Strategic finance
for what's next.
High-impact CFO expertise, on your terms. I help ambitious companies make better decisions, build stronger foundations, and scale with confidence.
Typical engagements from 2 days per month · UK & remote
In the room when it counts
01
Financial strategy
Long-term thinking. Practical plans.
Real results.
02
Executive insight
Clear analysis. Candid advice.
Better decisions.
03
Scalable support
Fractional expertise. Full-time impact.
When you need it most.
Better numbers.
Bigger possibilities.
Most companies don't need a full-time CFO. They need the right one, at the right moments.
A part-time finance director can keep the books tidy. A fractional CFO changes what the business can do: how it prices, how it funds growth, how it answers a bank, and how it survives a bad quarter.
I work with a small number of companies at any one time, at board level, usually two to six days a month. Long enough to own the outcome. Flexible enough to be affordable.
25+
Years in finance leadership
£30m
Capital raised with clients
15+
Companies supported
3
Completed exits in the last 5 years
01Fractional CFO
Board-ready numbers, rolling forecasts and a finance function that keeps pace with the business.
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02Business Turnaround
When cash is tight and the pressure is on, a calm operator who has done it before, in the room weekly.
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03Finance & Funding
The right capital, on the right terms, with a pack that answers the questions before they are asked.
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04Sales & Acquisitions
Buy well, sell well, and keep the value you have built. Support from first valuation to post-deal handover.
Read moreThree moves,
repeated well.
Every engagement follows the same rhythm, whether the business is growing, recovering or preparing to sell.
01
Diagnose
4-10 days, dependent on business size and complexity, inside the numbers: cash, margin, pricing, pipeline and the reporting you already have. You get a plain-English read on where the business actually stands.
02
Decide
A short list of decisions worth making this quarter, each with the cash impact modelled. No 90-page deck. A one-page plan the leadership team can act on.
03
Deliver
Hands-on support through the quarter: board pack, forecast, lender conversations, hiring, and the awkward calls that finance usually avoids.
“We went from a spreadsheet that nobody trusted to a board pack that took twenty minutes to explain. The bank noticed before we did.”
Managing Director
Manufacturing business, £22m revenue
“Sandy found the £250k of cash that was sitting in the business the whole time. The turnaround plan started from there.”
Managing Director
Family owned manufacturing group, 15 staff
Founder-led, investor-backed, or family owned. Usually somewhere between £2m and £50m of revenue.
- You have a bookkeeper or a small finance team, but no one sitting at the leadership table with the numbers.
- You are about to raise, refinance, buy a business, or sell one.
- Margins have slipped and nobody can point to exactly where the money went.
- Your board or lender wants reporting you do not currently have the capacity to build.
Start with a conversation, not a proposal.
A 30 minute intro, ideally face-to-face, no charge and no obligation. Bring the problem you are carrying and we will tell you plainly whether we can help.