Accountants On Purpose

In this episode, Sarah Bartholomeusz is joined by Amanda Cox, the Chief Financial & People Officer at Racing and Wagering Western Australia and previous executive at the West Coast Eagles Football Club. She is also a Fellow of both Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand and the Governance Institute of Australia. Not only that, she also serves as a non-executive director with Edge Employment Solutions, WA Institute of Sports and RPH Medical Research Foundation.

Amanda is an experienced sports executive with more than 20 years of finance, people and culture, strategy, risk management and governance experience that helps her in her current role and the many community committees that she is a part of.

Sean Pearce, an Associate Director at SRG Partners, joins Sarah Bartholomeusz in the Season 5 Finale. Sean is a chartered accountant with over 18 years of experience across Big 4, listed organisations, SMEs, family-owned businesses and startups. He was previously the CFO of La Casa Del Formaggio and Water Utilities Australia, was a Senior Manager of Financial Planning & Analysis at Thomas Foods, as well as holding various roles at Elders.

He has gained valuable experience in the food industry, financial services, agribusiness, consumer and industrial products. He is particularly skilled in CFO duties, due diligence, financial modelling, valuations, mergers and acquisitions, and divestments, financial reporting and analysis, project management, technology implementation, and much more.

Anthony Stewart joins Sarah Bartholomeusz to talk about travel and what keeps his passion for work alive. Anthony is now the group CEO and previous CFO & CCO of Thomas Foods International. He loves to travel and see the world, which he did a lot for work, and being immersed in new cultures. He has global experience in consumer goods, manufacturing and distribution and has more than proved his business capabilities by driving change in fast-paced, challenging, and culturally-diverse environments across the various organizations he’s worked for.

He also enjoys his work at Thomas Foods because every day brings something new and he is afforded opportunities to build things with substance and value on a large scale.

Frances is an experienced sustainability, finance and sustainable development professional with over 15 years' experience ALL over the world. She is currently an Operations Director at Conservation Capital and an Independent ESG Senior Consultant at ERIAS, specialising in nature-based solutions and conservation enterprises, public/private sector engagement, conservation finance, ESG, corporate sustainability and reporting, and carbon management and GHG accounting.

This inspiring episode covers Frances’ multi-geographical and multi-industry experience and uncovers some valuable wisdom that we can all learn from. Her experience ranges from international development and financial inclusion - working with private sector, aid agency, and donor partners; financial services (Australian & US funds management); and auditing. It comes as no surprise that we need more people like Frances in today’s world!

Katelyn Adams is a valuable member of the HLB Mann Judd Corporate Division and has over 10 years of accounting and company secretarial experience, servicing predominantly ASX listed companies.

Katelyn has extensive knowledge in Company Secretarial duties, ASX listing rule requirements and IPO and capital raising processes as well as strong technical accounting knowledge.

Katelyn is accessible, practical and personable. Ensuring that she is dedicated to her clients and their businesses.

In this episode we cover:

• Katelyn’s dedication to her 4.35am start to the day and why she does it
• Katelyn’s favourite scene from a movie
• Moving from Mt. Gambier as a child and what that has meant to her
• Becoming Partner and the curve balls in between
• How being thrown in the deep end has shaped her career

And much more! Check out the full episode.

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Sarah Bartholomeusz is the founder of You Legal, an Adelaide-based law firm that provides business leaders with the confidence and certainty they need to make bold decisions within their organisations. You Legal provides top tier consultative legal services to corporate clients, including ASX listed companies.

Sarah's clients also call her the Goddess of Governance because she works to protect and nurture her clients’ businesses so that they can focus on having the impact that they want in the world.