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Rachel Smith

Melbourne,VIC

Summary

Responsible Project Coordinator focused on maximizing team productivity with proactive, cross-functional communication and organized approach. Demonstrated track record of accomplishing projects on time and under budget. Highly-motivated, with a desire to take on new challenges. Strong work ethic, adaptability, and exceptional interpersonal skills. Adept at working effectively unsupervised and quickly mastering new skills.

Overview

11
11
years of professional experience

Work History

Infrastructure Non program Project Co-ordinator

Coles Supermarkets
03.2019 - Current

• Maintain project workbooks, financial trackers and consolidated workbooks, raise accruals and run actuals.
• Validating all costs each month against SAP, IT transaction list, PPM timesheet list and capex file.
• Raise purchase orders and reconciliation of invoices.
• Creating new trackers each financial year and linking to the capex file to ensure forecasts are captured and locked each month.
• Run meetings with all project managers to review any discrepancies in current period and formalise forecast for following period, ensuring all budget is being utilised.
• Create journals/transfers for any costs that need to be moved or to take project out of suspend.
• Raise credits for store staff working after hours to accommodate project work.
• Creating LAN IDs, ordering hardware/software and access requests for new starters.
• Maintaining register of resources to track end dates and raise extensions to enable continuation of work.
• Maintain resource register for all date extensions to ensure work continues seamlessly.
• Coordinate with PM and vendors around cabling issues and resolve disputes.
• Run regular risk and issues meetings with staff and update registers accordingly.

Project Co-ordinator, Technology Stores Customer P

Coles Supermarket
04.2018 - 03.2019
  • Maintain project workbooks, raise accruals and run financial actuals
  • Check and confirm costs in SAP and transaction listing to ensure actuals in workbooks balance
  • Produce and distribute release planning pack on a fortnightly basis
  • Weekly CRS compliance reconciliation and regular project code checks to ensure correct codes are charged
  • Liaising and chasing up resources to complete any reversals
  • Invoicing for projects, costs to base and international payments
  • Creating LAN IDs, ordering hardware, access requests for new starters and welcome emails with relevant contacts for their roles
  • Administrator for SharePoint
  • Liaise with PM’s re: change requests for additional funding or end date extensions
  • Update transactions in the TEC contracted spend transaction register
  • Assist in maintenance of schedule and risk/issue registers.

Senior Project Analyst, Transformation

Telstra Corporation
03.2017 - 04.2018
  • Maintain project risks, issues, action registers and the integration between streams
  • Liaise with stream leads to produce weekly status reports for Senior Leadership Team
  • Administrator for SharePoint and artefact management
  • Create presentation packs for weekly working groups with subject matter experts
  • On-boarding new staff including hardware, building access and induction
  • Raise purchase orders, track and approve invoices.

Junior PM/Snr Project Analyst, Mass Market Fulfilm

Telstra Corporation
04.2016 - 03.2017
  • Liaise with stakeholders and business owners on requirements for scope
  • Coordinate with Project Managers for project schedule updates, including milestones and dependencies
  • Run workshops with subject matter experts (SME’s) to discuss requirements and user stories
  • Maintain project risks, issues, dependency registers and the integration between streams
  • Liaise with Project Managers to produce weekly status reports
  • Administrator for SharePoint and artefact management
  • Assist with the analytical components of stakeholder identification and mapping.

Senior Project Analyst (covering vacancy)

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
04.2015 - 06.2015
  • Assist Project and Program Managers with red/amber status projects and milestone reporting to the head of TSM
  • Maintain consolidated reporting tool, chasing all outstanding projects and creating fortnightly status reports
  • Assist project team in raising, tracking or escalating risks, issues, dependencies and mitigations
  • Liaise with Project Managers to write change requests for projects and chase up approvals
  • Research and update template documents as part of a design group to improve processes.

Junior PM/Senior Project Analyst, Retail Team

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
09.2013 - 04.2015
  • Maintain and report on project schedules and assist Project Managers when deadlines or time constraints arise
  • Track financials, invoice and purchase order management, budget forecast and actuals
  • Prepare, amend and distribute progress reports to stakeholders
  • Liaise with Project Managers to raise, track or escalate risks, issues, dependencies and mitigations
  • Run risk and issue meetings with Project Managers to assess, update or close out any aging risks or issues
  • Assist Project Managers to update consolidated reporting tool
  • Liaise with internal/external vendors and stakeholders.

Project Analyst, Infrastructure Foundation Program

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
05.2013 - 09.2013
  • Central point of contact for all on-boarding and off-boarding of resources within a program of 50 people
  • Order and follow up on all police/sanctions checks and create PeopleSoft positions for new starters
  • Create and socialize new processes within the PMO
  • Liaise with internal and external vendors
  • Raise and progress all new, replacement and extension RRA’s (request to recruit applications) alongside processing internal PeopleSoft extensions
  • Maintain resource register for all new or ongoing resources and ran weekly meetings with Project Managers for their resourcing requirements.

Skills

  • Detail Oriented
  • Cost Management
  • Multiple Priorities Management
  • Personnel Management
  • Workload Management
  • Deadline Adherence
  • Budget Preparation
  • Time Management
  • Resource Coordination
  • Flexible and Adaptable
  • Spreadsheet Tracking
  • Forecasting
  • Budget Coordination
  • Vendor Management
  • Project Coordination
  • Resource Management
  • Financial Analysis

Accomplishments

  • Successfully project managed decommissioning and branch refurbishment projects through to re-opening for business to banking customers.
  • Effectively and successfully ran minor projects work throughout Victoria, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania.
  • Productively sought and put in place an updated system for forecasting of resources to ensure that they could start work immediately without any delays.

Personal Skills Summary

I am a multi-faceted, efficient, and reliable office professional with 10+ years of experience supporting managers to improve internal operations and processes. I have diversified skill sets covering project management, human resources and recruiting, financials and administrative support.

References

References available upon request.

Timeline

Infrastructure Non program Project Co-ordinator

Coles Supermarkets
03.2019 - Current

Project Co-ordinator, Technology Stores Customer P

Coles Supermarket
04.2018 - 03.2019

Senior Project Analyst, Transformation

Telstra Corporation
03.2017 - 04.2018

Junior PM/Snr Project Analyst, Mass Market Fulfilm

Telstra Corporation
04.2016 - 03.2017

Senior Project Analyst (covering vacancy)

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
04.2015 - 06.2015

Junior PM/Senior Project Analyst, Retail Team

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
09.2013 - 04.2015

Project Analyst, Infrastructure Foundation Program

Australia and New Zealand Banking Group Ltd
05.2013 - 09.2013
Rachel Smith