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Joey Yeo

Melbourne,VIC

Summary

A strategic business partner to C-Suite Executives, with strong knowledge and capabilities in financial and performance analysis. Successfully supported C-Suite in raising >$50m capital, executed organisation change management to better align to the business core value chain, prepared Board-endorsed strategic business plans with financial analysis and cascaded key performance indicators across the business.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience

Work History

Chief of Staff to CEO

ZEN Energy
08.2021 - Current

Strategic Planning

  • Prepared two financial years of strategic business plan, with corresponding commentaries and outputs from financial forecasting and analysis
  • Coordinated preparation of monthly whole of organisation performance reports for C-Suite and Board Directors
  • Collaborated with the Head of People & Culture to develop and cascade organisation's key performance indicators
  • Prepared wide variety of briefs and talking points to support Chief Executive in both external and internal engagement

Special Projects

  • Coordinated the design, preparation, and execution of a significant >$50m capital raise for the organisation that enabled refinancing of existing loans and investment in new growth areas
  • Coordinated development of ZEN's inaugural Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report which was externally benchmarked as the best in Australia by Global ESG Monitor

Efficient and Effective Administration

  • Provided strategic diary and email management support to Chief Executive
  • Excellent secretariat capabilities in supporting Chief Executive and other Executives in running Board and Management committees.
  • Managed a team of business coordinators & administrative assistants across the business to drive efficient and effective administration

Executive Business Partner to the Chief Financial

Neami National
05.2018 - 07.2021

Strategic Planning

  • Coordinate the development of the organisation's Business Plan from 2017 to 2020, and leverage technological solutions to monitor the progress of the plan.
  • Prepare and format reports and preparations to various high-level meetings (e.g. Updates to Business Plan; Proposal on Business Plan Monitoring)

Special Projects

  • Supported the GM Corporate Services in the execution of organisation's change management in alignment with contemporary organisational design principles
  • Coordinate key meetings for Neami's National Leadership Team (e.g. CEO, COO, CFO etc) and other organization-wide committees (e.g. Workplace Wellbeing Working Group, Enterprise Bargaining Agreement 2018 Committee, 3-day National Leadership Conference 2018).
  • Collaborated with the Finance team to perform a benchmarking exercise on the cost of the back office

Efficient and Effective Administration

  • Provided efficient and high level executive support to a couple of high performing executives, i.e. CFO and GM Corporate Services.

Senior Executive Assistant

Singapore Public Service
01.2012 - 04.2018

Similar business partnering capabilities and achievements across the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources in Singapore.

This six-year employment arrangement follows from the full scholarship provided by the Singapore Government for the 4-year education at the University of Melbourne.

During this six-year program, I was selected to the part of the prestigious Public Service Leadership Program, and was given the opportunity to train alongside other high performing individuals and being mentored by senior bureaucrats in Singapore.

Education

MBA -

ThePowerMBA
Online
12.2025

AXELOS Global Best Practice
10.2019

Governance Institute of Australia
04.2019

Bachelor of Science - Science

University of Melbourne
Melbourne
12.2010

Skills

  • Market Research
  • Conflict Alleviation
  • Strategic Direction
  • Business Development
  • Financial Management
  • Process Improvement

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
Chinese (Mandarin)
Full Professional

Timeline

Chief of Staff to CEO

ZEN Energy
08.2021 - Current

Executive Business Partner to the Chief Financial

Neami National
05.2018 - 07.2021

Senior Executive Assistant

Singapore Public Service
01.2012 - 04.2018

MBA -

ThePowerMBA

AXELOS Global Best Practice

Governance Institute of Australia

Bachelor of Science - Science

University of Melbourne
Joey Yeo