Katie Quinn

• Supported diverse portfolio of financial products, including Pet Insurance, Travel Insurance, Life Insurance, and Car & Home Insurance, alongside Medibank's Live Better loyalty rewards program.
• Prepared month-end revenue and expense accrual journals and cost reallocation journals using SAP, ensuring accurate P&L reporting.
• Compiled month-end management reporting packs and provided detailed reporting on P&L to business unit owners.
• Delivered meaningful analysis and commentary on month-end results versus budget/forecast, identifying key drivers of performance and highlighting risks, opportunities, and implications for outlook period.
• Reviewed and analyzed major expense accounts at month-end, identifying anomalies and tracking trends against forecast and budget, ensuring alignment with financial goals by working closely with business unit owners to track expenses, identify cost-saving opportunities, and ensure spend was within forecast and budget.
• Collaborated with sales teams to track revenue performance against budget/forecast, analyse emerging trends, and provide actionable insights to refine sales strategies and optimise revenue performance.
• Led preparation of 7+5 and 9+3 forecasts, ensuring alignment with operational plans and strategic goals.
• Played key role in compiling FY26 budget using SAP's budgeting tool (BPC), collaborating with stakeholders to ensure comprehensive and accurate submissions.
• Conducted variance analysis against budget/forecast, providing insights on financial performance and supporting decision-making.
• Developed and presented investment business cases for FY26, using advanced financial modelling to assess scenarios, sensitivities, risks, and benefits.
• Streamlined month-end reporting by automating manual processes through advanced Excel formulas, significantly improving efficiency and reducing time spent on repetitive tasks.
• Tailored reporting processes to better meet business needs, enhancing speed and accuracy of financial data delivery.

• Worked as financial accountant within group finance team of ASX listed company undergoing complete ERP system migration.
• Involved in group month end reporting process by preparing inter-company and foreign exchange elimination journals, and balance sheet reconciliations using TM1, GP and SQL software.
• Involved in year end reporting process through preparation of disclosure notes for annual report, compilation of financial statements and assisting with audit.
• Preparation of annual goodwill impairment analysis by gathering relevant data and parameters, configuring calculations and models, researching industry trends, performing sensitivity analysis, assisting with preparation of budget and interpreting output of analysis model. Collaborated with senior management and C-suite executives in analysing inputs to model, methodology and results.
• Involved in system migration to Microsoft Dynamics 365 by mapping intercompany GLs, mapping legal entities to new consolidation structure, participating in discussions around alignment of D365's consolidation process with AASB and completion of user acceptance testing on D365.

• KPMG's Consumer and Industrial Markets (CIM) Audit department specialises in audit engagements for clients across broad range of industries such as consumer products, retail, industrial products and energy.
• Achieved highest performance rating as reward for consistently exceeding performance expectations in high performance environment.
• Led audit engagement teams which involved liaising with audit clients during fieldwork as main point of contact, managing audit team, delegating and reviewing audit workpapers.
• Involved in preparing key audit deliverables as well as planning, preparing and completing audit procedures.
• Attended and provided input at key audit planning and final meetings with clients executive management.
• Provided high-level recommendations and solutions on areas of audit focus as part of my commitment to continuous audit quality improvements.
• Involved in audits of multiple, complex group entities with significant revenues. These engagements involved auditing individual entities within group and consolidated financial statements of groups.

Key clients during my time with KPMG:

Smurfit Kappa Group plc (Paper & Packaging company listed on London and Euronext stock exchange - turnover €13bn - KPMG Ireland's largest client on fee basis) - 3 consecutive years auditing this company and seniored this group engagement in my final year. Led team of 8 associates through this group engagement across 4 month period. Whilst senioring this engagement, the client was undergoing merger with large US paper company (WestRock) and were undergoing an SEC filing to be listed on New York stock exchange. Therefore, I was responsible for leading our audit team under tight reporting deadlines in high pressure environment. Responsible for compilation of the group file and overseeing group reporting for 55 components across over 25 countries. I was also responsible for the more technical and significant audit focus areas of Goodwill and Pensions.

BWG Foods (Food retail and Wholesale Company - Turnover €2bn) - 3 consecutive years auditing UK division of this Group. Led team of 8 associates on this engagement, which involved very tight reporting deadlines to Group in South Africa. Responsible for auditing revenue, cost of sales, leases and group acquisitions.

Bimeda (Animal Pharmaceutical Company - Turnover €220m) - 3 consecutive years auditing this Group company, involving 50+ individual entities audited at Group. Led team of 5 associates on this engagement. Responsible for auditing revenue, stock, debtors/creditors acquisitions, and monitoring and compiling group reporting.

Other notable clients that I worked on include: NTR plc (Renewable energy listed company), Ballymore Group (Property Development company), Bewleys (Coffee company), Coolmore (Racehorse breeding company), Hibernia (Third level education provider).