Braun is a Sydney-based fractional CFO, Chartered Accountant and Registered Tax Agent with 19 years in finance, 14 of them in senior roles. He has been CFO of Australian fintech start-ups and has held senior finance roles in financial services firms, a private-equity-backed company and a multinational corporation, where he was instrumental in driving business scaling and growth, managing corporate accounting and finance, and overseeing tax. He is director of GOOD PEOPLE Chartered Accountants, a CFO advisory, business and tax practice built for start-ups and SMEs, and holds a Master of Accounting and an LLB (Korea).

His track record is in scaling: taking a PE-backed business from $25m to $250m in revenue, completing two M&A integrations end to end, restructuring a group without triggering capital gains tax, and growing a fintech's payment volume by more than 2,000% in three years. In fintech and financial services he has owned the regulatory finance relationship with APRA, ASIC and AUSTRAC end to end, across payments, wealth and investing, insurance, fintech SaaS and broking businesses at $100M to $500M scale, covering AFSL conditions, capital adequacy, AML-CTF, client-money reconciliation and breach reporting.

He covers the full CFO remit: financial strategy and FP&A, cash flow and treasury including funding facilities and capital planning, board and investor reporting, controls, audit and statutory tax, M&A and due diligence, and building finance teams. He works two days a week, on site in Sydney, for engagements of three months or more.