Blaze Business & Legal
Fractional CFO, Management Accountant and Business Adviser for construction businesses
Shannon Drew works with construction business owners who need sharper financial visibility, clearer decision support, stronger cash flow control, and commercial insight grounded in how construction businesses actually operate.
25+
Years working in construction financial management and operational advisory
All sectors
Experience across residential, commercial, civil and infrastructure businesses
Owner-level
Advice designed for real decisions, not just end-of-year reporting
Integrated
Works alongside Rachelle Hare where legal and commercial issues overlap
About Shannon Drew
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
Profile Architecture
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.
Industry Experience
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.
Core Areas of Work
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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.
How Shannon Works
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.
Common Questions
These questions cover both Shannon’s role and the practical business details people often want before getting in touch.
Work With Shannon
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 Strategy Session with Shannon is the right place to start.
Strategy Sessions are positioned here at $550 to $750 plus GST depending on complexity. You will speak directly with Shannon.
