Eugene Kwa
Kelson,New Zealand
Summary
Chartered Accountant with over 12 years’ experience currently working for the Wellington City Council. Proven experience working in high performing accounting teams and completing high quality work to tight deadlines. Strong relationship management and business partnering experience. I have worked closely with finance teams and other finance stakeholders to help them understand complex finance issues, have a proven record of being a trusted advisor within the finance space. Experienced across the full range of accounting disciplines with interest in internal reporting, dashboards and accounting information systems.
Overview
15
15
years of professional experience
Work History
Management Accountant
Wellington City Council
08.2022 - Current
- Have worked as a trusted advisor to provide strong business partnering and help enable strong decision making that align to the strategic planning of the portfolios I manage.
- Produce Monthly/Quarterly Reporting to the Senior Leadership Teams
- Supporting the business with the quarterly Capex/Opex forecasting process
- Managing relationships with Finance and Senior Leadership across WCC
- Owning the Year-End processes to meet Audit and WCC requirements
- Produce Ad-Hoc reporting to portfolios that are tailored to their requirements
- Assist in creating financial dashboards to help assist reporting to the business
- Contributed to the development and validation of business cases, ensuring that proposed initiatives are within budget, aligned with strategic goals, and comply with the necessary governance and approval processes.
Financial Business Analyst
New Zealand Police, PNHQ
01.2021 - 08.2022
- Ensuring month end reports are produced in timely matter to the executive
- Produce Monthly/Quarterly Management reports to the Police Executives (e.g. Direct Personnel Variance Analysis, FTE Report and Analysis, Business dashboards)
- Assist with consolidation of forecasts from all business units to an enterprise level along with analysis to identify any risks or cost pressures the organisation may have.
- Maintaining monthly forecasting process including producing new forecasting template, consolidation and forecasting dashboard, forecasting operating expenditure for the current year and medium-term outlook
- Building financial models for expenditure analysis (via Power Query and Power BI)
- Evaluating business units financial and resource management performance against best practice and benchmarks on regular basis
Financial Analyst - Capital
New Zealand Police, PNHQ
01.2020 - 01.2021
- Joined the New Zealand police in January 2020 as a Financial Analyst looking after Capital projects ensuring projects are capitalised on time and within policies, other responsibilities include:
- Establishing relationships within the finance team and other stakeholders to ensure that the capital projects are managed well financially
- Assist Investment Portfolio Office to ensure budgets are correctly uploaded into FMIS including setup of all new projects.
- Working on part of the 'Finance of the Future' project focusing on the implementation of targeted automation which includes attending and participating in governance meetings.
- Assist in providing support for Official Information Act and other official questions when required.
- Provide monthly reporting regarding capital expenditure and depreciation including forecasts.
Assistant Accountant /Accountant
AJ Park
Wellington
04.2010 - 01.2020
- Supporting the finance team across all finance and management accounting functions.
- Partnering with senior IP Lawyers on case work ensuring reporting and analysis is up-to-date and communicated effectively with all stakeholders.
- Produce all monthly management accounts and quarterly and year-end accounts.
- Manage tax accounts, GST/FBT returns.
- Assist Auditors by providing relevant tax, banking, AP/AR information (including first ever audit).
- Daily use of Inprotech financial system. Manage billing and charge-out rates within the system and act as the go-to person in the company, monitoring and maintaining the system, following up with Lawyers on billing queries and issues.
- Prepared and managed all balance sheet reconciliations.
- Assisted the business consultants managing the company takeover by providing background financials, spreadsheets to support their due diligence work.
- Led the project and process of changing banks after the takeover. Ensured all credit and bank accounts were set up within a short timeframe.
- Assisted with credit card project to implement automated returns through expensify.
Board Member (Volunteer)
Equippers Church Wellington/Equippers Church Masterton
Wellington
08.2018 - Current
- Experienced board member that provides strategic leadership and oversight to guide organisational direction and priorities
- Maintain compliance with NZ governance, legal, and regulatory requirements.
- Apply best-practice governance frameworks to strengthen decision-making and risk management.
- Engage effectively with stakeholders to build trust and ensure transparency.
- Contributed to initiatives that improved community impact and long-term sustainability.
- Lead collaborative discussions to achieve consensus on complex issues.
Education
Chartered Accoutant -
Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand
01-2016
Bachelor of Commerce and Administration - Accounting, Commercial Law and Management
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, NZ01.2009
Skills
- Financial & Management Accounting
- Business Partnering & Relationship Management
- Audit & External Reporting
- Month-End & Year-End Processes
- Budgeting, Forecasting & Analysis
- Tax Compliance
- Microsoft Excel
- Power BI – Creating Models & Dashboards
- Variance Analysis & Reporting
- Financial Information Systems Maintenance
Personal Information
Nationality: New Zealand citizen
Hobbies and Interests
- Sports
- Music
References
References available upon request.
Timeline
Management Accountant
Wellington City Council
08.2022 - Current
Financial Business Analyst
New Zealand Police, PNHQ
01.2021 - 08.2022
Financial Analyst - Capital
New Zealand Police, PNHQ
01.2020 - 01.2021
Board Member (Volunteer)
Equippers Church Wellington/Equippers Church Masterton
08.2018 - Current
Assistant Accountant /Accountant
AJ Park
04.2010 - 01.2020
Chartered Accoutant -
Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand
Bachelor of Commerce and Administration - Accounting, Commercial Law and Management
Victoria University of Wellington
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