Seasoned Finance Manager with a proven track record at Arcadia Global Pty Ltd, excelling in leveraging skills in Power BI and strategic leadership to drive business analytics and financial management. Demonstrated expertise in enhancing financial processes and systems, including Oracle and SAP, to optimize performance and efficiency. Renowned for meticulous auditing and analytical capabilities, contributing to significant business advancements.
English, Fluent
Nationality: Australian
BIG FOUR Accounting firm working experiences
§ Enabled more than a twofold increase in business profitability.
Achieved 400% business growth as a key member of the executive leadership team through the implementation of a sustainable team incentive program (Game Change Plan).
§ Implemented detailed weekly cashflow forecasts which allowed transparency of any cash shortages
§ Forecasting to obtain funding for a major acquisition
§ Financial forecasts needed to be modelled over an extended time frame with additional risk factors built in to obtain finance
§ Implementation of a new $5M banking facility with increased overdraft, equipment financing and bank guarantee facilities provided the working capital funding to take on new contract bidding
§ Implemented proper job costing to enhance business continuity visibility and proactively address issues on over 200 live projects.
§ Established Power BI for real-time visibility of project P&L, project costing tracking, transactional level drilldown, project team KPIs, factory efficiency, and overtime management.
§ Upgraded ERP systems to the cloud, reducing end-of-month procedure turnaround time by 20%.
§ Negotiated insurance cost savings of 5-10% per year.
§ Developed a debtor collection financial model, saving up to 30% of the AR team's time and ensuring weekly collections are within the forecasted range.
§ Reduced debtor days from 60 to 45 through the implementation of an advanced debtor collection tool.