Financial Leadership and Corporate Performance: Comprehensive experience in financial strategy, budgeting, reporting, forecasting, and commercial analysis.
People Empowerment and Capability Development: Strengthening team performance through transparency, coaching, and structured career pathways.
Technology, Systems, and Operational Design: Implementing and optimising practice management systems, financial platforms, reporting tools, and process automation.
Mergers, Acquisitions, and Integration: Leading valuation, due diligence, deal assessment, and post‑transaction integration in complex environments.
Governance, Policy, and Compliance: Reinvigorating governance frameworks, risk structures, statutory compliance, and organisational policy environments.
Change Management and Cultural Transformation: Rebuilding leadership capability, resolving legacy issues, and guiding teams through strategic change.
Strategic Planning and Stakeholder Engagement: Partnering with boards, executives, and operational leaders to align financial and organisational strategy.
Resilience and Adaptive Leadership: Calm, thoughtful leadership in high‑pressure, fast‑changing environments.
Experience
Organisational Turnaround & Cultural Transformation: Led the financial and cultural stabilisation of a large for‑purpose organisation following significant leadership turnover, restoring trust, transparency, and team cohesion across finance, risk, and technology functions.
Financial Strategy & Performance Leadership: Rebuilt financial reporting environments, implemented open‑book reporting models, and strengthened forecasting, budgeting, and performance frameworks across multiple organisations.
Cost Optimisation & Commercial Outcomes: Delivered multimillion‑dollar cost reductions, including a $2.2M labour restructure, 40% reduction in ERP costs, 25% reduction in IT spend, and 50% savings through strategic property and tenancy renegotiations.
Technology Transformation: Designed and implemented enterprise platforms including practice management systems, HR/rostering systems, budgeting tools, and performance dashboards, resulting in improved visibility, accuracy, and operational efficiency.
Governance, Risk & Compliance Leadership: Reinvigorated risk frameworks, strengthened governance structures, and resolved complex legacy financial and employee compliance issues, including multi‑million‑dollar liabilities.
Mergers, Acquisitions & Integration: Delivered valuation, due diligence, deal execution, and post‑merger integration across Australian and UK markets, contributing to the successful consolidation of multiple acquired practices.
Strategic Operations & Organisational Growth: Designed operational strategies that enabled significant revenue growth - including enabling a 60% growth trajectory within a national corporate law firm - and built the operational foundations to support sustained expansion.
Team Leadership & Capability Development: Built and led high‑performing finance and operational teams, mentoring emerging leaders, developing career pathways, and creating transparent, empowered environments across diverse sectors.
Capital, Funding & Treasury Expertise: Negotiated extended funding facilities during liquidity events, managed external banking relationships, and supported treasury functions including interest rate and currency risk management.
IPO & Large‑Scale Reporting Leadership: Built financial models and reporting structures supporting the world’s first publicly listed law firm, including modelling for the IPO prospectus and ongoing statutory and management reporting.
