Finance & Commercial Performance
Fractional and virtual CFO capability.
Senior finance capability at the level the business needs, without a permanent appointment it cannot yet justify.
What the work covers
- Management reporting and board packs
- Forecasting, budgeting and cashflow
- Margin, pricing and commercial analysis
- Financial controls and compliance oversight
- Banking, funding and capital planning
When businesses engage us
- The board is making decisions on incomplete numbers
- A finance function has grown without senior leadership
- Cash forecasting is unreliable
- The business is preparing for investment or a transaction
How we approach it
We establish the reporting the board actually needs, then keep it running.
The engagement is sized in days per month and adjusts as the business changes.
We build the internal team's capability so the role can eventually be filled permanently.
Common questions
- How is this different from our accountant?
- Compliance accounting reports the past. A CFO shapes pricing, margin, cash, funding and commercial decisions ahead of them.
- How much time is typical?
- Commonly two to six days a month, more during a transaction or restructure.
- Growing fast. Running out of cash.
Revenue is climbing, retailers are ordering and everybody thinks things are going well. The bank balance says otherwise.
- When the board becomes part of the problem.
A struggling business does not always have an operating problem. Sometimes the problem is sitting around the board table.
Start a conversation
Discuss the situation.
Tell us where the business is and what has to change. We will be direct about whether we are the right partner.