Currently taking on new engagements
I get called in when a program, a payroll, or a regulator relationship has gone wrong — and I fix it, sustainably, from the inside.
Affy Bhatti — 20+ years leading Australia's highest-stakes corporate transactions, payroll remediations and regulatory remediation programs. Available for select advisory and delivery engagements over the next 3–6 months.
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Clients served — across public, private sectors and government
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Boards and Executive Management teams supported
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Ministers — reported to Federal and State Ministers of Lands, Water, Health, Industry, Police & Corrective Services, Racing and Gaming, Defence Industry, Veterans' Issues, and Citizenship and Multicultural Interests
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Regulators — reported to FWO, AUSTRAC, ASIC, APRA, AFCA, FINTRAC, Revenu Québec and Bank of Canada
$20B
Setup, scoped and delivered Australia's largest corporate transaction (at the time)
What I do
Sector-agnostic — public, private and not-for-profitTransformation
Standing up and delivering complex, multi-billion-dollar corporate transactions and change programs.
Remediation
Restructuring and directing large-scale payroll and wage remediation programs under regulator scrutiny.
Risk & Governance
Independent assurance and governance uplift, reporting to Boards, Ministers and Executive Committees.
Compliance
Bringing transparency and control to AML-CTF, financial crime and other regulatory obligations.
Selected engagements
Bless Payments
Co-founder & CEO — building and scaling a global fintech from scratch
Coles
Setup, scoped and delivered $20B demerger from Wesfarmers, Australia's fastest and largest corporate transaction, including listing as a new top 30 ASX company
Crown Perth
Led the Risk workstream independently assuring Crown Perth's court-mandated remediation program, contributing to the State's 2025 determination that it had achieved suitability to retain its casino licence
NAB
Restructured and directed the second-largest payroll remediation program in Australian corporate history, resulting into paybacks of $121M across 176,914 transactions to 62,404 colleagues in 10 months
Organisations I've worked with
AusGroup
AusNet
BHP
BNZ
Chevron
Civmec
CKJV
Coles
CSL
Fortescue
Jemena
NAB
Navitas
QBE
RACWA
Rio Tinto
RSM
SA Power Networks
South32
Spotless
Telstra
Toll
Transurban
Woodside
Have a program, a payroll, or a regulator relationship that needs fixing?
Tell me what you're looking to solve and I'll come back to you within two business days.