About Us
A boutique firm, built around a small number of families we serve exceptionally well.
Green & Sternfeld is a private chartered accounting and family-office practice in Melbourne. Since 1952 we have advised successful families, entrepreneurs and privately owned businesses — and, increasingly, families whose affairs and ambitions extend well beyond Australia.
We are deliberately boutique. We take on fewer relationships than we could, so that each is led by a director and supported by a team who know the family, the enterprise and the personalities behind the numbers. Clients stay with us — often for generations — because we are trusted, discreet and genuinely on their side.
Our values
Our values are not aspirations pinned to a wall. They are the reasons families choose us, and the reasons they stay.
Beyond expectation
Meeting the brief is the beginning, not the point. We look around corners for our clients — anticipating the question before it is asked, and doing the thing that was not strictly required because it was the right thing to do.
Discretion
We hold information of real sensitivity, and we treat it accordingly. Confidentiality and sound judgement about what is said, to whom, and when, are fundamental to how we work — and to the trust our clients place in us.
A steady hand
We hold our clients’ hands through the moments that matter — a transaction, a succession, a difficult year — bringing calm, clarity and a plan. Families tell us the reassurance is worth as much as the advice.
Availability and responsiveness
We are reachable, and we respond. A director is never far away, and questions are answered promptly, plainly and in full — not deferred until it is convenient for us.
Clear, authoritative advice
Our advice is technically rigorous and commercially grounded, but it is never hidden behind jargon. We tell clients what we think, why, and what we would do — clearly enough to act on with confidence.
Why Green & Sternfeld
Exceptional people who stay
Our work is only ever as good as our people. We recruit unusually capable, responsible professionals — clever, thorough and genuinely good communicators — and we invest in them. The result is a rare record of long staff retention, which means continuity of relationship and institutional memory that larger firms struggle to match.
A director on every relationship
Every client is personally led by a director, supported by a close senior team. Nothing is handed down an assembly line; the person who understands your affairs is the person you speak to.
Commercial and strategic by instinct
Our people think like business owners. They understand enterprises and industries, weigh risk against opportunity, and offer strategic advice — not just compliance done correctly, though we do that too.
Depth across a family’s whole world
From family governance and structuring to international tax, superannuation and the day-to-day of a family office, we bring the full picture together — coordinating trusted lawyers, bankers and wealth managers so our clients don’t have to.
Trusted for the long term
Since 1952 we have earned the right to be the adviser families turn to first. We intend to hold that trust for the generations to come.
Contact Us
Level 1, 1133–1145 Malvern Road
Malvern, Victoria, 3144, Australia