Our Team

Make your business much more valuable by working with an Accounting firm that does more than just "crunch" the numbers....

Our purpose is really quite simple; to help make your business more profitable, more valuable, and improve your lifestyle as a result.

We’re not your average Accountants.

Ofcourse we provide tax and compliance services just like all other Accountants, but our specialty is working with small business owners to help them build the business they really want to have and to fund the lifestyle they deserve.

Our stable team of long term experienced professionals take the time to get to know their clients. You are not just a number, and your GNS Accountant is not just another new graduate each year.

We all have a keen focus on using the latest technology to provide our customers with timely, efficient, reliable and value added services.

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The people we help

Anthony is Managing Director of GNS Group and has been with the firm since 2000.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Business and Finance
  • Member of CPA Australia
  • Diploma of Financial Services
  • Authorised Representative of Count Financial Limited
  • Specialist Member of SMSF Association
  • While completing his CPA, Anthony achieved the second highest score in Australia for Personal Financial Planning & Superannuation.
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Debbie Farrell

Debbie joined GNS Group in the early 90’s and is primarily responsible for dealing with the area of Corporate compliance and ASIC requirements for our clients companies.

Debbie’s experience and knowledge of clients and their history is of great assistance to the rest of the team.

Debbie manages the admin team at GNS and is always loves managing special projects – putting her organisational skills to good use.

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Gavin Devonshire

Gavin joined the GNS team in 2023 as a Senior Accountant and Client Manager and brings over 20 years of accounting and tax experience to our team.

Gavin’s strong technical knowledge, combined with his ability to effectively communicate and deliver successful business growth strategies and tax planning often sees Gavin working on some of our largest and more intricate client groups.

Gavin also mentors and supervises several of our team and assists with reviewing client work.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Commerce
  • A member of CPA Australia
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Adam joined GNS in 2020 as an experienced accountant with more than 15 years dedicated to keeping his small business clients compliant and profitably growing.

Adam cares for his clients and this is reflective in the trusting relationships and rapport he quickly builds.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Commerce
  • Bachelor of Science
  • Member of CA Australia
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Jane joined GNS Group in 1996 and specialises in tax and compliance issues related to our clients self managed superannuation funds.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
  • A member of CPA Australia
  • A member of SMSF Association
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Jessa Callao

Jessa joined the GNS team in 2023 as a Financial Planning Admin and Support Officer.

Having completed her Bachelor of Business Administration studies with a major in Financial Management, Jessa has been a welcome addition to our growing FP team and provides invaluable support to our clients and team. Whilst working remotely, Jessa tracks all of our workflows and co-ordinates our client review program. Her previous roles of customer service and call centre work have given Jessa strong client centric traits which is critical to her analytical role at GNS.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Business Administration
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Josh Buckley

Josh joined GNS in 2016 initially as a Client Service Officer to assist the Financial Planning team.

Since then he has progressed through being a paraplanner, associate adviser and is now a fully qualified Financial Planner.

Josh works with a diverse range of our financial planning clients – from young couples and families, through to retirees looking for safe hands to maintain the financial side of funding retirement lifestyle.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Business (Fin Plan)
  • Master of Financial Planning
  • Authorised Representative of Count Financial
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Kym Sinclair

Kym joined GNS  back in 2011 and has over 20 years of experience working in public practice accounting on a range of clients from SMSFs to corporate groups.

Kym juggles being our internal quality control manager and overseeing the Accounting team with keeping the internal finances at GNS ticking over.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
  • Member of CPA Australia
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Liz Nardella

Liz joined GNS Group back in 2010 and has over 20 years experience in working with small business owners.

Liz assists our clients with their quarterly BAS lodgements, year end tax planning and general advisory needs during the course of the year, with an emphasis on maximising the use of Xero with her clients.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Business & Accounting
  • A member of CPA Australia
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Maria Fittipaldi

Maria joined GNS Group way back in 1994 and specialises in tax and compliance matters for individuals, businesses and self managed superannuation funds.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
  • A member of CPA Australia
  • A member of SMSF Association
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Paul joined GNS in 2019 as our Financial Planning manager after being at Count Financial for over a decade.

Bringing a wealth of knowledge of not just portfolio construction and compliance, but more importantly how to build deep client relationships through his caring approach with all our clients.

Paul previously ran his own Financial Planning business and is also an accredited Mortgage Broker, allowing him to save clients money on a mortgage as well as grow their retirement savings.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Business
  • Diploma of Financial Planning
  • Certificate IV in Finance & Mortgage Broking
  • Certified Financial Planner
  • Authorised Representative of Count Financial
  • Authorised Mortgage broker
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Peter joined GNS in 2018 after successfully running his own sole practitioner accounting busines in Ivanhoe for several decades.

With a wealth of experience across a broad client base, Peter has a loyal group of clients who benefit from his wealth of knowledge and understanding of complex tax matters.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Commerce
  • Graduate Diploma of Tax
  • Member of CA Australia
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Philip Ruth

Philip is a Chartered Accountant, a registered company auditor and a registered self-managed superannuation fund auditor.

He has 30 years experience in providing compliance services to companies and superannuation funds, primarily in the areas of reporting and audit.

Philip has presented on superannuation matters to accountants and superannuation fund trustees.

He also has a keen interest in the not for profit sector and best practice reporting.

Qualifications:

  • Fellow – CA Australia
  • Registered Company Auditor
  • Registered SMSF Auditor
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Priya joined the GNS team in 2020 initially as a trainee receptionist, but now leads this role as a key point of initial contact for clients.

Starting your first job in the middle of a Pandemic while finishing off your course of study means that Priya is up for a challenge and loves learning new things.

Priya’s positive attitude and warm personality are instantly recognisable whether on the phone or at the front desk and its little wonder clients love talking to Priya for their admin and lodgement matters. A set of strong co-ordination skills and management of our ATO lodgements make Priya our chief workflow tracker.

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Sean Clarke

Sean Clarke

Sean joined GNS Group in 2023 and has Accounting and Tax running through his blood. Following in the footsteps of his parents Ray and Margaret Clarke, Sean became a director of RMC prior to RMC and GNS forming a joint venture together.

Sean has a background in Corporate Accounting and spent time working in the family business while undertaking his university studies.

Sean assists clients with their quarterly BAS lodgements, tax and accounting needs, year end tax planning and general advisory needs, with an emphasis on helping clients transition to a digital future.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Business
  • A member of CPA Australia
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Shun Leung

Shun joined GNS back in 2014 and is approaching 20 years of accounting and tax experience.

During this time, Shun has demonstrated an eagerness for supporting business growth and the adoption of technology, not just within out firm, but also with clients.

He loves assisting clients get the most out of Xero by finding plug on software vendors to achieve great client outcomes.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Commerce
  • A member of CPA Australia
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Steph Coralluzzo

Steph joined the GNS team in 2018 in the key role of reception and now provides administrative support to the whole team.

Being a clear thinker gives Steph the ability to get things done before anyone even knows they needed to be done. Besides being our Audit Administrator, Steph co-ordinates many of our special admin projects and tasks to keep the office running smoothly.

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Maddie White

Maddie joined the GNS Team in 2024 as a full time receptionist after completing her University studies in HR.

You’ll find Maddie as the friendly voice on the end of a phone call or upon arrival at the GNS office and of course there are always a mountain of ATO Paperwork that comes into our office that requires Maddie’s attention to detail to sort through.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Business (Human Resource Management)
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Sarah Xia

Sarah joined the GNS Accounting team in 2024 to assist with the preparation of business and individual tax returns and accounts.

Sarah is able to combine her prior experience running her own business for 9 years, working as a corporate accountant in a large organisation and several year in tax at another firm to assist the GNS clients with their Xero, GST and accounting needs.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Commerce
  • Master of Professional Accounting
  • Member of CPA Australia
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Home Loans

Home Loans

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Investments

Investments

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Insurance

Insurance

Let’s face it, no one like talking about death, but is going to happen sometime.

And while living well in to your 80’s or 90’s is not an unrealistic expectation, the reality is some of us won’t make it that far.

If you were not around, what impact and changes would that mean for your spouse, children, family and co-business owners.

If you were to die would your family be financially better off, worse off, or the same?

Life Insurance won’t bring you back, but it will provide a lump sum to clear a mortgage and other debts such as business loans or credit cards, cove the funeral costs and most importantly provide a remaining lump sum which can be invested to replace your lost income earning capacity

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SMSFs & Superannuation

SMSFs & Superannuation

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Retirement Planning

Retirement Planning

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Our promise

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Proactive

Proatively keeping our customers ahead of the pack.

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Key Performance

Establishing Key Performance Indicators to track the critical success factors of our customers businesses

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Opportunities

Identifying opportunities for our customers business’ growth and improvement rather than simply ‘crunching’ historical figures.

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Wealth

Assisting to build and manage wealth for our customers whilst complying with statutory requirements.

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Value & Service

Charging a yearly, all inclusive fee paid monthly, rather than an hourly rate thus offering you better value and service.

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