Experience

Monash Sustainable Development Institute

• Australia
• Research Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Finance and Contracts Manager

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  As the Finance and Contracts Manager, I am the key analytical and strategic resource for the budgeting, performance, contract and financial management to MSDI that supports significant new projects and continuing growth in revenues and research activity. My role provides critically important strategic financial management, budgeting capability and expert advice to MSDI's Chair, Director and COO and directly supports MSDI program leaders through the development of budgets, undertaking financial and activity costing, providing a range of specified reports and development of benchmarking tools to support business decision making and setting of measures and targets. I also provide specialist support on research costing and pricing, contract development and commercial contractual matters, and act as the liaison between research and external parties, including engaging the Monash legal team for advice as necessary on Intellectual Property Rights and that contracts comply with University requirements and the law. Given the responsibilities of this role, I act with a high level of independence and maintain relationships across all areas of Corporate Finance including, Financial Resources Management (FiRM), Research and Revenue Accounting (R&R), Strategic Procurement and Purchasing (P2P), Treasury, Tax and Leasing, as well as the Office for General Counsel (OGC), Contract Management Office (CMO), Monash Innovation and the Monash Research Office (MRO) for MSDI to ensure effective delivery of services within a complex environment. Show less



Monash Business School

• Australia
• Education Administration Programs
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Resources Manager, Centre for Health Economics

  • Feb 2017 - Sep 2019

  In this role, I provide high level strategic leadership and operational management to the Centre, and with delegated authority represents the Director of the Centre in interactions with internal and external communities. I also, provide a critical support as the interface with School and University’s administrative functions, planning and negotiating services to meet the Centre’s requirements in supporting academic staff to enhance research, learning and other scholarly activities and outcomes. This includes day-to-day operations management such as resource allocation, oversight of staff workloads, timesheet management, staff recruitment, teaching support and resourcing, maintenance of physical infrastructure, space utilisation and delivery of effective administrative systems, financial management of projects, preparation of costings for projects, and planning of the budget in liaison with the Finance team. In this position, I also oversee compliance with resource-related legislation and University policy, including Occupational Health and Safety. Show less



Monash University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Research and Revenue Accountant, Research and Revenues Accounting Services

  • Jun 2013 - Feb 2017

  As the Senior Research & Revenue Accountant supporting a portfolio client base, I provided expert advice, decision support and high quality research and revenue accounting services for more complex financial transactions, including the operation of research grants involving related monitoring, management, planning, budget setting and forecasting, and reconciliation procedures. In this role, I have placed an importance on the development and maintenance of effective working relationships with faculties within my portfolio and other central services, such as the Monash Research Office, Solicitor’s Office and counterparts in other areas in which R&R need to interact to ensure that the research needs are meet, e.g. Human Resources, Purchasing Services, Expense Management and Treasury. Show less



Swinburne University of Technology

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Management Accountant, Swinburne Research

  • Mar 2012 - Jun 2013

  As the Research Management Accountant, I provided appropriate financial planning, advice and management to assist in the effective management of the financial aspects of the Research program at Swinburne University of Technology. This will involve providing support to the Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research & Development), the Pro-Vice Chancellors (Research/Research Quality/Research Innovation), Swinburne Research staff, and also to researchers and administrators across the organisation. The role ensures that the key external reporting requirements related to research funding are met, such as the Higher Education Research Data Collection (Income Return), the Australian Bureau of Statistics surveys, and the end of year requirements to funding bodies. In this role, I also lead the oversight of the financial data integrated in the ResearchMaster database and provided modelling for scholarships, international fee waivers, and strategic financial analysis to assist in forward planning as required by the DVC (Research & Development). Show less



University of Melbourne

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Finance and Resources Officer, School of Physics

  • Jan 2012 - Mar 2012

  The Finance and Resources Officer provides support, and advice and assistance to the Finance Manager and Executive Manager on a wide range of financial policies, procedures and systems. These include the provision of financial advice to staff, financial management reporting, monitoring Department expenditure, budget preparation, operation of the departmental accounting system and departmental purchasing. I am also responsible for monitoring the workloads of casual finance staff.

• Financial Accountant, ARC Centre of Excellence for Particle Physics at the Terascale

  • Sep 2011 - Mar 2012

  The Financial Accountant is responsible for the creation of the financial structure for the Centre’s Chart of Accounts as required for the Centre’s external and internal funding. In this role, it was critical to ensure that the financial structure created for recording the Centre's funding was in line with reporting requirements for all levels of reporting, (i.e. ARC, DVC(R), Faculty and School) and in accordance with the rules and regulations of both the ARC and the University. I was also required to train Centre's administrators in the functionality of the financial systems to record financial transactions both at a University level and for the Centre's internal and external reporting requirements. Show less

• Finance Administrator, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science

  • Mar 2011 - Mar 2012

  The Finance Administrator completes all aspects of financial management in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coherent X-Ray Science. In this role, I process all financial transactions including invoices, purchasing card reconciliations, employee expense reports, IT procurement and insurance claims. I complete consolidated reporting for the research teams and external nodes, prepare budget and forecast projections and manage project accounts for the Centre’s research staff.

• Research Agreements Administrator, School of Botany

  • Nov 2008 - Mar 2011

  The Research Agreements Administrator manages the administration, reporting and information flow for the Department's research, grant and project activities. I was responsible for project budgeting, reporting and compliance. This entailed keeping the research teams advised of their budget position, preparing financial reports and forecasts, raising invoices, preparing journals as required, problem solving, liaising with funding bodies and other project stakeholders, assisting the Executive Manager and Head of School on relevant issues, establishing and maintaining relationships with Melbourne Research Office and the University's Finance & Planning Unit. Show less

• Finance and Resources Officer, School of Physics

  • Jul 2007 - Nov 2008

  The Finance and Resources Officer provides support, and advice and assistance to the Finance and Resources Manager and Executive Manager on a wide range of financial and human resources policies, procedures and systems. These include the provision of financial and human resources advice to staff, financial management reporting, monitoring Department expenditure, budget preparation, operation of the departmental accounting system and departmental purchasing. I also was responsible for all activities associated with the appointment of casual staff, payment of casual salaries, travel advice for staff and students, and supervised the Administrative Assistant (Finance). Show less

• Research Accountant, Financial Operations

  • Jul 2005 - Jul 2007

  The Research Accountant provides support in the financial management of research grants accepted by the University. I provided expert advice, support and financial reporting for Faculties and Departments in relation to research grants. This involves monitoring the financial status of grants, awareness of reporting requirements and deadlines, understanding grant conditions, program regulations and compliance matters. I also was required to assist with the maintenance and effective functioning of the Agreements module, review financial procedures, assist with the maintenance of research agreement data and assist with the development of reports from data extracted from Themis Financials and Agreements. Show less

• Financial Administrator, Youth Research Centre

  • Jul 2004 - Jul 2005

  The Financial Administrator is responsible for the successful operation and organisation of financial management and administrative services associated with Centre activities. This entails providing critical support to research staff on project budgets and workload management with projects across the Centre. I also provided advice to the Centre Director on business plans, budgets and project management.

• Centre Manager, Centre for Organisational Learning and Leadership

  • Aug 2003 - Jul 2004

  The Centre Manager is responsible for the successful operation and organisation of all administrative services associated with Centre activities. I provided executive support to the Centre Director and advice on information critical to the development of business plans, marketing, budget and project management.



La Trobe University

• Australia
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Grants Officer (Finance), Research and Graduate Studies Office

  • May 2001 - Jul 2003

  The Senior Grants Officer (Finance) completes the monitoring and reporting of expenditure of internal and external grant funds, the preparation of financial statements and establishment and testing of project data on the new Finance System. In this position I provided advice to researchers on financial aspects of grant management. It also provided evaluation and analysis of research grants management to University administration, and advice on the development of grants administration processes and policy. Show less

• Grants Officer (Finance), Research and Graduate Studies Office

  • Apr 1997 - May 2001

  The Grants Officer (Finance) plans and prepares financial statements, maintain systems to support the accounting process, maintain databases, provides financial advice to enable the collection, analysis and reporting of data on research income, enabling the University to meet its financial reporting requirements.

• Acting Executive Officer (Finance and Personnel), Department of Computer Science and Engineering

  • Oct 1999 - Dec 1999

  The Executive Officer provides advice and support to the Head of Department on the effective and efficient management of the Department’s financial resources. The position manages the department’s financial resources including the development of budgets, monitoring financial transactions occurring the department’s accounts, the preparation and analysis of financial reports for the Head of Department to be present to relevant committees, the reconciliation of department accounts, budget vs actual regression analysis and forecasting of year end results. Show less