Craig Casagrande

Executive summary

Craig is a CFO Advisory Partner, and Lead Partner of BDO Brisbane’s Advisory division. He has been advising and assisting businesses for over 20 years, and has worked with many clients in a variety of sectors, including government and public sector, retail, healthcare, hospitality, professionals, and not-for-profits.

Craig specialises in providing governance and financial management advice, including establishing and improving business finance and reporting systems, financial governance, benchmark reporting, and compliance issues.

Expertise

• Establishing public sector entities, including new systems implementation
• Financial governance advisory, including board and audit committee reviews
• Financial management practice advisory and improvement
• Insourced and outsourced accounting services
• Budgets, cash flow projections, and business coaching
• Fringe benefits tax (FBT) and salary packaging
• Technical International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) and reporting advice

Experience

• Helped establish state government special purpose entities and statutory authorities
• Acting CFO for various public and private sector entities
• Queensland Audit Office (QAO) audit readiness activities and managing QAO audits for various public sector entities
• Establishing special purpose government entities responsible for constructing a state government-owned water supplier’s infrastructure assets.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Accounting
• Registered Tax Agent
• Chartered Accountant and Member, CA ANZ

Professional engagements and activities

• Adviser, Cross River Rail Development Authority Finance, Audit and Risk Management Committee
• Adviser, Translational Research Institute Audit Committee.