Fractional CFO · Turnaround Advisory · SEQ Construction & Trades

Working harder than ever — and the bank balance doesn't show it?

reSolvent Advisory provides fractional CFO and turnaround advisory for construction and trades businesses across South East Queensland. Whatever the situation — we make businesses solvent.

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In before it's too late Job-by-job margins 13-week cash flow South East Queensland
The feeling

You know the feeling.

Most owners feel it before the numbers show it.

CASH

The jobs keep coming, the crews are flat out — but every month the cash gets tighter.

MARGIN

A project quoted at 22% margin finished at 6% — and nobody can tell you where the 16 points went.

PAPER vs BANK

The jobs make money on paper but not in the bank.

TIMING

Progress claims go out late, retentions sit unclaimed, and the BAS is due before the next drawdown lands.

If that's your desk right now, keep reading — this page was built for you.

Where we sit

The empty seat in the middle.

When a good business starts bleeding, the market offers two doors: a strategic plan that's too light, or a liquidator that's too final. reSolvent fills the seat between them.

Beside us

Your accountant

Tax, BAS and compliance — that stays exactly where it belongs: with them. We work alongside your accountant, not instead of them.

The turnaround seat

reSolvent

In while it can still be fixed. Embedded financial leadership that steadies the cash, rebuilds the margins, and works until the business doesn't need us.

The last resort

Formal insolvency

Administrators and liquidators do necessary work — when it's over. Our job is to make sure it never gets that far.

We're not insolvency practitioners, and we're not a generic growth partner — we're the financial leadership that keeps you from ever needing one.

The method CLARITY → CONTROL → FOUNDATION → GROWTH

Four phases. One direction: up.

Every engagement runs the same proven sequence — because a turnaround has an order, and skipping steps is how businesses crack.

PHASE 01

Clarity

Know exactly where you stand.

A live 13-week cash flow forecast and a job-by-job margin audit. No more guessing which projects make money — and which are quietly eating the ones that do.

PHASE 02

Control

Stop the bleeding. Steady the job.

Cash rebuilt around the next progress claim. The hard calls made early — suppliers, pricing, and the jobs that need to stop.

PHASE 03

Foundation

Get the footings right.

Systems that hold: an ERP that tells the truth, reporting the bank believes, and a weekly rhythm the team can run without you chasing it.

PHASE 04

Growth

Grow without the cracks.

Take on bigger work knowing the margin, the cash and the capacity are real — because growing too fast is exactly what cracks an undercapitalised builder.

You wouldn't run a site from the office. We don't run a turnaround from a spreadsheet.

In the trenches

Embedded in the business, not reviewing it from a distance. On site, in the ERP, on the creditor calls.

Straight answers

You'll always know exactly where you stand — plain English, no jargon, no spin. Even when the news is bad. Especially then.

Fast moves

In a turnaround, weeks matter. Inside your first 30 days: a live 13-week cash flow forecast, a full project margin audit, and a one-page 90-day plan. Guaranteed.

Case Study Zero

It started with one.

A family friend's construction business — I spent four months inside it, helping them turn it around: identifying the margin creep, chasing down the uncaptured costs, and pulling the data out of their system so they were looking at leading indicators, not trailing ones.

And the whole time I kept thinking — every accountant has a client like this, and there's nowhere good to send them. It's either a strategic plan that's too light, or a liquidator that's too final. That empty seat in the middle is what reSolvent was built to fill.

WALTER LOMAX — FOUNDER, RESOLVENT ADVISORY

4 months
Inside the business
+20–30%
Margin improvement
−80%
Reduction in losses

A family-owned SEQ construction business. Details anonymised.

Walter Lomax, founder of reSolvent Advisory
The founder

"Most people with my background arrive when it's over. I arrive while it can still be fixed."

Walter Lomax is a Chartered Accountant with a decade in Big Four restructuring — Deloitte, PwC and EY — and more than a hundred engagements across construction and trades, including a QBCC review of 50 failed construction businesses. Few people have seen more ways a good builder goes broke. Fewer still have caught more of them in time.

Chartered Accountant ARITA Advanced — National Top Mark Young Accountant of the Year 2020 30 Under 30 — Restructuring & Insolvency
For accountants & bookkeepers

You've felt it about a client before the numbers showed it too.

When one of your clients hits trouble, you need somewhere to send them that isn't a liquidator's office. That's the seat we fill — and we fill it alongside you, not instead of you.

Tax and compliance stays with you.

We don't do tax, BAS or compliance work — ever. Your client relationship stays exactly where it belongs: with you. We take the turnaround seat, keep you in the loop at every step, and hand back a healthier client.

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Next step

Let's resolve it, together.

Book a free Financial Health Check — a straight conversation about where the business stands and what the next 90 days should look like. No obligation, no jargon, and you'll leave knowing more than you came with.

Email walter@resolvent.com.au Direct +61 438 836 793 LinkedIn Walter Lomax