Business Specialists - About us

Our focus is on making sure we do all we can to ensure our clients are as successful as they can be.

We like to think we are different from other accountants, by being your business partner. This means delivering a complete financial solution that proactively considers tax, superannuation, business, wealth creation and retirement. We utilise our network of referral partners, so you won’t need to go anywhere else.

We have an all encompassing approach to managing your financial needs. We provide our clients with a number of solutions to help improve their business performance and make it as successful as possible. This is our passion.

Our Objective

Our objective is to provide specialised services in a clearly communicated, cost efficient and timely manner.

We pride ourselves on our reputation for integrity, honesty and commitment in offering high quality services to all clients. This is done through the development of mutually satisfying relationships, highly skilled and motivated team and through efficient service delivery.

Our Team

We are a team of professional and experienced advisors who understand business and the demands that businesses bring.

Our team is lead by four Directors and an enthusiastic team who are dedicated to understanding your business, your circumstances and YOU. Our blend of diagnostic, personal and practical skills makes our team unique in every sense.

Our Partners and Senior Team:

John Dorazio FCA

Managing Director

John is the Managing Director of Walker Wayland WA and heads up our Audit and Assurance division. He joined WW in February 2002, became a Partner in July 2011 and became Managing Director in July 2017.

John is a Fellow Chartered Accountant, a registered Company Auditor, a registered Self-managed Superannuation Fund Auditor, a Fellow of the Tax Institute and a Category 2 Greenhouse and Energy Auditor. He was Chairman of Board for Walker Wayland Australasia between 2014 and 2016.

John’s experience and skills include providing audit and consultancy services to entities in a range of industries. He has a keen interest in transport businesses, franchises, health industries, sporting organisations and is always willing to meet with business owners or organisations that need help improving systems and performance. John also provides support to mergers and acquisitions with experience in purchaser due diligence, vendor due diligence and contract support.

Iggy Moro FCA CTA DipFP (FS)

Director

Iggy is a Director of the company and has worked in public practice since 1992. Over the years he has helped many clients achieve their business, financial and personal goals with clients ranging from small individual tax clients, property and share investors, start up businesses and multi-national businesses. He advises on all structures – sole trader, partnerships, trusts, companies and self managed superannuation funds. His goal is to assist his clients strive for and achieve their goals

Iggy is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, a registered Tax Agent, a member of the SMSF Professionals Association and a Chartered Tax Advisor through the Tax Institute of Australia.

Iggy is a CA SMSF Specialist and is an authorised representative and able to provide financial advice on self managed superannuation funds.

Richard Gregson CA

Director

Richard is a director in our Audit and Advisory practice.

Richard has over 30 years of professional and commercial experience, much of that spent with PwC working in Australia and abroad. Prior to leaving PwC to return to Australia, Richard was a senior partner in their Moscow office where he led the Financial Services Audit and Assurance practice and was also the Real Estate Leader for the Russian firm.

Richard has audited, advised, and worked with a broad range of organisations including: commercial & investment banks, asset managers, broker dealers, leasing companies, insurance companies, property investors and developers, construction companies, miners, telecommunications enterprises and technology companies, sporting associations, Aboriginal Corporations and businesses, pastoral companies, aged care, manufacturing and trading enterprises.

Richard’s key areas of experience include:

Financial statement audits
Financial due diligence and agreed upon procedures
Regulatory examinations
Large scale technical assistance projects
Financial statement preparation and CFO services
Governance advice

In more recent years, Richard has served as a board director/ committee member on a number of boards, both private and public. These include large property development and investment holdings, pastoral interests, Aboriginal Corporations, trading enterprises, sporting associations and not-for-profit enterprises. These experiences, together with decades advising boards and committees, give Richard a deep insight into best practices of corporate governance and broad commercial knowledge.

Richard has significant experience in advising Aboriginal businesses and in serving on the boards and committees of such enterprises. In carrying out this work Richard has travelled extensively through-out the North West region of Western Australia. Beyond advising Aboriginal boards and committees, Richard is accredited to conduct regulatory examinations on behalf of the Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations, and is regularly engaged to do so.

Richard holds a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of Western Australia, is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and New Zealand and is a Registered Company Auditor.

Jane Chiang CPA

Director

Jane is a CPA with 18 years of professional experience in private practice. She joined Walker Wayland almost 10 years ago and has risen through the ranks from senior accountant to now the director leading and managing tax advisory and business services.

Jane specialises in consulting to SME’s spanning across a range of industries including medical professionals, pharmacy, legal and engineering professionals and retail businesses. Being multi-lingual, Jane is able to bridge the cultural gap of clients from various Asian ethnicities.

Jane’s passion is helping her clients manage through the many different phases of business, supporting their needs holistically with a comprehensive approach and a structured/tailored service offering.

Amar Nathwani CA

Director - Walker Wayland Audit (WA) Pty Ltd

Amar is a Director in our Audit and Advisory practice.

He qualified with PwC in the UK and has many years of professional and industry experience. Amar helped set-up the audit division of KPMG Perth’s Private Enterprise where he was a director and headed the audit practice of a leading mid-tier accounting firm for a number of years prior to joining Walker Wayland.

Amar believes in maintaining a close relationship with his clients to understand their issues, goals and to deliver a high-quality, no-surprises service built on regular communication and the timely identification of issues.

Amar is highly regarded for his IFRS and auditing skills. He has presented to organisations such as CAANZ, CPA, IPA, the Governance Institute of Australia and to finance staff at Woodside and Wesfarmers.

Amar’s areas of expertise include:

Mining (exploration and production)
Not-for-profits
Aged Care
Indigenous organisations
Private businesses
Technology
Property and Construction
Audit and Assurance
Due diligence for M&A transactions
Option valuations and hedge accounting

Amar holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Hons), is a member of CAANZ, a fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, a Registered Company Auditor and successfully completed a MIT EdX program on Big Data.

Joe Lamhut FCA

Consultant

Joe is a specialist consultant to Walker Wayland, and provides high level services to the Walker Wayland Health Division.

Joe has over 40 years’ experience in the areas of business development and improvement, allied health industries, business valuations, due diligence assignments, goal setting, succession planning, estate planning and business entity structuring.

Joe has stepped down as a director of Walker Wayland, a position he has held since 2002, to focus on these areas of speciality and ensure continued support to the Walker Wayland team and their clients.

Mark Lester

Audit and Advisory

Mark joins Walker Wayland through a merger with a highly respected audit practice – Hall Chadwick WA Audit.

Educated at University of Western Australia, Mark joined the Hall Chadwick practice in 1997 after working with an international Accounting Firm and in Commerce since his graduation. Mark was appointed as a Partner in 1999.

Mark’s goal is always to ensure the delivery of relevant and realistic information in a timely and efficient manner. He has considerable experience and a team of people with enthusiasm, adaptability and energy to assist the provision of these services.

Mark is responsible for the audit of a number of listed public companies and significant private entities.

Kristy Binns CA

Practice Manager

Kristy is the Practice Manager of Walker Wayland (WA) and looks after the day to day operations at the firm and organisational performance. Kristy is also a Chartered Accountant and has over 16 years experience dealing with small business’s in varying industries including pharmacy and the franchise sector.

Kristy’s strength is assisting small business with all aspects of compliance, administration, business systems and processes. Kristy also offers specific expertise on taxation strategy, corporate taxation, fringe benefits tax, GST and accounting systems.

Kristy is a Fellow with the Taxation Institute of Australia.

Ariane Szabo CA

Accountant

Ariane joined Walker Wayland in 2015.

Ariane has over five and a half years’ experience and assists our clients in taxation, compliance, GST, business advisory, and business improvements.

She graduated from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Commerce (majoring in Accounting and Accounting Technologies), and became a Chartered Accountant (CA) in 2014.

Adila Khan

Audit Manager

Adila joined Walker Wayland WA in September 2011 as senior of the Audit and Assurance division. She joined Walker Wayland after a 9-year career with Chartered Accounting firms in the United Kingdom providing audit and consultancy services, including due diligence and business reviews, to a range of industries, including listed companies and large private entities.

She has a keen interest in providing assistance to small to mid cap listed companies and large private companies. She also has experience with Australian Account Standards, UK GAAP, International Financial Reporting Standards, and Superannuation Industry (Supervision) Act.

Adila is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants in the UK and a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Our focus and mission

Our mission is to make you happy in business and in life.

We work closely with you to help clarify and measure your goals.

We have a team that is able to identify and assess your full range of financial requirements and organise the resources to help you meet those needs.

As a complete financial services firm, we are able to draw upon our accounting and tax, audit, superannuation and financial planning divisions to develop an all-inclusive plan for the formation, accumulation, protection and transfer of your wealth.

Membership & Accreditations

Walker Wayland is an independent Perth based firm with expert business specialists & consultants offering accounting services to individuals and businesses.

Walker Wayland Australasia

Partnering clients with local expertise and global knowledge, Walker Wayland Australasia Limited is a network of independent but like-minded chartered accounting firms located throughout Australia and New Zealand.

With ten member firms in Australia, three in New Zealand and three boutique firms, Walker Wayland Australasia Limited is uniquely equipped to deliver a range of services that are relevant to Australian, New Zealand and Trans-Tasman business today. As members of the Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CAANZ), our Australian and New Zealand firms offer clients a creative and practical service by combining technical knowledge, depth of experience and professional understanding. Further, as our specialist staff can draw on an international network of expertise, we offer many advantages in dealing with local or global conditions. Each of our firms is proud of a long tradition of highly personal client service. You can be assured that the partners and team members of our network firms will always give you individual attention and take a genuine interest in your success. As business owners and operators themselves they, like us, understand your needs. Many of the firms in the network are also members of BKR International. For more information on Walker Wayland Australasia Limited.

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