Brisbane · CPA · Anthea Austin
Ready for senior financial leadership, without adding a full-time executive salary to your books?
I work alongside growing businesses as their dedicated CFO: present, strategic, and genuinely in your corner.
The Offering
Most businesses at your stage face the same problem: you've outgrown your bookkeeper, but a full-time finance manager feels premature, or simply too expensive.
I sit inside your business as your CFO. I'm across your numbers, your goals, and your risks. Every week, not just at year-end. I bring the strategic clarity of a senior hire with none of the overhead.
And because I work with a small number of clients at any time, you always have my attention.
* Salary ranges sourced from Glassdoor, SEEK & Robert Half Brisbane market data, 2026. Figures represent base salary excluding superannuation, leave entitlements, and oncosts. † Superannuation calculated at 12% (effective 1 July 2025).
What I Do
Four ways to work together, depending on where your business is and what you need most.
Clean, reliable books, kept up to date by someone who actually gets your business. Send a message and you'll get a real reply, in plain English, from someone who knows your numbers. No ticket queue, no jargon, no chasing.
You have the operational side covered. What's missing is someone senior to think the big calls through with you. When to make your next hire. Whether now is the time to expand. Where you're overspending, and where you can afford to invest. I work alongside you as your dedicated CFO, with straight answers in plain English, so every major decision is a sound one.
You already have a bookkeeper or finance team in place, but they need direction, structure, and a senior voice to keep them on track. I provide oversight, training, and ongoing guidance so your team performs at their best.
Hand off your entire finance function. From day-to-day bookkeeping through to CFO strategy, everything is handled, overseen, and accountable to me. One relationship. Complete coverage.
Who This Is For
You've built something real. But things are moving fast and the financial infrastructure hasn't kept pace. You need someone who owns the whole picture. Someone you can ask anything, at any time, and who already knows your goals and your business well enough to answer.
Sound familiar?
How It Works
We talk about where your business is, what's working, and where the gaps are.
I get across your current systems, reporting, and processes. Understand the baseline before anything else.
We establish rhythms: monthly reporting, check-in cadence, and the KPIs that will drive your decisions going forward.
Month to month, I'm in your business. Present at the table for the decisions that matter.
Anthea Austin
"Finance should feel calm, clear, and completely under control. Even when business isn't."
I'm a Brisbane-based CPA, qualified in both Australia and Canada, and I've worked with hundreds of businesses across a wide range of industries and stages. As a business owner myself, I've also sat on your side of the table and I know what it feels like to be responsible for a payroll, to make a hiring decision under pressure, and to wonder if the numbers are telling you the full story.
That lived experience shapes everything about how I work. I've sat with business owners at the very beginning, through periods of rapid growth, and through the harder seasons too. I understand that size doesn't always equal complexity, and that the right structure, automations and processes can give even a lean team complete visibility and control.
I'm not here to bury you in reports. I want you to open your numbers each month and know exactly what they're telling you. I'll put the right structure in place, keep things as simple as possible, and be there when you need to talk something through.
Kind words
Working with Anthea and her team has opened our eyes to the value of properly tracking and reporting our financial metrics. We are no longer digging for information or second guessing our financial information, and can use that valuable time for other aspects of running our business. They have provided us with a fantastic service and are a pleasure to work with.
I could cry I'm so happy! I don't know how I was running my business before without Anthea and her team. It feels so empowering to have a solid understanding of the financials in my business. I'm super clear when and where I can invest, where my risk is, and what I need to do to hit my financial goals. The team is incredibly organized, responsive, detail-oriented and professional. They go above and beyond, and I couldn't recommend them enough.
Jessica Shirra
The CMO Office
I keep my client list deliberately small. Every client gets my full attention, every time. If you're building something serious and ready for financial leadership to match, let's talk.
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