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Michelle Gibbs - Partner
email - michelle.gibbs@nuwaru.com
mobile - +61 400 729 469 What Michelle brings to clients
She brings 22 years of experience assisting top listed entities to small companies across multiple industries. Her investment banking background has provided a unique skill set to be able to understand the commercial landscape and work with other disciplines such as legal, tax and compliance to achieve the optimal business outcome for her clients. With the recent wave of new accounting standards, Michelle has leveraged her technical accounting skill set to expand into project management, system and process design implementation to embed these new accounting standards into her client’s businesses. Michelle also has a background in small business accounting, including working with not-for-profits and charities to provide accounting advice and assistance in setting up new finance processes and controls, including developing key KPI reporting for regulatory purposes. Michelle has written and published internationally several articles on the new accounting standards, is a regular presenter on accounting topics and continues to be a key advisor to several Australian regulators and industry groups. Michelle also finds time to mentor females on career progression with a special passion for helping new mothers return to work successfully. |
History
In addition to working with Nuwaru, Michelle has her own consulting practice providing accounting advice and CFO advisory services to a various clients. Recently she completed the implementation of the new lease accounting standard at Australia’s largest bank.
Michelle is an ex director at KPMG with a total of 12 years tenure before leaving in mid 2018, with the last 6 years working in their CFO Advisory department, where she established and ran the new accounting standards business nationally along with providing a broad range of other CFO advisory services to a diverse range of clients.
Prior to this Michelle spent 5 years working at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch in the finance department providing accounting advice to the bank and its clients and embedding that advice into the finance function.
Expertise & typical clients
Michelle has worked with large listed entities to small companies, charities and not for profits across multiple industries from banking and finance, mining, construction, retail, infrastructure, technology, health, and government.
Qualifications
Michelle is a Chartered Accountant ANZ, and holder of Prince 2 project management certificate.
What Michelle does when not in a suit
With two young active boys, Michelle spends her time driving them around to sports events and parties and where-ever possible tries to fit in exercise, the beach, boating, art classes and catching up with friends and family.
In addition to working with Nuwaru, Michelle has her own consulting practice providing accounting advice and CFO advisory services to a various clients. Recently she completed the implementation of the new lease accounting standard at Australia’s largest bank.
Michelle is an ex director at KPMG with a total of 12 years tenure before leaving in mid 2018, with the last 6 years working in their CFO Advisory department, where she established and ran the new accounting standards business nationally along with providing a broad range of other CFO advisory services to a diverse range of clients.
Prior to this Michelle spent 5 years working at Deutsche Bank and Merrill Lynch in the finance department providing accounting advice to the bank and its clients and embedding that advice into the finance function.
Expertise & typical clients
- Accounting structuring advice for complex business combinations, IPOs, mergers, de-mergers and off-balance sheet financing transactions
- New accounting standard implementation
- General accounting advice and policy development
- Establishment of new processes and controls and finance control standard documentation
- Setting up small to medium size accounting functions
- Systems implementation and design
Michelle has worked with large listed entities to small companies, charities and not for profits across multiple industries from banking and finance, mining, construction, retail, infrastructure, technology, health, and government.
Qualifications
Michelle is a Chartered Accountant ANZ, and holder of Prince 2 project management certificate.
What Michelle does when not in a suit
With two young active boys, Michelle spends her time driving them around to sports events and parties and where-ever possible tries to fit in exercise, the beach, boating, art classes and catching up with friends and family.