EXECUTIVE PROFILE
**With extensive financial experience including board leadership, a results-driven CFO and business partner providing a broad perspective and strong commercial acumen in driving change and business transformation in a highly cyclical industry across multi-cultural, demanding global environments.
**Establishing governance for systems improvement projects across start-ups, joint ventures and multi-jurisdictional mergers and acquisitions leading to sustainable growth, substantial cost savings and increased $multi-million turnovers. Combining astute forward planning, financial analysis and control and a talent for delivering innovate solutions with a passion to achieve consistently top results.
**Relied on to lead international negotiations, build productive relationships with key stakeholders and inspire top-performing teams to achieve their highest potential. An influential professional with the confidence to lead from the front, currently seeking a new challenge to utilise a highly cross-functional awareness and deliver value at strategic and operational levels.
KEY SKILLS and EXPERTISE
? Corporate Finance, ASX Reporting, Corps Act, Treasury & Taxation
? Managing Multi-Jurisdictional Mergers & Acquisitions
? Working Across Global Cultural Environments
? Business Start-Up / Joint Venture / Capital Raising
? Building Investor & Stakeholder Relationships
? Public Company / Senior Government Representation
? Managing Budgets (up to $500m)
? Visionary Board Leadership & Strategic Planning
? Driving Change / Business Transformation
? Fostering a Continuous Improvement Culture
? Team Building / Inspiring Top Performance
? Influential Negotiator / SLAs
? Leading Full Lifecycle Projects / Lean & Six Sigma Methodologies
? Generating Sustainable Growth & Cost Savings
SELECT PROJECTS and KEY ACHIEVEMENTS
>>Facilitating Take-over by Majority Shareholder, CFO / Acting CEO, Albidon Ltd (ASX: ALB).
Major asset, the $200m Munali Nickel Project, was in care and maintenance due to low ore grades and declining nickel prices; needed restructure to retain its mining lease. Responsible for oversight and disclosure to regulators and investors, safety for 250+ workforce and relationships with government and community. Audited ore body grades and metal recovery records; undertook economic evaluation of mineral resource; applied governance focus in business reconstruction and merger; managed multi-jurisdictional corporate restructure; delivered revised JORC resource and mine plan; engaged potential investors in due diligence assessing mineralogy, mining method and project funding options. Facilitated the takeover of Albidon by Jinchuan Group in June 2013, paid out minorities, cleared $150m debt and created $3m fund to complete community health and educational facilities.
>>Project Start Up, Funding & 1st Shipment, CFO, Pan African Minerals Ltd, 2 year plan for $700m investment
PAM owns Tambao Manganese Project, Burkina Faso’s flagship mining project. Green field development needed infrastructure, 100-man camp, roadways, rail and port facilities for shipment to markets. Tasked to drive commercial and logistics strategies to achieve 1st production by end of 2014, worked with banks and legal advisers to satisfy project’s start-up funding conditions. Established structure; recruited key staff; built funding partnerships; led supply negotiations for all SLAs; oversaw marketing to secure first mineral sale contracts; built local management and Burkina government support for project’s commercial pillars; upgraded accounting systems and mineral valuation models. In October 2014, civil disturbances in Burkina led to the ousting of the incumbent President. Mining operations started up in late 2014 to schedule and the first trial shipment of high-grade (53%Mn) ore for Japanese steel mills departed Abidjan port in early 2015. Unfortunately, the changed political environment coupled with falling mineral prices saw the project halted in February 2015.
>>Setting up Systems for Start-up JV Projects, Group Manager Planning & Analysis, Cliffs Natural Resources Pty Ltd.
US based Cliffs acquired a 45% interest in the Sonoma Coal Joint Venture. Appointed as Controller for JV interests to set-up financial governance and reporting systems to support global expansion strategy. Established funds appropriation procedures for $160m start-up Sonoma Coal JV; tracked exploration pipeline of farm-in / alliance obligations; rolled out executive reporting package and balanced scorecard; led project to design and implement activity-based cost reporting system and undertook financial due diligence for potential M&As in Asia Pacific region. Successfully implemented strong governance and management systems across all business units with assets valued at $500+m.
>>Raising Capital & Engaging Corporate Advisory to Divest Assets, CFO, Iron Ore Holdings Ltd (ASX: IOH).
ASX-listed junior miner manages a diverse portfolio of undeveloped iron ore projects and wanted to monetize its resource assets. Tasked to provide practical financial stewardship and drive the commercial strategy. Led evaluation process to develop exploration and project development strategy; introduced corporate advisors to identify potential buyers for mineral leases; participated in $40m renounceable Rights Issue; organised investor road show to raise exploration capital; implemented comprehensive HR policy suite and ERP system. Subsequent sale of mineral leases netted c. $70m cash for shareholders.