Fractional CFO
The finance director’s role, without a full-time hire, including when the business lives in several jurisdictions. Cash under control, reporting on time, a clear view of where you make your money.
Your company needs a finance function at different stages of its life:
- At the start, when there isn’t one yet.
- In growth, when your finances can’t keep pace.
- In scaling, when you need finance-director-level expertise.
- In a crisis, when it all has to be rebuilt.
In any of these, we take on the finance director’s role at the level you need right now: budgeting, cash flow, management accounting, reporting, financial planning, all of it at management level: how the system is built and what decisions get made on it. We build the function from scratch or rebuild what’s there, together with your team, so it keeps working without us afterwards.
What you get
Your finances and the business, read through the metrics
Strengths and weak spots, what to build on and what to shore up.
A basis for management decisions
Forecasts, scenarios, and risks flagged early with a plan to handle them.
A finance director’s expertise
Experience and an outside view on management decisions, without a full-time hire.
A team and a culture around the numbers
People who are confident working with the numbers.
A finance function that works as a system
The procedures, the closing calendar and the set of reports, and they stay with you.
What we do not do
- We do not do bookkeeping or tax accounting. We work at management level.
- We do not stand in for your external auditor.
- We do not replace your finance team. We work alongside it and leave it stronger.
Who it is for
Owners
When you need director-level finance expertise to build the function from scratch, rebuild the team or get through a scale-up.
CEOs and COOs
When you need to build the finance function, scale or rebuild it, or complete a specific project.
Finance directors
When you need support through scaling or a rebuild, help in a tough spot, or a one-off project such as corporate structure or launching a new function.
In-house or fractional
- A finance director on staffWhen the volume of finance work is consistently full and the function is already built. Then you need someone full-time, and we will say so.
- A fractional CFOWhen the level of the work is director-level but the volume is not, and the function has to be built or rebuilt. Against a full-time director that saves up to 70%, depending on the scope.
Not sure which is yours? We look at the real volume of the work and say plainly whether you need someone on staff, a fractional CFO, or neither one yet.
How the work goes
- 01
First contact
You describe the situation, in writing or on a short call. We say where we can be useful, then you decide.
- 02
Proposal
Scope, timing and fees for your task.
- 03
Getting to know the business
We study the company: the numbers, the processes, the key people, how accounting works today. It ends with a plan of work that you sign off.
- 04
Ongoing work
Regular sessions, reporting on time, availability in between. Step by step the function moves over to your team.
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Tell us what is on your mind
A few words about your company or about you personally, and the question that is keeping you up at night. That is enough context to start.
Confidentiality
- We sign an NDA before you show us any numbers.
- We ask only for the data the task actually needs.
- We never publish client material or name clients without written consent.
- When the project ends, we return or delete the data, whichever you prefer. Deletion from backups completes within 30 days.