What we do.

We offer professional services on an as needed basis to small and mid-market businesses.

We help businesses face their immediate financial challenges and build managerial knowledge to optimise business performance in the future.

We provide a range of services from specific advisory projects, monthly or quarterly reporting, forecasting, and coaching through to part-time and interim assignments and attendance at board meetings.

Our advisory assignments often come about when a client:

  • Has outgrown its finance manager or accountant.
  • Has a current CFO that needs support or their long-term CFO is about to leave.
  • Needs to get through a current transaction or stage of business growth.

Our services are tailored to give you confidence and peace of mind to make your courageous choices a success.

Thought Leadership.

Our strategy, financial planning and stakeholder management services and approach to ensure success.

  • Develop deep understanding of your purpose and your customers’ needs.
  • Develop, define or refine overall strategy and financial objectives for the organisation.
  • Insights led, and assumption based financial planning and modelling.
  • Enhance performance measurement with lean principles and metrics that matter.
  • Articulate and communicate the business plan to stakeholders.
  • Represent company’s progress on strategic goals to stakeholders.

Business Performance.

Enabling your people through insights, processes and technology.

  • Provide insight and analysis to support CEO/Leadership team and decision makers across your business.
  • Provide commercial support across your entire value chain; pricing, sales, planning, supply, cost control, waste reduction.
  • Ensure business decisions are grounded in solid financial criteria.
  • Get the house in order. Deploy technology. Deliver the information you need when you need it.
  • Support productivity initiatives using continuous improvement methods to create a culture of profit.

Rigor.

Our depth of in business experience ensures we deliver in all areas where a rigorous approach is fundamental to success.

  • Protect shareholder value with effective cashflow management, financial control and risk management.
  • Lead key initiatives in finance and risk management to support overall strategic goals.
  • Funding (Capital or Debt raises) and Business Valuations.
  • Range of roles; Governance, Accountability of CEO/GM, Support to CEO/CFO/Leadership team.
  • Enhance rigor to support Governance; existing Boards, establishing Advisory Boards, introducing experts.
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M: +64 27 404 0287