Australia
Financial executive skilled in developing and leading Finance Teams and Business Partnering. People love working in my teams and deliver results because of it. Strategy and leadership experience in FMCG and Energy, spans finance and technology, strategic business partnering, Board and Shareholder presentations, and group planning & reporting processes. My finance experience is broad with experience in Commercial Finance, Corporate Finance, Shared Services and Digital Transformational roles leading large teams of 50+ people in complex businesses with revenue of $1B+, asset bases of $10B+ and annual capex programs of $500M Attributes: • Results Orientated • Transformational & Change Focussed Leader • Technologically Savvy • Visible and Available to all levels • Strategic and Big Picture Thinker Bachelor of Business (BBus), FCPA (CPA), MBA, GAICD
Reporting into Soufflet Malt in France. Responsible for overseeing and driving the overall business strategy, operations, and growth of the malt industry business within Australia and New Zealand and supporting the APAC Sales Team in Asia. Lead commercial, operational, and supply chain functions, ensuring profitability, sustainability, and strong customer relationships to drive the 5 year plan achievement, M&A and business optimisation. Lead, develop and manage the finance team in Australia and India covering Financial Accounting, Commercial Support, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, tax, foreign currency management, company secretarial and treasury.
Responsibilities •Reporting to the Soufflet Malt Group CFO in France with a dotted line to the President APAC. •Lead, develop and manage a team in Australia and India covering Financial Accounting, Commercial Support, Payroll, Accounts Payable, Accounts Receivable, tax and treasury. •Lead the financial planning and budgeting process to deliver on key financial metrics. •Ensure compliance with statutory, tax, legal and corporate requirements including full adherence to IFRS and French GAAP reporting requirements •Prepare accurate financial reports and track key financial indicators and recommend actions based on performance trends and variance analysis •Drive improvements in financials systems, tools and processes to increase accuracy, efficiency and scalability •Actively contribute finance expertise to ongoing business transformation initiatives, analyse and model growth opportunities and collaborate cross-functionally to evaluate investment proposals and commercial strategies
Responsible for both Jemena and Zinfra business units. Jemena as a group has a turnover of $2B and $11B in infrastructure assets, with core activities being the distribution of electricity, and gas along with the provision of contracting services (Zinfra) to construct and maintain infrastructure assets. Parent companies are China State Grid and Singapore Power. Reporting into the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) and perform the role of acting Chief Financial Officer (CFO) when he is unavailable. •Provide strategic leadership, planning, business partnering for the medium to long term financial & strategic planning for the Markets and corporate groups of SGSPAA. •Board and Audit Committee Quarterly presentations. •Responsible for providing financial, risk and commercial business support to deliver the Market KPIs including Management accounting, budgeting, forecasting reporting and business case analysis and will provide strategic financial/commercial analysis, guidance and advice to the Markets to ensure Market Strategies are delivered. •Drives and provides output for the Group Budget and Planning Process •Ensuring the accurate, timely and insightful preparation of the Group Monthly Management Analysis for the Leadership Team, Board, Shareholders, other shareholders including Group Financial Reporting for SGSPAA. •The production of timely, accurate and insightful Market and Corporate Group financial reports, analytics and budget and forecasting information for the Markets. •Drive Jemena to become a commercial and competitive organisation. •Commercial Management of Ring Fenced Gas Processing Entities Achievements -Finance Due Diligence lead on Singapore Power Sale Process -"Project Symphony" cost out program of $60M -Driving the team to be Commercial Focused and partnering with the business -Relationship building with International Board and Shareholders -Redefined the business planning process -Finance statutory and regulatory accounts filed -contract negotiation
Responsible for managing group analysis, financial reporting and annual financial planning and budgeting. Responsibilities: • The accurate, timely and insightful preparation of the Group monthly Management Reporting for the Leadership Team, Board, Shareholders and other stakeholders, • The accurate and timely Group Financial Reporting for the group and Jemena subsidiaries (in both shareholder and Statutory formats) • The provision of accurate technical accounting advice and finance policies, • The accurate, timely and insightful population and analysis of the regulatory information notices • The monthly reporting against regulatory allowances and provision of advice on the root causes of deviations and possible corrective actions • The production of timely, accurate and insightful Functional Group financial reports and analytics • The production of budget and forecasting information for the Group, including the co-ordination and management of this process across the Group. • The management of the development and improvement of SAP Business Intelligence (BI), Business Objects (BO) and BPC across Jemena • Continuous reporting improvements • Co-ordination of external audit engagements • Management of the Fraud Control Plan • The preparation of Board and Committee papers related to the above responsibilities • Act for CFO when he is away
Responsible for • Directing and driving the front and middle office treasury function, taking a long-term perspective • Supporting the growth agenda of Jemena, taking responsibility for funding decisions across all strategic business development transactions, as well as P&L, board reporting • relationship development responsibilities for investments in key assets Achievements • issuance of $250M AUD Bond • establishing a $200M bank facility • developing and gaining Board approval of 2018 funding strategy
Responsibilities • Provide accurate, relevant and timely information to internal stakeholders, shareholder and statutory bodies for the full National Foods and Kirin Holdings Australia profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow. • Provide commercial insights to sales, marketing, manufacturing, procurement and logistics • Manage the relationship with external audit provider, • Leadership of a team of 85 qualified accountants nationally
Responsibilities • Selection and design of an Enterprise Data Warehouse solution • Implementation of an Enterprise Data Warehouse solution covering both reporting and planning • Leadership of a diverse team of 15 National Foods business and IT personal and various implementation partners.
Responsibilities • Provide accurate, relevant and timely information to the supply chain team • Provide commercial support to the supply chain team • Leadership of a team of 50 nationally
JV between National Foods and Zixu Pty Ltd Juice processing facility turnover turn over $2M One of 3 NFL representatives on the board that meets each 6 months.