About

The licensed-financial-services lane of Local Knowledge Pty Ltd.

Local Knowledge Financial Services exists for one reason: to build the reconciliations, controls, reporting and tooling that licensed firms actually own — with a CPA’s judgement over the numbers that matter.

One practice that matches a whole compliance division — size for size.

Most firms bolt your licensee accounting and compliance onto generic templates, or resell someone else’s software with a logo on top. We do the opposite. We build the reconciliations, the controls, the reporting and the AI tooling around how your licence actually operates — and you own what we build. One senior practice, engineered to stand in for a whole division rather than resell a subscription.

The statutory AFSL/ACL audit itself we do not perform — that is arranged independently with a registered company auditor so independence is never in question. Everything that prepares, reconciles and coordinates that audit, we do in-house.

Built, not resold

We build the reconciliations, the controls, the reporting and the AI tooling around how your licence actually operates — and you own what we build. Most firms bolt your compliance onto generic templates or resell someone else’s software with a logo on top. We do the opposite.

FCPA-led

Led by Graham Chee, a Fellow of CPA Australia — institutional accounting, tax and structuring judgement applied to licensed financial services, so your reporting and controls sit correctly in your structure and your books.

Grounded, not hype

Every recommendation maps to a named regime — the Corporations Act client-money and licensing provisions, the NCCP Act, and ASIC’s conduct obligations — and we promise reasonable assurance, never a guaranteed regulatory outcome.

Backed by Local Knowledge

Local Knowledge Pty Ltd is an established CPA public practice and registered tax agent — so your licensee reporting, client-money controls, tax and structuring sit alongside the group’s accounting, trust-assurance and AI-systems practices, deliberately joined up.

Local Knowledge Financial Services

Operated by Local Knowledge Pty Ltd, part of the Local Knowledge group. Principal: Graham Chee, FCPA.

Mascot NSW 2020, Sydney

+61 2 8338 8900

[email protected]

Bring us the licence that keeps you up at night.

A confidential conversation with a CPA who works only with licensed financial services firms. No obligation, no product pitch.