20 CEO MONTHLY / GLOBAL CEO EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2019 , May19578 BGL Corporate Solutions Pty Ltd is Australia’s leading supplier of superannuation and corporate compliance software solutions. To celebrate CEO Ronald Lesh’s success in this year’s Global CEO Excellence Awards we profile the firm and explore how he is steering it towards continual success. Best Compliance Software Development CEO 2019 With over 8,000 clients in 15 countries using its revolutionary product suite of compliance solutions, BGL is a Fintech leader and key innovator dedicated to creating cuttingedge software solutions to drive compliance in the accounting and finance industry. Over the years the firm has worked with a wide variety of clients who include all major accounting firms, law firms, many listed and private company groups, accountants, financial planners and many individual SMSF trustees. Today BGL’s market leading and award-winning Simple Fund 360 (cloud) and Simple Fund Desktop solutions are used to administer over 60% of Australia’s 600,000 Self-Managed Super Funds, while CAS 360 (cloud) and CAS desktop solutions are used to administer of 45% of Australian companies. The firm’s CAS 360 solution is a complete administration system for companies. It automates the collection of company data from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission and handles all the day-today compliance activities for company administrators, most of whom are accountants. Additionally, its Simple Fund 360 is a complete administration system for SMSFs. It includes a full accounting system, an investment register, comprehensive reporting system and many other functions to handle SMSF administration work. It provides extensive automation with data feeds from more than 300 banks, brokers and financial service platforms. Simple Fund 360 also includes BGL’s AI Assistant that provides a pre-audit transaction review and BGL’s AI transaction processing that uses Deep Learning to allocate transactions in the general ledger. This functionality is unique. Alongside these innovative solutions, BGL has also developed an ecosystem around that connects its products to over 50 industry service providers such as actuaries, document providers, auditors, investment platforms and the like. Leading the company and driving it to constant innovation is CEO Ronald Lesh, who draws on extensive experience in the accountancy market. When beginning his career more than 40 years ago, he first graduated with a Bachelor of Business, qualified as an Australian Chartered Accountant and completed A Graduate Diploma in Information Technology. Then he commenced work in the accounting industry in 1980, and worked for a number of accounting practices in Melbourne and the United Kingdom from 1980 to 1985. He flourished in these roles, and became a practice principal in 1985. In 1989, he decided to leave the full-time professional accounting to join BGL Corporate Solutions, where he became Managing Director in 1992. Since then Ronald has worked hard to use his accountancy experience to lead BGL to become a long-term trusted business partner of the accounting industry. To achieve this, the firm builds its software around its clients’ needs, and works hard to stay ahead of emerging market developments. New features are added to the firm’s software based on the instant feedback the BGL team receives from clients, and this forms the backbone of the firm’s new software releases. Looking to the future, BGL will continue to work through the changes it is seeing in the market and continuing to partner with the accountancy industry to drive compliance and innovation. Company: BGL Corporate Solutions Address: 2/606-608 Hawthorn Rd, Brighton East Telephone: +611300654401 Web: https://www.bglcorp.com/ Ronald Lesh, BGL Corporate Solutions
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