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Bella Spillett

Sydney,Australia

Summary

I’m a Finance Analyst & Management Accountant with extensive experience across finance, including accounting operations, treasury, and finance business partnering. What I enjoy most and am most skilled at is analysing and modeling financial & non-financial data, whether it's through financial modeling, variance analysis, scenario planning, or involvement in planning, forecasting, and budgeting. I aim to be a trusted finance business partner to management - delivering the financial expertise and analysis needed to support sound, strategic decision-making.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience

Work History

Management Accountant

Deloitte
Sydney, Australia
01.2024 - Current
  • As a Management Accountant for the Tax & Legal Finance Business Partnering team, I prepare and present monthly management reports to stakeholders, develop and maintain financial models, and process month-end journals and reconciliations. Delving deeper, my responsibilities include:
  • Managing and maintaining models and reports for Tax & Legal's Expense categories (computer/software, staff/FTE, consulting fees). This also includes timely processing and coding of invoices, prepayments, recharges, and journals for accurate financial reporting, highlighting key metrics, trends, and variances and communicating with stakeholders.
  • Worked with the Business Finance lead and managers in the annual financial planning process by ensuring accurate forecasting that aligns with organizational priorities and the firm's strategy. I integrated top-down guidance with bottom-up input by utilising key cost drivers (i.e. inflation rate, interest rate, full-time equivalent (FTE) staff) to ensure costs and forecasts were appropriately allocated to the correct cost centers and business units.
  • Utilised advanced Excel skills and data analysis expertise to streamline workflows, reduce human labour & human error in financial models, and drive operational improvements.

Finance Analyst

Iress
Sydney, Australia
02.2023 - 11.2023
  • As a Finance Analyst for the Treasury & Financial Control teams, I am responsible for managing the company's cash and debt facilities, forecasting cash needs, and settling intercompany loans & liabilities. I use my technical know-how in Excel & SQL to aid in my analyses. My responsibilities include:
  • Providing P&L and balance sheet analyses to provide insights and recommendations to the Financial Controller by analysing trends to examine the company's financial health and assist in strategic risk management and performance evaluation.
  • Assist in the preparation of month-end financial reports and annual and half-year financial statements for a publicly-listed corporation, ensuring deliverables comply with regulatory standards and financial governance principles.
  • Analysing and managing the company's cash & debt facilities and developing plans to ensure the company can meet its obligations, as well as minimise financial risks (i.e.currency risk through FX hedging, interest rate risk).

Finance Officer

Iress
Sydney, Australia
11.2021 - 01.2023
  • I am responsible for AP & AR activities, managing invoices in multiple currencies and for multiple subsidiaries, as well as completing daily reconciliation activities for over 10+ cash accounts. My responsibilities included:
  • Processing pay runs for over 600+ invoices monthly and working with the Financial Control team and Finance Business Partners to ensure costs are coded correctly as per the Chart of Accounts to ensure accurate reporting and forecasting.
  • Undertaking daily cash receipting and reconciliations for 10+ bank accounts across multiple regions to manage daily liquidity, cash position reconciliation, and bank reporting.
  • Providing process improvements to increase operational efficiency and recommending & implementing solutions to strengthen operational controls and incorporate best practices.

Finance Officer

St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill
Sydney, Australia
03.2020 - 10.2021
  • I was tasked with processing payment runs for more than 800+ expenses monthly. My key achievements in this role were a series of digital transformation and process improvement projects. Specifically, I created an online procedure for processing creditor invoices and payments, digitised records so that documentation could be kept indefinitely, and decreased the payment approval timelines for financial delegates from one week to 24 hours. My day-to-day activities included:
  • Providing strategic recommendations to senior leadership based on monthly and half-yearly analyses of operating expenses to assist with strategic planning, budget management, and forecasting.
  • Identifying monthly accruals and amortisation of prepaid expenses and processing journal entries to ensure correct reporting of financial statements and accurate recording for cash flow forecasts.
  • Managing twice-weekly payment runs, reconciling creditor accounts & corporate card expenses, and allocating expenses to the appropriate cost centres. In addition, I also provided payroll support which included timesheet processing, compensation calculation for staff members, and preparing fortnightly payroll runs.

Finance Assistant

Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
01.2019 - 01.2020
  • Working within the Finance Business Services department, I supported strategic and operational goals by providing corporate financial management, administration, and reporting. My responsibilities were:
  • Processing up to 100 invoices and reimbursements daily, maintaining relationships with suppliers to resolve queries, and managing the vendor management system to ensure documentation met financial governance checks.
  • Identifying, collecting, and inputting asset data across 200 teams within the university to ensure accurate and comprehensive record-keeping.

Finance Officer (Casual)

Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
01.2016 - 01.2019
  • As a finance all-rounder. I was tasked with managing 15+ financial accounts across project, research, and endowment accounts. My responsibilities included:
  • Managing cash flow and creating budgets & forecasts for 15+ accounts. In line with this, I worked closely with senior leadership to ensure a proactive versus reactive approach to managing cash flow needs and controlling expenses.
  • Assisted in preparing and submitting government grants that align with the business units' projects, initiatives, and research areas. I also conducted ongoing financial analysis (budget vs actuals, accounting analysis) to monitor financial performance and ensure adherence to the approved budgets, identify potential deviations, and resolve them accordingly.

Education

Master of Applied Finance -

Australian National University
Canberra, Australia

Certified Data Science Professional (CDSP) -

Australian Institute of ICT
Australia

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture -

University of The Philippines - Diliman
Philippines

Timeline

Management Accountant

Deloitte
01.2024 - Current

Finance Analyst

Iress
02.2023 - 11.2023

Finance Officer

Iress
11.2021 - 01.2023

Finance Officer

St. Joseph's College, Hunters Hill
03.2020 - 10.2021

Finance Assistant

Australian National University
01.2019 - 01.2020

Finance Officer (Casual)

Australian National University
01.2016 - 01.2019

Master of Applied Finance -

Australian National University

Certified Data Science Professional (CDSP) -

Australian Institute of ICT

Bachelor of Landscape Architecture -

University of The Philippines - Diliman

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