Experience

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  Fleetlease ltd

  Nov 1995 - Mar 2000

  Financial controller

  All aspects of financial and credit management, with key responsibility for group reporting, consolidations, system enhancements and process improvements, design and implementation. Highlights included the launch of key addon services and automation of yearend reporting and consolidations.

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  Abel solutions ltd

  May 2000 - Jun 2019

  Managing director

  The sole distributor of Abel ERP package in NZ, Australia, Asia and the USA. Generated 20% YOY growth from start-up, opening markets in Australia and Asia and building a high performing consulting, support and development team. Setting and Leading sales strategies, methodologies on business analysis and implementation of ERP solutions. Analysing and understanding client organisations with management focus on wants and needs, distilling complexity and identifying inefficiency. Re-engineering business process and overseeing design and implementation of numerous core business applications. Show less

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  Self-employed contractor

  Jul 2019 - Jun 2023

  Independent contractor

  A strategic leader of business growth, with business ownership background. Creating high value client partnerships, with expertise in BA, BI and ERP across multiple sectors and functions. Identifies and analyses core problems and opportunities in complex environments, designing and implementing processes and procedures that optimise business deliverables, minimise disruptions, maximise engagement, compliance and governance. Builder of high performing cohesive teams to deliver executional excellence. • Proven experience as a Project Manager across complex initiatives.• Proven experience with implementing agile principles in real life (Scrum and XP).• Strong stakeholder skills with ability to engage with all levels.• Ability to bring the team on the journey. Show less

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  Telco technology services limited (tts)

  Nov 2019 - Oct 2021

  Senior product owner

  Tasked with the challenge to review assess and relaunch the company's flagship tool to encourage learning throughout the education sector, we successfully delivered LaunchPad V1.1 to the market in April 2020. + assessed existing applications and presented findings to senior executive + managed all aspects of planning, requirements, budget and delivery + built a remote development team (Javascript ES6, ReactJS and NodeJS) + liaised with design agency for full UX and UI component designs+ enacted feedback loop through Power BI modelling and reporting + provided agile methodologies & framework to deliver on all aspects + managed stakeholders expectations throughout a rapidly changing period + realigned project to achieve success with Covid-19 opportunity unfolding + developed transformation strategy for existing schools and new schools + delivered solution in budget and on-time + determined road map, obtained funding and rolled out as a commercial release V2.0 Show less

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  Chartered accountants australia and new zealand

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2022

  Local leadership committee (auckland)

  The Local CAANZ Leadership Committee operates as a conduit for information and feedback to and from my network of member CA's and the CAANZ institute. Understanding the initiatives, learning resources and directives that CAANZ offers has been extremely useful in my own development as well as that of my network.I am especially proud of being able to contribute with real world commercial examples that have added to the direction and growth of CAANZ and other members representative of large and small accounting practices and banks. Show less

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  The university of auckland

  Dec 2021 - Mar 2024

  Project manager

  PROJECT MANAGER (Contract)University of Auckland, Auckland • Dec 2021 – Present(NZ’s leading world ranked University)Key Achievement:• Tasked with delivering two strategic critical finance projects simultaneously.(i) Successfully selected and delivered an organisation wide replacement Financial Planning Tool(ii) Successfully migrated a subsidiary from standalone ERP to UoA’s ERP Platform• Adhered to P3M Project Management – Agile Approach • Managed and delivered politically charged previously failed projectKey Responsibilities:• Wrote and obtained approval for Business Cases, Seed Funding, ROI & Risk assessments, RASCI• Managed 2 separate project teams, including Deloitte Workday delivery team• Ensured staff buy-in to change, guided Change Managers and BA’s• Managed and informed Steering Committees of senior leadership executives• Maintained budgets ($2.4M & $1.2M) and governance requirements including Decision & Risk Registers Show less