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Experienced Chief Financial Officer. Broad industry experience in healthcare, aged care, property, manufacturing and distribution, FMCG, and professional services. High learning agility and commercial acumen. CFO at top 100 ASX listed, private equity owned, and charitable companies. Directorship experience and familiarity with board processes, committees, and corporate governance. Strategy, M&A, and contract negotiation experience. Have negotiated procurement contracts and business transactions with individual values from $5m to in excess of $1 billion. Particularly focused on business investment returns and risk. Builder of effective people and teams through personal development, coaching, empowerment, and instilling a structured and methodical approach to work. Managed teams of up to 150 people. Treasury experience from having developed investment policies and management for investment portfolios, having gone to market for individual bank debt and hybrid instrument transactions, and being CFO of a business with highly geared private equity debt levels. Core finance responsibilities: accounting, reporting monthly and statutory, audit committee, enterprise risk management and insurance, debt financing and treasury, financial analysis of results and business cases, budgets and forecasts, property, compliance, procurement, tax, investor relations, shared services, IT, internal audit, and legal/company secretarial.CFO @ Thorn Group is an ASX listed financial services company offering consumer leasing, commercial finance, invoice discounting, consumer finance and receivables management. From September 2015 to Present (4 months) Group CFO @ The iconic St Vincent's Hospital group is a $2 billion turnover healthcare group with 17000 staff running 6 public hospitals and 8 private hospitals with 2500 beds, 13 aged care facilities with 1100 beds, and 4 research institutes. The Group CFO role was created to integrate the four regional businesses into the newly formed group structure with a single board, institute a step change in financial oversight and performance to ASX listed standards, business partner the CEO, set up a new group finance office with all the associated policies and procedures from scratch, and set the financial strategy for the group. From June 2010 to September 2015 (5 years 4 months) Sydney, AustraliaASX Listed Public Company CFO @ DCA was an ASX 100 listed company operating a diversified healthcare business in Australia, New Zealand and the UK. It operated Amity and Guardian, the largest ANZ aged care business, IMED/MIA, the diagnostic imaging business, and the Heart Care Group. DCA had revenues of $1.0 billion, market capitalisation of $1.8 billion, employed 7000 people and had $2.4 billion in assets. DCA was sold in 2007 to CVC private equity via a scheme of arrangement for $2.75 billion making it the largest public to private equity deal at the time in Australia. The Imaging business was spun into another CVC fund and the aged care business sold to BUPA for $1.2 billion. Position was a listed company CFO role (including hands on board role in development of the aged care business) which transitioned into private equity investment CFO role and then into a CFO and director role in the transition of the business to BUPA. From 2005 to 2010 (5 years) Sydney, AustraliaCFO @ Blake Dawson Waldron (now Ashurst) is one of Australia's leading international law firms with more than 190 partners, 1600 staff and offices throughout Australia and in selected overseas locations. The CFO position served on the firm's executive committee and led all financial, commercial, company secretarial and property activities. From 2003 to 2005 (2 years) Sydney, AustraliaDivisional CFO @ Goodman Fielder was Australia's largest bakery, baked goods, and flour milling business. The CFO role led the finance team for a Baking division with sales of over $800m of manufactured, marketed and distributed 1 million units of bread and baked goods (very fast moving consumer branded) every day from 2000 sku's for over 30000 customers daily produced in 35 plants and distributed through 90 distribution centres. The CFO role for the Milling business was to acquire, integrate and restructure the newly acquired Bunge Defiance business ($414m), lead the financial team, and then sell the business on an improved earnings multiple to Cargill and Graincorp with a negotiated supply contract for flour back to the bakeries. From 1998 to 2003 (5 years) Sydney, AustraliaVP Finance @ Vice President Finance for the Asia Pacific region and then the Global Yeast business. Joined BPC in Treasury initially covering overseas currency hedging and moved onto M&A with lead roles in the sale of BBC Hardware and Tradelink Plumbing, before moving into the regional CFO role growing the Yeast and Food businesses in Asia, USA and Europe. From 1992 to 1997 (5 years) Senior Manager @ From 1986 to 1992 (6 years) BSc Hons, FCA, F Fin, GAICD Peter Forsberg is skilled in: Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Analysis, Strategic Planning, Management, Risk Management, Business Process Improvement, Business Strategy, Management Consulting, Auditing, Business Planning, Change Management, Budgets, Managerial Finance