South East Melbourne · Commercial Finance & FP&A

Turn your numbers into better decisions.

Pacewell Group helps owner-managed businesses see where profit and cash are really coming from — and build the forecasting and reporting rhythm to act on it. Senior FP&A capability, without a full-time hire.

Start with a diagnostic See how we work
Interior of a modern manufacturing facility
What we go after
Margin you can see. Cash you can plan.
1–2 wksTo a scoped 90-day plan
2 foundersHands-on across every engagement
Fixed feeScoped work, no open-ended billing
Sound familiar?

Growth without answers

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Revenue is up, but profit and cash aren't following — and nobody can say exactly why.

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Your management reports arrive late, and they tell you what already happened, not what's coming.

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The budget is a spreadsheet built once a year, then quietly forgotten by March.

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You couldn't say with confidence which customers, products or sites are actually making you money.

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Pricing, capex and hiring calls get made on instinct, because there's no model to test them against.

What it's worth

Where we go looking for your money

Good FP&A isn't an overhead — it pays for itself by finding profit you're leaving on the table and cash you can't currently see. These are the outcomes every engagement is built to move.

Lift gross margin

Find the margin hiding in your product, customer and channel mix — the points you're leaving on the table without knowing it.

Outcome we build toward
Cut cost-to-serve

Surface the cost of doing business you can't currently see — freight, service levels, rework, the customers that quietly cost more than they pay.

Outcome we build toward
Free up cash

Turn a once-a-year budget into a rolling forecast, so cash surprises stop being surprises and working capital works harder.

Outcome we build toward
Protect the bottom line

Put a real model behind pricing, capex and hiring calls, so the decisions that make or break the year stop being educated guesses.

Outcome we build toward

We're deliberate about proof: as we deliver work, we'll publish real, client-approved results right here — with the numbers to back them.

Where to start

Ways in, one destination

Every engagement starts with a defined, fixed-fee scope — not an open-ended retainer. Most clients begin with a diagnostic, then move into the project that solves their most pressing problem.

Start here

FP&A Diagnostic

A fast, structured review of your current reporting and models, with a prioritised 90-day improvement plan.

From $2,500 + GST · 1–2 weeks
Core project

Management Reporting Reset

A rebuilt P&L, cost-centre structure and KPI scorecard your team can actually run the business from.

Fixed fee · scoped to your data
Core project

Margin & Profitability Review

Where profit is made and lost across customers, products, channels and sites — with prioritised action.

Fixed fee · scoped to your data
Large industrial facility
Built for complexity

The more moving parts, the more we help

Multiple products, customers, channels, sites, suppliers or a big capital decision on the horizon — that's exactly where good FP&A earns its keep, and where we do our best work.

How we work

From first read to a running rhythm

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Diagnose

We reconcile your current data, confirm the baseline and map where the real gaps sit.

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Design & build

Reporting, margin or forecast models are built to a defined scope, with peer review between both founders.

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Implement

Plain-English findings, a management walkthrough, and clear owners for every action.

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Keep going

Where it earns its place, project work converts into ongoing fractional FP&A support.

Leadership team reviewing figures around a table
Who we work with

Especially strong with operationally complex SMEs

We work with owner-managed and privately held businesses that have grown past their finance function. We're at our best with manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and retail suppliers — but the problems we solve show up across plenty of other sectors too, so it's always worth a conversation.

Manufacturing Wholesale & distribution Retailer suppliers Food & beverage Agribusiness & beyond

Let's talk about your numbers.

A short, no-obligation call is the fastest way to find out whether we can help — and where we'd start.

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