ERICA CATHERINE WATERS
Budget and Forecasting Manager
- Auckland
- +0211410473
- e-waters@hotmail.com
BCom, MBA (Distinction), ACA
Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand
2011 -Order of St John
Budget and Forecasting Manager
2007-11 Air New Zealand
Senior Performance Analyst
2005-07Auckland City Council
Financial Analyst
2001-05 ASB Bank
Financial Accountant
2000-01 Wilson Parking
Assistant Accountant
1998-2000 Supalite Industries
Assistant Accountant
1995-98 Simunovich Fisheries
Assistant Accountant
1993-95 ANZ Bank
Teller
Position: Budget and Forecasting Manager
Duties: Manage the Budget and Quarterly Forecasting Process (Including: designing the process and timeline, communicating expectation to users, administering the budgeting package, supporting users, overhead allocation, checking and where necessary challenging the submitted budgets, preparing management and board reports,)
Financial Modelling (Including: financial target setting, building the cost savings program monitoring model, building the Area Committee budget model, work on the long term financial model).
Ad-hoc Financial Analysis as required
Supervise one staff member:
Achievements: Change the Forecasting process to concentrate effort on getting material assumptions correct and reduce disruption to the business.
Position: Senior Performance Analyst
Duties: Financial Modelling (Including financial forecasting, building accrual calculation models and modelling the financial impact of management and union claims for the cabin crew employment contract negotiations)
Monthly Management Reporting (Including: developing and reporting on KPI measures, valuing and monitoring the success of business improvement projects(e.g. Fuel conservation initiatives), working on business cases for the purchase of new assets)
Month End Processing (Including: Accrual calculation, variance analysis and Balance Sheet reconciliations)
Achievements: Analysis I did result in a significant review in the number of cabin crew employed resulting in a material cost saving for the company.
Position: Financial Analyst
Duties: Financial modelling (Including interest modelling, targeted rates modelling etc)
Financial Forecasting (Forecasting full monthly financial statements for the next year in detail, setting budgets based on these forecasts and forecasting full financial statements for 10 years in less detail)
Preparation of the LTCCP (Council 10-year strategic plan for external reporting, produced 10 year financials, funding reports and revenue and financing tables)
Liaise with Audit New Zealand (Establish expectations due to legislative change and answer queries)
Coordinate the input of planning data
Scenario Analysis (For instance, analysing the effect of changing the council's debt funding policy on rates under a variety of conditions and making recommendations)
Achievements: Was part to the team that changed the LTCCP to include inflation. This involved a complete rewrite of the model in order comply with changing legislation.
Position: Financial Accountant
Duties: Administer OLAP Database(TM1) (Including database design, creation, modification and population, performing systems checks, training users, maintaining security, recommending upgrades and liaising with software vendors and the internal ITC department)
Board Reporting
Executive Reporting (Financial a non-financial information, examples include: divisional profitability, Term Investment margins and maturity profile, staff numbers)
Backup Systems Accountant
Assist with Budgeting Process (Including building the model to spread the corporate budget across all branches and departments)
Assist with Statutory Reporting(Responsible for the preparation of several notes)
Position: Assistant Account
Duties: Preparation of profit share statements Preparation of profit and loss statement Preparation and input of journals General Ledger Reconciliations
Position: Assistant Accountant
Duties: GL Reconciliation Cash flow management Management Reporting Load reporting Margin Reporting Assist in the production of financial statements Supervise three staff, Cover payroll, accounts payable, accounts receivable
Position: Assistant Accountant Duties: Cashbook, Subsidiary accounting,(to balance sheet) Reconciliations Cover-Payroll, Accounts receivable, Accounts payable
Position: Teller
Majored in Finance
First in Class
On the team that won the New Zealand Business Strategy Competition and went on to represent New Zealand in Australia
Majored in Accountancy
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