“Act with pace.”
James Wagg
About
James is committed to finding and implementing solutions to difficult financial and operational issues. He builds trust by providing honest, independent assessments of the core issues, then collaborating with clients to create buy-in to solutions.
James has developed a broad commercial and operational skillset over his 12 year career including the following examples:
- Undertaking commercial due diligence for various special situations investments.
- Developing a negotiation strategy to prepare a large private hospital network for upcoming negotiations with the state health department.
- Leading a rapid financial diagnostic and transformation plan for a leading higher education institution.
- Running performance improvement, cost reduction and business intelligence workstreams in the transformation of South Australia’s largest public healthcare network.
- Implementing the operational turnaround of Slater and Gordon, including developing and implementing a plan to get back to core business through divesting sub-scale and non-strategic offices and practices.
- Planning for and implementing Australia’s largest retail wind-down, Masters Home Improvement, involving coordinating store operations and managing an inventory liquidation through the sale of over $1 billion of inventory in 16 weeks.
Expertise
- Financial and operational turnaround
- Performance and margin improvement
- Corporate strategy
- Commercial due diligence
- Financial restructuring
Education and accreditations
- Bachelor of Commerce (University of Melbourne)
- Chartered Accountant
- Graduate member of the Australian Restructuring Insolvency and Turnaround Association
- Member Turnaround Management Association
- Member Financial Executives Institute of Australia
Significant Engagements
- Various special situations investment due diligence
- Central Adelaide Local Health Network
- Slater and Gordon
- Masters Home Improvement
- Fitness First
