Institutional Investors & Private Equity
Belinda Blades is Chief Financial Officer of private equity firm, Helios Fairfax Partners.
Belinda is a financial executive with more than 20 years’ contributing to the success of medium and large financial services organisations including private equity firms, pension plans, banks, investment institutions, and insurance companies.
Belinda is skilled at leveraging regulatory knowledge to establish operational excellence as well as driving change to modernise the financial reporting department.
Belinda has a passion for using automation and business intelligence to deliver value-added insights to senior management and providing practical solutions to multi-faceted problems that support growth and operational excellence.
Belinda’s areas of expertise include: Management of day-to day operations for private equity funds as well as financial management, strategic planning and systems implementation support to CFOs; Financial Institution industry compliance; Reporting for publicly traded/publicly accountable companies; Accounting for complex securities; Internal controls and SOX compliance; Research & interpretation of GAAP; Implementation of accounting systems (Oracle & Great Plains); Tax Compliance & Treasury.
Belinda holds a Chartered Professional Accountant designation.