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

The Startup Founders Club

The Startup Founders Club is a a website, podcast, and community BY Founders, FOR Founders. It's the real stories of what it's like to launch a product, get sales, raise money, boot-strap  and everything that matters to founders.

Founder

WorkGuru.io

WorkGuru.io is a lightweight ERP solution for SME customers. It moves every part of your business away from manual labour and spreadsheets, and into a cloud-based solution, designed with the customer firmly at the centre. WorkGuru comes with CRM, Quotes, Projects, Timesheets, Inventory tracking and usage, Asset history tracking, and invoicing.

If you're in Manufacturing, Architecture, Construction or any Engineering Discipline, WorkGuru has features built specifically for you.

The Rype Group

The Rype Group is Australia's premier business process and cloud software consulting company. With a focus on the SME market, Rype works with our clients to streamline their business processes and systems.

With divisions focused on Hospitality, Retail, Professional Services and Integrated Solutions Consulting, whatever challenge your business is facing, Rype has a team that can provide a solution.

Chief Executive

Independent

I work with companies to improve financial and operational performance by analysing and improving their business systems and processes.

Focusing on software and service delivery companies, I work with my clients to set and achieve realistic financial and operational targets for their business.

Business Operations and Strategy Consultant

TheCyberInstitute

As head of production for TCI and Cutting Edge Digital, I am responsible for the production output of a team of nearly 20 Software Engineers, Designers and Instructional Designers. I liaise extensively with clients, Sales team and the company executive to ensure our team always meets and exceeds client expectations and performance targets.

Head of Production

Operations Manager

In my position as Manager of IT at TheCyberInstitute I have led a team of highly skilled software engineers as well as being an integral part of the senior management team determining direction and strategy for the business. 

During my time at TCI, I championed and headed a project which led to  the development of a lightweight and highly functional LMS used by some of Australia's biggest mining companies to manage their compliance requirements.

Manager of Information Technology

Zanetti's

Owner

Intec

Graduate Developer

University of Queensland

Researcher on Event Driven Languages

Co-Founder at WorkGuru.io

Tony is a consultant, software engineer and speaker on business processes and cloud systems. He has worked with clients ranging from mining giants to family businesses on their systems, platforms and processes. Tony is passionate about helping small-businesses grow and prosper, and believes that it's impossible to do that without the best-of-breed cloud solutions to save time, and increase business visibility for a real-time review of your business operations.

Having led The Rype Group for 6 years, in 2018 Tony Co-founded WorkGuru.io with Michael Davis to fill a gap in the market. Tony is currently focusing on helping manufacturing businesses scale and improve the profitability of their enterprises particularly in mining related sectors, and  rural and regional Australia.

Tony's Motto: People are smart! Don't make them do dumb jobs!  


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