Large 4 skilled companies agency KPMG has snapped up fast-growing Canberra-based consultancy Chartertech, including a group of near 150 expertise and finance specialists.
Chartertech was established in Canberra in 2017 by administrators George Skillin and Michael McRoberts, and at the moment generates annual revenues of round $30 million with a deal with monetary expertise advisory and options.
Skillin and McRoberts turn out to be companions in KPMG’s mid-market Enterprise enterprise, with Chartertech itself having executed numerous acquisitions in recent times, together with TechnologyOne specialist Display screen Consulting.
“Chartertech is such a extremely revolutionary and forward-thinking enterprise,” mentioned KPMG chief Andrew Yates. “This can be a vital funding in our Enterprise enterprise, which is targeted on advising rising, non-public, household, authorities and mid-market organisations. Collectively, we’ll turn out to be one of many main TechnologyOne groups within the nation and have higher capability to serve our shoppers.”
Along with Display screen Consulting, Chartertech additionally added IBM planning analytics consultancy Cubicus in 2021, with fellow ‘IBM TM1’ agency Infocube approaching board the next 12 months and pushing the agency’s headcount to past the 100-mark throughout shops in Canberra, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Hobart after beginning out simply 5 years earlier with a group of seven.
“Following a interval of fast development we’re excited to be coming into our subsequent section as a part of a world agency,” mentioned Skillin, a former senior supervisor at Synergy Group. “KPMG is the right match for us. Being a part of one thing values-aligned and larger will allow us to higher assist our workers with a brand new era of profession alternatives, and higher serve our shoppers by means of increasing companies.”
KPMG has additionally been making purchases within the tech house over the previous few years, together with Adelaide-based SAP specialist Suppose 180 final 12 months, preceded by clever automation & information engineering agency Rubicon Crimson of Brisbane and Oracle specialist Certus APAC within the two prior years. KPMG lately rejigged its administration consulting division with a higher deal with tech.
“Tech transformation is the primary space of demand for mid-market shoppers and it’s extremely arduous to entry this expertise,” mentioned KPMG Enterprise nationwide managing associate Naomi Mitchell. “George and Michael and their group are trailblazers in finance expertise and enterprise planning and forecasting. Coming collectively on this method makes nice sense for each organisations.”