Brett Leicester

Brett joined PCS in 2013 as our Technical Services Manager. Brett has 17 years’ experience in developing complex models, data mining, and financial analysis.

As part of Energy Matrix Group, PCS can draw on Brett’s modeling, data mining and financial analysis skills as a valued member of our consulting team.  In the broader remit of Energy Matrix’s operations, Brett has taken responsibility for developing and maintaining the gas supply management tools used by gasTrading Australia and is intimately involved in gas supply and energy related modelling. Brett builds capacity in the organisations he works for: he has acted as a mentor and coach for graduates and work experience students, and actively passes along his expertise to the rest of the PCS team as and when appropriate.

Prior to joining PCS, Brett worked for the global accounting firms Deloitte and KPMG. It was in these roles that Brett developed his knowledge and understanding of financial analysis, modeling, and data mining. He applies the analytical and monitoring skills that he developed in these roles at both strategic and operational levels.

Brett thinks creatively about data capture and management. For example, he designed a database for a client that could transform and analyse data from several unstructured sources, including hard copy and PDF documents. This database allowed his client to analyse their entire catalogue of contractor invoicing transactions. Prior to Brett’s design, the client had only been able to analyse a sample of their contractor data. Brett’s design lead to a more efficient contractor payment approval process and automatically highlighted areas of potential non-compliance.

Brett is adept at communicating findings from large and complex data sources with clarity and insight to stakeholders. Brett was part of a team engaged to identify fraudulent transactions in a Federal Government incentive scheme. Brett acquired and collated data from disparate sources and developed routines designed to identify fraud or safety risks to the Federal Government. This analysis produced a risk-based profile of every supplier associated with the scheme and these profiles allowed the Government to focus its investigative efforts on the areas most likely to experience fraud or non-compliance.

For a project assessing whether employee evaluations were being applied consistently amongst various business units, Brett was able to acquire and analyse performance review data to highlight anomalies for further scrutiny. The client was particularly impressed with Brett’s design of user-friendly visualisations of the key issues, which supported the facts and figures behind the analysis. While Brett is an expert at numerical analysis, he is also an excellent communicator, able to provide written materials and oral presentations on his analysis and findings.

Brett holds a Bachelor Commerce (Double Major - Accounting and Information Systems) from Curtin University, Perth.