Canberra-based skilled providers agency Sententia Consulting has continued its development with a significant recruitment drive up to now weeks.
Consulting trio Auneep Rahim, Robert Nichol and Sahana Sreenatha have all crossed to Sententia Consulting from Protiviti, whereas Priyanka Varma joins from Synergy Group, following within the path of former Synergy govt director Simone Knight who was recruited as Sententia’s fifth principal in the direction of the top of final 12 months.
David Battey
In the meantime, the agency’s most up-to-date recruit is David Battey, who has spent the previous decade and a half with the Division of Defence, for many of that point as a director in areas similar to fraud management, integrity frameworks, graduate packages, and business coverage. Beforehand, he was an accounting group supervisor with staffing & recruitment company Hudson.
Auneep Rahim
Rahim joins Sententia as a senior marketing consultant, bringing a undertaking administration and engineering background with expertise in oil & gasoline and renewable power amongst different areas throughout each the federal government and personal sectors. Solely briefly at Protiviti, he beforehand labored in engineering roles at Visy and Shell on contract from Wooden.
Robert Nichol
Crossing after the previous 4 and a half years as a senior supervisor at Protiviti, Nichol brings additional private and non-private sector audit and threat administration expertise gained over six years between accounting and advisory networks Vincents and KPMG, and is famous for his adeptness at addressing advanced monetary and operational challenges.
Sahana Sreenatha
The third of recruits from Protiviti, the place she has spent the previous two years as a supervisor of its enterprise enchancment staff, Sreenatha additionally brings expertise to her strategic advisory and program assurance position at Sententia from KPMG, in addition to enterprise providers agency McMillan Shakespeare and extra not too long ago Accenture subsidiary Apis.
Priyanka Varma
An inner audit and assurance skilled, Varma in the meantime crosses after 5 and half years at Synergy Group, latterly as a supervisor working with federal and state authorities shoppers throughout a spread of portfolios, with the Australian Nationwide College commerce graduate additionally beforehand spending time on the Commonwealth Financial institution.
Senior management
Earlier, Sententia additionally pinched principal Simone Knight from Synergy, including 25 years value of advisory and public sector governance and strategic planning expertise to the consultancy’s senior management staff. Previous to her 5 years as senior supervisor and govt director at Synergy, Knight spent over a decade and a half within the Australian Public Service.
“I’m excited to hitch Sententia,” Knight stated upon making the transfer. “As a boutique agency, Sententia is values-based, and focuses on offering shoppers with the best high quality. Each of these issues are actually necessary to me.”
Knight follows fellow current principal recruits Andrew Pike and Josie Lopez, respectively ex-Tasks Assured and Protiviti (Sententia managing director Mark Harrison beforehand led the latter’s Canberra workplace), whereas former BDO companion and threat advisory chief Tom Fazio additionally joined the agency final 12 months as a managing director to steer its growth into Victoria.
Talking final 12 months with the Canberra Occasions on the resurgence of mid-tier boutiques within the wake of the federal authorities’s advisory clamp-down on the Massive 4 and different worldwide corporations, Harrison famous that Sententia had in current occasions doubled its general headcount and grown its revenues nearly three-fold on the again of a 240 p.c leap in authorities contract worth.
With the swap in procurement mentality partially prompted by the PwC authorities tax scandal, Harrison informed the Occasions; “This has helped the Commonwealth recognise you may get comparably sturdy assist and recommendation from a non-Massive 4. It has additionally proven companies that they’ll usually see extra senior folks out of a mid-tier agency than they’ll out of an even bigger agency.”
