When all roads lead to you as the CFO, where do you turn?

Being a Chief Finance Officer (CFO) today means doing more with less, under sharper scrutiny. Whether you’re driving performance in the private sector or safeguarding value and public trust, you’re expected to deliver transformation while keeping a firm grip on risk and governance.

We work alongside CFOs as a delivery partner, providing senior, hands‑on finance capability that helps you move faster, stay in control, and deliver change without adding permanent headcount.

How we help CFOs deliver with confidence:

  • The CFO room: protected time to think
    A focused one‑to‑one half‑day workshop, where you step away from day‑to‑day pressures to clarify priorities, align stakeholders and create a practical 180‑day action plan, setting you up for sustained impact in your role.
  • Clarifying the path ahead
    We can help you as CFO – or your whole finance function – set your direction. Establish a clear, realistic roadmap for development through diagnostic review and challenging workshops with  our experts as a sounding board for your ideas and concerns.
  • Ensuring finance is future-fit
    We support you to redesign team structures, processes, and ways of working to ensure finance can play the role your organisation wants it to play. Future-fit work often includes a focus on your digital AI and automation journey, by challenging and supporting tech strategy and implementation.
  • Preparing finance professionals for what comes next
    Our training programmes and peer support develop the capabilities, skills and mindset needed for a future‑ready finance function from leadership and business partnering to technical excellence. We also support budget holders and leaders outside of the finance department to promote financial ownership and literacy across the organisation.
  • Financial planning and delivery
    From developing medium term financial strategies, to the presentation of financial information, to savings design and implementation, we work with leadership teams to build robust financial plans, enhance decision‑making, and deliver cost efficient services grounded in real‑world public sector experience.

  • Streamline, automate and free up capacity
    We’ll help you address any backlog of paperwork and reconciliations while building better processes, including leveraging your tech or implementing and documenting new ways of working. We can also outsource or redesign and automate activities, streamlining workflows so you can focus on value-adding tasks.
  • Putting you in a position to make best informed decisions
    Supporting the establishment of teams, processes, KPIs, reporting formats and high-quality data to enable insight and decision making for the future.
  • Surge capacity during peak periods
    At times of peak demand, we provide pragmatic support to help you. When year‑end, system migrations, restructures or inspections hit, we can provide experienced interim finance, reporting, project and change professionals to stabilise operations and clear backlogs.
  • Reorganisation and structural change
    We help you navigate reorganisations by preparing financial records, analysing data, designing reporting mechanisms and supporting teams through transition to reduce risk and maintain service resilience.

  • Pragmatic support for new and evolving regulation
    We’ll help you navigate confidently through the changing array of reporting requirements. Identifying not just the accounting impacts but the upstream impact on processes and downstream impact on stakeholder reporting.
  • Becoming audit ready
    We help you prepare for and manage a smoother audit process, building confidence with the audit team and transparency across all stakeholders. That can include training of your team, preparation of workpapers, or management of the process.
  • Scalable support through outsourcing and technology
    Take advantage of our economies of scale by outsourcing finance and reporting processes. Our technology enabled approach helps reduce costs while enhancing quality.

What it feels like to work with us

1.
Empathetic experts

Senior people who work alongside you, not at arm’s length. 

2.
Your ambitions first

Solutions shaped around your goals, not ours. 

3.
Holistic by design

Advice is only the start. You’ll have support that’s strategic, operational, and hands‑on. 

Speak to our CFO Solutions team

Tell us the challenge you need help with, whether that’s audit pressure, capacity gaps, transformation delivery, regulatory change or a fresh perspective on where finance goes next.

Future-ready finance with full-service support

Future-ready finance with full-service support

The challenge
A global services firm needed a scalable finance function and roadmap to navigate shifting PE exit timelines, demanding specialist expertise and added capacity.
The solution
We built a vision and operating model, delivered BAU support, technical guidance, and acted as a CFO sounding board, freeing focus for transformation.
The results
Client gained a clear roadmap, reduced workload, and prepared for outsourced finance activities, achieving seamless, adaptive support throughout.
Transforming finance for growth and efficiency

Transforming finance for growth and efficiency

The challenge
A UK energy and agriculture firm with PE backing needed a scalable, efficient finance function and KPI framework to support rapid growth and investor demands.
The solution
We designed a Finance Blueprint, improved processes, documented policies, implemented ERP and tech enablers, and provided interim finance team support.
The results
Client now has a robust finance model, new KPIs, upgraded systems, and improved controls, enabling growth and meeting PE reporting expectations seamlessly.
Standardising processes for PE-backed growth

Standardising processes for PE-backed growth

The challenge
A £750 million construction group, ahead of PE exit, needed process standardisation and improved controls while easing pressure on an overstretched finance team.
The solution
We mapped processes, drove improvements, supported change management, and provided project and secondment resources to address gaps and enable adoption.
The results
Client achieved stronger processes, improved controls, and added bandwidth, positioning the business for exit and integration of a new acquisition.
Rapid exit readiness for a gaming business

Rapid exit readiness for a gaming business

The challenge
A PE-backed gaming company faced resource constraints and lacked IPO/exit experience, making it hard for the CFO to prepare for dual-track exit options.
The solution
We delivered a dual-track readiness review, drafted technical papers, prepared historical financials, improved processes, and redesigned the finance team.
The results
The business achieved full readiness for IPO or buyout, enabling a successful secondary buyout through rapid remediation and strengthened finance capability.
Hillingdon Council: A future-fit finance programme

Hillingdon Council: A future-fit finance programme

The challenge
Like many councils, we face financial strain and system challenges. Our Finance Modernisation Programme strengthens practices, improves systems, and builds a resilient, insight-driven finance function fit for the future.
The solution
Partnering with Hillingdon Council, we co-designed a Finance Modernisation Programme—reviewing practices, improving systems, and embedding best-practice processes to balance short-term needs with long-term transformation.
The results
Our team combined local government finance expertise with cloud system knowledge and a delivery-focused approach. The programme will embed strong financial practices and unlock full value from the council’s technology investment.

    FAQ

    Yes. We help CFOs adopt technology in a practical, realistic way, from selecting tools and redesigning processes to implementation, change management and training. We’ve “been there”, so we help you avoid pitfalls and achieve sustainable adoption.

    Yes. We support the human side of Finance through leadership development, skills training, CPD webinars, coaching, Finance Business Partnering bootcamps and our Future Finance Leaders programmes. We tailor support to your team’s needs.

    It varies. We support some clients for a day or two, others for several weeks or months, and many on an ongoing basis across their finance agenda. Our support flexes to whatever you need at any given time.

    We offer fixed-fee, day‑rate and annualised pricing. Costs depend on the level of expertise, the volume of work and the length of engagement, always transparently scoped with you.

    You may work with several specialists, but you’ll always have one senior relationship lead coordinating everything. We operate as one joined-up team, so you never need to repeat yourself.

    We offer the breadth and capability of a large firm, with the agility, pragmatism and lived experience of a boutique. It’s a blend that gives practical support without losing personal attention.

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      Our CFO Solutions experts include:

      Simon Davidson

      Partner, Finance Consulting
      Leeds  Office
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      Simon Christian

      Partner, Public Sector Consulting
      London  Office
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      Pinkesh Patel

      Partner, CFO Solutions
      Reading, Thames Valley, Oxford  Office
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      Rosamond Murphy

      Partner, CFO Solutions
      London  Office
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