Founded in 2016, The Scalable CFO is an innovative platform where Business Owners can get connected to Finance experts on demand. Our aim is to create the perfect match of talent to opportunity to the business owner’s situational needs.
We provide financial management services to ambitious businesses that do not want, or do not need a full time Finance Professional. By bringing together our financial expertise, we are committed to re-defining professional services, introducing our customers to a new breed of CFO, contributing financial foresight and taking every opportunity to empower business owners every step of the way.
Our consultants are pre-screened, have worked with the likes of the Big 4 and top tier strategy consulting firms, have global technical expertise with some of the world’s leading organizations, have educational qualifications at high ranking institutes and have a deep desire to work closely with entrepreneurs.
We provide financial management services that scale to various stages of a business either on a project or ongoing basis. At the Pre-revenue phase we help make decisions such as what it takes to be profitable, what pricing structure to implement, what mix of products to sell and what financial model assumptions to track and validate. At the growth and scale phase, we help build a solid finance structure and make decisions, such as what growth targets need to be maintained to reach the businesses goals, what will it take to maximize profits, and what operational technology does the company need to implement to support them to scale. At the transformation phase we help business decide and implement strategies to unlock value, make critical assessments and changes to the organizations to improve performance and evaluate exit options.
Our consultants can deliver their expertise on a project or on-going basis that suites the business owner’s time and financial requirements. We can deliver a variety of services that typically are addressed in the SME market. This can vary from one company to another based on the consultant’s assessment of the business requirement with the owner but can be categorized as the following:
- Business Planning support: Financial Modeling, Cashflow forecasting and product / service pricing.
- Investment and Fundraising: funding round planning, valuations, due diligence and cap tables.
- Accounting Support: Accounting management, chart of account design and book closing.
- Risk, External relations and Compliance: Audit readiness, standard and regulations advice and banking relationship support.
- Operational performance: Management of Account Receivables, Payables Inventory and Cashflow. As well as best practice assessments and Finance training.
- Reporting: Management reporting, Group reporting and Investor reporting
- Implementation: VAT, information Systems, best practices alignment and optimization.