Andrew Venn
Senior Commodity Specialist
Experience: System Evaluation & Implementation, Business Process Re-engineering, Treasury & Hedge Accounting, Commodity Mark to Market Modelling, Export Shipping, Ship Chartering, Export Credit Management, Project Management, Change Management and Audit & Review.
Industries: Soft Commodities, Industrial Minerals, Finance, Funds Management, Carbon Trading
Andrew is a senior commodity specialist with FMB Solutions. With over 20 years business experience across a variety of commodity industries, Andrew has a unique practical skill-set which allows him to challenge and lead organisations to achieve strategic and process efficiencies along their commodity value chain.
A qualified accountant, Andrew has provided significant operational benefits and solutions to companies requiring practical experience and expertise in management accounting, cashflow management, operational budgets, capital budgeting and standard costing methodologies.
From the production of the raw commodity, through to sales, stock management, logistics and hedging, Andrew not only understands the complexities and challenges commodity producers and consumers face in today’s environment; he also understands the solutions and how to apply them practically. Andrew uses a logical and transparent approach to achieving business process and technology improvements and assisting organisations achieve their overall objectives and strategic goals.
Having designed and implemented a complex physical mark to market (M2M) system for one of Australia's leading grain exporters, Andrew has unique and unparalleled experience in relation to this leading risk management tool for commodity trading companies and is familiar with the pitfalls and traps in implementing M2M for commodity businesses.
Andrew understands technology, and most importantly how technology can add value to a business. His ability to interpret complex business problems and articulate these effectively into effective technology solutions with both developers and software vendors to achieve the best possible outcome for the client is first rate.