As a Certified Practicing Accountant with close to three years post qualified experience, I have been working in London on a contract basis for the past 12 months and am now looking to return to Sydney in October to take a position where I can build myself into the fabric of a company in a business partnering role.

Commercial Finance Analyst - Global Travel and Middle East - London @ In April I took a role with Diageo in the Global Travel Key Accounts team and was given immediate ownership of our third largest client who had Airports in locations across Europe, America and Australia which required me to liaise with our offices in those locations. With the close of the financial year at the end of June, my role in this team was to manage the sales towards the end of the year to achieve targets and call out any possible risks to ensure that targets were hit across the wider team. During my time in this role I undertook a review of the accruals for promotional spend discovering both positive and negative variances within the existing accruals and developing new templates to prevent reoccurrence of the existing errors. I also offered new views in regards to the movements in forecasts and variances to actuals that allowed tracking of reductions in NSV whilst also identifying where opportunities existed for future growth. Achievements Included: • Accrual review uncovering dangerous under accruals and expenses not accrued for that had the potential to derail full year performance as well as discovering areas for reduction in accruals to partially offset under accruals • Developing a new view of movements in forecasts to accurately track changes • Setting up pricing for a new tender in Auckland Airport • Managing new price requests for clients of wider team. From April 2015 to August 2015 (5 months) London, United KingdomFinance Manager - GM Analysis @ As a contractor with the central General Merchandise team I performed various tasks in my three month placement including the modelling of promotional sales, preparation of Investor Relations information for quarterly annoucements and assisting with Daily, Weekly and Monthly reporting cycles From December 2014 to February 2015 (3 months) Finance Analyst - International Commercial Finance @ As a contractor within the International Commercial Finance team at William Grant & Sons I assisted with the implementation of the biannual forecast and 2015 budget submission. This included the compiliation of information from multiple data sources whilst also questioning the accuracy and complete nature of the figures. I also was responsible for the building of templates and presentations ulitmately linking back to up to date figures through the use of Hyperion Essbase queries. I was also tasked with the reconciliation and investigation of Overheads figures with the view of ultimately building reports to allow a view of Overhead spend against budget, future estimates and prior periods. In building these reports I allowed for a view of Overheads spend by type of spend for Regions, Cost Centres and Indivduals which involved the compiliation of data from multiple data sources. From August 2014 to December 2014 (5 months) London, United KingdomSenior Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis @ As Senior Analyst, Financial Planning and Analysis at Ralph Lauren I monitor the performance of our various stores across a range of metrics as well as various ad hoc analysis and a review functionality of Payroll. I also perform various month end duties to communicate results both domestically and through reporting lines to Head Offices' in Hong Kong and New York. From June 2013 to June 2014 (1 year 1 month) Client Revenue Analyst @ As Client Revenue Analyst at Commonwealth Bank I reviewed the performance of our Institional Banking division in relation to achievement of monthly targets and cross sell as well as reviewing expenses and managing the budgets and forecasts for both Revenue and Expenses. On top of the monthly functions of my role I also carried out various ad hoc analysis and data quality projects across various divisions and responded to queries raised by our internal clients. From February 2010 to June 2013 (3 years 5 months) Audit Intern @ As an intern on the PwC Audit program in both 2008 and 2009 I joined various Audit teams across multiple industries assisting in the audit process accross various requirements of the Audit From January 2009 to February 2009 (2 months)

Certified Practising Accountant @ CPA Australia From 2010 to 2013 Bachelor of Commerce (BCom), Accounting @ Macquarie University From 2007 to 2009 Higher School Certificate, Economics, Legal Studies, Maths, English and History @ Pittwater House Grammar School From 1995 to 2006 Andrew Montgomery is skilled in: Microsoft Excel, Performance Measurement, CPA, Forecasting, Strategic Financial Planning, Analysis, Budgets, Management, Payroll, Leadership, Financial Analysis, Variance Analysis, Business Analysis, Financial Modeling