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Scale with strategic financial leadership
Past a certain size the question stops being "are the books right?" and becomes "what are they telling me?". Growth needs someone in the room who can read the numbers, challenge the plan and talk to investors — without the cost of a full-time hire.
Management Accounts
Financial Director
Most directors can tell you last month's sales. Far fewer can tell you last month's margin, which customers made it, or what cash looks like next quarter. Monthly management accounts fix that: profit and loss with plain-English commentary, cash flow, budget against actual, and the KPIs that actually run your business — by site, department or service line if that's how you work. We prepare the pack and sit in your board meeting as your Financial Director to tell you what it means.
- Monthly or quarterly pack: profit and loss, balance sheet, cash flow
- Plain-English commentary on what moved and why
- Budget versus actual with notes on the variances that matter
- KPI dashboard by site, department or service line
- Board meeting attendance as your Financial Director
Budgets and Forecasts
Virtual CFO
A budget that's ignored by February isn't a budget. It's a spreadsheet. Your CFO builds the plan and keeps it alive: an annual budget by department, a rolling 12-month forecast updated monthly, and a three-way model — profit, cash and balance sheet — stress-tested for the decisions you're actually weighing up: a hire, a second site, a funding round. When investors or the bank ask, the numbers are ready and your CFO is on the call. One dedicated CFO, on-site or remote, month after month.
- Annual budget by department or cost centre
- Rolling 12-month forecast, updated monthly
- Three-way model: profit, cash and balance sheet
- Scenario planning for hires, new sites and funding rounds
- Investor, lender and board reporting, with your CFO on the call
Full virtual accounts department implementation
Accounting Back Office
Somewhere between £1m and £10m of turnover, the part-time bookkeeper and the spreadsheet stop working. We build and run your accounts department: the systems (Xero or QuickBooks, automated invoice capture, approval workflows, credit control that chases for you), the processes (month-end close, supplier payment runs, VAT, payroll, CIS) and the people — a named financial controller who owns all of it. A finance function that scales with the business, for a fixed monthly fee, without recruiting a single person.
- Systems set up and run: Xero or QuickBooks, invoice capture, approvals, credit control
- Month-end close and management reporting
- Supplier payment runs and cash management
- VAT, payroll and CIS handled inside the same function
- Named financial controller, fixed monthly fee