Management Accountant and Business Adviser for construction businesses that need sharper financial visibility, clearer decision support and stronger cash flow control.
Fractional CFO services available where the business needs senior financial leadership without a full-time hire.
Shannon Drew is a Management Accountant, Fractional CFO and Business Adviser with more than 25 years of experience working inside and alongside construction businesses.
His work sits in the space between compliance accounting and day-to-day business decisions. That includes management accounting, pricing logic, project-level financial visibility, cash flow forecasting, financial modelling, reporting design, operational advisory, and commercial decision support for construction business owners.
Shannon does not approach construction businesses as a generic accountant. His advice is shaped by how revenue is actually earned, how projects are won and delivered, how overheads are really absorbed, where working capital gets squeezed, and how fast poor visibility can become a commercial problem.
For clients, that means clearer numbers, better decisions, more useful reporting, and a more realistic view of margin, cash position, financial pressure, and growth capacity.
Most clients come to me thinking they know their numbers. Often they know part of them. The real issue is whether the business has enough visibility to see margin pressure, cash pressure, pricing errors, and project risk before those problems compound.
Shannon Drew, Blaze Business & Legal
Shannon’s role is not limited to reporting on what has already happened. He works with owners and leadership teams to understand what the numbers mean, what they are missing, what needs to change, and how the business should respond.
Many construction businesses have accounts, tax support, and software, but still do not have reliable visibility at the level where the real decisions sit. Shannon helps close that gap.
His work also extends beyond the finance function. Shannon looks at the operational and commercial choices that drive financial outcomes, including project mix, capacity, job selection, systems, and revenue quality.
Shannon has worked with construction businesses across different sectors, operating models, and levels of maturity. That range matters, because the financial structure that suits one business can be wrong for another.
Advice for businesses where margins are tight, overhead discipline matters, and owners often carry too much of the financial burden themselves.
Support around pricing pressure, project profitability, reporting design, cash timing, and operational visibility.
Financial analysis shaped by larger delivery environments, resource-heavy cost bases, and more complex project pressures.
Input from early-stage setup through to growth, restructuring, succession, sale readiness, and wind-up planning.
Shannon advises across Business Advisory, Management Accounting, Costs Accounting and Commercial Advisory. He can also act as your External CFO on a retainer basis.
Management accounting is where construction businesses start to see what standard compliance reporting often misses.
Fractional CFO support gives businesses access to senior financial thinking without carrying a full-time executive cost base.
Cash pressure in construction is often visible earlier than the business realises, if the forecast is built properly.
Pricing and financial modelling need to reflect how the business actually operates, not just what a tender needs to show.
Shannon’s starting point is not the version of the business that the owner hopes exists. It is the version shown by the underlying numbers, the delivery realities, the reporting gaps, and the commercial pressure points.
Plenty of businesses can produce accounts. Far fewer can answer where margin is leaking, which jobs are underperforming, how much overhead is being recovered, or what cash pressure is coming next. Shannon starts there.
Construction businesses do not fail because a spreadsheet looked untidy. They fail because financial information is disconnected from project performance, pricing decisions, resource use, and commercial reality. Shannon works across that intersection.
Clients work directly with Shannon. Where a matter also involves a legal or contractual dimension, he can work alongside Rachelle Hare so the client gets joined-up financial, commercial, and legal input.
These questions cover both Shannon’s role and the practical business details people often want before getting in touch.
A Fractional CFO gives a construction business access to senior financial leadership without taking on a full-time executive. Shannon’s work covers strategic financial review, reporting design, financial visibility, forecasting, pricing insight, decision support, and owner-level analysis.
Your accountant generally handles compliance, tax, year-end reporting, and statutory obligations. Shannon works at the management accounting and strategic advisory level above that, helping you understand project profitability, pricing pressure, cash position, reporting gaps, and commercial decisions.
Yes. Shannon can help analyse cash pressure, improve forecasting, identify financial constraints, and support planning around ATO engagement and payment arrangement discussions. Where there is a linked legal issue, he can work alongside Rachelle Hare.
No. Shannon works with construction businesses at different stages, from smaller operators needing better visibility and stronger systems through to larger businesses needing more senior financial and operational decision support.
Blaze Business & Legal is located at 1A/52 Jeffcott St, Wavell Heights QLD 4012.
You can call Blaze Business & Legal on (07) 3063 3373 or email enquiry@blazebusinessandlegal.com.au.
Blaze Business & Legal’s published hours are Monday to Saturday from 6 am to 10 pm, and Sunday closed.
For many clients, the best starting point is a fixed-price Strategy Session. That gives you a focused discussion about the issue, a clearer diagnosis of what is happening, and a more useful view of the right next step.
Shannon prefers fixed-fee pricing agreed before work begins, although some matters are suited to time-based rates. Fixed-price Strategy Sessions are typically priced at $550 to $750 plus GST depending on complexity.
No. Shannon supports Brisbane clients and also works with construction businesses more broadly where the engagement can be handled effectively by phone, video, document review, and structured advisory support.
If you have a specific financial question, cash flow pressure, a pricing issue, project-level margin concerns, or you are trying to work out what needs to change in the business, a fixed-price Strategy Session with Shannon is the right place to start.
Fixed-price Strategy Sessions are $550 to $750 plus GST depending on complexity. You will speak directly with Shannon.
