Mark Nichols

Partner - Sydney

As a Partner in the Business Advisory division of RSM in Sydney, Mark is a trusted advisor with extensive experience providing tax and accounting solutions to private and family groups, enterprises in the SME and large corporate spaces, and across a wide range of industries and markets.

Working closely with his clients, Mark delivers results and outcomes that make a real difference to their personal and business goals.

Mark oversees the RSM Strategic Outsourcing team in Sydney, which provides specialist Strategic Outsourcing solutions for clients incorporating their day-to-day accounting, sophisticated management reporting, tax and regulatory compliance, payroll, and advisory needs.

Mark has deep experience in assisting foreign businesses entering the Australian market who are looking to establish a framework for the management of their local accounting, tax and corporate compliance requirements, and who are looking for a Partner to guide them through that process. 

Whilst Mark’s client base is broad, he enjoys specific client experience in sectors such as manufacturing, professional services, property and retail. 

"I am motivated by seeing my clients succeed in ways that they would not have been able to without the ability to leverage the experience, technical knowledge, solutions, and client service that RSM is able to provide."

Prior to life at RSM, Mark started his career in the Big 4, moving from there to a consultancy role working in Sydney and New York, before making a home at RSM.

Outside of work Mark enjoys sport, including mountain biking, rugby, and oztag, but mostly, he enjoys time spent with his wife and two kids.

Solutions Mark Nichols provides

Mark provides expert knowledge in the following areas:

• Taxation and accounting compliance and specialist tax advisory services
• Strategic outsourcing services
• Private business structure, sale and acquisition advisory services
• Business advisory and consulting services, including working with business owners and CFOs to improve their reporting tools, and their understanding of their business, and to assist them to grow, improving profit and business value.
• Private client advisory services, including personal taxation, family office, family groups structure, SMSF compliance, succession planning, and other services to assist family groups and individual taxpayers.

Significant Projects

• Assisting a high-net-worth private client with streamlined compliance management, family office solutions, and succession planning to ensure the sustainability of the family business and assets for the next generation.
• Restructuring of multiple private business groups in the SME space to tax effective structures, assisting business owners with asset protection, succession planning, and operating efficiencies.
• Assisting a large multinational construction company with the establishment of full scope local accounting operations in Australia, and provision of ongoing Accounting, Tax Compliance and Strategic Outsourcing solutions.
• Management of full accounting and finance functions on behalf of project investors in Australian infrastructure PPPs.