James Forbes
Chief Financial Officer at The Berry Collective
New South Wales, Australia
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Forbes is a Chief Financial Officer based in New South Wales with 11 years of finance and accounting leadership across healthcare and corporate groups, now steering finance at The Berry Collective. He trained as a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor of Business in Accounting and Marketing, blending technical accounting rigor with commercial strategy. James advanced from taxation and audit supervision to senior finance roles at St Vincent’s Hospital and Mountain Blue, focusing on operational controls, budgeting and financial stewardship. Unusually for a finance executive, he contributes to open-source software—having refined the R.type function in the well-known Ramda functional JavaScript library—reflecting a detail-oriented, test-driven approach that he applies to both code and financial systems.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting, Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting at Chartered Accountants Australia and New ZealandHigher School Certificate, Higher School Certificate at Kadina High SchoolBachelor of Business, Accounting and Marketing, Bachelor of Business, Accounting and Marketing at Southern Cross University
Github Skills (4)
testing10
javascript10
javascripts10
functional-programming9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ramda/ramda
Sep 2014 - Nov 2014
:ram: Practical functional Javascript
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 18 comments, 4 issues in 1 month
Contributions summary:James focused on enhancing the Ramda library, a functional JavaScript library. Their primary contribution involved the implementation and refinement of the `R.type` function, which determines the data type of a value. This included adding tests, addressing edge cases, and modifying the function's behavior to provide more accurate type descriptions. The user’s work demonstrates a focus on core library functionality and improving its usability.
ramfunctional-programmingjavascriptramdafunctional-javascript
ZoeAppleseed/zoeappleseed.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years 4 months
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