Ben Puls

Ben Puls

Associate

Ben is an Associate in Sapere’s Forensic Accounting and Valuation team, based in Melbourne. He holds a Bachelor of Business degree, majoring in Accounting from Swinburne University of Technology.

Ben specialises in forensic accounting across a broad range of matters. He has been involved in engagements involving loss quantification, valuation, payroll remediation, financial crime compliance, investigation into fraud and corruption, and asset-tracing.

Ben takes particular interest in pairing contemporary data analysis tools with logical reasoning to develop robust opinions in expert witness engagements.

Specialisations

Expertise

  • Damage calculations
  • Data analytics
  • Financial modelling
  • Forensic
  • Valuations

 

Qualifications & accolades

  • Bachelor of Business from Swinburne University of Technology

Recent work highlights include:

  • Complex valuation involving trust-structures and discounts for lack of control and marketability
  • Quantification of loss for a major Australian and New Zealand food manufacturer
  • Damages calculation for a large gaming and entertainment company
  • Asset tracing across the precious metals industry
  • International asset tracing of stolen funds from a multinational property developer
  • Investigation of investment management fees charged to one of Australia’s largest family offices
  • Profitability assessment of one of Australia’s largest aquaculture companies
  • Payroll remediation for the Australian subsidiary of a global aerospace manufacturer
  • Financial crime compliance remediation for an Australian big four bank.