Stephanie Waran
Sydney,NSW
Summary
Accomplished Finance Analyst with a proven track record at NAB | JBWere, adept in financial statement analysis and process optimization. Excelled in enhancing client reporting accuracy and reducing credit notes by 8%, showcasing strong analytical capabilities and leadership. Expert in Excel and Salesforce, committed to driving efficiency and strategic financial planning.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Finance Analyst
AFCA | Australian Financial Complaints Authority
03.2024 - Current
- Finance business partner for Banking code compliance committee, budgeting, forecasting, stakeholder management and management accounting
- Workforce, productivity and FTE analysis
- Variance analysis, GL reconciliations, Credit card accruals, prepayments
- Work with CFO on analysis and forecasts for board presentations
Client Reporting Specialist
NAB | JBWere
02.2023 - 03.2024
- Company Overview: Prestigious Private Wealth advisory business with over $64 billion in FUM and over 8000 clients
- Reporting to the Client reporting team Lead, managing a team of analysts and senior analysts to ensure accurate and timely production of over 10,000 monthly, quarterly and annual tax reports
- Point of escalation for advisors, analysts, auditors, quality assurance and operations team members
- SME and Tester for new projects and new releases of inhouse software
- Uplifting current processes and implementing new ones to reduce workload and provide better targeted results
- Ensuring JBWere meets and is up to date with new legal obligations, such as RG97 fee summaries
- Prestigious Private Wealth advisory business with over $64 billion in FUM and over 8000 clients
Senior Investment Reporting Analyst
NAB | JBWere
11.2019 - 02.2023
- Company Overview: Prestigious Private Wealth advisory business with over $64 billion in FUM and over 8000 clients
- Fee and Expenses Subject matter expert, ensuring the fees are accurately reflected onto the client’s quarterly reports inclusive of any reimbursements or waivers
- Accurate and timely Report, fee summary and cash statement delivery for clients, advisor support, reconciliations, variance analysis, client performance analysis, Praemium system support, Business Analyst and Tester for RG97 project of Fee Summary delivery
- Prestigious Private Wealth advisory business with over $64 billion in FUM and over 8000 clients
- Promoted to Senior Analyst - Fee and Expenses SME- Ensuring over 8000 clients have their fee correctly reflected in their reports and that each eligible client receives a fee summary
- Liaise with service delivery and the premium fees team to ensure this is done in an accurate and efficient manner, so that client reports can be delivered, and fees debited as per the timeline
- Reward and Recognitions Captain for client services, leading a team of 3, implemented Star of the month, winners were also recognised at the monthly operations townhall, increasing motivation and the feeling of being valued
- Coaching and mentoring junior members of the team, taking a big focus on those who are new to the team or those who have anxiety about speaking up, guiding team members on the right path for senior analyst promotions
- Month End, Quarter End Tasks, Delivery of Annual Tax Reporting, Quarterly Performance reporting and financial statements
- Creating Controls, processes and procedures and liaising with internal QA Team and presenting to external auditors to ensure reporting obligations are met
Financial Control Analyst
NAB | JBWere
02.2018 - 11.2019
- Company Overview: Prestigious Private Wealth advisory business with over $64 billion in FUM and over 8000 clients
- Fees and Billings SME - was the only BA and Tester on a $3million project moving to a new billing system and was on the project team for decommission of the old system and identifying and testing the relevant data which had to be backed up for future needs
- Implemented and created a report from service delivery which identified clients which had no FUM for the previous quarter so that advisors had the option to waive admin fees in advance, saving time for many teams and adding to a better client experience
- Prestigious Private Wealth advisory business with over $64 billion in FUM and over 8000 clients
- Working on the Fees and Billings project as the only team member from Financial control, being the SME for the Tech, project, legal and account management teams
- Coaching and training new team members, having the ability to manage fees and billings alone for over a year due to a restructure of the team, where we lost multiple team members including my team leader
- Was Financial controls designated person for EY at EOFY and presented the newly created Controls, processes and procedures for the new billing system and showed them the contingency plans to ensure statements were delivered on time if system bugs came about while in the teething phase
Salesforce and Billing Coordinator/ Office Manager
Litmus Learning (SAP)
05.2016 - 06.2017
- Company Overview: E- Learning business which creates compliance and training content for clients
- Salesforce SME and responsible for the monthly billing cycle, reviewing customer contracts and reflecting this into salesforce, calculating sale team commissions, training the entire business on Salesforce compliance and reporting
- E- Learning business which creates compliance and training content for clients
- Won employee of the month twice in the first 4 months
- Reduced credit notes from 10% to 2% within the first 3 months
Education
BSc Business And Management (Accounting) Hons - Accounting
Brunel University
07-2011
FINSIA Career Qualification - Banking
FINSIA
Salesforce Certificates - Analysing data with reports, Admin and Forecasting
A-levels - Mathematics and Business
Skills
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Process optimization
- Reporting proficiency
- Internal controls
- Cash flow management
- Variance analysis
- Audit support
- Project finance
- Credit analysis
- Financial statement analysis
- Investment analysis
- Salesforce
- Praemium
- IRESS
- SIEBEL
- Pronto
- SAP
- SecuritEase
- POWERBI
- Advanced Microsoft Word
- Excel (VLOOKUP’s, Pivot Tables, Macro’s)
- PowerPoint
Accomplishments
- Employee of the month twice in the first 4 months
- SME financial control analyst ‘Fees and billings project’
- Expenses SME for 6 years, ensuring over $45 million in fees is reported accurately.
- Controls manager and workforce planning SME for the team, point of contact for Auditors.
- Leading 10 analysts and Senior analysts in the MAP reporting space to deliver 10,000 client reports on a monthly, quarterly and Annual basis
- Leading and quality checking the team while sourcing and calculating income tax components for over 800 funds to complete Annual tax reporting.
- Remediation expert in Operations.
Technicalskills - Systemexperience
- D365
- Salesforce
- Praemium
- IRESS
- SIEBEL
- Pronto
- SAP
- SecuritEase
- POWERBI
- Advanced Microsoft Word
- Excel (VLOOKUP’s, Pivot Tables, Macro’s)
- PowerPoint
Professionaldevelopmentandeducation
- BSc Business and Management (Accounting) Hons, Brunel University
- FINSIA Career Qualification in Banking
- Salesforce Certificates in Analysing data with reports, Admin and Forecasting
- A-levels in Mathematics and Business
Timeline
Finance Analyst
AFCA | Australian Financial Complaints Authority
03.2024 - Current
Client Reporting Specialist
NAB | JBWere
02.2023 - 03.2024
Senior Investment Reporting Analyst
NAB | JBWere
11.2019 - 02.2023
Financial Control Analyst
NAB | JBWere
02.2018 - 11.2019
Salesforce and Billing Coordinator/ Office Manager
Litmus Learning (SAP)
05.2016 - 06.2017
BSc Business And Management (Accounting) Hons - Accounting
Brunel University
FINSIA Career Qualification - Banking
FINSIA
Salesforce Certificates - Analysing data with reports, Admin and Forecasting
A-levels - Mathematics and Business
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