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Think of our Perth-based Virtual CFO’s as your Financial Co-Pilot, taking responsibility for your business numbers and financial challenges, so you can drive your business and make money.
If you want greater clarity around your numbers, stronger control over cash flow, and better decisions that help build long-term wealth from your business, a short free conversation can help you understand where things truly stand and what to focus on next.
Many capable business owners find themselves:
•Second-guessing cash flow.
•Unsure whether they can afford the next hire, investment or growth decision.
•Frustrated by reports that feel technical but unhelpful.
•Carrying the weight of decisions that affect their team, family, future and long-term wealth.
That is the space Frederic Ong works in.
Frederic partners with business owners, CEOs and leadership teams who want their numbers to become a tool for better decisions, stronger cash flow and long-term wealth creation, rather than a source of doubt.
He brings more than 15 years of senior finance experience across marine services, oil and gas, and government environments, including board-facing roles in complex organisations with lenders, governance requirements and high financial accountability.
A consistent theme throughout Frederic’s career has been working with organisations that were growing faster than their financial systems and structures could support.
As complexity increased, reporting became harder to trust and decision-making became more difficult. Much of his work has therefore focused on helping leadership teams strengthen financial foundations, improve the quality of insight, and ensure systems and controls kept pace with the business.
This has included leading ERP implementations and supporting executives as organisations scaled.
His background also includes securing more than $140m in funding to support refinancing and expansion, and working closely with boards and executive teams during periods of heightened scrutiny, complex decision-making and financial pressure.
“Most businesses don’t struggle because owners lack ability. They struggle because their systems and reporting stop keeping up with their growth.”
Frederic’s style is calm, direct and practical.
He focuses on helping owners understand what is really happening in their business, where the pressure points sit, and what the real trade-offs are behind each decision.
He is known for translating complex financial issues into clear, practical insight and for being a trusted sounding board when decisions carry weight.
His focus is not just on reporting the numbers. It is on helping business owners use those numbers to improve cash flow, protect margins, strengthen financial control and build more wealth from the business they are already working hard to grow.
Ready for clearer thinking around your business?
If you want greater clarity around your numbers, stronger control over cash flow, and better decisions that help build long-term wealth from your business, a short free conversation can help you understand where things truly stand and what to focus on next.
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Lianne works with companies to create value Including: Overcoming growth challenges, strategic growth planning and forecasting, managing cash flow to achieve sustainable growth, Finance acquisition to fund growth, systemisation to handle growth, management reporting to ensure growth plans are on track, project and product costing to ensure profitability, feasibility studies to support investment, establish cash flow focussed contracts, mitigating and minimizing growth risk.
Lianne believes strongly in doing the necessary work up front to ensure the profitability of a job or project.
Some important items she has in place before contracting and commencing are:
- A robust well supported financial model, that converts to a project forecasting and financial management tool, ensuring desired results are closely monitored and achieved
- Cash flow considerations in tender and contractual negotiations to minimise working capital requirements
- Risk mitigation and management strategies established to avoid costly errors project/job cost controls to avoid cost overruns and improve profitability
At an offshore construction company where Lianne previously worked all projects were cash flow neutral or positive, and all the projects exceeded bid expectations, with no major variances in forex exposure, insured risk or foreign tax regimes
Lianne has a philosophy of ‘value creation’. Two of her favourite tools for this are ‘sensitivity analysis’ and ‘scenario modelling’, which she uses before deciding on a significant purchase or business path forward. This way the most ideal pathway can be chosen and the risks can be understood upfront and managed along the way.
In assessing options for building a processing plant, she developed a financial model that determined, not only the profitability of the plant, but also ran scenarios to determine the best location and type of processing equipment for the plant. This demonstrated a difference in net present value of the project between $594m and $958m. Profitability was improved and risk reduced.
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What are the benefits of working with a Virtual CFO in Perth?
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A quick summary of the benefits to you:
- Access to experienced financial experts: Have the brightest financial brains on hand in an instant via Skype or other online meeting systems, as if they were in the office next door.
- Your time is more flexible: Meetings can be online and at times that suit your busy schedule.
- Growth and planning guidance: A CFO Consultant can help you with growth and profit planning and can prepare projections for your bank or lender.
- Strategic advice: A Part Time CFO can work with you on a realistic financial strategy to improve cash-flow and profit and help guide you and the business towards it.
- Support with navigating complex issues: Have an expert help with pricing, costing, margins, targets, interpreting management accounts and providing you with useful reports that you and your staff can easily understand.
- Seamless systems: Documents can be shared, collaborated on and stored online. Final accounts and recommendations can be presented, just as if you were sitting together face to face.
- Profit growth: Most importantly, regular clients make a 51% improvement in profit. Why not your business? Click here to learn more.
The cost benefit:
- You don’t have to employ a full-time or part-time CFO to do the same job, freeing you from the responsibilities and on-costs of employment.
- Most of the Virtual CFO‘s time input will take place at their home office or online. You won’t be required to provide office space or equipment to accommodate their needs, and they spend little or no time in traffic or travelling. They work more efficiently and cost you less.
- Fewer people in transit getting to and from workplaces is good for efficiency and the planet.
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