Partnering with ambitious SME operators
Mentec provides virtual CFO leadership for ambitious Sydney and Australia-wide SMEs — pairing 30+ years of senior CFO experience with a partnership most advisors won't offer: an equity position alongside a reduced retainer, so our incentive is your enterprise value, not billable hours. We don't hand over a strategy and leave. We stay and execute it with you.
Partnering with ambitious SME operators
Most advisory firms stop at the recommendation. Mentec is built around the part that comes after it. Read the full approach →
Where enterprise value is genuinely being created, and where it's quietly leaking.
Strategy becomes a sequenced, deliverable project plan. Not a slide deck.
We stay and drive delivery until results show up in the numbers.
“Most advisors hand you a strategy and leave. We take a position in your business — so staying to execute it is in our own interest too.”
Talk about your businessBoard packs, lender reporting, a senior voice at the table.
A plan built around your specific commercial model.
Systems that keep growth from outrunning cash.
We work inside the business to drive the plan home.
The moves that raise what the business is worth.
Risk flagged early, before it's expensive.
“Doing the work brilliantly and running the business behind it are two different skills.”Mentec exists for the gap between the two.
Book an introductory callFinancial rigour sets the ceiling. The following three push a business toward it — led by people who've held senior roles in each, across private and publicly listed companies.
A digital operating model built for the business you have, then delivered.
Explore this service →Channel strategy and unit economics that hold together commercially.
Explore this service →Growth, digital, ecommerce or experience — most engagements start with one problem and grow from there.
Book an introductory callIndexed to 100 at the start. The month-by-month climb is illustrative, but the results are real — three client outcomes over a 12-month partnership. See the real case studies for the full picture.
A premium residential, industrial and commercial architecture practice. With Mentec engaged, targeted business development was redirected toward commercial work — more profitable and a better fit for the practice's strengths.
“Within the first quarter we finally had reporting we could hand to our bank without scrambling. That alone changed how we made decisions.”
“Every other advisor we spoke to sold a strategy document. Mentec was the only one still in the building three months later.”
“Having someone with equity in the outcome changes the conversation. It stopped feeling like billable hours and started feeling like a partner.”
If it's a fit, the first call is 15 minutes.
Book yoursBefore founding Mentec, Joe Siric spent his career as CFO across a number of corporations, providing strategic and financial leadership at the executive table. Mentec was established to give ambitious SMEs that same calibre of leadership — structured as a partnership, not another consulting invoice.
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The incentive problem at the heart of most consulting engagements.
