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Fractional CFO Services
Outsourced Professional Finance & Accounting to Fuel Your Company’s Success
Every business is built on a simple model: You invest, create, and earn. Businesses of all sizes invest capital and resources to create valuable products or offer services to their clients, receiving payments in return. Regardless of your business’s industry, the stability of the cash-in and cash-out cycle is critical to its success.
When you started your business, it is unlikely that you felt excited about crunching the numbers and managing all the finances. Your core business might have the best products and services in the industry. However, you need sound financial management to keep your books in order, make business decisions based on precise information, and position your company for success.
If you run a small- or medium-sized business (SMB) or a startup, you might not have the budget to create a full-time finance department. However, it does not mean you should not have access to the benefits of a capable accounts department led by an experienced Chief Financial Officer (CFO). This is where Fractional CFO comes in to provide you with a cost-effective and impactful solution to fuel your company’s growth and success.
Part-Time CFO Services We Provide
Hiring a full-time CFO with experience relevant to your industry and the ability to tackle your company’s financial management needs for success is expensive. At Fractional CFO, we believe that every business should have access to experienced CFO services, and we have the perfect solution for it: Introducing part-time CFO services. At a fraction of the cost of hiring a full-time and in-house finance department, some of our fractional CFO services include:
Financial Modeling & Reporting
Whether you run an SMB or a startup that needs solid financial footing, our financial modeling & reporting services at Fractional CFO can help you plan for success and achieve your business objectives.
Budgeting & Forecasting
We offer you help with making the best use of your company’s capital and investing it to ensure success because it demands budgeting & forecasting to make well-informed business decisions.
Routine Bookkeeping & Accounting
Reporting for Investors
At Fractional CFO Services, we offer top-notch reporting services for investors to ensure that you don’t have to worry about managing relationships with your company’s critical stakeholders.
Acquisitions & Deal Analysis
Mergers & acquisition deals are complex to navigate. Our Fractional CFO services ensure you have access to seasoned financial experts who can help you make the most profitable business deals
Dispositions Analysis
What are the Benefits of Using a Fractional CFO?
Fractional CFO Services are Cost-Effective
You get the experience of a need-based finance department for your business at less than half the cost of hiring a full-time CFO and accounts department.
You Get Access to Experienced Professionals
Instead of lengthy searches for, training, and onboarding the right professionals, you get immediate access to seasoned financial experts with experience relevant to your industry and niche.
Reporting for Investors
Our Fractional CFO services are scheduled around your company’s changing needs. Our experienced consultants work at a schedule that works best for you, and you get to scale up or scale down the services we render based on the changing dynamics of your growing business.
Helps You Focus on Your Business Goals
When you let our seasoned financial experts handle your company’s finances, you can free yourself up to focus on core business tasks, running the business, and planning for its success. Leave it to us to provide you with the sound financial management that positions your company for growth.
What Does a Part-Time CFO Do for a Business?
Our Fractional CFO services are scheduled around your company’s changing needs. Our experienced consultants work at a schedule that works best for you, and you get to scale up or scale down the services we render based on the changing dynamics of your growing business.
Who Needs Fractional CFO Services?
Fractional CFO services are best-suited to SMBs, startups, and real estate businesses that do not have the budget to create a full-fledged accounts department led by a full-time CFO. There are several situations where businesses can benefit from working with part-time CFO services, including:
- You do not have the time to handle bookkeeping & accounting while running the business
- Your growing company’s finances are getting too complex
- You want to pursue vertical integration as you enter a new market
- You need to bring in new investors
- You want to raise outside equity capital
- You need sound financial management
What Fractional CFO Services do Small Businesses Need?
Part-time CFO services offer all the tasks of a full-time CFO at a fraction of the cost. They offer various services that help small businesses achieve their goals and fuel their growth, including but not limited to:
- Routine accounting and bookkeeping
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Designing impactful strategies to fuel and nurture sustainable growth
- Negotiating debt arrangements
- Creating reports for investors and handling investor relations
- Conducting due diligence and valuations on acquisition deals
What to Look for in a Fractional CFO
Hiring a part-time CFO for your business is a major milestone and a move essential to take your startup or SMB to the next level. An outsourced fractional CFO will be responsible for strengthening your company’s foundations. Taking your time to conduct due diligence & hiring the most suitable part-time CFO is critical to your company’s success.
What Skills Should a Fractional CFO Have?
There are several skills a part-time CFO should have, which you should consider when searching for a suitable professional. The skills a fractional CFO must have include:
- Startup experience relevant to your industry
- A proven track record in services where your company needs support
- The ability to help you expand your company’s investor and partner network
- The ability to deliver value to your business and fuel its growth, relative to the cost of working with them
We are the Complete Fractional CFO Solution You Need to Unlock Your True Potential
Working with Fractional CFO Services means partnering with a firm invested in your company’s success. With our seasoned financial experts at the helm, you can focus entirely on running your business and let us help you position your business for greater success.
Fractional CFO Services FAQ
We have answered questions to some of the most frequently asked questions our clients have. We hope they help you find answers to some of the questions you might have.
A Fractional CFO is a seasoned financial expert who lends expertise to SMBs, startups, real estate companies, and other businesses. They take on and perform the responsibilities of a CFO for their clients, offering the top-notch financial management skills of an experienced finance leader at a cost more suitable to businesses with smaller budgets.
A part-time CFO, or fractional CFO, is an outsourced financial officer who takes on the role of a CFO for SMBs and startups, providing the need-based services of a CFO for a company that is flexible based on the company’s changing requirements. They perform the job of a full-time CFO without being a full-time employee, lending their expertise to fuel your company’s growth.
Fractional CFOs and part-time CFOs are individuals who fulfill the responsibilities and roles of a full-time CFO but are not full-time and in-house employees. Put simply, a part-time CFO can do virtually everything a full-time CFO does, but only as needed, offering more flexibility in what you pay for, minimizing your company’s expenses, and maximizing the value for money.
- Your company’s size
- Your balance sheet’s complexity
- The CFO services you need
- The size of the team your part-time CFO needs