2019-07-15 General Committee Agenda

GENERAL COMMITTEE MEETING REPORT                                                      15 JULY 2019

    Certified Internal Auditor
    Certified Internal Audit Quality Assurance Assessor
    Registered Company Auditor (ASIC)
    Member - Chartered Accountant Australia & New Zealand (CA ANZ)
    Member - Institute of Internal Auditors
Experience
    Currently a Director of Audit Services for Vincents - a national professional services firm with
     Tim based in their Brisbane office.
    28 years previous audit experience with BDO including being the audit partner for Far North
     Queensland servicing local governments.
    Previous contract auditor on behalf of QAO for a significant number of local governments
    3 years experience as CEO of Cook Shire Council, thus understanding how local governments
     operate in practice.
    Current and past member of Audit and Risk Committees for various local governments
     including being a current member of North Burnett Regional Council Audit Committee and past
     Chairperson of Charters Towers Regional Council Audit Committee, member of Scenic Rim
     Regional Council Audit Committee etc.
    Provision of internal audit services as a consultant to a significant number of large Queensland
     local governments including Moreton Bay Regional Council, Cairns Regional Council,
     Bundaberg Regional Council etc.
    Provision of risk management services to Central Queensland University, Unitywater, SEQ
     Water Grid Manager and a large number of Councils etc.
    Broader audit experience beyond local government to include State Government Departments,
     Statutory Authorities and GOCs.
    Tim has also provided local government financial management services to Wujal Wujal
     Aboriginal Shire Council to enable them to complete their annual financial statements and meet
     audit requirements.

Previous Council Consideration
Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 6 March 2014, Item 12, Page 9
That Council note the report by the Chief of Staff to the Planning and Organisation Committee
dated 25 February 2014 and:
A.     Authorise the Chief Executive Officer to seek quotations for the provision of an internal audit
       service;
B.     Establish the Audit Committee and endorse the Mayor and Councillor Wellington as the
       Councillor representatives on the Committee; and
C.     Authorise the Chief Executive Officer to invite applications from suitably qualified applicants
       for the two external members of the Audit Committee.
Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 31 July 2014, Item 11, Page 10
That Council note the report by the Chief Executive Officer to the Planning & Organisation
Committee Meeting dated 22 July 2014 and appoint Scott Williams and Cameron Jaggers as the
two external members of the Audit Committee for a term of two years.
Ordinary Meeting Minutes, 21 July 2016, Item 2, Page 13
That Council note the report by the Governance Advisor to the Services & Organisation Committee
Meeting dated 12 July 2016 and re-appoint the current external members of the Audit & Risk
Committee, Scott Williams and Cameron Jaggers for a further term of two years from August 2016
to August 2018.


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