Meet our Term Two Lecturers: Daniel Hellyer

Daniel Hellyer

I would like to introduce our Term Two accounting lecturer, Daniel Heller, an NZ chartered accountant and Associate Director at Deloitte Private. Daniel brings a wealth of practical experience into the classroom with twelve years accounting and business experience, most of this time working in the “Big 4” accounting firms.

Daniel is a senior team member at Deloitte, with a large base of clients. He offers advice on a broad range of accounting issues, such as traditional accounting and taxation, governance, succession planning, business planning and forecasting, buying and selling markets, Government tenders and RFP’s (in both wider health sector and technology), business and company valuations, mergers, acquisitions, litigation, and general business advice.

Daniel is heavily involved in the business development at Deloitte, and chairs a business development staff group charged with generating new ideas for our current clients, plus giving the company opportunities to talk to potential clients. He has been involved with the local branch committee of the New Zealand Institute of Chartered Accountants, and currently mentors two provisional members of the institute who are working through their practical experience and examined aspects of becoming Chartered Accountants.

Daniel is married with two boys (5 & 3 yrs) who keep mom and dad very busy; he enjoys Rippa Rugby in the winter, swimming, camping and racing mountain bikes (both cross country and enduro/downhill). In Daniel's own words: "I try and train five – six times per week either on the bike or on foot and when I get spare hour or so you'll find me heading up and down Signal Hill (highest in the area), feeling way too old on the way up, and way too young on the way down."

Thank you Daniel, for your contributions to our Otago MBA programme, 

both as a student mentor and lecturer.

Term Two: a preview

Term Two Preview

Term two of our (2014) MBA 38 programme begins on 9 June, with our students taking Accounting, Marketing and Investment & Global Finance. Our lecturers this term are Daniel Hellyer (Accounting), Dr. Sergio Biggemann (Marketing) and Anindya Sen (Finance).  As a brief introduction, Daniel is an Associate Director at Deloitte Consulting with extensive practical experiences to share with our students; Sergio is from Bolivia with more than fifteen years of teaching (using a case-based pedagogy) and extensive international experience; and Anindya is our new MBA management team member (last) from IIMB in India, with three years experience teaching stats and finance in our MBA programme.  Anindya is a perennial favorite lecturer owing to his energetic personality; he has designed a balanced course emphasizing corporate finance and investments (including derivatives).

Students will complete term two with a professional understanding of how

assess the financial and operating performance of a corporation

owing to their acct and finance courses.

We look forward to an outstanding term two. Our students will continue to build their quantitative skills with a practical emphasis, as well as analyze real world data (cases) using the professional marketing literature--another opportunity for students to refine their conceptual reasoning abilities. Students will also enjoy the diversity and multicultural experiences of our lecturers from India, Bolivia and New Zealand. 

In terms of logistics, Accounting will meet on Monday and Thursday morning (9:30 to 11:30); Marketing happens on Monday and Wednesday afternoons (2:00 to 4:00); and Finance classes meet on Tuesday and Thursdays (2:00 to 4:00); with tangential professional development workshops mixed in; and Fridays reserved for non-contact hours (e.g., readings, class prep, syndicate work and written assignments). Final exams occur on 28 & 29 July, marking the end of the term.

As a side note, the Otago MBA management team will soon begin to work with our students

to identify "Live Case" clients, a syndicate level analysis of a real client conducted over

about twelve weeks - and delivered on the last day of our 2014 programme. 

The challenges our students face will continue to grow, as will their readiness and 

confidence to face these challenges. This growth is fundamental to the

transformational experience of our MBA programme.

Express your interest now to join next year's MBA class.

Cheers, David