Our Team
Ben Mair
Ben is a Chartered Accountant, with over thirteen years audit and accounting experience, ten of those in the public sector. Ben has experience in areas ranging from internal and external audit, costing and consulting exercises within the Commonwealth and ACT Government. Ben developed a costing model with a Commonwealth department to assist their understanding of the full cost of their services and providing financial assessments of international NGOs.
Tony Mair
Tony has over 35 years’ experience across a broad range of services including financial analysis, budgeting, auditing, evaluation, costing and pricing policy and business planning. Tony specialises in the delivery of costing and analysis models to both Commonwealth and ACT Government and the private sector.
Helen McKenna
Helen has over 30 years’ experience in both public and private sectors, across service delivery, policy, auditing, assurance and risk management, and in regional and central offices. She specialises in governance, audit and assurance, risk management, business improvement and change management.
George Skillin
George provides strategic management accounting advice with a focus on sustainability, funding, cost, saving, investment and business improvement. George has extensive public sector budgeting and costing experience gained across a number of large and medium agencies. George also advises in relation to process re-engineering, budgeting, costing, asset management, debt management, systems accounting, program assurance and technical accounting advice.
Michael McRoberts
Michael is experienced in implementing and managing a variety of strategic financial management priorities, better practice accounting and finance methodologies, delivering organisational strategic priorities, and supporting and administering financial and management systems in both public and private sector context.
Adrian Kelly
Adrian has over 30 years’ experience in the provision of assurance and specialist advisory services. Adrian's experience includes providing tailored assurance, risk management and governance services to his clients, identifying opportunities to deliver improvements in governance and financial and reporting systems. Adrian is the Audit Committee Chair for the Torres Strait Regional Authority and Finance, Audit and Risk Committee Chair for Self Storage Association Australasia.
Irmagard Van Rensburg
Irmagard is a qualified Chartered Accountant with over 13 years of experience in the successful delivery of both internal and financial statement audits in the private and public sector. She specialises in internal audit services, external audit services, risk management, and accounting and business consulting. Her experience includes the management of large to small teams and execution of work that has met all requirements under the quality assurance standards.
Paul Hyland
Paul has a background in the application of data analytics in government. His strengths lie in data strategy and governance as well as establishing and managing teams to deliver results. Originally a research scientist and senior lecturer in biomedical sciences, Paul’s career has focused on quality actionable data, and has ranged across creating, defining, storing, governing, transforming, analysing, reporting and publishing.
Myles Cover
Myles is an experienced financial data analyst having worked across the private, public and university sectors. Myles has a PhD in physics and has worked for an actuarial consulting company in financial analytics. Myles has applied his actuarial skillset to activity based costing to support policy development in the health and aged care sectors. Myles has extensive expertise in data analysis across multiple coding disciplines.
Ian Hollow
Ian has over twenty-five years’ experience in business services, external audit, internal audit and consulting. He has provided internal and external audit related services to not-for-profit, educational, aged care and government entities. Ian also spent two years as the finance and administration adviser to the Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees (DACAAR) based in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Richard Mills
Richard is an experienced finance professional, with strong history of achieving results in a wide variety of accounting roles over the past 12 years. Richard's expertise is both strategic and operational across management accounting, accounting systems design and implementation, and budgeting and forecasting. He has extensive experience in analysing strategic and operational requirements to support and deliver business outcomes.
Geoff McMurray
Geoff has over 23 years’ experience working with both Government and Non-Government clients in the financial, asset, training and business support environment
Attilio Martiniello
Attilio is a Fellow of CPA Australia and an experienced financial professional. Attilio has held senior leadership roles in both public and private sector organisations, where he has been responsible for driving and implementing strategic direction, improving financial sustainability and implementing organisation wide change initiatives that promote continuous improvement.
Jonathan Nest
Jonathan is a passionate Chartered Accountant with more than 16 years of experience as a technical and analytical specialist working across a range of prominent public sector departments and listed public companies. Jonathan has a strong working knowledge of the Australian Government Charging Framework and Australian Government Cost Recovery Guidelines.
Doug Fawns
Doug has extensive experience as a senior executive within both the public service and the private sector. In the public sector, he was responsible for delivering outcomes in financial, corporate, strategic, service delivery and policy development and administration. Doug has a proven track record of achievement in delivering effective and innovative outcomes in financial management, service delivery, project management and program administration.
Paul Horsfall
Paul has extensive experience in public sector financial management including Budgeting, maintenance, monitoring and modelling. Paul's experitse also includes all aspects of contract management with the Australian Government's financial and accountability framework including negotiation, procurement, client & contractor relations, and performance analysis.
Bishoy Yacoub
Bishoy is a Chartered Accountant with more than eight years’ international audit experience with Big Four firms, dealing with a broad range of clients across diverse industries. Bishoy has deep knowledge and experience in International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and International Standards on Auditing (ISA).
Jovan Rajic
Jovan is a CPA with experience developing and implementing financial systems, strategies, processes and controls that significantly improve fiscal performance. Jovan advises in relation to activity based costing, project accounting, developing budgets, forecasts and building financial models to perform complex analysis.
Steve Reid
Steve has extensive experience as a project manager working within government with a focus on property development, property services, asset management and maintenance, and contract management. Steve managed the outsourcing of a comprehensive facilities (building services) management contract and was responsible for managing the property capital works programs, asset management and life cycle planning.
Kate Mann
Kate's areas of expertise include marketing, communications, change management and stakeholder engagement as well as the development of reports and whitepapers on topics relating to public sector administration and infrastructure projects. Kate also has extensive experience in assisting clients in relation to bids, tenders, proposals and capability statements.
Esther Senga
Esther has extensive experience in in delivering high quality accounting and finance services to support senior leadership. Esther has held roles in a range of Australian Government departments as well as with the ACT Government, and offers a comprehensive understanding of government accounting and finance requirements. Esther is also experienced in using SAP TM1 and Finance One applications within a government context.
Jarrod Kelly
Jarrod is a Chartered Accountant with 20 years’ experience in both the private and public sectors. His focus has been in financial management with roles including chief financial officer, senior manager, financial controller, and project accountant. Jarrod has overseen the preparation of financial statements for a variety of entity types in diverse industries across both reporting and non-reporting entities.
Greg Macek
Greg offers a broad outlook and significant experience, having worked across seven different government agencies and at the director level since 2001. Greg has worked on projects and programs ranging from new policy costing and budget coordination to program implementation and delivery. He is experienced in delivering timely analysis, budgets, policy proposals and advisory support for sound strategic and business decisions.
Peter Critchley
Peter has been working within financial management for more than 10 years. This includes experience within a number of Australian Government agencies where he had exposure to many facets of public sector financial and management accounting work. Peter has strong analytical skills. His work is always well received, which is reflected in the level of positive feedback in regards to his work ethic and practices.
Anurag Kalia
Anurag has been extensively involved in system and procedure reviews to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of processes and outcomes and has a strong understanding of the Australian Government environment. Anurag’s experience includes cost modelling and the conduct of reviews and his skills include identifying end user process requirements and the development of financial training materials.
David Donaldson
David is a Certified Practising Accounting with over 30 years’ experience. David has worked across all facets of financial management within Commonwealth Government, including financial and systems accounting, internal and external budgets, financial reporting and management accounting.
Maja Kresic
Maja is an experienced accounting professional and is currently completing the Chartered Accountant Program. Maja has worked on a range of business process improvements programs both in the public and private sectors including building standardised accounting handbooks for procedures relating to accounting operations and payroll.
Stephanie Bates
Stephanie is an experienced finance professional and has worked in finance management for ASX listed and public sector organisations. Stephanie's experience includes standardising an organisation’s accounts & payroll processes and developed a standardised accounting handbook addressing all procedures related to treasury, accounts and payroll.
Jinhee Kim-Rim
Jinhee assists in the conduct of financial statement audits as well as financial statement preparation. Jinhee has extensive experience in business management and bookkeeping, using Xero, MYOB, Excel and Quicken.
Jayshri Bodar
Jayshri is an experienced accountant and is currently undertaking the Chartered Accountant Program. Jayshri has worked in a big 4 where she had experience working with government clients. Jayshri brings extensive experience in areas of project management and governance, financial viability and going concern analysis, report writing, process mapping, business case support, benchmarking, cost modelling and analysis.
Shiv Shivani
Shiv is an audit and risk management professional with experience from a Big 4 accounting firm and proven accomplishments in areas such as audit, business improvements reviews and special investigations. Shiv has the ability to complete all accounting functions successfully. Shiv has performed risk-based audit planning fieldwork and reporting, control testing, financial statement reviews along with data analysis and process benchmarking.
Alana Dimeski
Alana is a business analyst with experience across government and corporate sectors. Alana has managed various aspects of accounting operations including accounts payable, accounts receivable and credit card processing platforms. Alana is skilled in the creation of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) across both ASX listed and public sectors and documenting ICT systems with user, administration and functional manuals and guides.
Ritika Laddha
Ritika is an accounting and audit professional with proven experience in areas such as taxation, business improvements reviews, audit, special investigations, and an ability to complete all accounting functions successfully. Ritika's focus is on audits for not for profits and special purpose audit reporting.
John Coulson
John has 30 years’ management consulting experience and has assisted over 100 organisations with business planning services across the not for profit, public and private sectors. John is an experienced management trainer, has authored a number of business training courses and has a strong interest in eLearning systems.