Antony Thorpe
Financial Accountant at AVANT PROPERTY DEVELOPMENTS LTD
Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolAntony Thorpe is a Chartered Accountant with 12 years of senior finance experience, currently serving as Financial Accountant at Avant Property Developments after a decade as Senior Project Accountant at Kāinga Ora. He combines hands-on management and financial accounting with a track record of improving systems and stakeholder engagement across property, hospitality, wine, and public-sector organisations. Comfortable in both hands-on bookkeeping and strategic control roles, Antony has led finance teams, managed complex projects, and delivered process improvements that enhance reporting and governance. His academic breadth—three degrees spanning commerce, arts, and science—adds cultural and analytical depth to his commercial judgement. Outside traditional finance, he has contributed backend improvements and security-focused fixes to an open-source MVC framework, reflecting attention to code quality and documentation. Antony is seeking opportunities in medium to large organisations where systems improvement and stakeholder collaboration drive value.
13 years of coding experience
Chartered Accountant, Accounting and Finance, Chartered Accountant, Accounting and Finance at Chartered Accountants Australia and New ZealandBachelor of Science - BS, Geology/Earth Science, General, Bachelor of Science - BS, Geology/Earth Science, General at The University of AucklandUniversity of Otago
Github Skills (8)
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
php10
testing10
security9
documentation8
fest7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
silverstripe/silverstripe-framework
May 2014 - Jun 2022
Silverstripe Framework, the MVC framework that powers Silverstripe CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 14 PRs, 2 comments in 8 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Antony primarily focused on improving the Silverstripe framework's functionality and security. They addressed bug fixes related to bulk loading, enhancing data handling within the `BulkLoader_Result` class. They also updated the API documentation and code examples for the `TreeDropdownField` for Silverstripe 4. Furthermore, the user made changes to security configurations, including enabling strict form method checks. These changes demonstrate a focus on code quality, documentation, and security best practices.
cmsmvc-frameworksilverstripe
AntonyThorpe/silverstripe-knockout-forms
Jul 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:17 releases, 49 commits, 80 pushes in 7 years 1 month
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