Scott McMurdo

Executive summary

Scott is a Director in the Deal Advisory team at BDO in Sydney. He has more than nine years of experience delivering corporate advisory services, with a particular focus on special situations and turnaround.

Scott has extensive experience providing tailored solutions to assist management teams, equity holders, lenders, and other stakeholders in navigating situations of financial distress and underperformance.

With experience including a three-year secondment to BDO USA in New York, Scott has gained substantial experience assisting private credit and private equity clients with solutions for their portfolio companies and investments.

Scott is a chartered accountant with comprehensive knowledge of accounting, corporate finance, and interim financial management.

Expertise

• Interim financial management and accounting services
• Cash flow, financial and operational modelling
• Distressed interim management
• Financial and operational due diligence
• Independent business reviews
• Pre-lending reviews
• Implementing and updating management and board reporting
• Developing frameworks to assist reporting and key performance indicator (KPI) monitoring
• Pre and post transactional support
• Debt and capital advisory (special situations) services

Experience

• Healthcare: Performed Interim financial management assistance and created various due diligence reports
• Retail: Delivered multiple strategic business reviews, Investigative accountant’s reports, independent business reviews and options analysis for a variety of retail stakeholders
• Natural resources and renewables: Provided management advisory services for a multi-entity renewables project, as well as a mining and refinery operation and assisted with debt refinancing for a group of coal mines
• Technology: Performed interim financial management assistance for a private equity-backed data centre operation
• Agriculture: Delivered operational due diligence of a private equity agri-tech target and a strategic business review and options analysis of an agricultural producer
• Transport: Provided a pre-lend review for a transport and logistics provider and a solvency review of a towing provider
• Automotive: Delivered a pre-lend review and ongoing monitoring reviews

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Business
• Member, CA ANZ
• Member, Turnaround Management Association (TMA)