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.