[{"role":"Executive Consultant | Company Director","company":"Beyond 67","location":"Brisbane","startYear":2024,"startMonth":"1","currentRole":true,"description":"Leveraging extensive international financial and commercial expertise, I provide executive-level guidance and strategic counsel to empower leaders in navigating complex challenges and optimising performance. My consultancy spans diverse areas, including leadership development, operational efficiency enhancement and decision support. I specialise in designing and optimising support service frameworks, refining supply chain strategies, enhancing contract management practices, and streamlining board and management reporting. Through thorough analysis and insightful recommendations, I deliver tangible value creation that bolster bottom-line results. I also conduct comprehensive commercial evaluations of operations and growth projects, including detailed CAPEX/OPEX analyses, supporting feasibility studies and M&A transactions, construction monitoring and due diligence for internal and external stakeholders."}, {"role":"Chief Financial Officer","company":"Heritage Minerals Pty Ltd","endYear":2025,"endMonth":"3","location":"FIFO to Rockhampton","startYear":2024,"startMonth":"6","currentRole":false,"description":"Heritage Minerals was formed to reprocess tailings and rehabilitate the historic Mount Morgan mine site near Rockhampton. The Company is currently finalising the front-end engineering design for the project and the financing of the project. Construction of the processing plant will commence shortly. As CFO, I led the Finance, Admin and HR team and oversaw all aspects of financial management, including financial planning, forecasting, budgets, treasury, tax and financial reporting. Worked closely with the Procurement and EPCM teams to ensure appropriate governance and comprehensive reporting. Accomplishments: Specified and negotiated the supply of an accommodation facility for the construction phase. Steered finalisation of a significant R&D tax incentive claim. Established a robust weekly cash flow forecast process for the Project."}, {"role":"Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director","company":"NovoFinity","location":"Brisbane","startYear":2021,"startMonth":"10","currentRole":true,"description":"Formed in 2016, NovoFinity is a data consultancy with an ingrained desire to rapidly implement data driven disruptive innovation. I joined the business as the CEO to embed more formal structures, processes and procedures, while continuing the healthy growth trajectory. Accomplishments: Represented NovoFinity at the InnovateNSW 2022 trade show as Chair of the Technology and Data stream. The session was very well received and a number of further business opportunities identified. More than doubled the number of placed consultants in less than a year, from 6 to 14 and grew revenue by 140% over eighteen months. Developed a business model to access offshore people resources through an associated company to partially address skills shortages."}, {"role":"Chief Financial Officer","company":"KGL Resources Limited","endYear":2023,"endMonth":"12","location":"Brisbane","startYear":2023,"startMonth":"9","currentRole":false,"description":"KGL Resources Limited is an ASX listed Australian mineral explorer and developer focused on the delineation and development of the high-grade resource at the Jervois Copper Project in the Northern Territory, Australia and establishing a world-class, low-cost copper mine. As CFO of this ASX listed company, I was responsible for developing and implementing financial strategies to support the company developing the Jervois copper Project, as well as exploration and operational objectives. I directed all aspects of financial management, including financial planning, budgeting, cash flow management and financial reporting. Provided leadership and direction to the finance team and the Company Secretary, ensuring corporate and financial operations were efficient, effective and compliant with regulatory requirements. Accomplishments: Directed the development of a more user-friendly and efficient base case financial model. Steered finalisation of the open cut and underground contract mining, construction and operations proposals, as well as the Processing Plant capital expenditure and operations proposals. Introduced potential lenders to the business. Prepared the framework to complete the optimised feasibility study in anticipation of the final investment decision."}, {"role":"Head of Commercial Services – Harmony Hidden Valley","company":"Morobe Consolidated Goldfields","endYear":2021,"endMonth":"10","location":"FIFO to PNG and then Brisbane based","startYear":2017,"startMonth":"2","currentRole":false,"description":"Harmony Gold is the 12th largest gold producer in the world, operating mines in South Africa and Papua New Guinea. Hidden Valley mining moved in excess of 30Mtpa ore and waste. As a member of the Site Senior Leadership Team, the focus of the role was to provide strategic Commercial leadership and direction to the business and proactively manage and control a multidisciplinary Commercial team. This included Financial and Commercial management services, Project Accounting, Business Risk and Insurance, ICT Services, Management Accounting and Reporting, in-country Procurement, Logistics, Warehousing and Inventory Management. The role had 7 geographically dispersed Superintendent level direct reports, leading a team of more than 80. Accomplishments: Transformed the contract management framework for a major civil and wet hire contractor on site, through a redesign and comprehensive implementation, leading to significant cost recoveries and estimated to save more than $10M over 3 years. Developed and presented a proposal to the EXCO to use closure provisions to do early closure remediation work at a time when mining was stopped due to a wall slip in the pit. Streamlined the annual business planning process to reduce the workload on operational teams by agreeing cost drivers, leading the development of an activity-based budget and having the operations teams only focus on exceptions and non-driver-based costs. Formulated and implemented a financial management framework for a major reinvestment project (USD180M), including capital reporting, capital expenditure applications, preparation of presentations and committee papers. Designed and implemented a control framework, including short interval control reporting, to improve the performance of the incumbent transport service provider."}, {"role":"Principal Consultant and Director","company":"EVE Operations Pty Ltd","endYear":2017,"endMonth":"1","location":"Brisbane","startYear":2016,"startMonth":"4","currentRole":false,"description":""}]