Samantha Wakerley | Adviser

• Senior Corporate Finance Professional with over 20 years commercial experience in listed multinationals including John Wiley, Pacific Dunlop and News Limited, plus large privately owned Australian businesses such as The Neumann Group and The CMC Group.
• In August 2017 I  started my own consulting business, providing a range of services to not-for-profits and NDIS Service Providers. I have a passion for native wildlife and the environment. I also love being involved in programs and opportunities for people with disabilities.
• I currently sit on the Executive Committees of the Samford Riding for the Disabled, Millmerran Landcare, Australian Camp Oven Festival and Friends of Land for Wildlife Toowoomba.
• I was on the board of the Gold Coast Hospital Foundation as the Treasurer and Chair of the Finance, Audit & Risk Committee for almost 3 years. I also held every role at one time or another on the executive committee for Pine Rivers Koala Care between 2017 and 2022.
• I specialise in compliance, reducing reporting time frames, process improvement, writing accounting policies, data migration and cleansing, and a multitude of other finance-related projects.
• During my career I have led accounting teams through transformation and periods of significant change, restructures, system implementations, transitions into shared service centres and process outsourcing.
• I am a Fellow of the Institute of Professional Accountants and reciprocal Member of the Institute of Financial Accountants (UK).
• I hold a Master of Commerce from the University of New England, as well as post graduate qualifications in Business Administration from Griffith University.

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