Aubrey Joachim (Australia) FCMA; MBA; GAICD is a Chartered Management Accountant – a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK, and MBA and a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has over 30 years of strategic management accounting experience with global conglomerates (Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Unilever and US Energy giant McDermott International Inc.) in South Asia, the Middle East, South East Asia and UK. Since 1993 Aubrey has been an Australian citizen and been involved in the financial services sector and Sydney Water Corporation (world’s 5^th largest water & waste water company) in senior finance roles.

 

In 2005 Aubrey set up his own boutique consulting organization – Leading Edge Change, essentially focusing on delivering public and in-house training and development workshops and seminars in finance, management accounting, strategic management, asset management, beyond budgeting & forecasting and Finance Transformation in a number of countries across the world. He runs programs in New Zealand, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, China, Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Oman, Bahrain, Tehran, Kenya, Uganda, Zambia and the UK. With this wide background experience of cultural and linguistic diversity Aubrey has the ability to appeal to any audience.

 

Aubrey also works with professional bodies and is a trainer for the Australian Institute of Company Directors, as well as conducting professional development courses for CIMA in the UK, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, UAE, Southern Africa, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Australia, The Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, CPA Australia, MIA in Malaysia and the Institute of CPA’s Singapore (ICPAS) and the Honk Kong Institute of CPA’s.

 

Aubrey is consistently rated very highly by his various audiences globally and is a presenter in high demand.

 

He writes on technical and managerial topics and has been published in professional journals including CIMA and the National Accountant (Australia). He has also been contributing a monthly article on Management Accounting in the Charter Magazine – the monthly journal of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, Australia.

 

In 2009/2010, Aubrey became the first non-British/ Irish global President of the prestigious global management accounting body CIMA – the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants UK in its 90 year history. This global position gave him significant exposure and public profile. He has been written about and provided opinion pieces that have been published in various countries. In his CIMA presiddential role he has presented on Finance Transformation to global multinationals such as Shell, Ford, Rolls Royce, Unilever, Barclays Bank, IBM, Time Warner and Swire Coca Cola.