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CAQA Meridian Business Group, professional and business services

CAQA Meridian Business Group is a professional services firm that helps small and medium organisations run better. Meridian provides business advisory and planning, outsourced human resources and payroll, bookkeeping and finance support, marketing and communications, project management office services, and quality, risk and compliance consulting. Clients include family owned businesses, not for profit organisations, local government, schools and growing companies that need senior expertise without employing a full time team. Most engagements run as retainers, with fixed price projects for larger pieces of work such as a system implementation, a marketing campaign or a compliance audit.

The firm works from two offices. The Melbourne head office holds the leadership team, client advisory, finance and administration, marketing and communications and the projects office. The Adelaide office holds people services and a smaller advisory and compliance team serving South Australian clients. Six departments report to the General Manager. Staff work standard business hours with flexible start and finish times and hybrid arrangements, and client meetings are held on site, in the Meridian boardrooms or online. Every client, project, invoice and internal request is recorded in one of the firm's five business systems.