Marius du Plessis is the founder and principal consultant of Beansuite Pty Ltd, an Australian business systems and automation consultancy. As a Chartered Accountant with over 15 years of experience across accounting, financial management, auditing and business process improvement, he has held senior roles at BDO, FCTG and CBM Australia, across both Australia and South Africa.

His expertise spans financial systems and process automation, business operations and workflow optimization, systems integration and data management, financial reporting and management insights, contract management and compliance, project and operational tracking, and no-code development using tools such as Airtable, Make, Salesforce and Xero.

His experience as a Finance Manager, Financial Controller and Audit Senior Manager, combined with the technical ability to personally design and build business systems, gives him a fully rounded understanding of what it actually takes to move a finance team from data chaos to data confidence.

Marius's clients include Smart Energy Group, CBM Australia, HIVSA and Anova Health Institute, spanning renewable energy, travel, healthcare, international development and financial services across Australia and South Africa. He has helped them achieve an 80% reduction in reporting time, a 60% reduction in grant management reporting time, and manage payables and commissions representing over 70% of a company's cost of sales through fully automated systems.