Paul Thambar

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Biography

Dr Paul Thambar is a lecturer with the Department of Accounting of the Monash Business School. Paul has peer-reviewed publications in academic journals including one article in Accounting Organisations and Society (AOS), a Monash Faculty Group 1+ (ABDC A*). He has also a number of articles in the submission process at AOS and in Management Accounting Research (MAR), a ABDC A* journal. Paul has brought in external research income ($633,000) in the past 3 years including the largest Category 3 industry grant ($598,000) ever received by the Department of Accounting. Paul teaches management accounting units in the Master of Accounting and Master of Professional Accounting programs and has previously taught in the Monash MBA program.

Prior to joining Monash in Feb 2016, Paul was at UTS Business School from 2010 to 2015. At UTS Business School, Paul was involved in teaching management accounting and strategy subjects in postgraduate programs including MBA and Executive MBA programs. Paul was also intimately involved in the design and launch of a new MBA program in entrepreneurship and innovation (MBAe).

Prior to academic appointments, Paul worked in the financial services and healthcare industries in a range of senior financial and strategy roles. Paul has worked as a Financial Controller in Banking and in Healthcare and in Operations and Strategy roles in General Insurance and with IBM's Global Business Services division.

Paul completed a PhD in Accounting in 2015 at UTS. Paul's thesis topic was examining the role of management control systems in enabling strategy formation at the inter-firm level.

Paul is a Fellow member (FCMA) of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, UK and holds the CGMA designation.