Stephanie George

Develop and execute financial strategies to support growth in hardware sales, service contracts, and recurring revenue streams. Lead capital planning for inventory expansion, service infrastructure, and technology upgrades. Ensure compliance with tax regulations, warranty obligations, and service-level agreements. Implement internal controls to safeguard assets and prevent fraud. Monitor risks related to inventory obsolescence and service liabilities. Drive cost optimization across logistics, service delivery, and support functions. Collaborate with operations and service teams to align financial goals with customer satisfaction and uptime metrics. Upgrade financial systems to support integrated billing, inventory tracking, and service management. Automate invoicing, contract renewals, and reporting processes. Build and mentor a finance team with expertise in hardware, services, and recurring revenue models. Foster a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.

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Providing effective financial leadership to a finance team and IT team, to enable strategic foresight into the business and also provide knowledgeable and accurate information to colleagues, senior management and directors. • Manage and lead a team 4 finance staff and 3 IT staff. Restructured the finance team roles to make it functional, match the skills of each employee to get the best out of everyone • Fully responsible of all aspects of financial, management and statutory accounting for the business. • Work closely with the business to create Annual budgets and report to the Boarl. Provide strategic support to the business during General Manager meetings. • Responsible for maintaining and improving the internal control environment, including oversight of month end and year end processes. • Ensuring that financial processes are robust, efficient and effective and making sure that all the transactional accounting is accurate and timely. • Quarterly forecasting/budgeting at resource level • Managing relationships with external auditors and tax advisors. • Manage and accomplish special projects with on time delivery • Train and upskill all finance team to understand and work within accounting practices and standards • Mentor a graduate accountant to CA qualification. Achievements • Proven track of record of leading and motivating both finance and IT team • Finished off the implementation of a new operating system within TPG, creating reports used for management and board. Changed certain functions to align with accounting practices and standards. Audit review went from Red risk to Green risk within the year • 3 years of 100% clean audit • Implemented SharePoint and office 365 software into the business. • Implemented HR system for 175 staff • Part of the digital transformation team, encouraging change within the business

• Translates operational plans into financial plans, budgets and forecasts. • Manage capex forecasting, budgeting and reporting working closely with the facility team to manage capital projects • Prepares consolidated financial plans, budgets and forecasts for all business areas for submission into Long Term Plans, Statement of Intent, Business Plans, monthly reports to the Board • Coordinates and is responsible for monthly finance reports for business areas including property portfolio, property projects, business interests, acquisitions and disposals • Provide proactive on-going financial support and advice to the cost centre managers • Prepare monthly ‘property by property’ financial reports comparing actual to budget/forecast which includes leased and sub-leased property • Heavily Participated in the enhancement of the Real estate module in SAP providing advice and guidance from the finance side, working with IT to create Business Intelligenence reports

• Promotion to Senior Accountant to help train, guide and review the work of the non-qualified accountants in the team • Responsible for the entire financial accounting for ACPL that includes, salaries, recharges, council funding income, general expenses providing commentary on operations . Review of balance sheet reconciliations completed by assistant accountant • Produced annual statutory accounts for ACPL, dealing with audit to the sign off from the board • Budgeting – prepare department annual budgets, forecasting – work with departmental managers to update forecasts on monthly basis and prepare analysis of variances • Responsible for all financial process relating to acquisitions of land and buildings and also the disposals of excess land, and buildings that are no longer needed. Working closely with acquisitions and disposal advisors • Preparation of financial reports feeding into monthly, quarterly and annual reports given to the shareholder Auckland Council (AC) • Compiling and preparing project budget and feasibility information with Manager.

accounting for lease incentives, profit shares with JV partners, construction WIP, investment and cost to complete accruals • Quarterly consolidation & analysis of a Shopping Centre fund for external JV reporting • Managed the project of loading 30 entities onto JDE, reconciling balances to Hyperion and statutory accounts. Making sure that percentages ownerships and balances are correct within the group at the correct percentages • Preparation & management of cash flow forecasts, annual budgets, long term forecasts, monthly re-forecasting

• Preparation of annual statutory accounts for complex property structures. Each structure includes Limited Partnerships, General Partners, Nominee Companies, LLC Companies and Jersey unit trusts • Planning and liaison with external auditors (including audit partner) to ensure review’s performed on a timely basis. Preparation of information responding to their queries and requests • Set up and implemented a new template for statutory accounts feeding off the trial balance using formulas and a mapping table

• Project management of statutory account process including setting up timetable, liaising with Tax, Treasury, Group Reporting Company Secretariat, Joint Venture partners. • Preparation of quarterly management and annual consolidated statutory accounts for 8 complex property structures around • Worked alongside Treasury and Group Reporting in the set up different phases of complex property company structures. • Responsible for implementing accounting procedures and practices for these new entities. Using Excel for general ledger and fixed asset register and Word for Statutory accounts • Completion of year end accounting packages under IFRS for submission to Group Reporting • Preparation of budgeting and forecasting for JV property entities