Executive summary
Michael is a Partner in BDO’s Audit & Assurance team in Brisbane. He has a hands-on role, overseeing audit function progress during engagements and planning and managing audits for completion within client deadlines. Michael also assists with internal system and process implementations.
He is responsible for ensuring the team conducting the audit do so in a way that offers BDO clients the most value.
Michael has been with BDO since 1999 and has completed two international secondments in Manchester, UK and New York, USA.
Expertise
- External auditing
- Corporate finance
- Process improvement
- Preparing financial reports
Experience
Not-for-profits
- Audits for various education organisations, industry bodies, registered charities, and religious-based organisations that provide industry assistance, and social and community support services.
Healthcare
- Audits for numerous health fund providers; acted as lead auditor in the IPO of China’s largest hospital group, with five hospitals and more than 10,000 beds
- Audit services for multi-location nursing homes offering various levels of care—including high and low-care—for various aged care providers.
Financial services
- Audits for approved deposit-taking institutions in the retail and commercial banking sectors and one of New York’s largest hedge funds dealing in multi-billion-dollar funds on investment.
Food and agribusiness
- Audits for various agriculture-related businesses, including orchards, nut groves, peanuts, ginger, crustaceans, and wineries.
Construction and development
- Audits for large national construction groups involved in building homes, multi-storey buildings, and major government infrastructure throughout Australia
- Audits for large groups developing sites for resale and rental income.
Qualifications and affiliations
- Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance)
- Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
- Registered Company Auditor
- Member, CA ANZ
Professional engagements and activities
- Finance Committee member, Edmund Rice Community Services Limited
- Reference Group member, Edmund Rice Education Australia Limited