For every business that wants a better finance function.
We start with your situation, your complexity, your needs and your ambition.
Five situations. Find yours.
Build
You're starting or growing, and want finance built right from the start.
Fix
Something in finance isn't working, and you need to find out what.
Professionalise
You're established, and finance needs to catch up with the business.
Partner
You want someone who understands the business, not just the ledger.
Expand
You're entering new markets, entities or countries.
You're building the business. Build finance correctly with it.
- Starting a new business
- Building your first finance function
- Growing out of founder-led finance
- Hiring your first accountant or finance team
- Preparing for the next stage of growth
Revenue, customers, people and entities may all be increasing, but finance may still run the way it did when the business was smaller. We help you move:
- From accounting to a finance function
- From information to management information
- From reporting to decision support
- From one person to finance capability
Your finance function isn't working the way it should.
- Accounts not closed on time
- Reconciliations still pending
- MIS that arrives late
- Numbers nobody fully trusts
- Receivables not followed up
- Processes that depend on one person
- Weak controls
You may not need a whole new finance team. You may need to understand what is actually broken. That's where we start.
Your accounts may be maintained and compliance may be done, but can you answer these?
- Are we making enough money?
- Which customers are profitable?
- Where is cash getting stuck?
- Why is the margin changing?
- Are sales growing profitably?
More customers, products, people, locations and transactions. A finance function designed for a smaller business can hold a growing one back.
Ready to move from informal finance to professional finance?
Many established and family businesses have strong commercial knowledge, but finance may still depend on individuals, informal processes or habits built up over years.
Professionalising finance doesn't mean making the business bureaucratic. It means creating:
- Visibility
- Accountability
- Discipline
- Controls
- Consistency
- Management reporting
- Continuity
Long-standing relationships. Experienced management. More than one generation involved. Several entities. Established ways of working.
We don't come in assuming everything needs to change.
You may not need ten people. You may need one strong Business Accountant™, backup, a Senior Accountant, Finance Manager support, Fractional CFO capability, or specialists when needed, combined around your business.
You don't want just an accountant. You want someone who understands your business.
A finance partner should know more than your ledger. They should understand:
- How your business makes money
- What drives your revenue and margins
- Where cash gets stuck
- What management worries about
- What decisions are coming next
The relationship can grow with you. You may start with accounting, then add MIS, then management reporting, then senior finance, then CFO capability.
Your business is entering its next market.
- Entering a new city
- Setting up a new entity
- Expanding internationally
- Managing several entities
- Working across currencies
- Entering India from abroad
- Building an offshore operation
Sometimes the problem isn't the accountant. It's how the finance function was built.
You may have already hired accountants, changed teams, outsourced finance, tried new software or added senior people, and still not got the visibility or discipline you expected.
We don't start by assuming the previous solution was wrong. We ask a better question: what is the business actually missing? Then we build from there.
Real businesses rarely fit one box.
- Growing and professionalising
- Established and expanding
- Lean and wanting a finance partner
- Fixing and preparing for growth
- International and building a finance function
Whatever your situation, the answer is built from the same eight families.
Build
Finance function, people, processes, systems
Run
Accounting, payroll, compliance, finance operations
Know
MIS, performance, cash, profitability, business drivers
Lead
Planning, forecasting, funding, strategic finance
Fix
Clean-up, controls, processes, reporting
Transform
Automation, technology, better reporting
Fund
Loans, project finance, government incentives
Expand
New entities, new markets, international finance
That's part of our job.
You don't need to arrive with a perfectly defined scope. Just tell us: "This is what's happening in my business."
We'll help you understand:
- Where you are today
- What's missing
- What's causing the problem
- What finance capability you need next
- How to build it
Don't tell us which service you want. Tell us what's happening in your business.
We'll help you understand what your business needs from finance, and build the capability behind it.