Meet The Hyde Cooper Wells Team

Malcolm Wells is a Certified Practicing Accountant and the Principal of Hyde Cooper Wells Accounting. He established the practice in early 2000 to provide accounting, tax and financial planning services to small business owners. The success and growth of the firm has been founded on Mal's commitment to providing ongoing personalised service and cost effective solutions to each and every client.

Mal sees himself as a businessman first, it just so happens his business is accounting. His ability to put himself ‘in his client’s shoes’ has ensured successful outcomes for many  of his small business clients, some of whom have been clients since the day we opened our doors. He says his personal goal is “to make sure that clients feel that our firm helped them with their goals, both financial and personal, not just that we helped them save some tax”.

Mal has extensive experience in all areas of public accounting, with expertise in taxation advice and planning, business structuring and development, self managed superannuation and general management advice. His large portfolio of clients stretch across a wide range of industries and he attributes the success of the firm to their ability to recruit and retain quality staff. Mal says, “We invest in our people so our clients have access to technically sound advice from professional people who care about their success”.

Specialties and Niches

Mal has special interest in accounting for self-managed superannuation funds and the fitness industry. He is regarded as an expert in business succession planning and wealth creation.

Professional Qualifications & Memberships

• Bachelor of Business (Accounting)
• Public Practice Certificate
• Member of CPA Australia
• Memberof the National Tax & Accountants Association
• Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors

Outside of Work

Mal loves fitness. He is huge advocate that a healthy body + a healthy mind = healthy advice. He also enjoys spending time with his wife Jenny and their three children, Emily, Molly and Harry. He is also a keen supporter of the Carlton Football Club in the AFL, a past President of the Rotary Club of Cranbourne and a former member of the Finance and Audit Committee of Windermere Child and Family Services, one of Victoria’s longest serving private Welfare Agencies. He is also a Director of Carrum Downs Financial Services Limited, a company that operates the Bendigo Community Banks in Carrum Downs and Marriott Waters. With his wife Jenny, they have commenced a foundation called Who Cares? We Do. This foundation is to provide assistance to the Cranbourne homeless & needy.

Contact Mal directly on (03) 5995 3466 or mwells@hcwa.com.au

MATT BILCLIFF

Accountant

Matt commenced his professional career with us after graduating from Monash University in 2010.

In August 2011, Matt took up a trainee accountant position with the firm and he is involved in bookkeeping and the preparation of tax returns for a range of entities including individuals, sole traders, companies and trusts. As the resident Gen Y person in the firm, Matt is IT savvy and provides in-house computer tech support for the firm.

Outside the office, Matt likes tinkering with computers and is a passionate Melbourne Storm supporter. He also enjoys giving back to the community and has participated in ‘The World’s Greatest Shave’ since 2009 and has also competed in the 2013 Stadium Stomp challenge and the 2013 Casey-Cardinia Relay For Life.