Nov 2021 - Nov 2022
    • Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

    Advising, influencing, designing, and implementing a business planning and budgeting process for the ministry in collaboration with business partners and subject matter experts – Better Investment Outcomes Project.Project aim: Implementing an outcome-based integrated approach to planning and budgeting. Bring alignment and linkage between planning and budgeting. Align key programmes and areas of spend to strategic objectives. Develop a standardized, comparable, and transparent planning and budgeting process. Optimise Ministry’s finances through prioritisation and doing things differently.

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  Central Bank of Oman

  • Muscat, Oman

  • Advisor - Strategic Management Office

    • Jul 1997 - May 2021
    • Muscat, Oman

    Providing leadership and ensuring sound corporate, strategic, risk, and financial governance policies and practices are adopted by the bank. Work involved; - Strategic Planning, Implementation & Management- Policy & Procedures Development across all disciplines- Process Mapping, Analysis & Re-engineering - Change Management- Corporate Governance- Review of Organisational Structure & Restructuring on Process-Centric basis- Stakeholder Engagement & Stakeholder Expectation Management- Risk Management - Business Continuity Planning & Management- Project Management- Tax Law/ Taxation- Financial Analysis & Management- Business Analysis and Documentation of Business User Requirements- Implementation of an IT Strategy and diverse application systems

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  NEC New Zealand

  • Wellington, New Zealand

  • Head of Finance/ Company Secretary

    • Nov 1992 - Jul 1997
    • Wellington, New Zealand

    Overseeing the company's financial operations and reporting (Managing Payroll, Finance, Administration, Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable, & Fixed assets teams). Management of all contracts and providing company secretarial duties to the Board of Directors. Core responsibilities:- Statutory reporting- Financial & Management information reporting- Payroll processing and management- Accounts receivable/ Accounts payable management- Fixed assets management- Foreign exchange exposure management - Strategic Planning and preparation of strategic financial plan- Determining debt/ equity balance and the dividend policy- Contract management- Cashflow forecasting and negotiations with Banks for short and long terms funds- Costing and pricing for diverse customer contracts- Activity based costing analysis of all cost and profit centres- Implementing a general ledger system

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  Spark New Zealand

  • Wellington, New Zealand

  • Financial Accountant

    • Apr 1990 - Nov 1992
    • Wellington, New Zealand

    Statutory and Management Information Reporting of the regional company, Telecom Wellington Ltd.

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  EY

  • Supervisor

    • 1987 - 1990

    Planning and overseeing Financial & Statutory Audits, and consulting assignments.