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Corporate Synergy Services | Chartered Accountants | CFO Advisory Firm | Sydney Australia
Corporate Synergy Services - Australian CFO Advisory and Chartered Accountants
Corporate Synergy Services | Chartered Accountants | CFO Advisory Firm | Sydney Australia
Corporate Synergy Services | Network Partner Chartered Accountants Worldwide

Corporate Synergy Services is an Australian chartered accounting and CFO advisory firm offering expert, practitioner-led financial and business advisory services to clients in Australia and the Asia Pacific region. Our team has extensive executive and general management experience leading financial and business services, improvement and change in complex public and private sector operating environments.

​We provide a comprehensive suite of financial and performance management solutions tailored to client requirements including:

  • Specialist CFO Advisory 

  • Strategy and Business Improvement

  • Independent Review and Evaluation

  • Fractional and Virtual CFO 

  • Interim Executive

​​Corporate Synergy Services is a Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand Public Practice and an accredited BuyNSW supplier of management consulting and advisory services.

Adam Summons

FCA FCPA GAICD BEc​ 

Managing Partner

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Adam Summons

FCA FCPA GAICD BEc​ 

Managing Partner

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Adam Summons is the Managing Partner of Corporate Synergy Services. An experienced senior executive and Chief Financial Officer, Adam has a 30 year multi-sector career spanning professional services, bluechip multinational operations in Australia, Asia Pacific and Europe and major government services.

Professional Qualifications

​• Fellow (FCA) and Chartered Accountant (CA) - Chartered Accountants ANZ

​• Fellow (FCPA) and Certified Practicing Accountant (CPA) - CPA Australia

• Graduate (GAICD) - Australian Institute of Company Directors

​• Bachelor of Economics (BEc) - Macquarie University

Experience

​• NSW Senior Executive Service (2005-2022) with the largest law enforcement, emergency management and housing services in Australia and among the largest globally, serving as NSW Police Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director Finance & Business Services, Fire & Rescue NSW Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director and Housing NSW Director Financial & Performance Management. Scale of operations to $5 billion budget, assets to $30 billion, workforce over 20,000 employees and 145,000 properties under management.
• Global 500, US Fortune 500, UK FTSE 100, European Euronext 100 and ASX 200 listed multinational company experience, including Australian CFO, Asia Pacific regional and global corporate roles, across a diverse industry range.
• Chartered accounting professional foundation in business advisory, tax and audit.

 

Awards
CFO of the Year Award - Thomson Reuters Tax and Accounting Excellence Awards for Australia & New Zealand in 2014-15.
 

Adam Summons is the Managing Partner of Corporate Synergy Services, Fellow of Chartered Accountants Australia & New Zealand and CPA Australia, Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and holds a Bachelor of Economics from Macquarie University.

An experienced senior executive and Chief Financial Officer, Adam has a 30 year multi-sector career spanning professional services, bluechip multinational operations in Australia, Asia Pacific and Europe and major government services including:

• NSW Senior Executive Service (2005-2022) with the largest law enforcement, emergency management and housing services in Australia and among the largest globally, serving as NSW Police Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director Finance & Business Services, Fire & Rescue NSW Chief Financial Officer and Executive Director and Housing NSW Director Financial & Performance Management. Scale of operations to $5 billion budget, assets to $30 billion, workforce over 20,000 employees and 145,000 properties under management.

• Global 500, US Fortune 500, UK FTSE 100, European Euronext 100 and ASX 200 listed multinational company experience, including Australian CFO, Asia Pacific regional and global corporate roles, across a diverse industry range.

• Chartered accounting professional and technical foundation in business advisory, tax and audit - CA and CPA qualified.

CFO of the Year Award - Thomson Reuters Tax and Accounting Excellence Awards for Australia & New Zealand in 2014-15.

Testimonials

"I would like to acknowledge and thank you for the hard work and commitment you have shown as Chief Financial Officer. You have built a very high performing team and have deftly steered our financial strategy during a time of great change and many challenges. Your expertise and wise counsel has been of significant benefit to the organisation." 

Commissioner & Chief Executive Officer 
State Government Services Agency

"Adam is an outstanding CFO. In the relatively short time that he has been with us, he has transformed structures and processes and put us on a much better business footing. He has accomplished this through technical ability, strong leadership, and perhaps most importantly through an open consultative style."

Commissioner & Chief Executive Officer
State Government Services Agency

"Adam Summons is an outstanding public speaker and an excellent example of a contemporary CFO and finance leader. Adam has a unique 'CFO lens' having worked in a number of incredibly critical and demanding CFO roles and always delivers his messages and experiences with clarity, passion and is highly rated and respected with CFO audiences."

Editor CFO Magazine
Australia & New Zealand

"Adam stepped into a difficult situation and made an immediate positive impact. He focused on improving results and established an excellent relationship with the Managing Director as well as the rest of the management team. Without Adam's contributions and drive, the business would not have achieved the level of success attained."

Global Financial Planning
& Analysis Director 
Fortune 500 Company

"A talented, strategic CFO, Adam has achieved outstanding financial results over the last five years. Adam leads strongly on financial strategy, accountability and governance. He has built an award winning, high performance finance team and partners with his fellow executives to deliver corporate goals. His contemporary, leading edge expertise is highly valued."

Deputy Commissioner
Corporate Services
State Government Services Agency

"I consider Adam Summons to be the complete professional CFO in all respects. He is extremely strong technically and has an outstanding ability to develop, mentor and lead his finance and accounting staff members. He is strategic and able to analyse and present complex financial and business models and submissions to the highest levels of government." 

Audit & Risk Committee Chair
State Government Services Agency

"He is an excellent finance executive who I highly recommend. He brought rigour and discipline to our business planning and budgeting processes, along with a strong commercial focus. Adam developed effective working relationships across the organisation and was highly respected for his approach and results."  

Senior Executive
State Government Services Agency

"I've worked intimately with Adam over the past almost four years, he as CFO and I as CIO. He is an outstanding and gifted CFO, a genuine partner. It's been a real privilege to work with Adam who has demonstrated time and time again his ability to flex and innovate, lead out and be an executive that can achieve results even in the most challenging of circumstances."

Chief Information & Technology
Officer and Senior Executive
State Government Services Agency

"Adam has tremendous financial acumen and is the consummate professional. Working with Adam was not only professionally rewarding but a tremendous amount of fun. He is a very humble executive considering his incredible breadth of knowledge and skill as a CFO and general finance professional."

Regional Finance Director - EMEA
Fortune 500 Company

"Adam is a complete professional. He provides strategic financial advice to the CEO and Executive. Motivates his team to perform at the highest standards. Displays leadership to the organisation that achieves results."

Senior Executive
State Government Services Agency
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