Finance Director Services
The financial brain of a bigger business, at the size you are now
A fractional finance director gives you strategy, forecasting and commercial challenge for a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire — delivered personally by an ACA with 26 years of real-world experience.
What you get
Four things that change how you run the business
Management information that earns its keep
Monthly or quarterly accounts with proper commentary: what moved, why it moved, and what you should do about it before next month.
Forecasting and scenario planning
Rolling cash and profit forecasts, plus best, worst and likely cases for the decisions you are weighing up — a hire, a lease, a big order.
Margin, pricing and cost discipline
Where the money actually comes from, which work is quietly unprofitable, and which levers move the bottom line fastest.
Funding and lender conversations
Numbers packaged so banks and investors take you seriously, with someone alongside you who has been in those meetings before.
How it works
A rhythm, not a one-off report
Understand the business
We start with your commercial goals, not your bookkeeping. What are you trying to build, and what is in the way?
Get the numbers trustworthy
Reporting is tidied so every figure we then discuss can be relied on. No decisions made on shaky data.
Build the forecast and plan
A forecast and budget you understand, with the assumptions written down so they can be challenged and updated.
Meet, review, act
Regular sessions where we work through performance, decisions and priorities — and you leave with clear actions.
Is it right for you?
FD services tend to make sense when your year-end accounts are no longer telling you anything useful in time to act on it: turnover is growing, decisions are getting more expensive, and you would like someone senior to think them through with. If you are not there yet, we will say so — and start with the basics instead.
Bring a finance director into the room
Tell us where the business is heading and we'll set out exactly how an FD-level service would work for you.
Prefer email? info@actoncliff.co.uk