Damien Street
Bligh Park
Summary
Professional accountant prepared for impactful contract roles. Skilled in financial analysis, budget forecasting, and compliance. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results. Adaptable, reliable, and proficient in managing changing needs.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
Work History
Contract Accountant
Spanset Australia Pty Ltd
01.2024 - 03.2024
- Company Overview: Spanset Australia is a multinational manufacturer of Height Safety Equipment with their Head Office located in Switzerland
- Helped Spanset solve a backlog of work and complete year-end and handover to the new Financial Controller without training
- Completed Spanset’s Head office year-end reporting pack in Jeddox without training
- Collaborated with the local auditors to audit and complete local accounts for Spanset Australia
- Completed Balance sheet recs that were not completed since Apr 23
- Completed fortnightly payrolls in HR3
- Wrote a procedure for the FY24 FBT return to help the new Financial Controller
- Trained the new Financial Controller
- Spanset Australia is a multinational manufacturer of Height Safety Equipment with their Head Office located in Switzerland
- Completed Yearend and the yearend reporting pack in Spanset Switzerland’s reporting cube Jeddox with no training
Senior Financial Accountant
MyHomecare Pty Ltd
06.2021 - 11.2023
- Company Overview: The MyHomecare group provides Homecare packages to the aged care sector for both fully managed care and self-managed care
- Management of the AP Department
- Actual V Budget variance analysis on monthly P&L
- Cashflow management of four bank accounts
- Cashflow forecasting
- Recognition of revenue for all non-HCP revenue streams
- Management of the fixed assets register
- Responsible for the maintenance and clean-up of all balance sheet recs
- Integral part of the audit team for all financial audits
- Lodgement of the FBT return
- Lodgement of BAS for MyHomecare Group
- Integrated the Argent Group into the MyHomecare group
- Improving processes to improve reporting
- The MyHomecare group provides Homecare packages to the aged care sector for both fully managed care and self-managed care
- Successfully managed AASB 16 accounting for leases
- Successfully managed the cashflow ensuring enough cash was available to cover all payments each month when funding revenue only received once a month
- Integrated the Argent group into the MyHomecare Group as a contractor
- Successfully Cleaned up balance sheets for the MyHomecare Group improving accuracy and reliability of management reporting
Senior Financial Accountant
Trafalgar Group Pty Ltd
11.2020 - 06.2021
- Company Overview: The Trafalgar Group is a manufacturer and distributor of Passive Fire Products, Access Panels, safety cabinets and pallet cages
- Improve month-end procedures
- Project Lead in the new ERP discovery project
- Managed the new Payroll system Microkeeper and managed all payrolls including Xmas payrolls
- Improved the budgeting process
- Sales reporting improvements
- Collaborated with external accountants on FBT exposure
- Assist with Dashboard building with the systems and sustainability manager
- Managed the day-to-day accounting department
- The Trafalgar Group is a manufacturer and distributor of Passive Fire Products, Access Panels, safety cabinets and pallet cages
- Reduced month-end and created a monthly finance report with commentary including variance analysis
- Created new Sales x State, Sales x Budget, Sales by Forecast and Sales by Prior year
- Created the initial scope for the ERP discovery project and sent it to various software providers
- Successfully managed the new payroll system from the first payroll after implementation without training
- Helped create dashboards in companies CRM with the manager of systems and sustainability creating graphs of sales v budget and forecasts for KPI reporting for sales staff
Finance Manager
ASP Plastics Pty Ltd
08.2014 - 02.2020
- Company Overview: ASP Plastics Pty Ltd is a custom moulding manufacturer and medical waste healthcare company that has been in business for over 30 years
- Preparation of Monthly Board Packs & attendance at Board & Management meetings
- Actual v Budget variance analysis on monthly P&L
- Preparation of annual budgets and forecasts
- Cashflow management / forecasting
- Integral part of the project team to integrate general ledger into the Cleanaway group
- Management of Month end process
- Approval of POs over $1000 and Monthly review of open PO reports
- Management of the accounting department
- Management of the companies working capital
- Management of all the compliance BAS, FBT, business insurance and Workcover, Super and payroll tax
- Management of the annual audit
- Working closely with MD & GM Operations & Healthcare monitoring KPI’s & quoting for new tenders
- Working closely with Work Health & Safety consultants in managing workers comp claims
- Working closely with quality consultants in the management of the QMS system
- Staff management and mentoring
- ASP Plastics Pty Ltd is a custom moulding manufacturer and medical waste healthcare company that has been in business for over 30 years
- Discovered a problem with actual cycle times on machines not achieving costed times
- Successfully analysed an increase in stock and discovered a major customer’s forecasted demand did not eventuate
- Successfully negotiated trading terms with major suppliers to match the companies trading terms to optimise cashflow
- Saved ASP from losing ISO9001-2015 qualification
- Successfully ran a tender to find new auditors who improved the quality and reliability of the annual reports
- Streamlined the production of Board reports by creating templates that auto filled reports
- Successfully reduced month-end from 5 days to 2.5 days by streamlining the process
Senior Accountant
ASP Plastics Pty Ltd
05.2008 - 08.2014
- Successfully managed monthend & G/L Recs
- Reduced month end from 10 days – 5 Days by improving business processes e.g., recording of journals and production of G/L recs
- Improved internal controls e.g., Checking, and approving Journals / Invoices before posting
- Solved an issue with the accuracy of the stock report
- Reduced Days Sales Outstanding to improve cashflow
Financial Accountant
URS Australia
01.1999 - 01.2008
- Company Overview: URS Australia is a US listed Multinational over $1b turnover worldwide
- URS Australia is a US listed Multinational over $1b turnover worldwide
Education
Cert IV -
Project Management
01.2021
CPA Program & CPA Mentor Program - Accounting
Monash University
Clayton, VIC01.2007
Bach. Bus. - Accounting
Charles Sturt University
Bathurst01.2002
Assoc Dip - Accounting
Bus
01.1993
Skills
- JD Edwards Enterprise One
- SAP Business One
- SAGE X3
- TM1
- Xero
- MYOB
- HR3
- Microsoft Office
Profile Snapshot
- 01/01/24 - 03/31/24, Spanset Australia, Contract Accountant, Manufacturing, $20m
- 06/01/21 - 11/30/23, MyHomecare, Senior Financial Accountant, Aged Care, $240m
- 11/01/20 - 06/30/21, Trafalgar Group (Contract), Senior Financial Accountant, Manufacturing, $30m
- 01/01/19 - 02/29/20, Cleanaway, Finance Manager, Manufacturing/Healthcare, $40m
- 08/01/14 - 12/31/18, ASP Plastics (Acquired by Cleanaway), Finance Manager, Manufacturing/Healthcare, $40m
- 01/01/08 - 12/31/14, ASP Plastics, Senior Accountant, Manufacturing/Healthcare, $40m
- 01/01/99 - 12/31/08, URS Australia, Financial Accountant, Engineering, over $1b
Career Break
04/01/24 - 12/31/24, Helping to care for my elderly mother and organising a home care package while working casually.
Timeline
Contract Accountant
Spanset Australia Pty Ltd
01.2024 - 03.2024
Senior Financial Accountant
MyHomecare Pty Ltd
06.2021 - 11.2023
Senior Financial Accountant
Trafalgar Group Pty Ltd
11.2020 - 06.2021
Finance Manager
ASP Plastics Pty Ltd
08.2014 - 02.2020
Senior Accountant
ASP Plastics Pty Ltd
05.2008 - 08.2014
Financial Accountant
URS Australia
01.1999 - 01.2008
Assoc Dip - Accounting
Bus
Cert IV -
Project Management
CPA Program & CPA Mentor Program - Accounting
Monash University
Bach. Bus. - Accounting
Charles Sturt University
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