Joanna Adams

Executive summary

Joanna is a CFO Advisory Partner with BDO in Brisbane. She is a collaborative, solutions-focussed professional who brings the right experts together to address complex challenges and deliver tangible results for her clients. 

Joanna works with her clients to transform their finance function, simplifying the financial reporting process, assisting in the identification of opportunities to automate, in-source, co-source, or outsource to ensure clients are spending their time in high-impact and/or high-risk areas, rather than in data management or compliance tasks.

Leveraging her 32 years of experience and deep technical knowledge of Accounting Standards and financial reporting, Joanna assists in optimising reporting functions, including preparing for audits or upcoming transactions. She also guides organisations through the implementation of new Accounting and Sustainability Standards. 

She can assist clients in preparing for an audit, identifying potential risk areas and advising or implementing appropriate solutions. As a statutory reporting expert, Joanna can prepare complex financial reports in compliance with Corporations Act 2001, Australian Accounting Standards and/or ASX requirements, including GAAP conversion and consolidation, or to meet multiple reporting obligations, if required.

Expertise

• Financial reporting, including risk assessment and policy development 
• Audit support, GAAP conversion and consolidation
• Financial statement preparation 
• Statutory reporting function optimisation
• Audit readiness, including transaction readiness (such as trade sale or IPO) 
• Selection and implementation of financial reporting software
• Consolidation or group restructures 
• Mining and mining services sector, and large multi-national clients, working across global markets
• Sustainability/ESG sectors.

Experience

• MNE Global Resources company - Outsource operation of financial reporting function for 40 Australian entities.
• Private waste management company - First time consolidation of group under AASB 10, lease accounting and preparation of financial reports.
• Global building materials company - Acquisition accounting, PPA and valuation, technical accounting position papers and audit support. 

Qualifications and affiliations

• BA Physics, Oxford University, UK
• CA ANZ.