Manager Systems and Financials
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Total years of experience :32 years, 5 Months
Presiding over the preparation of annual plans and reports along with quarterly forecasting
Member of senior finance team and significant contributor to delivery of organisation financial strategy
Providing trenchant financial advice to budget and group managers, the CE and elected representatives, whilst overseeing all risk analyses, fraud prevention and the design of financial control protocols
Designing and implementing various software for the finance department, along with advising activity managers in deciding fees and overhead rates
Achievements:
Attained the New Zealand best sustainability reporting award for 2012
Introduced a seminal budgeting process to reduce preparation and analysis time by 50 and 30% respectively
Simplified the chart of account to reduce the number of accounts by 80%
Directing all activities related to the financial systems, accounting functions and asset management planning, as a basis for the drafting of rigorous annual budgets
Managing a myriad of financial functions, such as internal audits, the preparation of financial policies and protocols and the coordination of various reports
Implementing robust accounting procedures to ensure GAAP and IFRS compliance
Spearheading a whole cornucopia of projects, including those of budgeting and business intelligence, whilst advising the council on operation and capital expenditure
Achievements
Implemented business intelligence to make financial information interactive for managers
Simplified monthly reporting to allow the completion of forecasting in half the usual time
Managing system controls and user access according audit standard
Enhancing of various financial processes and the conducting of financial systems audits
Leading a host of projects regarding the implementation of various applications, ensuring a rigorous integrity of financial data throughout all databases
Providing training to the council staff and producing user manuals for financial applications
Achievements
Analysed and modified accounts receivable process, resulting in a 50% reduction of bad debts
Simplified the purchasing user interface, increasing the commitment ledger usage by 40%
Reduced the roll-over time from 9 hours to just 50 minutes via automation
Configuring the financials of an ERP system, whilst developing a multitude of reports via various software applications i.e. SQL and Crystal Reports
Designing and implementing external interfaces with financial systems, as well as providing complex data extractions to senior management for analysis
Designing and managing interactive web pages for finance intranet
Managing month and year end processes
Achievements
Developed fully automated rating model to allow Council to run various scenarios and be able to change the rating valuation for the entire region
Automated various ledger reconciliation, saving more than 70% of reconciliation time
Achieved the best content author award for the development of intranet section for finance
Automated asset revaluation and commissioned process
Build the interface between asset register and GIS database
Coordinating closely with auditors, banks and legislative departments in the robust maintenance of ledgers and the preparation of financial statements and reports
Month end analytical review with General Manager on variance analysis
Monthly reconciling of financial statements and managing cash flow and day to day financial operations
Maintaining various accounts related to foreign trade as well as preparing quotes, invoices, packing slips, letters of credits and other shipping documents
Managing and designing marketing (export) material
Engaging in robust negotiations with banks, customs departments, shipping companies and customers
Achievements
Changed the process of marketing to secure exports to Australia, Japan and India for the first time from Al-Wassel Irrigations
Preparing cash-flow statements, management reports, monthly financial statements and tax returns, whilst liaising with banks, shareholders, creditors, debtors and auditors etc.
Supervising payroll officer and managing accounting application including month and year end rollovers
Achievements
Actively involved in the process of converting private company into public limited company
Converted manual books of accounts into computerised accounting using Focus Accounting Software
Studying along with full-time job and young family is an award in itself
Member of the Institute of Public Accountants of Australia - MIPA