Geraldine Bourgarel

Responsibilities:
• Manage reporting and group reporting in accordance with IFRS standards, group policies and company strategy for Australia and New Zealand
• Administrate annual department budgets, planned labour rate, quarterly business plan over 5 years
• Develop financial control and governance across Australia and New Zealand
• Prepare financial presentation to Board of Directors, present financials to Executive Committee members
• Provide necessary education and support to all key users on financial reporting
• Validate all staff recruitment according to program workload planning, risk assessment and business development decision
• Participate in Human Resources procedure and policies development
Main achievements:
• Built the Controlling department and its supportive procedure and processes from the ground up
• Trained and coached financial controllers and reporting officers
• Created the first budget model, endorsed department budgets and labour rate with automatic reports on actual and planned values in SAP financial system
• Significantly improved 5-year operative planning in terms of quality, continuity, documentation and business ownership
• Established Key Performance Indexes (KPI’s) with narrative-rich reports providing relevant financial analysis and recommendations
• Deployed standardized KPI’s across the company, promoted a culture of performance and ownership of financials

Responsibilities:
• Evaluate IP and Technical Data requirements to achieve the objectives of the Australian Defence program and project contracts
• Identify subject matter for which there would be benefit in registering IP
• Prepare business plan and negotiate IP licence to be commercialised with Commonwealth lawyers
• Manage IP contractual deliverables
• Design and maintain electronic Master IP Record database
• Provide comprehensive support and advice on contractual IP matter to the company, its subcontractors and the Australian Defence Department
• Prepare and submit contract amendments for IP development activities
Main achievements:
• Successfully cleared an audit by the Australian National Audit Office on IP management in Dec. 2006
• Concluded productive tripartite negotiations of specific IP agreements with major Australian, European and American subcontractors
• Registered IP related to Defence training

Responsibilities:
• Report on Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter (ARH) performance to track the progress of the Air87 Defence Program against budget milestones, contractual schedule and scope
• Implement Risk Management procedures to identify, assess, share and mitigate risks
• Organise regular project risk reviews with Program Management, Defence and subcontractors
• Maintain IP Plan and Deeds for the company, its customers and its subcontractors
• Prepare IP program deliverables
Main achievements:
• Developed the template for all governmental program Risk Registers company-wide
• Developed recurring internal narrative-rich analysis to support Program Management decisions

Responsibilities:
• Consolidate business unit requirements and assess available technical solutions
• Report on Project progress against budget, schedule and scope
Main achievements:
• Gained hands-on experience of Project Management techniques regarding planning and managing resources to achieve project sponsors’ goals
• Overcame project management challenges such as technical constraints, business requirements, time and sponsor budget

Responsibilities:
• Research and short-list large prospective partners for the account executives
• Develop mobile phone-based interactive games and advertising campaigns
Main achievements:
• Built long-lasting relationships with customers by offering post-campaign reporting and ongoing support

Responsibilities:
• Provide sales reports to the commercial management teams
• Communicate financial decisions, new projects and marketing material to the sales force
• Support the development of promotional programs to increase market share
Main achievements:
• Implemented mapping application (cf. www.mapinfo.com ) to analyse customer metrics and patterns

Responsibilities:
• Visit clients to demonstrate products, show samples and take orders to increase market share
• Report on sales performance for new and established products
Main achievements:
• Set up promotional events in major supermarkets