Mathew supervises an audit team of young, energetic and dedicated professionals, with a view to providing added value in addition to Audit and Assurance Services.

With over 13 years year external auditing experience, Mathew has a broad range of experience dealing with clients across a diverse range of industries including schools and colleges, not-for-profit entities, retailers, manufacturers, exporters and importers, aviation, equine and large family groups.

He works closely with clients to understand their business, the industry they operate in and their financial reporting systems to identify key risk areas which require audit attention; to allow for an efficient, seamless and cost-effective audit.

With 10 years’ accounting and management consulting experience, Billy offers evidence-based expert analysis and advice that inform and empower clients’ critical business decisions. As at June 2016, Billy was also the only CA accredited Business Valuation Specialist in the Australian Capital Territory.

Billy also has expertise in advising organisations in the human services industry, in particular, those impacted by recent reforms such as the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and My Aged Care.
 

Nigel has over 11 years of extensive Audit & Assurance experience with a wide range of clients from listed groups to family-owned businesses and not-for-profit organisations.

Nigel also has extensive experience in providing internal audit and internal control reviews including examining prevailing systems to determine whether adequate internal controls exist (controls design, implementation and operating effectiveness), identifying practical, sustainable and cost effective recommendations to address any internal control gaps identified, together with formal documentation of the system incorporating our findings and recommendations from our internal controls review.

In addition, Nigel has experience developing cost effective approaches to monitor compliance with relevant systems.
 

Jasmine has ten years experience in business advisory. Commencing her career here at Nexia as a university intern and progressing through the ranks to her current role as a client manager. 

More recently, Jasmine has moved into specialising in cloud accounting and leads the team in the implementation of cloud based solutions and systems for our clients. 

During Paul’s career, he’s had the opportunity to work with a diverse client base of successful family and closely held businesses across a broad range of industry sectors. His skills and knowledge span building and construction, fresh produce, wholesale, manufacturing, agriculture and financial services. 

Paul’s many years of experience in dealing with family-controlled businesses, both large and small, means that he is able to advise on business issues at all stages of the business lifecycle. This encompasses anything from business concept strategies, initial structure establishment, restructure due to growth and acquisition, or preparing a business for sale or intergenerational transmission. He has a reputation for interpreting and applying complex taxation and business law in a practical manner that takes into account the competing commercial imperatives of a variety of stakeholders.

The realisation of a business legacy that has been a lifetime in the making can often require a complex uncoupling of business and non-business elements to produce a self-sustaining, functioning business alongside a suitably structured nest egg, that will allow the business-owner the retirement they deserve. Developing a close working relationship with clients to gain a more thorough understanding of their business and personal goals is critical – and Paul’s deep understanding of this ensures his ability to deliver timely, strategic taxation and business advice.

Simeran has over 11 years’ experience in taxation, beginning her career with 3 years at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Following this, Simeran practised as a Tax Lawyer for the law firm Norton & Smailes. Simeran joined Nexia Perth in June 2009.

Simeran works on all aspects of taxation and business advisory. Her specialty is in taxation consulting and she has advised many clients on a range of taxation matters. Simeran has provided advice in regards to capital gains tax, goods and services tax, tax consolidation and expatriate taxes.

Simeran has recently completed her Master of Taxation through the University of New South Wales.
 

Onus is Director of Forensic Accounting at Nexia Brisbane. He has over 40 years of experience in professional accounting including as an Executive Director of Forensic Services at BDO. Prior to that, he was a Senior Forensic Accountant in the specialist valuation, litigation support and forensic accounting firm MPW Forensic and a Senior Partner at Touche Ross & Co (subsequently part of KPMG) and finance director of a property and real estate company in Brisbane. Onus has considerable experience within professional practice and extensive expertise within the forensics area.

• Share and business valuations
• Competition and Consumer Act 2010 – Section 18
• Loss and Damage Claims – Commercial disputes
• Personal Injury and Medical Negligence - Economic Loss Assessment
• Assessment of Net Worth – Family Law
• Valuation of Superannuation Interests - Family Law Matters
• Shareholders and Partnership disputes
• Professional Negligence
• Dependants’ Claims – Lord Campbell’s Action
• Fraud Investigations
• Expert witness in multiple jurisdictions

Key Assignments

• Major fraud investigations for prosecutions by the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions and Australian Securities and Investment Commission
• Assessments of economic of loss in large personal injury and medical negligence claims for both Defendant and Plaintiff matters
• Assessment of value of the matrimonial asset pool in large Family Law disputes including valuations of the parties’ business interests

David started his professional career with a small firm of Chartered Accountants working in business services before leaving the profession to work in various commercial accounting roles in industries including mining, banking and hospitality.

David’s professional and commercial experience as an accountant spans 33 years. For the last 15 years David has specialised exclusively in the areas of Forensic Accounting and Litigation Support Services.

Prior to joining Nexia Australia, David lead the Queensland Forensics practice at SV Partners, prior to that he was lead partner of Forensic Services at BDO in Brisbane, and Director of the specialist valuation, litigation support and forensic accounting firm, MPW Forensic. Prior to that, he worked at both Deloitte and Suncorp in a variety of roles.

David has:

• Acted as an independent Expert Witness in maters before the District and Supreme Courts of Queensland, the Supreme Court of New South Wales, the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal, as well as the Federal, Family and Federal Circuit Courts of Australia

• Valued numerous businesses and entities for both commercial and Family Law property settlement purposes

• Assessed economic losses in both commercial, professional negligence and personal injury jurisdictions

• Undertaken due diligence investigations for various business acquisitions

• Undertaken various fraud investigations to gain evidence to support and or defend criminal and civil proceedings

• Undertaken various fraud risk control reviews

While her background has provided Christine with a strong analytical foundation, her key strength is translating detailed and often complex financial data into easy to understand concepts.

Striving to achieve client objectives, Christine believes each client should be fully informed of available options to best suit their financial situation. She then sees her role, as an adviser, to work through the relative merits of each strategy to determine the most appropriate way forward based on each client’s goals.

Christine’s main focus is delivering tailored and personalised advice to clients based on their specific circumstances. Her passion is seeing clients ultimately achieve their goals and objectives, and knowing that her advice has assisted them in doing so.

Christine has seven years experience in financial services, developing client strategies and managing ongoing financial affairs. Prior to this, Christine worked in the Business Advisory division at Nexia Sydney, preparing financial statements and analysing results to assist with adviser’s identification of business needs.
 

Sylvia Liang has been in the Financial Services Industry for over 15 years and has considerable “hands on” business experience in providing a value oriented, holistic financial planning service, with a core focus of delivering tailored solutions and helping her clients achieve their financial goals.

Sylvia proactively keeps up to date with the latest regulatory and legislation changes so she can highlight opportunities and interpret changes that can best benefit her clients.

Sylvia’s passion is investigating strategies to deliver personalised and tailored solutions in her client’s best interests, while retaining a strong commitment to provide clients the highest level of personalised service and highest quality standards. She prides herself on building long term successful relationships and will assist her clients in building a road map to help them become financially independent by growing, protecting and managing their wealth.

An experienced presenter, Sylvia conducts regular client seminars including superannuation, insurance, estate planning, aged care, Centrelink and end of financial year strategies.