Alina Marinina

News Corp Australia is an Australian media conglomerate and wholly owned subsidiary of the American News Corp.

Key responsibilities:

• Ensuring month-end reporting data is fully reconciled between the ERP system (JDE), the budgeting and forecasting tool (TM1), and the data warehouse (Vertica) by conducting a three-way validation. Ensuring accuracy and reliability for Commercial Finance and FP&A teams reporting purposes.
• Executing parallel month-end and year-end processes in GCP BigQuery, ensuring data validation and reliability, resulting in increase in data processing efficiency.
• Assisting Data transformation project to migrate from on premise (Vertica SQL) to GCP BigQuerry. Testing and verification of migrated tables. Conducting thorough checks to ensure that data consistency is maintained across the migration.
• Partnering with Data Platforms, FP&A and Consumer Technology teams to decommission legacy data reporting and update reporting to better fit current business requirements and improving overall reporting efficiency.
• Experience in writing business requirements for finance use cases and collaborating with stakeholders to ensure alignment between solutions and business needs, leading to more effective and targeted solutions.
• Maintaining, improving, and building Tableau dashboards to align with specified reporting requirements, translating business requirements into compelling data visualizations, resulting in increased user engagement.
• Working in agile delivery teams.

ASX-listed, with $26bn FUM - diversified property group

Key responsibilities:

• Delivery of comprehensive monthly management accounts and associated reporting for the assigned portfolio, ensuring accuracy and timeliness.
• Preparation of Statutory Financial Statements and year-end reports, ensuring compliance with regulatory standards and deadlines.
• Managing requests and responding to queries from external auditors, facilitating smooth and efficient audit processes.
• Reviewing Business Activity Statements for wholly-owned and JV funds, ensuring compliance and accuracy.
• Reviewing work-papers and providing guidance to Offshore team, overseeing timely delivery of report processing.
• Analysing and responding to queries, issues and other requests from multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Providing timely forecasting of cash flow requirements and assisting in facilitating repatriation of funds and other ad-hoc requests from Mirvac Treasury team.
• Assisting team with tax function; preparation of annual distribution review and tax returns and other information requests.

ASX listed, leading property investment and funds management company with $71.9bn FUM and 1,500+ properties.

• Promoted from Fund Assistant Accountant Role within the same Charter Hall Company

Key responsibilities:

• Developed and executed comprehensive exploratory manual and automated tests to ensure software quality and reliability, significantly reducing defect rates and enhancing user experience.
• Identified functionality gaps and risks, analyzed and raised issues, and captured risks to minimize impact, effectively remediating control gaps to ensure robust software performance.
• Created detailed test plans based on specifications, including the management and documentation of effective controls. Developed, tested, and evaluated controls to ensure thorough coverage and compliance.
• Followed Agile/Scrum methodologies, contributing to iterative development and continuous improvement. Used Jira for project management and Postman for API testing, ensuring streamlined workflows and efficient issue tracking.