Jonathan Cave

Executive summary

Jonathan is a Partner in BDO’s Business Services team in Sydney. He has over 22 years’ experience supporting privately-owned businesses, public companies, and international subsidiaries.

Jonathan helps clients with a broad range of complex needs, understanding and prioritising risks and opportunities across their businesses, and developing practical and tailored solutions to each.

He specialises in outsourced statutory financial reporting, including general purpose financial reporting (GPFR), supporting a portfolio of clients across a range of sectors. His extensive tax services experience also adds value to his client engagements and interactions.

Since 2024, he has been BDO’s National GPFR Lead, supporting the broader business services team to develop a national GPFR strategy.

Working in a close-knit team, he drives and supports the team’s focus on approachability, responsiveness, effective project management, and efficient use of technology.

Jonathan joined PKF’s East Coast Practice in 2006, before its 2012 merger with BDO. Since then, he has worked in audit, corporate advisory, and business services roles.

Prior to his accounting career, Jonathan spent a year working in the manufacturing sector.

Expertise

• Technology-based financial reporting solutions under all accounting frameworks
• General and special purpose financial reporting (GPFR and SPFR), including for Tier 1, public sector, and listed entities
• Tax provision calculations and tax-effect accounting
• Assisting with decision-making around corporate and tax governance and ATO dispute resolution
• Advising on and setting up structures for start-ups that facilitate intellectual property asset and future funding protection, including through listing
• Tax returns

Experience

• GPFR preparation and audit support for:
  • A group of large and fast-growing finance providers
  • A range of large automotive dealerships.
• Accounting, taxation, and advisory services, including GPFR and SPFR, for a large family-owned construction business
• Accounting, taxation, and advisory services for a private medical practice based in Greater Western Sydney
• Accounting consolidation and GPFR preparation under the Government Sector Finance Act 2018, to tight timeframes.
• Preparing tax provision calculations for a large subsidiary of a US-listed freight business.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Arts (Economics and Politics)
• Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
• Member, CA ANZ