Fractional CFO
For many businesses, the answer is trusted, flexible specialists who embed into your team, without the commitment of a full-time hire.
Within BKL, our team of specialist consultants, our fractional CFOs, have four decades of practical industry experience supporting high-growth businesses: bringing confidence during periods of major change.
We guide business leaders and their boards through IPOs, mergers and acquisitions, fundraising, and system implementations.
Our fractional CFO services are designed to meet the unique needs of your business, offering tailored support at the level you require, whether CFO, FD or FC.
Our specialists cover technical accounting, corporate governance, transaction support and mentoring. In choosing the right people to enhance your team, we carefully consider technical expertise, strategic insight, and cultural fit.
Our Fractional CFO services include:
- Finance function design and optimisation
- Financial planning and analysis (FP&A) and financial modelling
- Managing risk and financial obligations
- Systems implementation and reviews
- Due diligence and valuations
- Operations and stakeholder management
Transaction Support
Fundraising, M&A and IPOs present significant complexity.
The extensive demands around reporting, systems, planning, processes and managing the business as usual can place considerable strain on internal teams.
To accelerate execution, reduce stress and mitigate the risk of failure, early preparation with experienced professionals is essential.
Our team of specialist consultants, can bring you financial clarity, operational confidence, and enhanced governance.
Through our own growth journey, we’ve built a team who can now support your clients through the entire deal process.
Our end-to-end service advises owners from the early stages of considering an exit, all the way through to post-deal integration, wealth and structuring advice.
Giving you the right expertise, at the right time.
Our deal-ready team can help you ensure that:
- You have the right accounting procedures in place
- You have a clean due diligence file
- Your ownership structure is optimised
- These steps are being taken with an understanding of what the market wants in order to maximise shareholder value
All the while, we will help ensure that your internal teams can remain more focused on business as usual.
Whether this transaction is an IPO, sale to trade, private equity, management buyout or establishing an employee ownership trust we are here to help at every level.
This includes:
- Internal deal readiness
- Finance operations support
- Financial and tax due diligence
- Pre-IPO support, including historical financial information preparation, working capital modelling, financial position and prospects procedures Vendor due diligence and assistance
- Post-deal support
- Deal advisory and support
- Shareholder and personal tax
Corporate Governance
As your business grows, so do the challenges of corporate governance: meeting your statutory and legal compliance responsibilities amid increasing regulation.
The better you can demonstrate strong governance and transparency the more you can instill confidence in key stakeholders, potential investors and the market at large.
A solid corporate governance structure is vital to support sustainable growth, and for larger corporates to keep on top of the ever-changing legal and regulatory requirements.
Our team of specialist corporate governance consultants will ensure that you meet your compliance requirements. This enables you to demonstrate accountability, reduce risk, increase business confidence and make a positive social and environmental impact.
With our fractional governance support – embedded into your business –you get trusted support and expertise without the commitment to a full-time hire.
Our corporate governance services include:
- Company secretarial services, including registered office services
- Establishing and maintaining best practice corporate governance policies and procedures
- Governance compliance reviews
- Board evaluations
- IPO and M&A support
- Board mentoring
- Non-executive director services
- Stakeholder management Support with ongoing EIS (Enterprise Investment Scheme) administration
- ESG consultancy – broader advice on structuring your environmental and social impact
Our experts
How we can help
Whether you’re experiencing rapid growth, preparing for a fundraise or transaction, strengthening governance, or simply looking for more strategic financial leadership, our fractional CFO specialists can provide the support and insight you need.
We take the time to understand your business, your ambitions and the challenges you’re facing. From there, we can help identify where experienced finance leadership can add the greatest value, whether that’s improving reporting and controls, supporting key decisions, managing change, or preparing for the next stage of growth.
It starts with a conversation
Every business is different, and so is the support it needs.
If you’re considering a fractional CFO, Finance Director or Finance Controller, or would like to discuss the opportunities and challenges facing your business, we’d be pleased to hear from you.
Contact our team for an initial conversation about your circumstances, your ambitions and the role that flexible finance leadership could play in helping your business move forward with confidence.
