Ascern Advisers

Ascern Advisers is Australia's premier provider of CFO Services for small to medium sized enterprises. 

Our trusted CFOs help business owners and operators grow faster, generate value, and achieve their business and personal goals.

Commercially experienced CFOs | Zero recruitment fees | ready for action

Founder | CFO

Dads Group

Dads Group is about changing the culture of fatherhood for the better. We promote positive parenting for men and give new Dads the support and connection they need.

Non Executive Director

Department of Employment, Small Business and Training

Business Mentor, Mentoring for Growth Program

Queensland Cradle Care

Queensland Cradle Care supports mothers and families in the critical time after mum and baby return home after birth.

Director

Dutch Chamber of Commerce Queensland

Dutch Chamber of Commerce Queensland is a business platform supporting the commercial interests of The Netherlands and Queensland.

Board Secretary

Blue Mountain Co

Blue Mountain Co is offering products that deliver an effective rain harvesting system for homes and businesses.

Chief Financial Officer

INSELEC

Inselec is a Specialty Electrical Workforce provider supplying electrical workers to Commercial, Infrastructure, Solar, and other projects across Australia.

IntoWork Australia

IntoWork Australia is a Not-For-Profit group specialising in recruitment, employment, training, and Disability community and employment services. MRAEL merged into the Group in 2016.

Group Chief Financial Officer

MRAEL is a Not-For-Profit business specialising in recruitment, employment, training, and employment services. The Group operates throughout Queensland with its Group Training Organisation, Registered Training Organisation, Australian Apprentice Support Network and Senior Secondary School Trade College.

Chief Financial Officer, MRAEL

GM Finance, MRAEL

Energex

Energex is a top 100 Australian company with more than $7 billion in total assets. EsiTrain is Energex’s Registered Training Organisation responsible for technical training of field staff to work on the network. Electricity Distribution.

EsiTrain Business Manager

Li & Fung Limited

Finance Manager/Controller - Promocean

Providing Part-time CFOs to grow your business | Founder at Ascern

In Australia, there are approximately 2.5 million SMEs all needing financial guidance. But there are only 100,000 CFOs.


Without solid financial data and knowledge, many business owners struggle to make the best decisions. This is where a Fractional CFO can make all the difference.



◾️ABOUT ME

​Financial Executive bringing Australian & International commercial experience to Australian SMEs.

I work with Owners, MDs, GMs and management teams. 

Experienced in goods and services industries including manufacturing, import / export, wholesale / distribution labour hire / recruitment, NFP, training / education, NFP, NDIS.



◾️CLIENT NEEDS

💡 Growing businesses struggling to manage cashflow

💡 Businesses that have plateaued

💡 Owners preparing the business to exit

💡 Family businesses transitioning to the new generation

💡 Companies reaching the limits of team and system capability

💡 Finance teams, managers, & executives needing training, coaching & mentoring



◾️ENGAGEMENTS / EXPERTISE

💪 Strategic Planning & Direction

💪 Financial Forecasting, Reporting & Analysis

💪 Cashflow Improvement

💪 Working Capital Management

💪 Risk Management

💪 Process & System Efficiencies

💪 Finance team - Training, Coaching & Mentoring


◾️TESTIMONIALS

🗣️ “The Ascern team have become an integral part of our business. David’s insights, planning, forecasting and guidance have taken our business to new heights, something we couldn’t have done without him.” - Clarke Services Group

🗣️ “His advice and ability to identify our key financial & operational metrics has helped us immensely on our journey." - DD Group International

🗣️ “David is like a multilingual translator that can communicate the extensive financial drivers into a language capable of being understood by many different levels and backgrounds in the team." - 3eeBusiness"



◾️Contact
✉️david@ascern.com.au


◾️Success Stories
💻 www.ascern.com.au 


◾️Discovery Call
🔎 https://calendar.app.google/fv4RPXWcTDWC1SCf6

David Harreveld

Green Funding

Green Funding offers market-leading commercial funding solutions for sustainability initiatives. We have developed specialised solutions for renewable energy assets and other sustainable projects. Partnering with leading financiers, private lenders and equity providers, Green Funding crafts solutions that maximise energy savings and environmental benefits.

Founder

Aurelius Advisory

Aurelius Advisory partner with business owners to: 
✅  turnaround their business 
✅  achieve significant profitable growth 
✅  prepare for a business sale.

We stabilise under-performing businesses, provide structure to fast growing businesses and prepare businesses to maximise their sale value. We help them get the right funding and execute an operational strategic plan with a balanced approach between short-term benefits and long-term strategic goals.

Mentoring for Growth (M4G) offers eligible businesses access to volunteer business experts who provide insights, options and suggestions relating to challenges and opportunities you are experiencing in your business.

Mentoring for Growth is delivered through both panel and chat formats and can be conducted via face-to-face and online meetings. The program is delivered in all major centres in Queensland, including Queensland Government small business events.

Business Mentor

Sharing with Friends Foundation Queensland

Sharing with Friends has been designed as an affordable, safe, secure home for five older women to live privately and with dignity as they age.

The key element of the design is to incorporate essential elements – one’s own kitchen, bedroom, a landscaped courtyard, and privacy.

Advisor

KARAKAN LTD

Karakan is a local community based service provider supporting people with mental health challenges, disability or both; partnering with people to enhance identity, independence and connections guides everything that they do.

Queensland Youth and Families Support Services

Queensland Youth and Families Supprt Services is a for purpose organisation that works with young people aged 12-25 years and their families providing vital services such as Youth Support, Transitional Housing and centre based Homelessness Service.

Management Committee Member

Focus on Youth

Focus on Youth Inc provides assistance and support to youth with disABILITY (the youth have greater abilities than any disability). Services enable the youth to increase their valued social roles, and enjoy the good things that all individuals, regardless of their ability or disabilities desire from life.

Westpac

Prepared Information Memorandums on prospective clients ($20m to $200m in revenue) which outlined business risks, assessed financial performance, tested three-way financial models and analysed working capital cycle. I also conducted half yearly and annual financial monitoring reviews; assessing key financial ratios and variations to forecasts, tested lending covenants, outlined key business drivers, conducted sensitivity analysis, confirmed debt service capacity, undertook in-depth qualitative analysis, and performed industry benchmarking.

Assistant Relationship Manager

Export Finance and Insurance Corporation (EFIC)

Assisted SMEs throughout Queensland to realise their export opportunities by providing tailored export finance which they were unable to obtain from the banking sector. I conducted concise performance and credit risk assessments to understand potential client's businesses.

Account Manager

Analysed a diverse portfolio of high risk/distressed clients’ financial performance. Monitored the implementation of strategies to maximise value and profitability. Drafted detailed monthly evaluations of clients’ financial position; identified drivers of actual to budget variances, analysed working capital cycles and assessed key financial ratios against industry benchmarks

Assistant Manager - Corporate Lending Services

Developed and maintained customer relationships with a portfolio of clients (with revenues between $5m to $75m) by proactively engaging with the client to ensure the products and services were tailored to the client’s changing business needs. Prepared credit submissions and annual reviews examining key financial ratios. Identified opportunities to expand customer base by researching potential targets and initiating transition discussions

Assistant Manager- Business Banking

Our commercial funding solutions have been specifically developed for renewable energy assets and other sustainable initiatives. In conjunction with our funding partners, we have developed solutions that will maximise your energy savings and environmental benefits.

Andrew Daniels

I’ve been using more energy lately than my BESS was ever designed for, I’m running hotter than a 2003 Sanyo HIT panel on a Colorbond roof in summer.

If Solar Santa (that’s me apparently 🤦‍♂️) is feeling it, trying to shove a year’s worth of projects down the chimney before Christmas. Spare a thought for the installers right now.

December in solar is absolute chaos:

• Customers: “Can we get it done before Christmas?”
• Rooftops: now operating as industrial frying pans
• Storms: scheduled daily for 3:17pm
• Crews: 3 jobs a day, sunburnt, tired, and running purely on iced coffee

We talk all year about smart storage and avoiding catastrophic failures…
yet December has the whole industry running like a BESS with a dodgy BMS and a warranty that expired in 2008.

Even Solar Santa can’t keep delivering megawatts on an empty battery.

If you’re already feeling like the NEM during a heatwave, overloaded, under-resourced, and one fault away from a blackout then you’re not alone.

Please take a proper break this weekend before you trip your own breaker.

We need you more than the Christmas rush does.

Ho ho ho to every installer keeping this industry alive with willpower, SPF 50+, and questionable choices in hydration.

Installers: what’s your December survival tip?

#SolarInstallers #Solar #EnergyStorage #SolarEnergy #Renewables #EnergyTransition

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