William Buck adds new partners in Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra
Accounting and consulting firm William Buck has added four new partners across its service lines in Melbourne, Adelaide, and Canberra, including one internal promotion and three fresh recruits.
A member of William Buck’s audit & assurance team since 2020, Darius Lee has been bumped up to partner in Melbourne, with new office colleague Paul Tucker joining as a business advisory partner from SCM Financial Group.
Maria Ravese meanwhile joins William Buck as a tax services partner in Adelaide after a 25-year career at PwC and more recent stint at Vialto Partners, with Shiv Goundar crossing from Synergy as an audit & assurance partner in Canberra.
“Their specialised experience substantially strengthens our capabilities in high-demand areas,” said newly-appointed A/NZ chair Greg Travers, who specifically noted that Goundar’s addition in Canberra would help address the evolving needs of its public sector clients and enable the firm to offer a full suite of services in the ACT market.
A business graduate in accounting and marketing from Monash University, Darius Lee kicked off his career in 2011 with six and a half years at Ernst & Young, before later joining William Buck as a manager. The technology and mining sectors are among his listed industry specialities.
Paul Tucker meanwhile brings more than two and a half decades worth of experience to the firm, including 19 years in growth and development roles at RSM. Since 2017 he has been a director at Business Depot and accounting managing partner with SCM upon its Melbourne merger.
An employment tax specialist, Maria Ravese joins from global mobility consultancy Vialto, where she was a partner for the past two and a half years. Before that she was a partner at PwC based in the firm’s London, Sydney and Adelaide offices dating back to 1997, most recently leading the latter’s People business.
Previously a risk assurance associate director serving federal government clients and other large public sector organisations during more than a decade at KPMG, Shiv Goundar has spent the past four and a half years at Synergy Group as an executive director and then partner since 2023.
Travers concluded that the calibre of its latest recruits showcased William Buck’s ability to attract market-leading expertise, while Lee’s promotion, which follows last year’s record intake, demonstrated the mid-tier firm’s commitment to its internal talent and focus on career progression.
