Greg Evans Consulting provides its clients with individualised consulting support leveraging Greg Evans’s senior executive experience and capabilities built over 20 years in some of Australia’s pre eminent organisations including Brisbane City Council, Ergon Energy, Qantas, Coal and Allied and CBA.
Our Promise
Greg Evans Consulting is committed to “Helping their clients have a future to look forward to” through:
- Client focussed advice and support that is individualised for each client
- A working relationship based on trust, confidentiality and transparency
- Practical solutions to today’s and tomorrow’s problems
- Advice that is focussed on delivering value to clients and their customers
Our Unique Offer
During his executive career Greg has developed a great understanding of the challenges facing today’s organisations and executives. Greg has also met, been courted by, and used numerous consulting firms with varying levels of satisfaction. Greg Evans Consulting’s service culture is NOT about our products, it is NOT about us, it is about YOU and what YOU need.
We will ask you 4 questions, the answers of which will determine whether we can help you. If we cannot, we will provide advice on who in the market can. We receive NO commissions from other firms, it is about quality service that we or others have received.
The four questions are…
- What keeps you awake at night?
- What is something you know is important but don’t have the time, capacity or capability to do?
- What would you like to do to improve your and your organisation’s future?
- What is something that you would like to stop doing?
Our Services
Leveraging Greg Evans’s career as a Director, General Manager, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, Greg Evans Consulting offers the following services to its clients…
- Asset Acquisitions and disposals (M&A)
- Strategic and Business Planning advice and facilitation
- Financial Risk Management including currency and debt instruments
- Change Management including restructures and major IT implementations
- Stakeholder management with Governments, Unions and commercial negotiations
- Board and Management Reporting
- Corporate Governance
- Coaching and Mentoring
Our Experience
During his 20 year plus executive career Greg has led and participated in many significant successful initiatives.
- Asset Acquisitions and disposals
- Led the acquisition of the PowerDirect business for Ergon Energy, a mid-sized electricity retailer that was sold 12 months later for double the price.
- Led the sale team for Ergon Energy for the contestable retail business which netted $1.2b for the State.
- Developed an innovative financial structure that led to the sale of the concession rights for Legacy Way Tunnel and Go Between Bridge in a very difficult tollway market.
- Led the financial modelling and financial risk modelling for the Qantas IPO.
- Participated in the preparation of takeover documentation for mine acquisitions and takeover defence for Coal & Allied.
- Prepared and reviewed numerous financial business cases for investments in government and commercial operations.
- Strategic and Business Planning advice and facilitation
- Assisted the Lord Mayor in the preparation of Brisbane City Council’s annual $3 billion pa budget.
- Led the strategic and business planning process for Ergon Energy including facilitating Board and Shareholder Strategic Planning Retreats
- Led the business planning process for Qantas culminating in the 3 Year Plan document that was presented to the Board at their annual Strategic Retreat
- Financial Risk Management including currency and debt instruments
- Chair of Brisbane City Council’s Financial Risk Management Committee
- Restructured Brisbane City Council’s debt portfolio saving considerable interest
- Refinanced Ergon Energy’s debt portfolio consistent with a regulated business during the GFC
- Financially modelled Qantas’s balance sheet and cashflows highlighting currency exposures that were then able to be effectively managed and reported
- As Treasurer for Coal & Allied I actively managed its $600million pa USD currency exposure
- Change Management including restructures and major IT implementations
- Led the implementation of SAP in Brisbane City Council for Finance, Asset and Works Management, HR, Payroll and Procurement, a $350 million project that was delivered on time, under budget and benefits exceeding the business case.
- Oversaw the introduction of a shared services business model at Brisbane City Council that delivered efficiency gains with improved internal customer service outcomes.
- Restructured the Finance structure of Ergon Energy increasing the focus on front-line financial advice.
- Experienced mergers at Ergon energy (formation from 6 small electricity companies), merger of Australian Airways and Qantas delivering an integrated domestic and international airline, takeover of Coal & Allied by Rio Tinto.
- Stakeholder management with Governments, Unions and commercial
- Have undertaken significant negotiations and developed deep understanding of Federal, State and Local Government procurement and grant processes.
- Secured State and Federal Government disaster recovery funding for non-eligible flood damaged assets ($70m Riverwalk and $75m ferry terminals).
- Negotiated Brisbane City Council’s EBA with 14 unions which reduced wage increases from 4% pa to 2.2% pa with additional decrease in entitlements without major industrial disputation.
- Negotiated with unions at Brisbane City Council a reduction in workforce of approximately 18% without any industrial days lost.
- Have led commercial negotiations with financiers, governments, and procurement activities.
- Board and Management Reporting
- Over 20 years Board and Management Reporting experience including developing real-time electronic dashboard reporting
- Have streamlined the reporting to both Government and non-government Boards
- Developed an integrated KPI reporting platform for Qantas that had all employees KPI’s linked to the Corporate KPI.
- Corporate Governance
- Deep understanding of good governance at Board and senior executive level.
- Member of Board Audit and Risk committees
- Member of executive leadership and risk management committees
- Undertaken due diligence of companies, businesses and procurement activities.
- Coaching and Mentoring
- During his career Greg has developed many staff including 5 CFO’s, 12 C-level executives as well as many future executives.
- Greg’s coaching style is friendly but challenging and focussed on identifying and maximising people’s passions.
