Mark Dunlop

Executive summary

Mark is a Partner in the Business Services team, within the outsourcing division at BDO in Perth.

He focuses on the provision of outsourcing services, leveraging the invaluable national and international experience he gained working in Melbourne, Manchester and London before relocating back to Perth. Mark specialises in providing outsourced finance function services across multiple industries including Not-For-Profit, real estate, and scale-ups.

Mark is passionate about transformative change, ensuring that his clients’ finance functions are operating in the most efficient and cost-effective manner possible. He works to ensure the data available for his clients is accurate, clear, and concise for management-level decision-making.

Expertise

• Finance function reviews
• Finance function transformations
• Provision of complete outsourced finance function services, including bookkeeping, payroll, management reporting, general purpose financial statements, Business Activity Statements (BAS)
• Provision of CFO advisory services, including budgeting and forecasting and board pack reporting and presentation
• Oversight of seconded employees into clients’ finance functions to perform specific roles

Experience

Real Estate & Construction

• Leading the provision of outsourced finance function services for a large real estate client in London, with circa $4 billion in assets under management

Not-For-Profit

• Conducting the review and transformation of finance functions, budgeting and forecasting processes and the design of board reporting templates
• Working in an outsourced CFO capacity including the presentation of financial results at board meetings

Scale-ups

• Provision of CFO advisory services to scale-up businesses

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Business, Double Major in Accounting and Finance
• Graduate Diploma, CA ANZ (CA)