Cash flow becomes harder to predict.
Growth advisory for founder-led businesses
Building businesses ready for what’s next.
Salt works alongside founders and leadership teams to strengthen commercial performance, improve decision-making and build the capability required for sustainable growth.
The growth inflection point
Growth should create opportunity—not complexity.
The systems, reporting and leadership that built a successful business are not always enough for its next stage. Salt helps strengthen the foundations before growth becomes a constraint.
Project and commercial visibility declines.
Decision-making becomes reactive.
Founders and key leaders become the bottleneck.
How Salt helps
Experienced support where it creates the greatest value.
Engagements are shaped around the needs of the business—from a focused diagnostic through to an embedded growth or strategic CFO partnership.
Growth Diagnostic
Identify the constraints, risks and priority actions across finance, commercial performance, systems, leadership and governance.
Growth Partner
Embedded executive support to implement improvements, strengthen accountability and build a scalable operating platform.
Strategic CFO
Cash flow, WIP, forecasting, management reporting, banking, major bids and practical financial leadership.
Executive Advisory
Clear, commercially grounded support for founders, CEOs, leadership teams and boards navigating growth and change.
The Salt growth journey
See clearly. Align. Lift. Thrive.
Sustainable change starts with understanding the business, agreeing the priorities and working alongside the team to embed better ways of operating.
See clearly
Gain visibility across performance, projects, cash flow, systems, risk and leadership capability.
Align
Bring strategy, people, priorities, KPIs and accountability together around a common direction.
Lift
Implement practical improvements across commercial performance, reporting, systems and leadership.
Thrive
Embed capability and build a stronger, more resilient business that can continue to evolve.
About Stephen Kemp
Financial insight. Operational discipline. Strategic thinking.
Stephen’s experience sits at the intersection of finance, commercial management, operations and strategy, with deep practical experience in civil construction, infrastructure and project-based businesses.
Salt was established to give growing businesses access to experienced executive leadership without forcing every challenge into a traditional CFO, COO or consulting model. The focus is simple: understand the business, work alongside its people and leave it stronger.
Embedded approach
Working with leadership teams, not outside them.
Commercially practical
Advice grounded in how contracting businesses actually operate.
Outcome focused
Focused on improvements that create lasting value.
Flexible engagement
Diagnostic, project, retained or embedded support.
Additional Services
Supporting leaders beyond the numbers.
Salt also works directly with finance leaders and boards, providing practical guidance drawn from real executive experience.
CFO Mentoring & AdvisoryExperienced, practical support for CFOs and senior finance leaders. Stephen provides a trusted sounding board across leadership, commercial decision-making, board engagement, team capability and career development.
Board & Advisory AppointmentsStephen is available for selected non-executive director and advisory board appointments, particularly with growing, founder-led and project-based businesses seeking strong financial, commercial and governance capability.
Let’s build what’s next
Your business has grown. Now its operating platform needs to catch up.
Start with a practical conversation about where the business is heading, what is getting in the way and where experienced support could make the greatest difference.
stephen@saltstrategicadvisory.com.au