A small Australian practice with twenty years of senior finance experience.
Boutique by design. Vertical specialist by choice. Two practices both lived from the inside — pet hospitality (eight years CFO at Hanrob) and tourism (Federal Group of Tasmania, including Saffire Freycinet) — plus an RTO regulatory sub-practice for FVRA-compliant operators. Wollongong, NSW.
Director · PortraitTimothy Messieh, CA · Wise Lord & Ferguson trained · Wollongong, 2026
Timothy Messieh, CA
Director · Fractional CFO · Chartered Accountant ANZ
Twenty years across enterprise finance and SME advisory. Trained at Wise Lord & Ferguson, one of Tasmania’s largest accounting firms (then an EY affiliate), Chartered Accountant (ANZ). Have supported buy-side and sell-side processes totalling more than $50M in transaction value.
Eight years as CFO of Hanrob, Australia’s largest pet boarding operator. Senior finance roles at the Federal Group of Tasmania, including Saffire Freycinet. Two service-hospitality verticals lived from the operator side — pet hospitality and tourism hospitality — with a parallel sub-practice in RTO regulatory compliance.
Operate Newport Pembury & Co from Wollongong, NSW. The practice is intentionally small: two vertical specialisms both lived from the inside, four core service disciplines, no marketing department, no junior billing learning to your engagement.
The two practices are picked because both have been lived from the operator side. The clients who fit our world get work shaped by that experience — not learned on their time.
Three reasons the firm is built small and deep.
Specialism over breadth
A generic fractional CFO learns your industry over a quarter. We’ve already done that work — from the operator side. Two service-hospitality verticals (pet hospitality, tourism hospitality) plus an RTO regulatory sub-practice, where the reporting pack, integrations and benchmarks are built before you start.
Boutique on purpose
No mid-market sales team, no junior staff billing learning curves to your engagement, no offshoring. The work is done by a Chartered Accountant with twenty years of senior finance experience. The ratio of seniority-to-fee is the inversion of most firms our clients have used before.
Verified by construction
Three years building the infrastructure that delivers every figure real, integrated, actionable. A field library that enforces aggregation rules at compile time. An immutable audit trail bound to source transactions. Document polish that matches institutional audit deliverables. The infrastructure is the moat; the advice rides on top of it.
Place · IllawarraWhere the practice operates · 34.4278 °S, 150.8931 °E
Wollongong, NSW.
The practice operates from Wollongong on the NSW Illawarra coast. The geographic anchor isn't decoration — it's a credibility signal. Newport Pembury & Co is a real firm, with a real address, with real accountability under Australian professional standards.
We serve clients across Australia. Most engagements are remote-first with periodic on-site work where it adds value. The proximity to the Illawarra and Greater Sydney technical-finance ecosystem matters; the regional anchor matters more.
Boutique professional services in a regional Australian city, delivering the financial-strategy altitude that most $5M–$50M operators didn’t realise they could afford.
What underwrites the work.
Engagement-letter-grade transparency on the website, not just in the small print.
Ready to talk?
A 30-minute conversation at no charge. Most engagements begin with a Financial Systems Review — the foundation engagement that maps your financial layer, surfaces the gaps, and builds the reporting infrastructure everything else runs on.