Aubrey Joachim

President

Aubrey is a management coach, mentor and management training provider. He is contracted to leading conference and seminar companies and to professional bodies to provide training programs across Australasia.

He began his career at Unilever Sri Lanka in 1973, covering all aspects of management accounting. This led to him start his CIMA studies. He moved to a senior accounting position in the textile and export garment industry in 1979.

Aubrey left Sri Lanka in 1982 to work with McDermott International Inc., a multinational US Corporation in Dubai, involved in the oil and gas industry. He moved through senior financial management and then transferred to their London operations in 1992, becoming accounting manager.

Aubrey migrated to Australia in 1993 and, after a spell in the financial services sector, joined Sydney Water Corporation in 1994. He eventually became the financial manager of the largest division of the business, until 2005.

He has been a prolific presenter and conference speaker for the past 12 years, has written articles on current management topics, which have been published in professional journals, Financial Management magazine, and on this website. He writes a monthly article on management accounting for Charter, the magazine of the Australian Institute of Chartered Accountants. Aubrey won the worldwide CIMA/Reed Management Accounting competition in 1991 and was runner up in 1992.

Aubrey was elected a Fellow in 1988 and has been an active member since 1994, when he became a committee member of the New South Wales Branch, later serving as branch secretary and branch president. Since 1998 he has been on the CIMA Australia national council. Aubrey was elected to CIMA council in 2001 to represent Australasia and has been a member of international committee, chairman of member services committee and a member of the executive committee.

Aubrey also has an MBA and is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.

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