Thano is the CEO for BDO Indonesia group of companies. He oversees over 750 professionals within BDO Indonesia Audit/Tax/Advisory Practices.
Prior to this, Thano was a leader of the Advisory division for BDO Indonesia. This includes the Management Consulting, Business Services and Outsourcing, Internal Control Assurance, Forensic, Big Data, Machine Learning and AI in Business and IT Consulting. He also oversaw the Valuation and Corporate Finance arms of the group.
Thano has extensive experience in IT and Accounting industry and has worked in both assurance and consulting roles around accounting and IT systems ensuring that controls and security are at a level appropriate for management and importantly external expectations.
Thano started his career in Statutory Audit and moved to IT audit where he was responsible for review of IT security systems of major organisations. He then moved toward helping organisations implement security and controls within an ERP environment, ensuring that controls was thought of prior to implementation and not an afterthought.
Thano has consulted to mainly medium to large organisations in both Australia and Indonesia.
Expertise summary
Internal Audit, Risk Management, Accounting Manual System Development, Business Process, IT Project Management, Computer Assissted Audit Techniques (CAATs), IT SOX and Data Analytics.