FINANCE MANAGER
Whiting Holdings Australia Pty Ltd
Total des années d'expérience :22 years, 6 Mois
Whiting Holdings Australia is a specialist buyer and redistributor of metal and associated products. The business has representation in Australia, USA, UK, Europe and New Zealand, employing over 1, 000 staff worldwide with group turnover of $750Mil.
Forms part of the management team with reporting lines to the Group Finance Manager and taking on accountability for all aspects of financial reporting, analysis, taxation, systems management, FX and staff development.
•Currently challenged with meeting a busy reporting calendar for Australia and USA operations, detailing individual and consolidated P&L, Balance sheet, forecasts and analysis packs.
•Built the financial models and detailed analysis to aid the executive team and senior management with tracking, forecasting and budgeting sales and costs for each business entity. Simplified the budgeting and forecasting model to provide more meaningful data; with the model now being adopted globally.
•Formulated revenue reports and projections to support 1, 3, 5 years forward business plans.
•Worked as a business partner, assisting Service Centre Managers with forecasting, reporting financials and providing detailed analysis and insights into their business, as well as resolving issues.
•Prepared and lodged the monthly and yearly tax returns for both USA and Australia operations including that of PAYG, BAS and FBT, and the and lodgement of annual work cover return.
•Negotiated favourable terms with the NAB FX team on the purchase and sale of currency contracts, and managed relationships with The Business Banking Manager on negotiation and management of loan drawdowns.
•Represented the business during vendor negotiations to reduce costs and drive service level agreements.
•Held direct management of 2 financial accountants and 4 indirect reports (AP & AR
Transport for NSW is responsible for improving the customer experience, planning, program administration, policy, regulation, procuring transport services, infrastructure and freight. The authority is a separate entity from the New South Wales Department of Transport
The Finance & Investments Department forms an integral part of the TNSW operations with the position of Senior Financial Accountant reporting to the Head of Financial/Management Accounting.
•Prepared and managed consolidated budgets, P&L, balance sheet and revenue reporting for all operational departments under remit, reported on Finance department, and prepared the ministerial briefing notes.
•Managed the financial integrity of data into the TOES system (TOES are the electronic on-line system that Treasury uses to collect agency financial data). Consolidated monthly TOES reporting to Treasury and provide commentary on the organization’s performance based on detailed analysis of data.
•Conducted financial analysis and due diligence on supplier tenders to identify cost saving, risk and compliance.
•Created and maintained partnering relations with Senior Management, Management Accounting Teams, Shared Services Team, Roads and Maritime Services (RMS) and NSW Treasury.
•Mentored and guided 4 Financial Accountants (direct reporting staff).
Think Education is part of Laureate International Universities (LIU), a leading international network of quality, innovative institutions of higher education. with 80 accredited campus-based and online universities serving 1, 000, 000 students in 28 countries around the world.
The position of Senior Financial Analyst reported to the FP&A Manager and took on responsibility for managing the workplace staff budget as well as vendor management and business partnering with the academic staff
•Played a key role in re-engineering the workforce model of 500 staff (educators and support staff) to be more robust, relevant, easier to understand/interpret and integrated into the reporting KPI matrix.
•Managed the workforce budget for the entire Australian operations, working closely with all department heads to identify opportunity to achieve efficiency gains whilst obtaining HR data for forecasts, budgets and actuals.
•Formed detailed monthly reporting and analysis reviews on the financial position of the divisions.
•Supported the Procurement team with contract analysis and compliance reviews.
•Built effective working relationships across the organisation and at executive board level through highly effective workforce budget re-engineering, and the ability to explain financial concepts to non-financial members.
Centrica plc is a British multinational utility company and is the largest supplier of gas to domestic customers in the UK, and one of the largest suppliers of electricity and non-core services. The company has 30, 000+ employees and is listed on the London Stock Exchange
The position of Senior Commercial Analyst takes on responsibility for working with key stakeholders on Information Systems change projects, cost centre activities, and assisting with decision support.
•Served as subject matter expert on Clarity Financial Planning & Business Intelligence (BI) systems.
•Formulated Information Systems (IS) budgets and IT cost centre reports and provided key data utilised by management for insight into monthly performance, variances, trends, risks and opportunities.
•Engaged and managed stakeholder expectations for IS Change projects and cost centre activities, and coordinated the creation and submission of IS Change Plan budgets and forecasts within corporate deadlines.
•Developed and maintained new reporting suite and controls around financial reporting to better suit business needs, and successfully simplified the budget and reporting process by 1 week.
•Managed Capital forecasting and actual reports with commentaries, Resource planning reports and analysis reports, Cost centre P&L and Balance Sheets, Variance analysis reports, Cost Centre budgets, and Capital budgets.
•Identified over £300k in cost savings through re-engineering existing resource plan in support of the IT project pipeline resulting in better utilisation of staff and more efficient usage of contract labour.
BHP Billiton (UK) Limited was incorporated in 1994 and is based in London, United Kingdom. BHP Billiton (UK) Limited operates as a subsidiary of BHP Billiton Group; one of the largest companies in Australia measured by market capitalisation with over 100, 000 employees globally.
Appointed to support the UK arm with a major project for consolidating all cost centre resources.
• Successfully led and executed project to consolidate/rationalize 318 cost centres to 175 cost centres within the Group Finance Divisions in Australia, Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America.
• Business partnered with teams in each geographical region to enable centralised analysis and consolidation of data and create channels of distribution for information and tasks relating to the consolidation/rationalisation.
• Built data models to assist in the justification of the Customer Sector Group (CSG) budgets, the creation of budget presentation packs for CSGs, reporting to Steering Committees, VPs and senior management in relation to project KPIs and project milestones Create
• SME support for the global 1SAP upgrade project