Grant Behrens
Partner
Grant is a Chartered Accountant with 20+ years of accounting and taxation experience. Grant enjoys running a business services firm as he is exposed to a range of different areas of tax and accounting as well as a range of different clients across various industries. He is particularly well known as a specialist in the Pharmacy & Optometry industries. He has experience in tax, accounting, audit, superannuation and business services. His particular interests within the industry are business advisory and tax compliance. He enjoys helping small/medium sized businesses reach their full potential through tailored advice and accounting solutions. Grant’s strength is his ability to communicate complex accounting and tax scenarios in a down to earth manner in a way that his clients can understand.
Felicity Donnelly
Partner
Felicity is a Chartered Accountant with over 25 years’ experience, providing accounting and taxation services to individuals, micro, small and medium businesses, and self-managed superannuation funds. Prior to joining Kendalls Behrens in 2022, Felicity managed her own accounting practice, Sapphire Accounting and Taxation, for over 12 years. This has been invaluable as she has can understand a business from both within the business and from an advisory position. Felicity has experience in a wide range of industries including trades, retail, cafes, and professional services. Felicity enjoys the challenge of understanding the ever-changing tax, accounting and business environment and working with clients to get the best outcomes for their situation.
Dean Belleza
Manager
Dean is a Chartered Accountant with over 10 years’ experience in all types of accounting and taxation services. This has helped him cater to a variety of client needs while enhancing his own knowledge and expertise. He enjoys taking challenges and finding solutions to ensure the client is given the most accurate information to help in their decisions and understanding. Dean’s professionalism and casual personality has always left a great impression with clients and is a great mix to have in this complex industry.
Michelle Finucane
Manager
Michelle is a Chartered Accountant who started with Kendalls in 1989 as an undergraduate and completed a Bachelor of Economics at Macquarie University part-time while working full time. Early in her career, she worked as an auditor progressing to a management position before transferring her focus to small business tax and accounting where she also progressed to a management position. Since returning to the firm on a part time basis, Michelle spends the majority of her time preparing financial statements, member statements, income tax returns and other compliance documents for the firm’s Self-Managed Superannuation Fund clients.
Anthony Wheeler
Accountant
Anthony is a junior account, working in the industry for 6 years. He has experience handling work for small and micro clients, including: individual tax preparation, business tax preparation, monthly and quarterly activity statement preparations, and superannuation preparation and auditing. Anthony is ready to take on new work from clients and strives to learn and build up knowledge to deliver the best results possible.
Natasha Orchard
Accountant
Natasha is one of our senior accountants with a Bachelor of Commerce Degree and is currently studying to become a Chartered Accountant. Natasha has extensive experience in all areas of business services, working with a wide range of small to medium size business clients. Natasha has a strong background in customer service giving her the ability to communicate to her clients in a way they can understand.
Charmaine Dias
Bookkeeper
Charmaine has over 20 years’ experience as a bookkeeper working on a variety of clients in different industries. She enjoys helping her clients with a full range of bookkeeping expertise, including helping with the setup of new clients, providing training in Xero, MYOB & Quickbooks and handling the week to week bookkeeping processing requirements. Charmaine adopts a very friendly approach to dealing with her clients whilst maintaining a high professional standard in her work.
Leslie Balagtas
Office Administrator
Leslie is a senior member of our administration team. She has over 25 years plus in the accounting industry and her knowledge is invaluable. She provides administration assistance to the partners of the firm and our senior accountants. Leslie handles all ASIC compliance for our clients including entity setups as well providing correspondence to our clients and handling client enquiries. She is responsible for maintaining our client database and is ensures communication between our accountants and clients runs smoothly.