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Tom Hunter

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Specialist finance recruiter. A decade placing first finance hires and CFOs across Australian tech, fintech and deep tech.

For finance leaders

Financial modelling and forecasting

A forecast is only as good as the person willing to defend its assumptions. These guides cover how the models are built, how far out they can honestly go, and the point at which a founder needs someone who can own one properly.

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The questions finance leaders ask

3 guides

High conviction to twelve months, line of sight to twenty four, and anything past that is a direction of travel. Labelling it as one is the difference between a model and a wish.

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A top-down number cannot be disproved. A bottom-up one can, which is exactly why it is worth building and why an investor will ask for it.

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When buying a model makes sense, and the point at which what you actually need is someone in the business who can build one and answer questions about it.

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Every guide in financial modelling & forecasting

12 guides

The full set, 12 guides. Each one is written from the recruiter's seat, for the Australian market.

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