Our business has clients in over 15+ leading industries within Australia. From Fintech to Manufacturing, we have the experience and strategy you need.
Who we are
We are a leading provider of flexible CFOs and Finance Beans, who help ambitious businesses realise their growth potential
Who we are
We are a leading provider of flexible CFOs and Finance Beans, who help ambitious businesses realise their growth potential
Industry Verticals Supported
Customer Satisfaction Rate
We have a 98% customer satisfaction rate with the businesses we’re working with.
Fastest Growing CFO Service..
We’re the fastest growing CFO delivery service in Australia. We have a growing team of Australia’s finest CFO’s.
Industry Verticals Supported
Our business has clients in over 15+ leading industries within Australia. From Fintech to Manufacturing, we have the experience and strategy you need.
Customer Satisfaction Rate
We have a 98% customer satisfaction rate with the businesses we’re working with.
Fastest Growing CFO Service..
We’re the fastest growing CFO delivery service in Australia. We have a growing team of Australia’s finest CFO’s.
WHO WE ARE
CFO Specialists is the leading provider of flexible CFOs and Finance Beans, across Australia and New Zealand. Our accomplished CFOs and Financial Specialists help ambitious and growing businesses reach their full potential.
Our client testimonials and references speak for themselves – we produce results and transform businesses at the SMB level. Engaging one of our CFOs, also provides you access to our accomplished Sales or Marketing Specialists.
OUR PURPOSE
CFO Specialists is committed to deliver breakthroughs for your business. Our accomplished specialists work with you on flexible terms that suit your requirements.
We aim to enable business owners to over-achieve and be sustainable for years to come.
We also support others in our community that are less fortunate.
MEET OUR TEAM
We are experts in our field, and can provide your business with accomplished, and accredited financial specialists to help your business.
Michael Butler is a serial entrepreneur, with a background in marketing, advertising and financial markets. He started life as a commodities trader on the London Fox, before moving into marketing roles in Australia. Since then he has worked on significant brands including the iconic World Vision Child Sponsorship during the late ’90s when the brand saw stellar growth, Canon business, Suncorp and many others.
Michael is also the founder and MD of Strategic Specialists Group, home to Strategic Finance Specialists, Marketing Director Centre and Sales Director Centre. Our top-flight experts are transforming businesses for the better across Australia and New Zealand.
realperson@strategicspecialists.com.au
Ph: 1300 384 733
An experienced leader with broad cross-functional expertise, including roles as CEO and executive roles in Sales, Finance, Commercial and Customer Relations.
Inspirational leader with exceptional commercial acumen, a track record of developing and executing strategy to drive rapid business growth, developing high performing teams and building exceptional relationships at all levels.
Jayne established her consultancy business in 2009, delivering outstanding results in the Corporate, SME and NFP segments.
Inspirational leader with exceptional commercial acumen, a track record of developing and executing strategy to drive rapid business growth, developing high performing teams and building exceptional relationships at all levels.
Jayne established her consultancy business in 2009, delivering outstanding results in the Corporate, SME and NFP segments.
realperson@strategicspecialists.com.au
Ph: 1300 384 733
Mark Liner is a virtual CFO and has had extensive commercial experience. He has been a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants for over 20 years.
Mark does what it takes to help accelerate businesses. He is involved with everything from forecasting to tailoring strategy and ensures KPIs of the business are being measured.
Mark uses his commercial experience and nous to help with non-traditional issues that may be faced. The work he does and his wide business network allows him to add high value to any business.
realperson@strategicspecialists.com.au
Ph: 1300 783 733
Matthew is a CFO and business management professional with a history of driving commercial outcomes for organisations ranging from SMBs through to large corporations. Matthew’s experience includes financial management, general management, business improvement and driving financial turnaround, both in Australia and the UK. With nearly two decades in accounting, Matthew combines a hands-on approach and high level business acumen to implement strategic improvement for clients. Matthew utilises his experience in manufacturing as the basis for his approach to costing, planning and operational processes to ensure tight financial control.
As a qualified accountant and Master of Business Administration, Matthew can direct financial management from strategy through to operations and business support services.
realperson@strategicspecialists.com.au
Ph: 1300 384 733
Max Vigne is a qualified Chartered Accountant and CFO with diverse experience ranging from multinational audit work to top level management. This includes global experience in South Africa, the USA, Europe and Australia.
He has a diverse spectrum of experience and knowledge, from all levels of audit and controls work, to successfully building a business from its early stages through to exit. Max has been assisting clients in a consulting CFO capacity since 2012. Max’s business and consulting experience includes: Wholesale, Manufacturing, Import & Export and IT.
realperson@strategicspecialists.com.au
Ph: 1300 384 733
Rebekah has spent most of her time working for retailers, magazines and fashion-based start-ups. Recently finishing her degree in Fashion-business and French, she has interned for David Jones, SCOUT and Vogue specialising in sustainability and trend forecasting.
Rebekah has helped 5+ young businesses get off the ground in the past three years through focussing on general management, goal-setting, marketing strategies, market research and branding.
Rebekah has helped 5+ young businesses get off the ground in the past three years through focussing on general management, goal-setting, marketing strategies, market research and branding.
realperson@strategicspecialists.com.au
Ph: 1300 384 733
Peter is passionate about helping businesses to grow, by implementing change through focus on people, strategy, execution and cash/profitability.
His areas of specialisation include virtual CFO services, strategic and business plan development & implementation, coaching and Advisory Board facilitation.
Peter has 35+ years' business and leadership experience as a CFO, Business Advisor and Coach. He is a Chartered Accountant and his most recent corporate role was as part-time CFO for two years for the Australian Paralympic Committee - to late 2017. During his tenure, the Executive team dramatically turned around the performance of the business.
In his earlier corporate career, Peter gained extensive experience in South Africa, the UK, Hong Kong, Australia and New Zealand, working for the likes of Ford Financial Services, AT&T, Compaq, Toyota and the Australian Paralympic Committee, amongst many others.
Peter runs a successful Boardroom business group that meets every fortnight, focussed on learning, collaboration and implementation.
If you are serious about growing your business, Peter would love to meet you to discuss how you can gain control of your business and then place it on a sustainable growth trajectory.
realperson@strategicspecialists.com.au
Ph: 1300 384 733
Matt is an experienced Company Director, Board Member and entrepreneur with a passion for engaging strategic alignment and getting the best out of people. With a professional career that has spanned across media, marketing and professional services, Matt has cherished the ability to lead from the front with motivating and engaging techniques that reconnect back to the core purpose and direction. Having managed budgets in excess of $50M, contractor teams of over 2,500 and powered start-ups to be global entities, Matt’s drive is to get the best out of people by
inspiring a sense of direction through strategic engagement and empowerment. Since 2015, Matt has led some of Australia’s top CFO’s and Executives to help companies realise their potential
and reach new heights of growth. Understanding how a top tier CFO can drive a businesses growth and add enormous value through their unique skill set, Matt provides seasoned and experienced CFO’s on a part-time basis to businesses that have the need and want, but simply cannot afford a full time CFO.
inspiring a sense of direction through strategic engagement and empowerment. Since 2015, Matt has led some of Australia’s top CFO’s and Executives to help companies realise their potential
and reach new heights of growth. Understanding how a top tier CFO can drive a businesses growth and add enormous value through their unique skill set, Matt provides seasoned and experienced CFO’s on a part-time basis to businesses that have the need and want, but simply cannot afford a full time CFO.
realperson@strategicspecialists.com.au
Ph: 1300 384 733
WHO WE ARE
Strategic Finance Specialists is the leading provider of flexible CFOs and Finance Beans, across Australia and New Zealand. Our accomplished CFOs and Financial Specialists help ambitious and growing businesses reach their full potential.
Our client testimonials and references speak for themselves – we produce results and transform businesses at the SMB level.
OUR PURPOSE
Strategic Specialists Group is committed to being useful to business owners in building the necessary disciplines that will enable them to over-achieve and be sustainable for years to come. We also look to be useful to our team, through fostering and engaging a band of accomplished talent who are passionate and dedicated to building their clients businesses.
We are useful to others less fortunate in our community as well, using some of our profits to help those where the phrase, ‘it could be worse’, does not really apply.
When this is all combined, we deliver an effective finance programme that builds equity, cash and profitability to increase your business value.
OUR COMMUNITY
Engaging a Financial Specialist gives you much more than a consultant – you become connected to a whole network of expertise, insight and collaborative learning. You initially work with the specific CFO you need, before gaining access to the extended Strategic Finance Specialists network and family in the process. That includes Financial Controllers and Bookkeepers, as well as Marketing, Sales, IT and HR Directors.
Our skill set and expertise across the group is formidable; you are engaging more than an individual when you engage with us.
OUR CLIENTS
We work with businesses from a wide range of industries, including:
IT and Technology
Media and Publishing
Financial Services
Resource and Recruiting
Wholesale and Distribution
Travel and Leisure
Environmental and Sustainability
Events and Exhibitions
Manufacturing
Retail
ABOUT US
We like to work with clients who are anxious to roll up their sleeves and make real progress in their business, even if they have become stuck in the meantime. As long as you have passion, we will be able to help.
Whilst we do provide interim placements to many of our clients, our primary focus is to work with organisations on an ongoing basis where we feel we can add dedicated value to their businesses. There is an appeal for our very top talent to work on a part success fee basis and we review this case by case. If the potential is there, we will likely take the challenge.
We want to be there to help grow the company every step of the way and in many cases, right up to exit, whatever that may be.
ABOUT US
We like to work with clients who are anxious to roll up their sleeves and make real progress in their business, even if they have become stuck in the meantime. As long as you have passion, we will be able to help.
Whilst we do provide interim placements to many of our clients, our primary focus is to work with organisations on an ongoing basis where we feel we can add dedicated value to their businesses. There is an appeal for our very top talent to work on a part success fee basis and we review this case by case. If the potential is there, we will likely take the challenge.
We want to be there to help grow the company every step of the way and in many cases, right up to exit, whatever that may be.
