Mark Bennett Email & Phone Number

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Investment Director at Title Capital (part of ID_Corp Group).

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Senior Finance Manager - Capital & Projects at Villawood Properties and Sandhurst Capital• Capital Raising – Management of capital raisings including preparation of Information Memorandums (‘IM’s) - Operating under use of Corporate Australian Finance Services Licence (‘AFSL’).• Project financial management of large Villawood projects, collectively delivering over 4,000 residential lots (10+ year masterplan community projects including construction of resident’s clubs)• Establishment and management of external debt funding with first and/or second tier-lenders (facility limits between $50m and $150m)• Management of shareholder and investor communication including preparation of Quarterly Shareholder Reports and facilitation of Annual General Meetings.• Management of EstateMaster rollout and development of detailed financial models• Managing feasibility/cashflow reporting for acquisitions under consideration by Sandhurst Capital (funding arm)• Business partnering with key internal and external stakeholders including executives, development team, sales & marketing team, investors, commercial/legal and external financiers. • End-to-end financial and management reporting including presentation of monthly cashflow forecasts to executives.• Annual Compliance including preparation of audited financial statements and satisfying tax and other reporting requirements.

Melbourne, Australia

Vestbuild and the Sivasli Group - Property Development & ConstructionRoles and responsibilities:• Property Development Feasibility Analysis (Acquisitions);• Management of overall development project portfolio performance and consolidated cashflows;• Commercial management and negotiation of external funding;• Involvement in overall group strategy (investments and capital allocations);• Presentation of monthly management reports to Executive team;• Leadership and management of end-to-end Finance function;• Budgeting and Forecasting;• Preparation of detailed financial models to drive decision making; and• Compliance – Management of tax and financial reporting requirements.

Melbourne, Australia

Role achievements included the following:• Senior finance position partnering closely with executive, commercial and operational teams to drive performance across major contracts with the Department of Defence;• Manage the presentation, preparation and analysis of weekly/monthly financial performance to Executive team; and• Lead, manage and mentor a team of three qualified accountants (CAs and CPAs).

London, United Kingdom

Short term contract roleRole achievements included the following:• Manage and review quarterly/monthly financial performance submissions to US head office for EMEA region;• Partner with Financial Controller, Regional CFOs and Finance Directors to manage financial reports; and• Manage and train overseas outsourced finance function.

London, United Kingdom

Role achievements included the following:• Partner closely with finance and commercial teams to manage company performance including cashflow forecasting and providing ad hoc analysis;• Prepare monthly/annual financial reports and presentations for the Executive Leadership Team; and• Contribute to the preparation of budgets and wider business plans.

London, United Kingdom

Role achievements included the following:• Technical accounting: Preparation of detailed monthly management accounts for the consolidated group as well as annual financial statements (including facilitation of external audits); and• Received high praise from senior leaders during a challenging system roll-out phase for driving efficiencies by improving processes and reports.

London, United Kingdom

Commercial finance roles working on the following projects in London, UK:• East Village project (formerly known as London Olympics Athlete's Village) - Dev value £1.5b;• Elephant and Castle Redevelopment Project - Dev value £1.6b.

Perth, Australia

Role achievements included the following:• Responsible for the audit of ASX listed entities whilst managing junior staff and reporting to audit partners. Clients were predominantly in the natural resources sector.

Graduate Diploma, Chartered Accounting

Bachelor Of Commerce (B.Com.), Accounting And Finance Double Major