Your Future In Finance

In this episode of Your Future in Finance, Callum chats with Adeline Fernandez the current Vice President of Finance at Fluent Commerce. Adeline discusses her career journey and what has helped her succeed in her career so far. Listen out as Adeline provides her top 3 tips for aspiring finance professionals. At [axr] we believe it's 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥, not just a job! We’re passionate about helping future leaders make great career decisions that maximise their potential.

In this episode of Your Future in Finance, Callum chats with Adeline Fernandez the current Vice President of Finance at Fluent Commerce. Adeline discusses his career journey and what has helped her succeed in her career so far. Listen out as Adeline provides his top 3 tips for aspiring finance professionals. At [axr] we believe it's 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥, not just a job! We’re passionate about helping future leaders make great career decisions that maximise their potential.

In this episode of Your Future in Finance, Callum chats with Dillon Narsi, the current Commercial Manager at PepsiCo. Dillon discusses his career journey, from starting at Dan Murphy's to his current role at PepsiCo. Listen out as Dillon provides his top 3 tips for aspiring finance professionals. At [axr] we believe it's 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥, not just a job! We’re passionate about helping future leaders make great career decisions that maximise their potential.

In this episode of Your Future in Finance, we are joined by our very own [axr] recruitment & search Directors, Greg Madden and Mike Dickson, who will chat about Getting Interview Fit. They will share insights and their experience with interviews and how to better perform in "meetings". Enjoy!

In this episode, we are joined by Theva Surendra, from GrainCorp, as he shares his career journey and insights with our future finance leaders. Listen out as Theva discusses with Callum his top 3 tips for up & coming talent wanting to become future CFOs. Theva has a unique experience between the Big 4 and commercial and great insights into transformation and key challenges in change management projects.

In this episode of Your Future in Finance, Callum chats with Jonny Harrison, who is the CFO for LMG (Liquor Marketing Group). Jonny discusses his career journey, the challenges he has faced throughout his roles, how he developed his leadership style and talks about his experience in the liquor industry. Listen out as Jonny also provides his top 3 tips for aspiring finance professionals. At [axr] we believe it's 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥, not just a job! We’re passionate about helping future leaders make great career decisions that maximise their potential.

In this episode of Your Future in Finance, Callum chats with Cam Mostyn, who is currently the Finance Lead for Transformation at Frucor Suntory, about his finance career and his advice on finding your career blind spots, knowing when to take the next step in your career and his top 3 tips for any aspiring finance professionals. Cam also shares his incredible journey as a team rower on the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge which involved their 4-man crew rowing 5000km for 35 days straight from Africa to America, across the Atlantic ocean. Not only did their team come second but they also helped raise an amazing $400,000 for the Black Dog Institute and are the Current national record holders of the fastest Australian crew to row across the Atlantic Ocean. He shares the most rewarding and toughest elements involved in completing such a mammoth feat and the lessons they learnt along the way about each other, resilience and high performing teams. Support Our Walk for Mental Health Research for the Black Dog Institute We're fundraising to raise money for life-changing research into treatment and prevention of mental illness, as well as vital support services. If you wish to support this great cause you can donate to our fundraiser for The Black Dog institute here.

In this episode of Your Future in Finance, Callum chats with Chris Cynk who is the Head of Finance at Kegstar. Chris discusses his career journey; the challenges he has faced throughout his roles, how he developed his leadership style and talks about his ‘hungry and humble’ phrase and how he seeks out this attitude in the workforce. Listen out as Chris also provides his top 3 tips for aspiring finance professionals. At [axr] we believe it's 𝗬𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗘𝗘𝗥, not just a job! We’re passionate about helping future leaders make great career decisions that maximise their potential.

This week the boys are joined by Paul Hurley who is in the Group Financial Controller Charter Hall. Paul Discusses his incredible career and interesting journey within the company. Listen out to how Paul talks about his work attitude and how he sees major tasks as an opportunity, rather than a challenge, and how that can pay off in the long run. He also chats about building relationships within the business and how those relationships can help his career in the future

Your Future in Finance Podcast is back and we’re back with BIG Questions. How to Evaluate, Accept, Reject or Negotiate a Job Offer After reading the Harvard Business Review article, Callum and Rick are joined by Mike Dickson to discuss their thoughts on job offers. How do you negotiate an offer, when does the negotiation process really start? What are the things that are important in accepting an offer and what are the biggest mistakes people make

In this episode, we are joined by Jenny Kalogeropoulos, from Lion, as she shares her career journey and insights with our future finance leaders. Listen out as Jenny discusses with Rick Jacobson her top 3 tips for up & coming talent wanting to become future Head of Finance including the importance of having a career plan, finding the right culture fit for yourself, and being curious - always!

In this Episode, Callum speaks to Brent Lyster the current GM of Finance at Technology company intelliHUB Group, as Brent shares his Finance career journey. This episode is perfect for any Accounting & Finance professional aspiring to a career in high growth, PE businesses. Listen out as Brent shares his top 3 tips for aspiring finance professionals.

Dinesh was candid in discussing his career and making the move from the Big 4 to an FP&A role, as well as the biggest opportunities and challenges he faced along the way and his passion for eCommerce and how it fits into his future career. Listen as Dinesh shares his top 3 tips for aspiring finance professionals. This is an opportunity to learn from Senior Finance professionals who have successfully transitioned into key finance leadership roles. They will provide insights into how they accomplished the move and share their leadership learnings over 3 sessions hosted by Callum Jones-Bray and Rick Jacobson

This week's episode we are joined by our very own Jan Van Der Meer, Career Advisory Director. Jan talks about developing an effective Job Search Strategy. She discusses the process of how to stand out in a crowd, managing your job search, LinkedIn profiles and preparing yourself for a job interview.

How has COVID impacted the university industry? In our next installment of Industry Insights C19, Greg O'Shea speaks to Mark Leigh, CFO for University of Technology Sydney about the enormous impact the pandemic had on their university and the massive overhaul for the sector due to international restrictions. We thank Mark for sharing how it's affected his team, how technology has changed the way they work, and offer their services, as well as what he believes could be the positives that will come out from this situation.

This episode chat is with Jenny Kalogeropoulos, Head of FP&A at Stockland. As a diversified property group, they have experienced the impacts of COVID differently across certain sections of their business and she discusses the challenges and opportunities it might have on future business as we move back out of isolation. Jenny was kind enough to also discuss how her team and leadership team dealt with the crisis and what she sees as the positives coming out of the pandemic

Callum Jones-Bray interviews Alex Ostermann from Healius Limited to discuss the impacts of COVID19 on their pathology business, what the finance team focussed on during the crisis and what the team will focus on heading into the future.

How is the childcare industry coping with COVID19? In the next instalment, our Director, Greg O'Shea interviews David Mahony CFO for Only About Children on the challenges they faced during the peak of the crisis as a business and how their business model has evolved.

Our first Industry Insights chat is with Kate Beattie, FD for Endeavour Drinks Group discussing the unprecedented challenges that arose from COVID for a business that faced retail challenges with panic buying; unforeseen supply chain demands; needing to ensure the safety of its customers and staff while simultaneously having to close down parts of the business. The mini clip below is only a taste of our in-depth 20-minute interview conducted by Greg O'Shea. Kate was kind enough to delve into several key issues faced by the leadership team and staff during this crisis and how they dealt with them

ZIG WHEN OTHERS ZAG. Emily Kucukalic from Brand New You and Greg O'Shea from [axr] discuss how to improve your communication & build your personal brand remotely Emily and Greg also explore what the post COVID19 world will look like and what our future working environments may potentially look like.