CASE STUDIES:

There are many applications for a Functional Consulting approach such as ours and these real life Case Studies relating to work performed by our team or Will Camphin dating back to 2003, illustrate but a few for careful consideration:

Financial Reporting Systems Management:

Background:   A Law firm setting up and wanting to grow. Building a business and transitioning all the finance reporting and system processes from the bottom up facilitating transition from Employee to Owner.

Contact:   Alex Ronayne, Director – Ronayne Lawyers

Testimonial:“Will and his team were instrumental in setting up all the financial and analytical infrastructure for us to start up our firm and he has been a trusted advisor now since 2008. Our business is growing and he is growing it with us. He acts as an intermediary with our tax accountant so we can derive the most from their advisory support and he also ensures that this compliance reporting process is smooth and efficient so we can concentrate on our primary business of litigation and commercial law . I would recommend Will to anyone for his integrity, expert advice and professionalism, particularly through periods of rapid change and growth.”

Due Diligence & Financial Modelling:

Background:   A listed financial services company needed to resource a financial due diligence and modelling project for an acquisition being considered by this company in a fast turnaround.

Contact:   Geoff Hartigan, Manager – Bedford Titley Chartered Accountants

Testimonial: “We introduced Will to our client who was able to provide this capability within the very limited time frame allowed under the acquisition tender process. This enabled a decision to be made by the board of directors regarding a bid under the terms of the tender”

Change Management:

Background:   This covers multiple common clients and instances of Change Management, Restructures and Financial Year End Audit and Tax work as a Functional Consultant.

Contact:   Jim Mascitelli, Partner – Duncan Dovico Chartered Accountants

Testimonial: “Will Camphin has interacted with our firm as a trusted advisor to clients we have in common since 2008. Will Camphin, along with his team, have proven invaluable for businesses experiencing periods of rapid and dynamic change be it growing or contracting across a very broad range of financial and analytical functions. His independence allows him to facilitate efficiencies on the compliance work for audit and/or tax preparation processes and these efficiencies knock on to us too, which helps foster a stronger ongoing business partnership with our client. We spend less time checking reporting systems and we concentrate on the advisory which is what our common client really wants from us. I recommend him to any business looking to undertake a new venture or project large or small.”

System Administration and Change Management:

Background:   A Leading University in NSW implements Oracle without the Project Module and Bottom up Budgeting at the same time causing cultural angst that needs to be managed.

Contact:   Alan Maurice, Finance & Administration Manager – UTS

Testimonial:“Will came into UTS Finance at a critical time and through a change management process. This included the implementation of the Oracle finance software and a whole new approach to finance at the University.
Will was instrumental in introducing and teaching the transition to bottom up budgeting & the creation and customisation of research financial reports. This new system had not made provision for any research financial reporting.
Will single handedly built an access database to accommodate thousands of individual research projects which then went out directly to individuals. UTS chose not to invest in the project module!
Will has the big picture customer approach to helping non accountants understand their financial results. Will did all this during a tough time when there was a freeze on new staff appointments. Above all Will showed the capacity to manage accounting requirements and yet provide customers with the best available service given the constraints and the negative culture towards research finance at UTS”

Commercial Analysis:

Background:   Analysis required to support decision to either invest further $1m in upgrading national newsagent delivery platform or focus funds elsewhere and disband the system entirely.

Contact:   Niall Murphy, General Manager – Network Services Company

Testimonial:“Will’s analysis was thorough and robust where previous internal attempts had failed – he saved us $1m in Capex that we ultimately used to add value elsewhere in our business”

Financial Modelling:

Background:   Generate a Revenue Model to identify the best new geographic opportunities in the world for our existing titles as a means to grow our market share in a declining market.

Contact:   Mellisa Gillies, Director ACP Corporate – ACP Magazines Limited.

Testimonial:“Will put together a model single handedly in two weeks that was presented to the CEO and brought together 3 years of work from other consultants and Ernst & Young. The model was created in such a way that we can re-use it to assess performance of the venture against our initial expectations”

IBM Cognos TM1:

Background:   The PBL Media Group Consolidation was manually maintained in excel. Will was part of original project team and subsequently the System Administrator for 1 year post deployment covering all PBL Media entities including Acer Arena, Ninemsn, Nine Network, NBN, Carsales, Myhome, Ticketek, ACP Magazines, 3P Learning.

Contact:   Elizabeth Lupish, Group Reporting Manager – PBL Media Pty Ltd.

Testimonial:“Will’s built and supported this system when our IT Department lacked the expertise to do so after some key senior staff left the company. His technical and accounting expertise were invaluable for deriving System Logic over that period and most importantly, he ensured we could manage (and even prosper) after he left us to our own devices.”

Project Management:

Background:   Paper recruitment forms requiring handwritten signature from executives spanning interstate required replacement with an online system to assist with speeding up processing, improve data integrity and tracking capabilities. Will Camphin acted in capacity of project manager on the delivery of a solution.

Contact:   Jim Stroude, Group Finance Manager – ACP Magazines Trader Classifieds Division (Melb).

Testimonial: “Before Personnel Online we were resorting to faxes to obtain signatures, now we can see where a form is at any time and chase up when it stalls. We have not looked back.”

Process improvement:

Background:   Syndication reporting in ACP magazines had reached capacity under current practices and a short term measure was required to support the process till sufficient capital expenditure could be obtained to build a new system.

Contact:   Greg Allen-Waters, General Manager Syndication – ACP Magazines Ltd.

Testimonial: “MYOB consultants quoted $60,000 to replicate what Will created in Word and Excel for a third of the price. Indeed, two years down the track we are still using Will’s 3 month temporary solution while our new $150k solution is being built. It is fair to say that our business would have stalled completely if he was not available to help us at the time”