Angela Dixon

Senior Consultant

  • Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelors of Laws, Canterbury University

  • Chartered Accountant (NZ)

  • Darden Business School - Executive programme

  • Certificate of Company Direction – Institute of Directors NZ

Angela specialises in Finance transformation, bringing extensive experience in senior executive roles.

Angela joined Kalimena from a successful career as a senior executive (CFO/CIO/CEO) in the private and public sectors, most recently as the CFO of a major listed company.

Angela is passionate about supporting organisations to have truly high functioning Corporate Offices, providing Boards with targeted strategic financial, operational and commercial advice.

She understands how to support CXO executives to be high performing in a complex and changing environment and to execute on major transactions including mergers, and implementation of new initiatives.

Angela can assist you with improved understanding and reporting of underlying performance, forecast and deep driver analysis, business case or commercial decision support, funding needs analysis, or reshaping the finance function.

Key Projects 

Kalimena:

  • Funding Review – Ara Ake Limited (new energy accelerator) Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE). To help develop and scale renewable energy investments, a centre for future energy development, Ara Ake, was established in 2020.

  • Advising the Managing Director of a large professional services business with employee ownership scheme structuring including financing arrangements to support share purchases.

During her previous career some of the highlights include:

  • Finance lead on capital raise $200m of listed company

  • Led roll out of Microsoft Dynamics and the full version upgrade project in a nationwide business

  • Part of senior executive team responsible for merger of two large iconic kiwi brands in the insurance sector over a three year period involving significant change - including processes, products, technology and business structural design.

  • Finance led on acquisition project of two large businesses in New Zealand

  • Reviewing and redesigning performance frameworks across a large New Zealand business to help move back into profitability.

Key Values 

Angela is a strongly motivated to help build finance capability and improve design across teams she works with and supports. Angela has actively mentored a number of up and coming finance leaders over the years and believes in the value of team and leadership development. Her personal strength is her arranger skills, bring people together to solve business problems and connecting across different networks. As a passionate kiwi she believes we need to continually strive for best practice, strong and brave strategic decision making and hold our heads up high above the pulpit.

Digging deeper 

Angela says her focus is to help business make the right strategic decisions.

“I strongly believe that it’s important that businesses invest resources and time to develop capability and structures to provide strong strategic and financial analysis and decision making support. I understand that an organisation’s success is strongly corelated to its ability to provide forward looking insights and strategic financial decision support.

What you can expect from me is an open and friendly approach, a willingness to roll up the sleeves and work collaboratively across teams, while questioning the status quo. I have a strategic mindset and work quickly to assess the key questions and issues to be addressed. I believe that advisory support needs to ensure knowledge is transferred into the teams I work with.

I have built up a broad experience set with over 25+ years of financial experience spanning multiple industries and roles. Having worked in professional services (PWC), Crown entities (Public Trust) and large corporates (Telewest UK, Royal Sun Alliance UK Auckland Airport, IAG NZ, and Synlait Milk).

Outside of my career as a consultant, I am an independent director on two NZ companies and am Trustee of Auckland Softball Foundation Trust. I enjoy investing in new and innovative start-ups, to help me remain relevant to new trends and developments. I recently spent 4 years on CAANZ council and still continue to support CAANZ where I can.

While not working I am busy supporting my children with their many sporting interests, taking long walks with our golden retriever and connecting with friends and family. I am Auckland based, but able to work across the country as required.”

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