Ben Bush
021 208 5432
ben.bush@sagebush.co.nz
Ben has extensive strategic financial management experience in the public sector. He has worked as a public sector consultant since 2005. Before that, he had 7 years’ senior management experience at the Department of Internal Affairs and Department for Courts and significant experience in the private sector.
Over the years, Ben has completed a large number of budget bids, business cases, fees reviews, financial models and financial strategies. He is unusual in being able to draw the links between finance, strategy and operations. He has strong analytical skills and combines those with experience and common sense to develop pragmatic, achievable solutions.
Examples of Ben’s recent work include: scenario analysis of the impact of COVID-19 on a Crown Entity and developing mitigation options (FENZ); costing options to form a new organisation as a Departmental Agency, Government Department or Crown Entity (DIA); funding bid for upgrade of a national facility (DPMC); developing a fees model for National Library (DIA); advising on the design and staffing of finance and corporate functions for a new agency (Taumata Arowai); costing a new organisation structure, forecasting the impacts on cash holdings and developing a funding strategy (FENZ); developing a framework to assess the financial capacity of local government councils to support evaluation of Tourism Infrastructure Fund applications (MBIE); providing financial advice and support for the management of education sector pay equity claims (MoE); Acting CFO and Acting Manager Strategic Finance for the Ministry of Education and for MBIE.
Qualifications
Master of Business Administration, Henley Management College, UK
Bachelor of Commerce and Administration (Accountancy & Economics), Victoria University, Wellington
Diploma in Marketing, The Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK