Experience

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  Reflect business machines

  Aug 2001 - Jan 2004

  Accounts assistant

  Accounts receivable, Accounts payable, Collections, Bank Reconciliation, Stock Reconciliation,Tendering and Quotations, Office administration, Sales, Customer Service

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  Fidelity investments

  Jan 2004 - Jan 2011

  Team leader - superannuation

  Results driven Leader with strong people managerial skills having ability to lead and build a high performing team delivering positive results.Leading a team of more than 20 associates and multiple processes. Lead teams in Operations and Quality assurance. Monitoring daily operational activity to ensure service levels are met. Forecast resourcing to manage operational requirement. Reporting KPI performance of process and team. Attend operational, customer and business meetings.Transition processes from US, developed training plan and ensured an effective knowledge transfer to more than 100 associates. Handled end-to-end transition of processes, new hires and administrative activitiesEfficiently developed an enhanced internal control metrics. Successfully deployed Quality Management System across processes to minimize risk and financial exposure. The project positively resulted in reducing repetitive and financial errors thereby improving the internal controls in the process. The project resulted reducing potential financial risks and saving millions of dollars. Lean six sigma and Green belt certified. Partnered with senior management to identify process improvement opportunities to achieve a unified view of operation and drive projects to significant and quantifiable business outcomes. Process accuracy project resulting in accuracy improvement from 87.16% to 98.17%. Process re-engineering project which resulted in cycle time reduction and 18 FTE savings.ISO 27001 Audit certified. Lead an operations internal audit team and ensured to drive audit assessments. Reporting observations to management and recommendations to improve processes and controls. Ensured all controls recommended are agreed, signed off and implemented. Show less

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  Pj accounting and taxation services

  Mar 2012 - Mar 2014

  Assistant accountant

  Month end accounting process and generating reports, Financial analysis, Strong customer service and client interface. Preparation and posting of the daily transaction processing of accounts payable and receivables entries, journals and general Ledger reconciliationsAssisting management with audit and tax process, handling general account queries, providing financial reports. managing the accounting function and preparing monthly management reports detailing financial results with variance analysisAnalyse, reconcile, verify and investigate complex transactions for the correction of accounting entriesCreating purchase orders and follow up on open purchase orders. Show less

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  Downer

  Apr 2014 - now

  • Lead purchase to pay teams including Invoice Processing, Payments, Supplier Reconciliations, Service Desk • Ensuring the operational metrics are set-up, agreed and KPIs are achieved• Driving the team's performance to deliver a superior service to internal and external customers• Leading, motivating and developing the team, including upskilling where appropriate• Implement a governance structure so that we continue to be aligned with our customers• Reduce cost and deliver short term results and successes while moving towards long-term vision• Align the P2P processes and structure to the company’s standards and business strategy• Improve internal controls to more efficiently monitor transaction risk and financial exposure• Strong customer service focused with an ability to implement global organizational efficiencies and standardise processes• Strong leadership skills with the ability to work well independently, develop strong relationships, influence thinking and drive consensus amongst a wide range of stakeholders• Liaise with all departments and key stake holders in a professional and timely manner• Assisting in transition of businesses to purchase to pay in the Business Service Center• Delivering reports, insights and analysis on process and business performance• Budgeting and resource planning for the purchase to pay team and building capabilities• Reviewing and analysing current procedures in order to recommend and implement changes to standardize activities• Participate and Lead in cross functional process and system improvement initiatives• Managing and reviewing goals and performance development plan of the team Show less • Lead and motivate a diverse team of 12 payments and reconciliation officers• Reporting and analysis of data for payments and reconciliation purposes• Reviewing cash requirement reports for daily, weekly and monthly payment runs• Coordinating and assisting divisional business finance teams and treasury with cash forecast • Manage processing payments for over $500M on a monthly average• Plan, manage and assign work to the team to ensure KPIs are met• Experience in several AP ERP systems and ICM tools including JDEGS and Kofax• Reviewing and authorising payment batches in the banks prior to releasing funds• Planning and executing scheduled and out-off cycle payment run • Reviewing, identifying and implementing process improvements.• Analyse training need, provide training and support to the team • Manage monthly reconciliation of statements over 300 critical suppliers• Assist the team in statement reconciling, data analysing and providing resolutions• Working with project teams for business transitions, system implementations and Process automation Show less • Point of contact for business plants across Australia and Leasing companies • Requesting and reviewing quotes as per the standard company policy• Review quotes for accuracy, price and provide endorse quote as per requirement • Coordinate quote to delivery of vehicles with supplier and business teams• Coordinate all lease extensions, modifications and disposal of vehicles• Maintain Fleet Master Data and variation records in the system• Publish daily, weekly and monthly reports to business and management• Drive effective fleet utilisation by requesting lease variations, reallocation of vehicles• Organising approvals for vehicle repairs and maintenance• Fuel card administration management and reporting• E-tag, toll record management, and arranging payments Show less

  • Manager - Purchase to Pay

    Sept 2019 - now

  • Payments & Reconciliation Lead

    Dec 2016 - Aug 2019

  • Reconciliation Lead

    Jul 2016 - Nov 2016

  • Fleet Coordinator

    Apr 2014 - Jul 2016