Chartered accountant with 10 years of professional experience providing management accounting and financial audit services to clients and inhouse as a finance manager. Highly commercial and analytical with significant experience in managing all day-to-day operations of a finance function, including all statutory half-year and full-year annual reporting requirements. Motivated individual with exceptional leadership skills, ready to succeed in a new opportunity.
Overview
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Manager
PYBAR Mining Services
03.2022 - Current
Company Overview: Part of the Thiess Group
Driving a structured, efficient and accurate month end reporting process
Ensuring internal accounting processes comply with accounting standards and financial control and oversight of the balance sheet management
Self aware and capable leader within a high functioning finance team providing support, mentoring and staff development
Directly responsible for the improvement and creation of finance team controls and processes
Quarterly forecasting/Budgeting: Full management and Coordination of budget and forecasting process for each quarter and annual budget/capex budget
Including continuous process and content improvements as well as timetable management
Lead delivery of ad-hoc projects within commercial terms and contract conditions of specific projects
Provided time sensitive due diligence work relating to the group’s recent recapitalisation strategy
Have built close relationships with department managers and site managers to help provide insight, training, and process improvement to positively influence decision making as well as drive cost control and P&L interpretation
Day to day cashflow and working capital management and monthly cashflow forecasting
Monthly management reporting with commercially focused commentary to service key stakeholders across the business
Producing board packs and revenue reports for group’s monthly board meetings
Partnering with the Group COO, CFO and other Directors across the organisation on key business initiatives
Project work using analytical skills to develop models, efficiency improvements and automation of finance tasks
Management of tax compliance and audit process
Part of the Thiess Group
Finance Manager
Revtech Media
06.2020 - 03.2022
Upon returning from living and working in the UK I took a role with Revtech Media who were a former Audit client I worked extensively with during my time at Camphin Boston Chartered Accountants
Proactively leading the finance and administration functions of the group
Directly accountable for month end and year end reporting as well as the preparation of BAS, FBT Returns, Payroll Tax lodgements and other tax obligations
Day to day cashflow and working capital management
Staff development and coaching of the finance team
Directly responsible for the improvement and creation of finance team controls and processes, including building complex revenue models in Excel from scratch
Assistant Manager (Audit and Assurance)
Camphin Boston Chartered Accountants & BDO London
06.2013 - 05.2020
During my role as an assistant manager I was entrusted with dealing with a portfolio of clients autonomously, overseeing the entire audit process from planning to sign off, managing audit teams and audit budgets, reporting directly to the audit partner
Business partnering with various departments to meet their required needs
Staff management: Responsible for managing teams of up to 5 junior staff on large audits as well as small finance teams as a finance manager
Ad-hoc analysis and reporting as required by the business
Financial Accounting: Preparation of annual financial statements under IFRS, UK GAAP (FRS 102,105) as well as special and general purpose financial statements (Aus) for a variety of companies and industries ranging from large group consolidations to small private companies
Project accounting: 3 month project helping prepare two sets of IFRS accounts for the parent company of an international client with +£2Billion turnover
Complex exposure to IFRS 9 & 15
Experience in preparing company tax computations, GST/VAT returns and auditing of large payroll systems