Local government
Financial modelling for Queensland councils
For councils where the finance team is small, the decisions are big, and the sustainability ratios are read by the Queensland Audit Office every year.
When councils call us
The moments that need numbers someone can stand behind.
Queensland councils, especially tiers 3 to 7: CEOs, CFOs, finance managers and audit committees.
- Budget preparation, or a new CEO or CFO wanting an independent baseline
- An audit comment on financial sustainability
- Reviewing the annual fees and charges schedule
- Updating the long term financial forecast
- Building a business case for a grant, a loan or a council resolution
- Procurement findings, or a sense that supplier spend is bigger than the contract register suggests
Services
Fixed fee, fixed scope.
S1
Financial Health Check
Know where the council stands before someone else tells you
From $4,500 plus GST · 10 business daysS2Fees, Charges and Cost Recovery Review
Charge what services cost, and be able to show why
From $12,000 plus GST · 6 to 8 weeksS3Long Term Financial Planning
A ten-year plan that survives the next budget
From $20,000 plus GST (scoped) · 8 to 12 weeksS4Business Cases and Feasibility Studies
A business case a funding body will read past page two
From $15,000 plus GST (scoped) · 6 to 10 weeksS5Procurement Spend Analysis
See where the money actually goes
From $10,000 plus GST · 4 to 6 weeksProcurement
Wickham Advisory is preparing its application to the Local Buy arrangements LB309 (Business Management & Consulting Services) and LB347 (Asset Management Services). Until appointment, engagements under a council's own procurement thresholds proceed by quotation.
Why Wickham
How every engagement is run.
- Fixed fee, agreed before work startsThe price quoted is the price invoiced. Half on signing, half on delivery. No hourly surprises.
- Every figure traces to a sourceNothing is estimated to fill a gap; a missing input is raised before anything is built on it.
- You keep the model, unlockedFormula-driven, documented, no macros, no licence. Your team runs the scenarios after we leave.
- Exclusions written down up frontScope and exclusions are on page one of the proposal.
- Built for the room it lands inReports are written to be tabled at a council meeting, an AGM or a credit committee.