Finance Managed Services

Our client, a multi-site franchise operation with more than 200 locations, required outsourced accounting and tax compliance support across its network. Franchisees were spending valuable time managing finance administration and compliance tasks, reducing the time they had available to focus on customers, operations and growth.​ We provide outsourced accounting and tax compliance support to the group, bringing consistency to financial processes and reporting across the network. This has enabled the group to compare performance across sites, identify key trends and support better decision-making at both the franchisor and franchisee level. By reducing the back-office burden, franchisees have more time to work in the business, while the group benefits from greater consistency, improved visibility and confidence that its compliance obligations are being managed.

For international organisations looking to expand their operations into Australia, ensuring you comply with local financial reporting and tax requirements can be a daunting task. Our team of dedicated specialists can be your team ‘on the ground’, working alongside your finance team to help navigate Australia’s complex regulatory environment.

Our client, a global luxury retailer with an established presence across Asia, was looking to expand their retail presence in Australia. Unfamiliar with the Australian tax and legal landscape, our client approached PwC to support their global finance team and ensure they were meeting local financial reporting and tax requirements.

Engaging with stakeholders from the local store manager to the CFO in Hong Kong, our team of tax and legal specialists managed all elements of our client’s finance function. We ensured the client met local financial reporting requirements while also managing day-to-day bookkeeping, cash reconciliations, GST compliance and monthly reporting, leaving the client free to focus on the successful launch of its Australian stores.

Often, multinational companies can have complex business structures with exacting internal reporting routines. It can be hard ensuring you meet these internal demands, but even harder when you have to balance this with external demands that you have little knowledge of, such as local tax compliance laws.

Our client, a major global steelmaker, held minority investments in a number of coal and iron ore mining joint ventures in Australia for many years. In acting for the client for over fifteen years, we navigate their complex business structure to meet their internal reporting routines. We also ensure that numerous tax and GST issues are appropriately dealt with and reported in Australia.

When your business is independent and not-for-profit, completing your business’ objectives when you have budget constraints is a challenge. We can act as your finance team, so you don’t have to invest in a full finance function or a CFO and the associated infrastructure.

Our client was a not-for-profit business set up for a limited time, with committed funds. They also had to report to global stakeholders, each one with their own stringent audit requirements. In order to fulfil reporting requirements and make the most of their budget, the client engaged us to act as their finance function and their CFO.

We handled their financial reporting, ensuring that each global stakeholder’s requirements were met. We concentrated on cash management and budgeting so the CEO and COO, who had non-finance roles, could concentrate on achieving the business’ mandate.

Restructuring your business can be difficult, especially when you have no experience with local tax, corporate and regulatory requirements. How can you ensure that you have considered all the available options and select the business structure which best suits your needs?

Our client, a foreign sovereign wealth fund, acquired a large portfolio of hotels in Australia which required restructuring, based on their commercial objectives. They did not want to establish a finance function in Australia but were concerned with reputational risk if they were not compliant and they were overwhelmed with the complexity of the restructure; so they engaged our team to manage the restructure process.

We presented complex information to the client in a way that they could understand, so they could make informed decisions about their assets in Australia. As a result of the successful restructure, we continued to provide ongoing services to ensure the client received timely financial information and be confident that all of its tax, GST and regulatory requirements in Australia are fulfilled.

A fast-growing technology start-up had recently secured venture capital funding and was entering a critical growth phase. The founders needed reliable financial management, investor-grade reporting and scalable controls, but they were not yet ready to build and employ a full in-house finance team. They needed a flexible solution that could provide senior finance capability immediately, without adding unnecessary fixed cost or operational complexity. 

We stepped in as the company’s outsourced finance function, working closely with the founders and leadership team. Our role included establishing fit-for-purpose finance policies, designing practical controls, managing reporting rhythms and creating financial information that supported confident decision-making. As the business grew, we helped improve visibility over cash flow, performance, compliance obligations and investor reporting requirements. 

Over time, the company reached a level of maturity where bringing finance capability in-house made commercial sense. We supported that transition by helping define the future finance operating model and transferring knowledge to the new internal team. This gave the business continuity during a key stage of growth, while ensuring the founders could scale responsibly before committing to a permanent finance function.