Smart, personalised business and accounting services for busy SMEs.

About Silk

Established in 2015, Silk Business Advisors is passionate about helping small to medium-sized businesses re-align and run their bookkeeping, finance and administration functions efficiently and without unnecessary complexity. 

Having worked as a partner for a Melbourne-based mid-tier firm, Silk’s founder Karen Stecki, recognised the need for SMEs to better refine, simplify, and think more strategically about the way their accounting and administration functions to cultivate improved performance and growth. 

Whether its general process improvement, end-to-end accounting and bookkeeping, or needing advice on how to scale your business up and grow effectively, Silk Business Advisors proudly leverage their diverse wealth of experience, skills, and insights to deliver bookkeeping, finance and accounting advice and strategy in plain language, allowing anyone the ability to successfully adopt and implement without fuss.

Comprising a small, close-knit and highly approachable team, Silk are passionate about helping businesses map out and achieve their goals in the most accessible and efficient way possible.

What we stand for

Smart, ethically-aligned accounting and business practices, backed by experience
Simple, personalised counsel which is understandable, easy to implement, and free from unnecessary jargon and complexity
Genuine work-life-family balance and the ability for business operators to unplug with peace of mind
Knowing when to step in and consult and when to step back and let business leaders focus on what they do best
Approachability, integrity, and a partnership-driven focus to relationship building
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Meet the team

Karen Stecki

Principal Consultant, CPA

CPA-qualified, Karen has over 29 years’ experience in accounting and advisory, and is inherently passionate about helping small to medium-sized business operate and thrive. Karen set up Silk Business Advisors in 2015, after returning from maternity leave, and has since nurtured a flair for helping other small business owners grow, prosper and successfully juggle all of life’s demands. Having formerly been a partner for a mid-tier firm, Karen has successfully applied the insights and knowledge gained from her own trajectory, to helping clients with business growth and improved overall performance.

Julie Hodsman

Bookkeeper / Accountant, CA

Having joined the Silk team in January 2020, Julie is a CA qualified accountant with over twenty years’ experience in a mixture of public practice, funds management and banking.  Julie has gained a broad spectrum of experience across varied industries to meet many different requirements including audit, management accounting, bookkeeping, governance, operational risk and taxation.

Julie has two children, works part-time, and values the unique dynamic a family-work life balance brings.

Dale Sadler

Bookkeeper

Dale joined the Silk team in March 2017, bringing with her extensive project management and business analysis experience from the financial services sector. Dale has postgraduate qualifications in business management and applies this in conjunction with her financial background to assisting clients progress within their businesses through smart bookkeeping solutions. 

Being a mother of two children, Dale understands and fully appreciates cultivating balance between work and family, and is passionate about helping her clients successfully achieve this.

 

Our services

We provide practical, implementable advice in layman’s terms, enabling busy SMEs to get on with what they are good at – running their business!

  • End-to-end bookkeeping
  • Payroll consulting and management
  • Business, income, and capital gains tax
  • Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT)
  • GST and superannuation
  • Strategic taxation consulting, planning and implementation
  • Outsourced C-level (CFO) advisory services
  • Credit control analysis
  • Implementable advice for start-up businesses
  • Implementable advice for businesses looking to scale up
  • Systems and process improvement
  • Administration and operations ‘health checks’
  • Business and accounting IT advisory (specialists in MYOB and Xero)
  • Profit and Loss analysis
  • Break-even and financial ratio management
  • Cash flow and budget reporting
  • Strategic analysis for improved business performance
  • Forecasting, objective setting and planning for business growth
  • Strategy planning and alignment
  • Maternity leave/return-to-work planning and support
  • Organisational structuring and re-structuring
  • Succession planning and exit strategy advisory

Get in touch

Location

106/75 Tulip Street, Cheltenham VIC 3192

Contact us

Phone :+61 (3) 8560 6890

Email : info@silkba.com.au

Clients we've worked with