Financial Advisory
Supporting financial decision-making in government
We support government departments, agencies and private entities to strengthen financial governance, optimise resource allocation and make confident, defensible financial decisions.
Our activity is aligned with government frameworks such as the Commonwealth Procurement Rules and Australian Standard for Defence Contracting to guarantee compliance in everything we do.
We work across simple and complex, material and high-value activities that often involve multiple stakeholders. These range from short-term to multi-year projects and programs, including transactions operating under close Ministerial, central agency and audit scrutiny.
- Make confident investment and procurement decisions
- Demonstrate value for money and responsible stewardship of public funds
- Improve the quality and credibility of business cases and submissions
- Reduce financial, procurement and delivery risk
- Strengthen transparency, assurance and audit readiness
- Support better service delivery outcomes for the community
- Provide assurance over government budgets and forecasted spend
How we help
Assessing whether supplier pricing represents value for money and is financially robust and defensible.
This includes:
- building pricing models
- evaluating tender pricing against benchmarks and market evidence
- identifying pricing risks and affordability impacts
- undertaking viability assessments
- supporting evaluation working groups
- assessing complex invoices for compliance with underlying contracts
- providing decision‑ready insights that support probity and transparency.
Developing detailed, evidence‑based cost models that help departments and agencies understand the true cost of projects, programs, policies and investments over their lifecycle.
Our services include:
- developing defensible cost estimates
- testing assumptions and sensitivities
- understanding cost drivers and funding implications
- providing strategic financial advice
- clearly articulating costs to central agencies, Ministers and governance bodies.
Building detailed financial models that support forecasting confidence, sound investment, long-term planning and commercial decisions in a government context.
Our work helps:
- compare options using consistent financial evidence
- understand affordability and risk
- assess forecasted spend against approved budget while ensuring compliance with government and accounting standards
- support business cases, budget submissions, and investment proposals aligned with government accounting, policy, and assurance requirements.
Providing independent analysis, assurance and advice on project and program funding where there are competing demands, ensuring investments deliver the greatest impact and value for money.
Our approach helps:
- assess investments against financial, strategic and delivery criteria
- balance service outcomes and affordability
- allocate capital in line with government priorities
- justify investment decisions to key stakeholders.
Conducting independent assurance of program financials, verifying whether activities are on track, risks are managed and benefits are being realised.
This includes:
- reviewing business cases for gateway reviews
- ensuring adherence to value-for-money principles
- assessing benefits realisation
- reviewing interdependencies impacting financial exposure.
Success starts with
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians and Elders of country throughout Australia and their connection to land, sea and community.
“Ngamuru”, pronounced Na-moo-roo, means to “see the way” in one of the Eora people’s languages.