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.