A senior Finance, Technology & Operations strategy leader with over 20years experience leading business planning, strategy development, operational transformations and business integrations - both globally & across the Asia Pacific region.

Business Effectiveness & Shopping Centre Technology @ Leadership of the Business Solution function delivering business and technology transformation strategies and implementations From January 2015 to Present (8 months) Finance & IT - Group Business Effectiveness @ Leadership of design, development and implementation of global and local business transformation strategies for the Finance, IT and Risk Management functions including; - Operational demerger of Westfield / Scentre Group, - Global cost efficiency & effectiveness strategy, - Global IT operating model design & systems strategy, - Globally Integrated Finance Function strategy. From April 2007 to December 2014 (7 years 9 months) APJ Head of Business Process @ Leadership of a Global Operations redesign and establishing a new Business Process division within Asia Pacific – including regional governance, IT demand management, process improvement initiatives (regional & global), customer experience strategies & training. Scope included Sales & Operations functions, Sarbanes Oxley and internal audit engagement control. From September 2004 to April 2007 (2 years 8 months) APJ Finance Planning & Analysis Manager @ Leadership of the Asia Pacific FP&A function including; - decision support, Business Unit forecasting & analysis - annual budgeting & LTF process for the region - country and segment analysis and recommendations From July 2002 to September 2004 (2 years 3 months) Commercial Manager - Business Development @ Leadership of commercial finance support, deal structuring and investment analysis / business case review (capital & direct equity). Responsibility for identifying, recommending and managing direct & indirect investment opportunities through venture capital partners plus integrating solution offerings into sales & marketing teams From April 2001 to July 2002 (1 year 4 months) Tax & Treasury Manager - ANZ @ Responsible for post merger transaction structuring and integration of Digital & Tandem acquisition, transfer pricing, GST implementation and tax compliance and advisory. From March 1998 to April 2001 (3 years 2 months) Business Advisory Services Manager @ Business advisory services from small and medium size businesses From February 1988 to March 1998 (10 years 2 months)

Accounting @ Chartered AccountantBCOMM, Commerce / Accounting @ UNSW AustraliaNewington Andrew Watson is skilled in: Strategy Development, Strategic Planning, Organizational..., Finance Transformation, IT Strategy, IT Transformation, Cross-functional Team..., Business Planning, Asia Pacific, Governance, PMO, Program Management, Business Process..., Lean Sigma, Change Leadership, Customer Experience, Leasing, Financial Management, Corporate Tax, Commercial Finance, Strategy, Process Improvement, Budgets, Risk Management, Managerial Finance, Finance, Management, Leadership, Business Development, Change Management