Peter Twaddell

Executive summary

Peter is a Director at BDO in Brisbane, where he is part of the CFO Advisory team. He brings considerable expertise in providing both insourced and outsourced CFO services, emphasising practical solutions and, effective and lasting results for his clients.

Drawing on significant hands-on experience as both Chief Financial Officer and Financial Controller, Peter has supported clients in building, managing, and optimising their finance and reporting functions.

Since joining BDO in 2008, Peter has delivered CFO services to clients across the public and private sectors. His work includes developing policies and procedures, creating operational budgets, managing payroll, overseeing recruitment activities, and preparing financial, management, and project reports, as well as ensuring audit readiness.

Expertise

• Establishment of finance and accounting functions
• Finance and corporate function review and transformation 
• Cashflow and budget management
• Insourced services
• Audit readiness

Experience

• Acting as Financial Controller, assisted with establishment of public sector special purpose vehicle, supporting policy and process development, system selection and implementation, management and resourcing of operations
• Development of project capitalisation matrix, development of budget process and management reporting for a government statutory authority
• Superannuation guarantee compliance review and payroll process improvement and reporting for a Queensland regional council
• Development of cashflow forecasting tool to manage cash requirements and drawdowns from working capital facility and implementation of processes to control the approval of all expenditure for Queensland Aboriginal Shire Council
• Interim CFO and ongoing advisory services for a regional indigenous service provider
• Interim CFO, finance function review, capitalisation review and implementation of fixed asset register for major private sector asset owner

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce (Accounting)
• Bachelor of Business Management (Marketing and Finance)
• Member, CA ANZ
• PRINCE2 Project Management Foundation