Not just a Bean counter
Pete started his working career with SGIO in January 1985, along with commencing a Bachelor of Commerce part-time at UQ.
The exuberance of youth took a toll on his part-time study, which saw a change to USQ, where Pete completed a Bachelor of Business double major in accounting and operations research.Â
SGIO was to become Suncorp, and Pete decided to remain working in the Ipswich Branch, located in the basement of what became the health plaza. He worked in insurance processing, learning the ropes of house, contents, motor vehicle and a variety of unusual commercial insurances including transit, multiple birth, liability and tempest to name a few. He was fortunate to work with many experienced and knowledgeable people, and had the opportunity to learn some of claims processing before transferring to Brisbane and being recruited into the Audit and Consulting Services Division. Pete spent some time traveling around QLD conducting internal branch audits as well as in Head Office.
Pete left Suncorp around 1990, moving to a position with the then Australian Securities Commission (now ASIC). This was a short stint, as having graduated as an accountant, he decided to enter public practice, commencing a job with D C Nielsen & Co in Ipswich.Â
In 1995, Peter commenced as a sole practitioner working from his residence in Whitehill Road. But within 2 years he had Merged with Russell Bachmann, and shortly after Richard Dinsdale to form Bachmann Robinson Accountants, which operates at the top of town.
During the years leading to 2016 Peter completed much study including:
Grad Dipolma of Taxation, Grad Certificate of Financial Planning, Cert IV Financial services, and Master of Financial Management.
He is a former CPA, now a MIPA, and holds certifications in DISC Advanced personality profiling and Neurolinguistic Programming (Meta Dynamics) from the International Coaching Institute in Melbourne, being a student of Remi Pearson, Joe Pane and Matt Lavars.
In 2016, Peter commenced an accounting and business advice firm, Spectranential, working virtually and specialising in SMEs, which he continues to operate along with a small team of professionals.