Bligh TannerBusiness Support Officer ♦ Leadership ♦ Administration
Dec. 2018 - Jun. 2020Brisbane, AustraliaBligh Tanner is a Queensland-based structural, civil, environmental and water engineering firm, specialising in complex engineering projects, multi-million-dollar special structures, and integrated water management systems. Key responsibilities and achievements included: • Providing leadership and a consistently high standard of business support across a team of 50+ staff, including overseeing all administrative and business management responsibilities in a fast-paced and demanding environment, enabling the business to run efficiently and effectively. • Managing and supervising staff, along with undertaking a wide variety of administrative and financial responsibilities, including but not limited to accounts payable and receivable, procurement, supplies and purchasing, equipment and asset maintenance, and data and records management. • Initiating the successful introduction of Xero to achieve significant efficiencies in financial operations, including overseeing the integration of Xero with other business software. • Leading a project to completely overhaul the human resource management system, by planning and implementing a new technology-based solution (HR Partner). • Regularly preparing and delivering routine and more complex reports to senior management. • Ensuring a consistently high level of awareness, support and routine compliance with all applicable legislation, regulations, and other obligations – including workplace health and safety. • Contributing to management of major and minor business projects, especially coordinating timeframes, milestones, human and financial resources from planning, scoping, budgeting and forecasting through to implementation, monitoring, review, and evaluation.