Practical Financial Advice.

For business in the real world.

About RDM Strategic
Advisory Service

RDM is a trusted financial advisory group, offering practical financial management support to small-medium sized business and not-for-profits. RDM is founded by Richard Murphy, an experienced Finance (CPA) and Executive Professional.

RDM works with businesses & organisations who are seeking to build a new future in securing financial sustainability through sound governance and exceptional vision generated from long term strategic planning, forecasting and cash flow management. 

We provide accounting and business advisory services in:
  • Business Analysis & Planning;
  • Budgeting;
  • Forecasting;
  • Cash Flow Management; and 
  • Business Coaching.
Throughout the entire process of developing your financial strategy, we ensure you feel connected. We achieve this by professionally mentoring & coaching you through your unique financial journey.
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We're focused on enabling informed strategic decision-making & securing financial sustainability.

We understand the challenges that more and more modern businesses are facing, including:
  • Tighter cash;
  • Staff limitations;
  • Limited accountability;
  • Costly technology;
  • Increased regulations;
  • Board transparency.
RDM Strategic Advisory Service can provide a solution to your challenges via:
  • Exceptional service;
  • Extensive experience;
  • Integrated technology;
  • Proven processes and controls;
  • Customised reporting and dashboards.
We understand that achieving financial stability and predictability is critical to ensuring the success and perpetuity of a small business or organisation.

Our team has a proven track record of achieving significant financial and business improvement.

Our Services

Strategic Financial Advisory
RDM offers strategic financial advice, partnered with a wholistic and practical approach. We work well with those who already have a bookkeeper engaged and are looking for professional financial advice & direction.
Business Analysis & Planning
We can help you identifying & analyse your operation's finances to gain greater margins. From this in-depth analyse we put a strategic, practical plan in place.
Budgeting
We pride ourselves on identifying and appropriately measuring key drivers within the business. We also include bench-marking in our budgeting to help you understand how your KPI’s compare to the relevant industry. We set 12 month goals/targets for the business aligned to your long term strategy.
Forecasting & Cash Flow 

We specialise in developing Forecasting & Cash Flow Templates that best suit the needs of your business, as well as supplying you with the key performance indicators so that your people can deliver you with optimal bottom-line performance.


Furthermore, RDM will sought to review the historical data in order to better define the metrics that track performance, which means defining the ways in which success is recognised in your business. We can help in revealing the trends, risks, and opportunities that exist in your business and enable awareness of how your business measures against the outside world by providing you with benchmarking.

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Business Coaching

We are passionate about helping you find and achieve financial security going forward. RDM will be there to support and guide your finance team, answer questions, provide insight and perhaps most importantly , where required, the professional development of key personnel to ensure the continued delivery of accurate and timely information to the decision makers of the business.

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Financial Forward Planning

Part of our forward planning is enhancing your team’s own skills to ensure you are equipped to handle the potential future financial storms.

A core objective of RDM is to become part of the team to help you and your people in achieving the organisation's strategic objectives, and to help make the organisation stronger, more flexible and more resilient in the face of shifts and disruptions.

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Meet Richard Murphy (CPA)

Founder & Advisor

Richard is a financial advisory, experienced Finance (CPA) and Executive Professional and the founder of RDM Strategic Advisory Service. He has over 20+ years of proven success in both the commercial and not-for-profit sectors whose values evolve around respect, empowerment, vigilance and service.

As a skilled communicator and motivational leader, he is able to build robust teams and inspire others to achieve targeted outcomes across diverse business line operations simultaneously. This is achieved through expertise in guiding business transformation and change programs, competent financial administration and governance, and increased stakeholder engagement. 

Richard's drive is simple, to make a difference in providing practical business solutions that secures and underpins the financial sustainability and operations of an entity through a strong balance sheet, measured financial performance, strategy development and implementation, and most importantly, an impressionable ability to align limited resources to the strategic imperatives of the business and its owners. If you have any questions about what RDM might be able to do for your business or organisation please don't hesitate to reach out.

Richard started working in a restaurant in a Toowoomba Queensland, with 2 sisters while studying his Bachelor of Business in Hospitality Management. Both sisters had extraordinary gifts in running the front and back of house and ran a  busy and profitable business. Richard was a waiter at the time, studying accounting and was able to work closely with the owners in delivering customer service; learn about the exhaustive practicalities and demands to running a successful business; and contribute to process improvements which enabled key performance data to be retained for timely profit & loss reporting and analysis to the business owners.


This period of time was pivatol to defining Richard as a finance professional with a passion captured in a genuine desire to support entrepeneurs reep the rewards of their hard work; not to over engineer business processes and systems - keep it simple; the hard work and pressures endured by business owners often attibuted to adminsitration which can often distract the focus from the core purpose of the busness undertaking causing immense frustration; and the importance to delivering a quality product, exceptional customer service whilst retaining an openness to new ideas, innovation and continual improvement. 


Richard was able to complete his post graduate studies in Master of Professional Accounting, become a CPA and take these enduring business principles with him to future senior financial management roles with Club Crocodile Holdings, Troon Golf Aisa/Pacific, NRM Regional Groups, Surf Life Saving Queensland and Autism Queensland.


The creation of RDM Strategic Advisory is the ultimate step in Richard realizing his own goal to developing and managing his own business. He seeks to share his extensive experiences with small to medium sized business owners wanting back of house support to further optimising the financial performance of the business operation. 


This is RDM's passion.



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Contact Us

We’re here to help. Send RDM a message and they'll be in touch shortly.
Give Richard a call on 0419 759 474 or

Suite 7408,
55 Forbes St
South Brisbane, Qld, 4101
Mon - Fri
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Sat - Sun
Appointment Only
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