[ { "role": "Chief Executive Officer | Chief Financial Officer | plus Company Secretary", "company": "New Horizons Enterprises Ltd", "endYear": "2024", "endMonth": "10", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2019", "startMonth": "6", "currentRole": false, "description": "\tFull ownership and accountability for New Horizons financial position (P&L, Balance Sheet, Treasury, Investment Portfolio and ~ 110 Properties) with 43%+ income growth achieved since 2019 with positive underlying operating surplus.\n\tRobust Board level engagement, working closely with the Chair to bring on appropriate skillsets during tenure, whilst also acting as Company Secretary that has included an uplift in all aspects of corporate governance, including proactive and strict adherence to Aged Care quality standards and NDIS customer quality & safeguarding in a post Royal Commission environment.\n*\tDigital transformation of business systems migrating from legacy systems to Salesforce, Amazon Call Connect and Skedulo for staff rostering. This was a holistic end-to-end transformation of both systems and operations unlocking a cumulative $24M+ in measurable benefits from a $12.5M investment over the last 3 years.\n*\tExecuted property portfolio optimisation strategies with over 110 sites under active management across NSW and southeast QLD. Footprint included over 60 supported independent living sites, day program locations, and optimised regional and head office fit outs. Long term site masterplan concept designed and presented to the Board for the head office location at North Ryde, that included over 60 seniors independent living units (ILUs), specialist disability accommodation (SDA), and affordable / social long-term rentals. Estimated $80M-$100M development cost.\n*\tClosure of underperforming / non-profitable business units following strategic assessments that included saving >$4M per annum on a pivot from a shared room / bathroom residential aged care home to key worker / student accommodation.\n*\tEmployee values alignment over 24 months to long-term vision, with a distributed leadership philosophy. High performing senior executive team, with strong engagement scores and significant leadership development in 2023 and 2024.\n*\tBrand refresh to showcase the rich history of the organisation including a relaunched digital presence, website and social media.\n*\tMajor ESG initiatives executed including the rollout of solar, conversion of fleet cars to hybrid vehicles and pilot of EV’s. \n" }, { "role": "Chief Financial Officer", "company": "Sunnyfield Disability Services", "endYear": "2019", "endMonth": "2", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2017", "startMonth": "3", "currentRole": false, "description": "*\tAccountable and responsible for Finance and IT. Delivered a three-year functional strategy to the CEO and Board for Finance and IT/Business Systems with the aim to improve organisational information management and efficiency through innovation.\n\n*\tBusiness case approved by the CEO and Board for selection and deployment of a Business Intelligence system (Adaptive Insights) to provide timely, meaningful, actionable insights to Sunnyfield’s senior and mid-managers.\n" }, { "role": "Private Equity Funding Lead", "company": "Consulting", "endYear": "2019", "endMonth": "6", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2019", "startMonth": "2", "currentRole": false, "description": "Working directly with Founding Partners of Financial Services Group post Hayne Banking Royal Commission\n\n\n*\tFinancial Services Sector Private Equity and debt raising support. Financial modelling is provided to potential new financial services company post Hayne Royal Commission. This included investor presentations, M&A target evaluations, synergies calculations, group structures, business systems recommendations including ‘Xero’ accounting advice and exit strategies for founding partners.\n" }, { "role": "Vice President | Chief Financial Officer, Pacific", "company": "Schneider Electric", "endYear": "2017", "endMonth": "3", "location": "Sydney", "startYear": "2015", "startMonth": "1", "currentRole": false, "description": "*\tAccountable and responsible for Finance, Risk and IT along with serving as a Company Director to each legal entity in the Pacific with a turnover of A$1.2Bn+. Additional responsibility for finance function offshore enablement delivery centres in India and Philippines.\n\n*\tImproved Engagement scores of the finance function by +14% in 18 months. +5% change for whole company. This was driven by the adoption and championing of a strengths-based leadership philosophy.\n \n*\tRisk mitigation strategies on key off-track property construction contracts with $30M saving on contractual and treasury exposures. This included active CFO engagement, management and project accounting for the Perth Children’s Hospital construction ~$150M, Legacy Way Tunnel (QLD) of ~$75M and Gorgon LNG portable buildings of ~ $250M.\n\n*\tResponsibility for the IT function with an outcome being an implementation of a Business Intelligence toolset. Imbedded a self-service reporting environment releasing time for business partnering whilst also delivering 15 x FTE reduction saving $2.5M p.a.\n\n*\tCo-Executive sponsor and a key champion for change around both diversity and inclusion with all metrics exceeded in 18 months. \n" }, { "role": "Vice President | Regional Group CFO, South East Asia", "company": "Fujitsu", "endYear": "2015", "endMonth": "1", "location": "Singapore", "startYear": "2011", "startMonth": " 7", "currentRole": false, "description": "Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd; Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Vietnam & Myanmar (Emerging Markets)\n\nDirect report to Region CEO - ASEAN (South East Asia) – Promoted to Group CFO aged 36 as part of Hi-Potential development program\nOrganisation structure of 11 Direct Reports/150+ employees deployed across seven country locations - $450M Revenue.\n*\tAccountable and responsible for Finance, IT, Legal & Commercial, and Business Assurance for the ASEAN business with a turnover of USD 450M+ representing 2200 employees. Served as a Company Director to each legal entity. \n*\tPart of the senior leadership team that delivered improved margins (+4% pts), reduced costs and record profitability of the ASEAN business since its inception >30 years ago. \nSpecific contribution to these achievements are as follows:\n*\tRestructured two country locations with a combined reduction of 9% of the workforce driving $4M+ of annualised savings.\n*\tBusiness Assurance function imbedded within the organisation to ensure all contracts are deliverable following established industry best practices in service level agreements, transition and transformation pricing and handover from project to delivery teams. Saving since year one of program >$5M of project overrun costs directly benefiting the P&L. \n*\tExecutive sponsor for IT function with the implementation of an SAP ERP and BI toolsets for six country locations to drive standardisation of processes and to set up an offshore delivery centre. Annualised cost savings >$1M.\n*\tLed the business compliance program as ASEAN Chief Compliance Officer to ensure all employees were trained, had an understanding of both US FCPA and UK Anti-Bribery legislation, enabling application to local transactions in ASEAN.\n" }, { "role": "Senior Finance Business Partner | Controller: Application Services Australia", "company": "Fujitsu ", "endYear": "2011", "endMonth": " 7", "location": "Sydney, Australia ", "startYear": "2009", "startMonth": " 7", "currentRole": false, "description": "Direct report to Chief Financial Officer – Fujitsu Australia Ltd: 8 Direct Reports for Application Services business unit\n\n*\tResponsible for business unit P&L and balance sheet alongside being the business partner to General Executive Director.\n\n\n*\tImplemented SAP integrated module for Business, Planning and Consolidation toolset company wide. Undertook scoping, assessment of subcontractor performance, weekly project governance and appropriate escalations. \n*\tRestructure of underperforming business unit generating $3M of annualised cost savings. Reduction of 40 FTEs.\n" }, { "role": "Finance Business Partner | Controller, UK & Ireland", "company": "Fujitsu ", "endYear": "2009", "endMonth": " 7", "location": "London UK", "startYear": "2006", "startMonth": "9", "currentRole": false, "description": "Direct report to Finance Director of Private and Government Sector Business Units\n*\tUndertook Commercial bid finance management role working on large scale outsourcing contracts with total values ranging from $50M - $800M. Close collaboration with all key stakeholders including sales, solution architects and bid management team.\n*\tDeveloped a streamlined flexible pricing model which was repeatable for other outsourcing bids\n" }, { "role": "Senior Internal Auditor International Business | European FP&A Manager", "company": "GE Healthcare", "endYear": "2006", "endMonth": "9", "location": "London UK", "startYear": "2002", "startMonth": "8", "currentRole": false, "description": "Direct report into the Director or Risk and Operational Review & European Commercial Finance Director – Global Role\n\n\nGE Healthcare employs more than 46,000 people worldwide and provides medical imaging, diagnostics, patient monitoring systems, drug discovery and biopharmaceutical manufacturing technologies on a global basis. It is a subsidiary of General Electric.\n– Recruited into company as part of Hi-Potential development program for accelerated global experience and training.\n\n* Planned and undertook risk and operational reviews on an international basis across the group companies.\n* Facilitation of risk management workshops ensuring that outcomes were appropriately fed into senior management at corporate headquarters.\n\n* Business partner to the European VP of Sales ensuring that timely, relevant and accurate information is prepared to enable business decision making.\n" }, { "role": "Head Office Taxation Manager", "company": "Unilever plc", "endYear": "2002", "endMonth": "8", "location": "London", "startYear": "2000", "startMonth": "10", "currentRole": false, "description": "Statutory taxation returns completed for UK legal entities with a consolidated turnover of €2.6Bn." }, { "role": "Chartered Accountant", "company": "Brown Butler and Co", "endYear": "2000", "endMonth": "10", "location": "Leeds UK", "startYear": "1997", "startMonth": "9", "currentRole": false, "description": "Eleven partner independent accountancy practice with 150 associates undertaking external audit, taxation and statutory accounts preparation work.\n\nUndertook auditing and public practice accounting for various clients ranging from Public Ltd Companies to sole traders.\n" } ]