Experience

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  Allied Petroleum

  • Management Accountant

    • Jun 2022 - Present

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  Macpac Ltd.

  • Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

  • Management Accountant

    • Jul 2020 - Jun 2022
    • Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand

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  Air New Zealand

  • New Zealand
  • Airlines and Aviation
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Accountant

    • Sep 2007 - May 2020

    Management Accounting for the following Engineering and Maintenance Portfolios:Planning, Design and Support (72 FTE)Continuing Airworthiness (102 FTE)GM Aircraft Maintenance (160FTE)Total portfolio responsibility for $70 million cost per annum spread over 25 cost centres and three profit centres.Preparing annual budgets and quarterly forecastsPreparing monthly financial analysis using Power BI and Power PivotsPreparation of monthly accruals and prepaymentsProcessing of invoicing for external customersHeadcount reporting and overtime reportingSAP Subject matter expert for invoicing and provider of training for new staff and existing staff.Reviewing of processes and writing of Airline Operating Procedures relating to invoicing in SAP

  • Invoicing Accountant

    • May 2003 - Sep 2007

    This role is Responsible for the Management Accounting for ANZES Head Office profit centre within the ANZES group. This involves preparing annual budgets, quarterly forecasts throughout the year as well as providing monthly financial reports. This role also includes the processing of all invoicing relating to Head Office, Components Auckland and Engineering profit centres as well as the recharging of costs to our Joint Venture companies. Role includes being the SAP SME (subject matter expert) for invoicing and provider of training to new staff and support to existing staff and management on any related issues they may have. It also involves reviewing of processes and writing of Airline Operating Procedures relating to invoicing.This role is responsible for the Cost Accounting for both the Christchurch and Auckland Engineering bases which involves comparing actual costs to forecast costs and accruing for any expected costs which have yet to be loaded.

  • Invoice Contoller/Management Accounting Officer

    • Sep 2002 - May 2003

    Management Accountant for the Materials group and Richmond paint facility in Australia.Cost Accounting for the Christchurch Air New Zealand baseProcessing of invoices from the Christchurch Engineering baseAssisting with month end accounting reporting requirementsMonth end processing of the Richmond paint facility in New South Wales which invoiced the data being duplicated in SAP accounting system from NZA Gold system. Input of various monthly accruals and processing of the Work in progress ordering and inventory control of military aircraft parts.

  • Invoice Controller

    • Nov 2000 - Sep 2002

    Responsible for the processing of invoices for the Christchurch Engineering and Maintenance base.Assisting with month end reporting requirements.Month end processing of the Richmond paint facility in New South Wales which involved data being duplicated in SAP accounting system from NZA Gold and the input of various monthly accruals and processing of the work in progress ordering and inventory control of military aircraft parts.

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  YHA New Zealand

  • Christchurch

  • Assistant Accountant

    • Aug 1999 - Nov 2000
    • Christchurch

    My duties involved daily banking and reconciling of daily bank statements, auditing till tapes and processing monthly accounting information provided by 58 individual Hostels. I was also responsible for the accounts receivable and debt collection. I did a lot of statistical analysis of overnight information ie – nationalities coming into the hostels and numbers of NZ vs Overseas visitors; this included a lot of graphical work . My role also included extensive excel spread sheeting keeping track of various spending and doing monthly workpapers. I processed monthly journals and income reports as well as revenue analysis for various hostels. I also provided support for the company Accountant and Financial Controller with the 6 monthly accounts, and Capital expenditure.

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  Alstom Power

  • Christchurch

  • South Island Administrator

    • 1993 - Aug 1999
    • Christchurch

    Duties include processing of all Contract Support functions for staff of 45 including time entry, purchase orders, invoicing and interaction with major clients, job costing and processing, assistance in preparing tenders, organisation of travel and client functions, petty cash, Trans Power MMS administration, monthly job progress and financial reports, vehicle and plant database administration, office purchasing control, creating of job folders, filing, mail, budget management, and any other administration tasks required by South Island Managers. Major involvement in fully integrated accounting systems, LAN/WAN exposure.