Skilled providers agency BDO has recruited two new advisory companions for its fledgling workplace in Canberra, with Hellen Thomas and Nabil Hossain becoming a member of Paul McDougall and Ridhish Arora.
Thomas crosses to BDO as a accomplice after the previous seven years at Protiviti, earlier than which she frolicked at PwC and Ernst & Younger, whereas Hossain additionally brings a background at PwC and has most not too long ago served as a director at Deloitte Consulting.
The pair be a part of present companions and former colleagues Paul McDougall and Ridhish Arora, who have been respectively recruited from Scyne and Sayers (now Tenet) upon the launch of BDO’s Canberra workplace final August after earlier being companions at PwC and Deloitte.
“The appointment of Hellen and Nabil brings a fantastic depth of expertise and enhanced ability base to our native presence in Canberra,” mentioned McDougall, who leads the observe. “We actually have the perfect of each worlds in native data and presence in Canberra, the dimensions of a nationwide community, in addition to the power to attract on experience from throughout BDO’s world workplaces.”
Hellen Thomas provides two and a half a long time price of expertise advising authorities and public sector purchasers alongside these in monetary providers, training, and vitality & utilities industries on danger and governance issues, with a specific deal with cybersecurity and enterprise resilience and extra experience in areas reminiscent of digital transformation and program assurance.
An accounting and data tech graduate of Southern Cross College, Thomas spent the perfect a part of a decade at Ernst & Younger earlier in her profession, earlier than 5 years at long-standing Lismore accountancy TNR and time at PwC in Canberra forward of her change in 2018 to the native workplace of Protiviti, the place she has served as a managing director for the previous 4 and a half years.
Nabil Hossain crosses after seven years at Deloitte Consulting, together with the previous 5 as a director, earlier than which he spent eight years at PwC following its 2010 acquisition of Canberra-based accountancy WalterTurnbull, the place he kicked off his profession two years earlier upon the completion of a commerce diploma in accounting and finance with the Australian Nationwide College.
As a CFO advisory accomplice at BDO, Hossain in his new function will deal with serving federal authorities companies on their transformation agenda with planning, funding and supply assist, leveraging his experience in areas reminiscent of enterprise case growth, funding and charging fashions, budgeting and value administration, ERP, and finance perform enhancements.
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Along with Thomas and Hossain, BDO famous it’ll additionally quickly be onboarding an skilled accomplice and extra hires to bolster its defence sector capabilities, whereas nationwide chair David mentioned the agency is discussing additional progress alternatives and the native expertise pipe-line whereas reiterating the potential BDO noticed within the Canberra market resulting from continued demand for unbiased views.
“Now we have demonstrable functionality within the work we do for the general public sector, and we’re excited to deliver that experience and additional develop our crew in Canberra,” Fagan mentioned.“The crew has been very profitable to this point since we opened final 12 months, and we’re dedicated to constructing an enduring presence in Canberra by making vital investments in our individuals and premises.”
