Greater Melbourne Area
Experienced Group Financial Controller with a demonstrated history of working in the software and manufacturing industries. Skilled in Business Planning, Continuous Improvement, General Controls, Business Insights, and Lean Manufacturing. A strong accounting professional with a Master of Business Administration (MBA) majoring in Branding and Marketing from Strathclyde Business School.
Iconic Australian Brand. Turnaround mandate.
Integration of BT super acquisition. (Contract Role)
Primarily, I support a growing team of financial accountants to ensure we collect cash for our services, pay our people and vendors and meet our regulatory and tax obligations. Post listing we have improved our financial close processes to deliver consolidated results within four days. This has allowed us to present business information to the market on a top quartile timeline, relative to our peer group. Interesting streams of work include: > Implementing employee share schemes (ESS) > R&D tax credits & capitalisation of intangible assets > ERP and management system integrations
Chaired the Australian business Transformation Office. Maintained a weekly disciplined cadence to achieve initiative milestones, leading to the delivery of quarterly and annual targets. Successful analysis and prioritisation of initiatives provided the opportunity to join the select working group responsible for the strategic portfolio review of the Australian business.
Team leadership of in market team. Corporate management of four regional offices and local distribution center. Supporting risk and credit management for a USD 1.6 Billion revenue line. Sales business partner for pricing, revenue and account planning. Strategic focus for the lead team and ownership for Integrated Business Planning.
Financial oversight of a NZD 2.5 Billion profit and loss account. Partnering with operations managers to make sound short term financial decisions and long term business plans. Communicated the operational financial resource requirements to the business via accurate budget and forecasts. Ensure the resilience of our business via the monitoring of core controls. Key achievements in the role include; i. Selection to represent Global Operations Commercial in a recent project to standardise the New Zealand Manufacturing Cadenced Management System. This involved the selection and definition of the "vital few" value drivers that improve bottom line performance. Translating these into a KPI structures that cascaded from a Site and Regional level right down to individual workstations. ii. Development of a financial models that: > Ensures the precise budget and forecast setting of a NZD 6 Billion cost line applied to all New Zealand operations. > Removes time and energy in budget setting from both finance and operations. > Identified in excess of NZD 8 Million in EBIT generation opportunity for zero capital expenditure.