Experience

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  Fuji xerox australia

  Sept 1994 - Jul 1998

  Logistics planning manager
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  Optus

  Jul 1998 - Mar 1999

  Senior business process analyst
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  Fuji xerox australia

  Mar 1999 - Oct 2011

  Finance support manager

  In this role, I partner with the Executive GM of the Customer Service Division and his leadership team, assisting them to prepare the annual financial plans & monthly forecasts; analyse and review the performance of the Division; identify risks & opportunities and recommend corrective actions where appropriate. I am also responsible for the preparation and submission of the service financials (& related drivers) to my regional counterpart in Singapore for consolidation and review.

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  Ability options

  Nov 2011 - Jun 2018

  Commercial manager

  As the Commercial Manager, I am the owner of the budgeting & forecasting process for the Organisation. I partner with senior leaders of the client services divisions, report on their financial performance and conduct regular analytics to support their decision making. I am also responsible for financial modelling of investment opportunities for pricing and business case evaluation.

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  Singapore

  Sept 2018 - Dec 2021

  Career break

  My wife has taken up a fixed term overseas posting with her Company and we relocated to Singapore. I have had an extended time off work pursuing various interests: attending seminars, volunteers for charities and online learning through MOOC during the last 2 years when the pandemic spread.

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  Aurelia metals (peak gold mines)

  Mar 2022 - Sept 2023

  Contract finance analyst

  The contract analyst is a short-term hybrid role (fly-in fly-out, WFH) supporting the commercial manager on analysis & reporting, budgeting, expense tracking and other targeted projects: forecast data validation (vs the recently implemented Adaptive Insights planning model) and the conversion of the Excel based mining cost model to the Adaptive platform.