Justin Jia

Experience

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  Relationships Australia NSW

  Jan 2011 - Feb 2012

  Accounts Officer & Assistant Accountant

  • Initiated the centralised AP process that achieved process efficiency and freed up all regional offices admin time by one day weekly.• Identified a GST compliance issue through accounting policy analysis for new health services provided that consequently raised GST consequences. I quantified the result, developed procedure for process improvement initiative, recommended management voluntarily reporting to ATO for the GST liability that avoided extra penalty.• Identified errors on FBT reports caused by the external fleet company. By picking up on this error, it resulted in saving employee’s in reporting inaccurate figures to the ATO. Show less

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  Relationships Australia NSW

  Feb 2013 - Jan 2017

  • Developed a scenario & statistical based financial model, performed market research and key driver analysis to support CEO completing a multimillion-dollar business case for Relationships Australia Social Enterprise. My advisory role assisted CEO successfully securing the investment from the Board approval. • Managed the development of a TM1 based financial analytical and reconciliation model, which reduced half a day’s preparation time to a few minutes, and improved performance and predictive capabilities by providing multiple years’ rolling month-to-month comparison.• Initiated a data integrity improvement project using SQL and VBA. That solved a long standing reporting variance issue between two reporting systems, solved a total of $200k variance as a result of half a million transactions, and developed a procedure manual for 30 regional offices to improve the ongoing governance of data quality. • Initiated merchant cost analysis and negotiated with St. George Bank for 30 regional office merchant accounts saving the organisation 30% in merchant expenses monthly.• Built a SAP ERP testing environment within 1.5 weeks with a 200G+ SAP demo to build the business case for an ERP system change. This saved the organisation time and money from seeking external consultancy, and provided the insights for the Leadership Team to make an informed decision.• Initiated Concur project and managed a project team of three to implement the Concur system within 2 months for over 100 direct stakeholders. This solution reduced reporting time of expense management from 3 weeks to just a few days, reducing administrative costs and eliminated archiving costs.• Utilising multiple reporting systems’ capabilities, developed a new methodology that reduced end of period financial reporting preparation time from 5.5 days to 3 days. This value-adding reporting improvement assisted management for more effective decision-making. Show less • Developed multiple financial year government grant-income modelling tools to monitor revenue allocation accuracy, cash investment opportunities and budgeting efficiency. This gave the finance team and cost centre managers transparency and confidence to back up their decision making. This model also identified approx. $50k shortfall in grant payment due to government indexation calculation errors.• Key Super User for ERP system setting up automated schedules to streamline reporting and improve accuracy of financial results to the cost centre managers and improving the month end processes. This freed up time to spend on deeper analysis of trends and insights of the monthly financial results.• Development of government grant model during the budget process to assist senior management to determine salary increases, and passing cash benefits to employees on time.• Assisted department of operations as the key business partner for managing 50 key national wide EAP customers’ contracts, periodical service activity and financial reports to provide excellent control and maintain long-term strategic partnership. Show less

  • Financial Accountant & Accounts Manager

    Mar 2012 - Jan 2017

  • Management Accountant

    Feb 2013 - Oct 2013
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  Department of Justice NSW

  Jan 2017 - Aug 2017

  Business/Financial Analyst

  Undertake data collection, modelling and analysis to determine the costs and cost drivers of activities, processes and outputs across the justice system, and to apply and present this information to help decision-makers forecast costs, consider alternative scenarios, and optimise the use of resources.• Working with colleagues and key stakeholders to establish the role, culture, stakeholder relationships and value-adding reputation of the branch, including developing an analytical framework, tools and methodologies to support the work of the branch• Sourcing, collating, cleansing and connecting existing data and derive proxies for inadequate data on costs and activity, working with business process owners and data custodians across the justice system• Performing data analysis and link cost and activity data to establish standard unit costs aligned to key cost elements across the justice system, and identify volume, quality mix and price drivers of costs• Building and populating cost models for system-wide activities, outputs and outcomes, incorporating system flows and interdependencies, to forecast costs and model potential change scenarios• Contributing to in-depth analysis on priority issues, including working with business process owners and other key stakeholders to support rigorous cost-benefit analysis of proposed reforms, and provide value- adding advice and support to partners and clients on data and costing related issues• Documenting and reporting the basis, methodology and results of the branch’s work to assist senior and non- technical audiences to build their understanding and confidence in applying it to decision-making• Supporting the manager and contributing to the broader goals of the Branch, Division, Department and Cluster, including supporting branch administrative, project management, reporting and other requirements and representing the branch as directed by the manager. Show less

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  Transport for NSW

  Sept 2017 - May 2019

  Commercial Analyst, Pricing and Revenue

  Responsible for reporting and analysing revenue performance, performing revenue projections, proposing fact-based revenue initiatives, preparing business cases’ revenue sections, detecting/preventing revenue leakage and etc. This role also assesses financial/non-financial info/data and validates new/unique ways of revenue streams consistent with the Org. values to assist snr. mgmt. making well-informed decisions and to collaborate with agencies achieving their business goals.• Preparing monthly revenue performance report, end of year projections, variance and 5-year predictive analysis for mgmt. for 30 major Transport cluster customer-facing revenue streams, such as PT farebox. Developed the reporting package, reduced reporting prep. time from 3 days to 2 hrs and improved the accuracy. Integrated forecast capability driven by volume data (Opal, Vehicle data etc.), the performance and predictive analysis done concurrently.• Worked with agencies for financial planning and budgeting by building various forecast models (e.g. linear-exponential regression) which helps in some instances improving forecast accuracy from 30% var. to 0.4% tested monthly.• Collaborated with multiple Divisions and contributed Business Cases’ revenue sections. E.g. built a capacity-driven 30-year revenue impact model and prepared the business case revenue section. The model assumptions and algorithm have been audited and agreed by all the business case stakeholders.• Evaluated revenue impact for policy costing inquiries from Parliament for 2019 Election. E.g. evaluations for published policy promises.• Assisted on Fare Compliance Survey reports, utilised modelling skills to developed methodology to address survey report’s comparability issues due to fare price increase and patronage growth etc.• Proactively monitoring for financial/operational anomalies and potential revenue leakages through research, policy review and partnership. Some instances, saved multi $m pa. Show less

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  NSW Treasury

  Jun 2019 - now

  Associate Director

  Led 2021-22 Treasury Cluster Outcomes & Business Plan, the 4-year Treasury Cluster Strategic Planning, including 80 Treasury cluster outcome indicators and performance measures.Led the Budget Paper 2 (Outcome Statement - Treasury Cluster), and author/key contributor to various published NSW Government Budgets, Half-Yearly Reviews, Reports on State Finance, Total State Sector Accounts.Led and implemented the 1st annual Treasury’s Outcome survey project (Treasury Stewardship Survey) to all GG sector agencies. Treasury cluster representative for DAPCO periodic progress reporting on Treasury cluster NSW Government Election Commitments.Responsible for preparing monthly Treasury cluster LT dashboard (Tableau) and coordinating with various divisions and agencies for cluster financial, risk and HR insights to the Treasury leadership team.Led a team and developed various tools, financial models and implementation of several business process improvements such as Tableau dashboard for NSW Treasury, Sector Secretaries, CFOs, and Executive Directors for GGS entities including Statement of Comprehensive Income and budget controls with interactive analytic functions.Preparing monthly NSW Treasurer’s briefings and Tableau fiscal dashboards, analysing NSW Government performance for 90+ GGS agency reporting entities and publishing monthly NSW State Financial Statements. Managed and prepared NSW Budget Paper 5 – Appropriation Bill 2020-21 and managing annual Appropriation of NSW Government cash funding over $107 billion p.a. for NSW government agencies.Reviewing Treasurer’s briefing notes based on the ERC decisions; worked with various Treasury divisions and sector agencies preparing and reviewing announced NSW Stimulus Packages (more than $5.5 billion COVID-19 and natural disaster related). Show less