About Us
Virtual Business Consulting Services (VBCS) is a virtual CFO and advisory service company based in South East Queensland, Australia. Our team has a combined 45 years of industry experience, specialising in strategic advice, financial systems, accounting and tax. By combining our financial experience with IT and strategy consulting, VBCS offers a holistic approach to growing our clients’ businesses.
Who We Are
Raghunathan Muralidharan – Managing Director
Raghunathan Muralidharan (“Murali”) has been working in the financial sector for almost three decades. Formerly a partner in a Big 4 firm and a CFO for a large mining and petroleum group, he has provided services as:
Murali has worked on multi-billion-dollar projects but enjoys the challenge of working with small and medium-sized businesses.
“Small businesses have so much potential – helping them succeed from the ground up is exciting in a way working with larger corporations isn’t. VBCS has enjoyed a lot of corporate success, and I like helping smaller businesses grow so that they might experience the same.”
Murali attributes his success in the financial sector to agile education. He is constantly looking for new ways to improve his clients’ financial processes.
Srinivasan Jayanthi– Director
Srinivasan Jayanthi (“Jayanthi”) has 22 years of experience in the finance industry as a professional accountant and financial advisor. Her experience in a number of top accounting firms has allowed her to bring multiple talents to the VBCS table.
Jayanthi has extensive experience in various disciplines from taxation through to driving business administration efficiencies. She has delivered successes in many different operating environments in various organisations.
As a Chartered Accountant, she continually delivers successes for her clients through a unique approach that is methodical and focused, yet also adaptable enough to get results in fast-moving or fluid operating conditions.
What we do
VBCS helps small and medium-sized businesses succeed by acting as their virtual CFO and offering strategic financial, technical, and business advice. We handle your business’ finances from front office to back office and empower you to make better strategic decisions regarding growth and success.
We’ve worked with businesses across the Australasian and Asia Pacific region, including companies in:
What others are saying
The VBCS team has excellent experience within the financial and management advisory domains. They will surely be an asset to progressive small and medium-sized businesses looking for virtual CFO services.
Murali is a brilliant accountant. He is extremely knowledgeable and results-focused. He is efficient, thorough, accurate and professional. I am honoured to have had an opportunity to work with him.
I had the pleasure of working with Murali for nearly 9 years at KPMG. Murali is highly intelligent and was very conversant with IFRS and ISAs. Murali handled his clients with high professionalism and provided quality service.
Why Business Consultancy Works
“Mentored businesses increased their company revenue by 83 percent, while non-mentored businesses only increased their revenue by 16 percent.”
“Find an accountant who wants to design the future, not write up history.”
NAB Australian Accounting Industry Survey
“High growth can be achieved by firms with a variety of size, sector and age characteristics; such firms are distinguished more by the strategies and actions of managers than by their profile characteristics.”
The characteristics and strategies of high-growth SMEs
“Accountants, network contacts and others were significant providers of advice and, where this advice was used, then SMEs reported higher growth rates.”
The effect of business advisers on the performance of SMEs
“As we’ve faced personal challenges, we’ve had financial partners that aren’t just supplying us with financial services – we see them as our business partners. That was really a great stress reliever to have someone that understands what you’re going through and who can support you on that journey.”
Tony Simmonds, Co-Founder and Managing Director of JetBlack Australia
BOQ SME Report- How SMEs can protect their emotional wellbeing