Emma Main
Summary
A meticulous Business Analyst with 17 years of experience in the mining industry, adept at supporting Operational, Maintenance, and Business Support Departments. Leveraging strong communication and analytical skills to empower management in data-driven decision-making through insightful reporting and analysis. Dedicated to driving continuous business improvement by streamlining budgeting and forecasting processes, providing in-depth variance analysis, and enhancing internal systems. Bringing forth exceptional diligence and reliability as personal strengths.
Overview
20
20
years of professional experience
Work History
PMO Project Support Officer
RACING AND WAGERING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (RWWA)
02.2023 - Current
- Responsible for reconciliation and aggregation of financials from different ledgers into Clarizen PM tool.
- Project Cost Reporting and investigations across the Delivery function.
- Supporting and promoting the governance process across RWWA portfolio, in accordance with current RWWA PMO standards.
- Identifying and building improvements to ensure efficiency whilst maintaining alignment to best practice / industry standard Framework.
- Ensuring that key controls, tolerances, monitoring, actions, and escalations are in place.
- Building of Project Status and Project Budget vs Actuals Power BI Dashboard across Delivery Portfolio.
Technology & Transformation Coordinator
RACING AND WAGERING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (RWWA) (Robert Walters Contract)
05.2022 - 01.2023
- Managing and Coordinating purchasing and renewals of software and hardware for Technology & Transformation Division.
- Working with Procurement Team to ensure all appropriate purchasing controls and processes are followed and met.
- Provide support to PMO Analyst with relation to Project cost reporting and cost investigations.
- Documenting processes for Procure to Pay.
- Managing the time sheet process from beginning to end to ensure IT Projects labour costs are captured and capitalized.
- Streamlined and implemented necessary tracking of all vendor payments for the Division.
- Travel, Accommodation and offsite meeting room bookings for the division.
Business Analyst
NEWCREST MINING LTD, TELFER
09.2008 - 04.2022
- Providing financial and commercial support to Operational, Maintenance & Support areas of Telfer Gold Mine, with a key focus on cost analysis, forecasting, performance reporting, business planning and capital management
- Month end activities, capture costs accurately and accruals completed, EOM variance analysis commentary
- Departmental cost control through management of supplier payment processes.
- Annual & Quarterly forecasting using TM1, coordinate and develop budgeting templates and processes.
- Assessed business requirements to forecast annual budgetary operational costs.
- Forecasting of Telfers Cashflow.
- Provision of training to site end users in cost management using SAP and OneView.
- Work Breakdown Structure and Network Activity creation for Projects and CAPEX.
- Develop and maintain procedures for accounting processes.
- Reviewing of EDGE valuations and analysis for business case justifications
- Identification and reporting of cost reduction opportunities to drive business improvement
- Providing monthly Hire Equipment analysis reporting, providing recommendations for hire vs buy
- Various project work using analytical skills to develop models, efficiency improvements and automation of tasks
- Facilitating the project close outs and capitalization of capital projects
- CME Economic Impact Survey reporting and government related performance and industry reporting (tenements)
- Lean Six Sigma Green Belt trained.
- Analyzed data to identify root causes of problems and recommend corrective actions.
- Collaborated with stakeholders to identify business needs and data sources.
- Developed customized reports, summarizing and presenting data in visually appealing format.
- Provided technical support for troubleshooting analytics and reporting issues.
- Identified patterns and trends in large data sets and provided actionable insights.
- Generated standard and custom reports to provide insights into business performance.
Cost Controller
NEWCREST MINING LTD, TELFER (FIFO)
09.2005 - 09.2008
- Month end activities ensuring costs are accurately captured and accruals completed.
- Invoice reconciliation against timesheet entries in Pronto and challenging unexplained costs.
- Liaising with accounts payable and suppliers to ensure payment of suppliers and contractors.
- Manage the department hire equipment inventory.
- Contact point for all Supplier enquiries relating to Engineering & Maintenance activities.
- Liaise with Contracts Department with relation to supplier contracts.
- EOM – major variance analysis on actual versus budget expenditure.
- Assist with the preparation of the Department's operating cost budgets and forecasts.
- Input of daily, weekly and monthly cost control data.
- Purchasing and ordering for department utilising PRONTO.
- Monthly expenditure report, facilitating monthly cost reviews and preparation of statutory expenditure forms.
- Completed journal entries, reconciliations, and account analysis to prepare quarterly financial documents and general account management.
Area Coordinator - ENGINEERING & MAINTENANCE
NEWCREST MINING LTD, TELFER (FIFO)
02.2005 - 09.2005
- Providing administrative and reception services to the Engineering Department.
- Liaising with Planners and Mobilization Administrators, coordinating contractors being bought to site for shutdowns.
- Entering departmental Incident Reports and Hazob reports into SITESAFE.
- Raising Purchase Requisitions and Warehouse orders in PRONTO & distribution of PPE to all staff.
- Arrange travel and accommodation services and maintain rosters for 140+ staff members.
- Attend and minute taking at Engineering Departments Section Heads Meeting.
- Booking visitors to site ensuring they meet the site visitor requirements or are ERMS cleared.
Site Clerk
BGC-CONTRACTING
10.2004 - 02.2005
- Administration duties - receiving, logging, organizing, entering and distributing all forms of communication & correspondence and data for daily workforce reports.
- Collation and distribution weekly and monthly reports
- Assisting Commercial Manager with compilation of monthly contract progress claims.
- Raising Purchase Orders and receipting using JD Edwards
- Maintaining drawing register using QDMS.
- Booking of all R&R and business travel including flights, car hire and accommodation.
Project Secretary
AUSCLAD MEISEI JOINT VENTURE
09.2003 - 09.2004
- Secretarial/administration project support to Project Manager.
Education
Project Management Office (PMO) for Management Consultants - Project Management
Udemy
08.2023
PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst -
Udemy
03.2023
Practical Project Management for Managers and First Time PMs -
Udemy
09.2022
Business Analysis short course -
Swinburne University
03.2022
PBI200 Build a Power BI Report and Dashboard -
Newcrest Mining
01.2020
End User Planning Analytics PA & Planning Analytics Workspace PAW -
Cubewise
03.2020
PBI200 Build a Power BI Report and Dashboard -
Newcrest Mining
09.2020
Analysis & Dash boards -
Nexacu
01.2019
Diploma of Accounting high distinction - Accounting
OTEN
01.2012
Advanced & Intermediate Excel -
AIM
2008
Skills
- Excel
- SAP
- Pronto
- JD Edwards
- Technology One FMS
- Clarizen
- Quicken Accounting
- TM1
- MS Word
- One View
- Effective Communicator
- OneView
- Confluence
- User Acceptance Testing
- Pivot Tables
- Cost Analysis
- Problem Solving
- Attention to Detail
- Analytical
- Diligent
- Detail Oriented
Websites
Accomplishments
- Led managers through budgeting processes for $236M+ annual budgets and quarterly forecasting.
- Developed a suite of instructions, reports, and procedures for site end users to follow for cost management, ensuring that costs are captured accurately and in the correct general ledger accounts.
- Utilized Six Sigma Greenbelt training to develop Site Equipment hire reporting, enabling the Business to make informed decisions about hire vs. buy and to identify equipment that should be off-hired.
- Created a monthly cashflow forecast report to help Management make informed decisions based on cashflow projections.
Timeline
PMO Project Support Officer
RACING AND WAGERING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (RWWA)
02.2023 - Current
Technology & Transformation Coordinator
RACING AND WAGERING WESTERN AUSTRALIA (RWWA) (Robert Walters Contract)
05.2022 - 01.2023
Business Analyst
NEWCREST MINING LTD, TELFER
09.2008 - 04.2022
Cost Controller
NEWCREST MINING LTD, TELFER (FIFO)
09.2005 - 09.2008
Area Coordinator - ENGINEERING & MAINTENANCE
NEWCREST MINING LTD, TELFER (FIFO)
02.2005 - 09.2005
Site Clerk
BGC-CONTRACTING
10.2004 - 02.2005
Project Secretary
AUSCLAD MEISEI JOINT VENTURE
09.2003 - 09.2004
Project Management Office (PMO) for Management Consultants - Project Management
Udemy
PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst -
Udemy
Practical Project Management for Managers and First Time PMs -
Udemy
Business Analysis short course -
Swinburne University
PBI200 Build a Power BI Report and Dashboard -
Newcrest Mining
End User Planning Analytics PA & Planning Analytics Workspace PAW -
Cubewise
PBI200 Build a Power BI Report and Dashboard -
Newcrest Mining
Analysis & Dash boards -
Nexacu
Diploma of Accounting high distinction - Accounting
OTEN
Advanced & Intermediate Excel -
AIM
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