Currently General Manager, Business Finance (&CF)) at the Light Regional Council, South Australia (since 2023) having been the Manager Finance since 2021. Formerly General Manager (& CFO) of the Central Land Council) Northern Territory) (2010 until December 2021), a Commonwealth Government Statutory Authority/corporate entity. Between 2003 & 2010 I was an international management consultant for World Bank, European & AusAID projects. Included advising the South African National Treasury (many diverse projects) & the Solomon Islands’ Ministry of Finance & Treasury. Prior to the international experience I had 25 years Australian public sector senior management experience, mainly in Local Government & a large Australian Government Business Enterprise. Attained a reputation as the perfect international advisor due to exceptional technical experience & the emotional intelligence necessary to achieve significant outcomes in challenging circumstances. Extensive experience in financial management & strategic planning, & organisational performance metric measurement (co-wrote a manual, & advised pilot national departments on its application), for the South African Government on implementation of performance information or metric measurement. Qualifications include a Bachelor of Business (Accountancy), Diploma in Local Government Administration, MBA, Graduate Certificate in Business Research and a PhD. A Fellow of CPA Australia. Affiliated with the Centre for Local Government (UNE). Areas of specialisation - Public financial management reform, public sector management, strategic & corporate planning, financial management/modelling specialist, financial frameworks & legislative reform, management accounting & full costing systems, annual reports & financial reporting, accounting standard reform, medium term budgets, financial modelling, project management, capacity building, change management, risk management, monitoring & evaluation, human resource management, competition policy, alternative service delivery analysis, process reengineering, information system implementation & management, benchmarking, metrics, balanced scorecard & performance indicator systems.