Scott Mason Fca Cfinstd Email & Phone Number

Dunedin, Ota, Nz

Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Although I am substantially moving away from the CA environment to pursue a career in Governance, I will continue to provide specialist tax advisory services with Jarod Chisholm, Nick Ward and Stephen Richards part-time at Findex for the foreseeable future.Findex, as Australia and New Zealand's largest business advisory and accounting services firm specialising in the closely-held/SME/HNWI market, offers a broad range of accounting and specialist advisory services (such as tax advisory) to help our clients achieve their dreams. Although we have adopted the Findex Brand from April 2019, we remain a strong and vibrant part of Crowe Global, and will operate under that brand when it is appropriate to the respective clients to do so..Our clients range from start-ups to very large (mainly privately held) enterprises across just about every industry imaginable. This is one of the many reasons that Findex is a great place to work - the variety of assignments we get to apply ourselves to.Our hallmarks are providing definitive advice on a timely basis in a manner that is easy to understand and implement. Within our NZ and international Findex/Crowe Global structure, we can tap into deep specialisation as and when we need it to meet our clients’ particular needs. But most importantly of all, we are responsive, and we care.

Dunedin, New Zealand

Along with my good friend and colleague Matt Taylor, I shared the Managing Partner role for Coastal Otago (Dunedin, Oamaru, Milton) up until 31 December 2020, focusing on both service delivery and business development.

Otago & Southland, New Zealand

City Forests is a Dunedin City Council-owned forest products company based in Otago, New Zealand. Our forests are managed to a high environmental standard and this is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®).

Otago & Southland, New Zealand

City Forests is a Dunedin City Council-owned forest products company based in Otago, New Zealand. Our forests are managed to a high environmental standard and this is certified by the Forest Stewardship Council® (FSC®).

Founded in 1973 by Ken Cummings with a single site in Kaikorai Valley, Dunedin, Southern Motor Group has grown to include eight vehicle brands across five dealerships throughout the South Island with sites in Invercargill, Queenstown and Dunedin. Group companies include Southern Motor Group (Dunedin), Southern Automobiles (Invercargill) and Queenstown Motor Group.

Otago & Southland, New Zealand

Bison Group Limited is an early stage tech-hardware start-up based in Dunedin, and is the collective brainchild of Mark and Greg Fahey.It has numerous products - the first being a weighing jack system for quick but accurate weighing of containers off the ground (weighing containers before port became mandatory worldwide from 2016), whereas the second product line encompasses a range of lightweight lifting systems for containers from ground to truck (designed for more remote locations without access to cranes and side loaders).Bison Group won the Supreme Otago Exporter of the Year award, plus Emerging Exporter of the Year, for 2019. Refer www.bison-jacks.com for more details on these innovative products.

Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Get Home Safe is more than a lone worker safety app, but rather the future platform for a whole ecosystem of lone worker and journey planning/management solutions from apps, to hardware (satellite/mobile/radio), to call centers and much more. https://www.gethomesafe.com/

Canterbury & West Coast, New Zealand

Banqer is an early-stage EdTech providing a financial literacy education platform for a hands-on environment for teachers and students to get curious, creative, and ultimately, confident with money. Targeted initially at years 2-8 students, Banqer allows them to explore income, expenses and budgeting as they manage their fictitious incomes to cover expenses, such as renting desks, as well as introduce them to saving, interest, KiwiSaver, tax, real estate, and insurance across Banqer’s various modules. Banqer is currently supported by KiwiBank to provide free access to NZ children.

Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand

Wofo Medstaff is a share economy platform to help connect health care workers with the facilities that need them. Our system allows healthcare professionals to list themselves on our platform along with their skills, experience, schedule and fees to allow facilities to slot them in when needed! Some of contractors use the platform to take extra shifts here and there while others create a full time living.Visit https://www.medstaff.co.nz/

Wellington

CAANZ (Chartered Accountants Australia New Zealand) is the preeminent membership body for Accountants in NZ, with over 33,000 members. The CAANZ Tax Advisory Group is the national committee representing the interests of members in tax matters, including considering/commenting on tax policy, making submissions, interfacing with Government/IRD, and demonstrating thought leadership in tax issues.The CAANZ TAG aims to:* be the most influential stakeholder in New Zealand tax matters* get the best outcomes for the public on tax law and policy* achieve tax laws and practices that are effective, efficient and fair.

Dunedin

StartUp Dunedin had is origins as a start-up incubator but has evolved into the leading link within the Dunedin Start-Up/early Stage eco-system. As often happens, many good intentions focus narrowly on particular matters, so Start-Up Dunedin seeks to bring together those components in a cohesive form for the betterment of entrepreneurs, investors, and the Dunedin community (in the form of economic growth). We operate a free co-working space for seed-stage enterprises, organise Start-Up weekends and run courses like Co-Starters, as well as just share information and experiences.

Dunedin, New Zealand

Crowe’s local office in Dunedin, New Zealand, has primarily adopted the name and branding of parent company, Findex. However, we remain a vibrant and committed member of the Crowe Global family, and will operate under the Crowe brand where it is appropriate to the needs of those respective clients. Our Audit Practice also remains Crowe.Findex is one of Australia’s largest privately-owned, integrated financial services firms, offering a wide range of financial tools and support to clients via across a national network of more than 2,000 professionals.

Dunedin

TEO Training is one of New Zealand’s leading and most respected providers of tax and accounting courses to accountants, lawyers and business advisers. I have been associated with TEO since 2004, firstly as a presenter, and since 2009 as a Director. Originally part of Inland Revenue Department, TEO became an independent training provider in the late 90s and has built a solid reputation amongst accountants.The heart of TEO’s success has been our people, respected senior Chartered Accountants and lawyers who are leaders in their fields of expertise. Our courses are highly practical and relevant to what practitioners need to know. Each year we run over 250 seminars in 28 locations nationwide, from Whangarei to Invercargill. See upcoming training events or client testimonials at www.teo.co.nz

Dunedin

After stepping into the Chairperson role in 2019 at a difficult point in the Company's history, I am delighted that we have been able to rebuild and then flourish, culminating with the 100% sale of NomosOne to EXA Capital in June 2024.Nomos One serves a global market providing an IFRS 16 compliant lease management and lease accounting software solution.The company was founded in New Zealand in 2012 by Jonny Mirkin, and was originally designed for lawyers to assist with commercial leasing, by 2015 market adoption had grown to include lessors and lessees.By 2016, Nomos One had pivoted to focus predominantly on the needs of lessees, which meant it was well-positioned to design a fully integrated IFRS 16 module in response to global changes to lease accounting.Today Nomos One services a global market and employs a team of over 50 people, with offices in Australia and New Zealand (Dunedin).

Dunedin/California

ILHL provided on-line training and is based in California, but trades across the USA. Historically, the business has focused on primarily mandated human services areas, such as added authorisations for teachers teaching autistic children. More recently, we are looking at expanding our service offering to selection, training, programme management, and monitoring outcomes of carers of autistic children, working closely with care providers and insurance companies. These are exciting times in an ever changing market. Brands include College of Applied Human Services, Project Optimal and QABA Credentialing.

Otago & Southland, New Zealand

OPAL Limited is the General Partner of the OPAL Investments No 1 Limited Partnership, which is a collective fund established to invest in early stage start-ups, primarily in Otago. As an early stage fund, it will often fund pre-Angel start-up businesses to assist them to get ready for Angel or other forms of funding, focusing on building governance processes, validating business cases and market needs, developing MVPs and pairing entrepreneurs up with mentors. The OPAL Fund is part of the Angel Network, and works collaboratively with NZVIF and other key players in the early stage eco-system in Otago.

Dunedin/San Francisco

Cloud Cannon is a Dunedin-based tech company (with offices in San Francisco) delivering a platform for enterprise clients, like Netflix, to build and manage a myriad of websites. Our mission is to bring all the advantages of static technology to developers while giving editors intuitive interfaces and workflows to update content. We believe most informational websites should be static.

Dunedin

St Hilda's Collegiate School is an integrated public school for girls in Dunedin. It has a roll of around 450, ranging from year 7 to 13, and has boarders from year 9. At St Hilda’s we strive to create a learning environment focused on developing individual capacity and to be a school which nurtures our students’ unique talents and capabilities. It is our role to prepare students for their futures and not our pasts.St Hilda’s girls are active learners who use a range of digital tools to access, evaluate and use information.SHCS's special character is at the heart of all we do. We value the strong Christian foundations, based on Anglican traditions, on which out school was built. We expect our values to be demonstrated by both staff and students in all aspects of school life. We are a small school which ensures we know our students well and they know each other. Our size does not mean we compromise on the range of opportunities we offer our students. There is a wide range of sporting and cultural activities. Our girls are busy and involved.

Melbourne, Australia

Effective 1 July 2016, I was appointed as Crowe Horwath’s Managing Partner of Tax Advisory for Australia and New Zealand. This was an exciting opportunity to extend the ethos of our Family Office offering to our business clients right across Australasia on a seamless basis. However, after effectively 3 years of significant travel (including my stint in Wellington) and having successfully shaped the Tax Advisory team for the next phase of growth, the end of 2018 was the right time to appoint someone else to take up the leadership challenge to deliver on our strategic plan, ideally based in Australia where the largest opportunity exists. I remain a passionate supporter of the Australasian Tax Advisory team, albeit now from afar.Crowe Horwath Australia / New Zealand is part of Findex Group, Australasia's leading provider of integrated financial advisory and accounting services. www.findex.com.au

Dunedin/Auckland

Language Perfect was started in 2007 by Craig and Shane Smith as an on-line revision tool for language students, but now it allows students to learn vocab across any two of 14 different languages, plus hosts the 200,000 strong Language Perfect World Champs annually (over 100 million questions answered online in a week). It provides on-line learning solutions to school and university students across NZ, Australia, Europe and just about everywhere else. And now, LP has launched its new Education Perfect product, online revision across most of the subjects taken by high school students. As a result of this broader offering, the company has been rebranded as Education Perfect. Refer www.educationperfect.com Have been with the business since founding until the sale of the business in 2017, this has been one of the highlights of my career to date.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Established by Minister of Revenue, Todd McLay, the Taxpayers' Simplification Advisory Board (TSAB) has been created as an Advisory Board to provide a forum through which Inland Revenue can ensure that what it is doing is consistent with the objective of making tax compliance faster and easier for New Zealanders. The TSAB was disbanded in November 2017 having served its primary purpose.Members in 2017 were:-Henri Eliot (Chair), Chief Executive of Board DynamicsScott Mason, Managing Principal of Tax Advisory at Crowe HorwathRaewyn Fox, CEO of NZ Federation of Budgeting ServicesLisa Ford, GM of Business Mentors NZThe TSAB was a channel for business owners and individual taxpayers to submit their opinions on how Inland Revenue can reduce the amount of time they are forced to spend calculating and paying tax. Suggestions received by the TSAB also assisted in considering certain aspects of Inland Revenue’s Business Transformation programme and making sure that any new processes are as taxpayer-friendly as possible.

New Zealand

Since January 2012 until September 2017, I was the Managing Principal of Tax Advisory for Crowe Horwath NZ. I was delighted to be able to appoint Jarod Chisholm and Greg James to take over this role from 1 October 2017. This involves leading the 45+ Crowe Horwath tax specialists across NZ as we collectively seek to become the leading tax consulting practice in the owner-managed/HNWI market in NZ. Crowe Horwath is New Zealand's largest business advisory and accounting services firm specialising in the closely-held/SME/HNWI market, and has 24 offices across NZ.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

As a result of some unexpected events, I stepped in as Acting MP for our Wellington business to guide it on an interim basis. I am delighted to be able to step aside now as Dave Shadwell has joined us as the Wellington MP from 10 October.Our hard-working Wellington team of circa 60 professionals across Business Advisory, Tax Advisory, Business Performance and Audit/Assurance continue to deliver uninterrupted exceptional service to our clients across the Wellington region. We have offices in Central Wellington and Lower Hutt.

Dunedin

The Fortune Theatre is the southern-most professional professional theatre in New Zealand, operating out of a historic church on Upper Stuart Street. Boxing well above it's weight, it delivers exceptional live performances for the benefit of the Otago and Southland public. It is supported by Creative NZ and the DCC.

Dunedin

Montecillo Trust owns and operates the Montecillo War Veterans' Home and Hospital in Dunedin. Having had the historical property on Eglington Road devolved to the Trust, we made the difficult decision to relocate to South Dunedin, buying property and building a purpose built facility on the flat.

Dunedin

In 2001 I was appointed as Tax Advisory Principal and owner of Taylor McLachlan Limited based in Dunedin. "Taylors" was a progressive and fast growing accountancy practice, which also created Enabling Technologies (sold to the employees of that division) and Tandem HR/Recruitments (also sold).After 6 1/2 years of rapid growth, the Principals decided to sell the business to WHK (now Findex) in 2007.

Company Chairs' Course, Governance

Cdc Refresher / Chartered Director Assessment, Corporate Governance

Graddipbusstud(Dispute Resolution), Mediation

Massey University's Graduate Diploma in Business Studies (Dispute Resolution), focussing on Mediation topics but covering whole gambit.

Certificate Of Company Direction, Corporate Governance

Executive Development Program, Strategic Leadership

Cba, Strategy And Governance

Education record

Scotwork Negotiation Skills are renowned world over for their field leading courses on negotiating techniques and processes. I was.

Bcom Ba, Accounting And Economics