Fractional CFO
A CFO for the part of the week you need one.
Founder-led companies outgrow their finance function long before they can justify a full-time CFO. A fractional engagement gives you the seniority without the hire, and it is delivered by me rather than handed to an associate after signature.
What the work covers
Reporting and the close
Management accounts that arrive on a date, in a format a board can read.
Controls
Approval, segregation and reconciliation that hold up under diligence.
Cash and runway
A current short-term forecast, and the decisions that follow from it.
Board and investor process
Packs, questions, diligence and lender conversations.
The model
Budget, forecast and scenarios you can defend line by line.
The team
Structure, hiring, and what to automate rather than hire for.
Who it is for
- Founder-led companies, roughly AED 20m to 150m turnover, in the UAE or the UK
- Companies approaching a raise, a sale or a refinancing
- Family businesses professionalising, often through a handover
- Fintech and tech-enabled businesses that need a CFO who speaks their language
Engagement shape
Typically one to three days a week, ongoing, with a minimum term so the work has time to land. Interim cover is available at a higher intensity for a fixed period. Scope is agreed in writing before anything starts, and reviewed each quarter.
Prices are not published. Every engagement is scoped, and I would rather quote against your situation than against a page.
The first 90 days
Days 1–30
Read the numbers, the systems and the people. Establish what is reliable and what is not. Fix the reporting calendar first.
Days 31–60
Controls and the close. Rebuild the model. Agree the reporting pack with the founder and the board.
Days 61–90
Cash discipline in place, first automation scoped, and a written plan for the next two quarters.
Book a call
Thirty minutes, no pitch. Tell me what the finance function looks like now and I will tell you what I would do first.