PRICKLY PEAR CONSULTING - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Partner
- / Alexandra Zhang
- Accountant With a Masters of Business Administration
- Performance Management
Alexandra Zhang is a qualified accountant with a Masters of Business Administration and Professional Accounting. She has an aptitude for helping businesses of all sizes meet their financial goals and maximise growth. Handling Performance Management for Prickly Pear Consulting, she offers expertise in business analytics, value chain management and corporate social responsibility.
Alexandra specialises in top-line analysis that helps both SMEs and large businesses to mitigate risk and identify opportunity. With more than five years worth of experience in the field of accounting, Alexandra's understanding of business operations allows her to look beyond the numbers alone. With quality client reporting at the core of any robust financial strategy, Alexandra represents a valuable asset to any business large or small.
Job Titles:
- Managing Partner
- / Christopher Schmitt
- Chartered Accountant from Deloitte
Christopher Schmitt is a qualified Chartered Accountant from Deloitte and a Member of the Institute of Australian Chartered Accountants. With over 10 years worth of experience in the fields of accounting and consulting, Christopher's portfolio of clients is focused around start-ups, small and medium enterprises in particular.
Throughout the course of his career, Christopher has honed a collaborative approach to helping his clients maximise their earning potential. Drawing upon his early experience - which was grounded in the hospitality sector - Christopher has since applied his skills across a wide range of industry sectors. His focus with each client is tailoring a specific reporting solution to the individual business needs.
Christopher is able to provide CFO advisory services and performance management improvement consulting across the board. With a sophisticated understanding of business processes and a knack for identifying growth opportunities, he specialises in strategy identification and guidance. By introducing enhanced reporting capabilities, Christopher helps to facilitate successful profit maximisation for businesses of all sizes.
Job Titles:
- Partner
- / Trevor Schmitt
- Advisory
Drawing upon more than 30 years' of C-level financial, operational leadership and consulting experience, Trevor Schmitt is a leader in business innovation and strategic impact. Having worked across a diverse range of industries in Australia and the Asia Pacific Region, his work as a CFO, COO and Executive Director has allowed him to hone a highly developed understanding of Board operations, corporate governance and risk mitigation.
With a proven track record working with ASX-listed multinationals, Trevor's experience also spans to mid-sized enterprises across a wide scope of industries. Alongside expertise in mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity and more, he also possesses significant knowledge in both international legislative and regulatory compliance.
With the ability to lead teams in order to enable sustainable organisational change and performance improvement, Trevor's commercial agility and due diligence skills have proven highly valuable for many of his clients to date. His ability to optimise shareholder value in complex ASX-listed multinational enterprises has allowed him to successfully guide numerous businesses through implementing financial solutions for transformational change.