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.

  • 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 

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.

  • 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.

  • 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

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.

“With CFPro’s support, the Board’s confidence in our finance function was bolstered, and the business had the financial platform to grow with confidence.”

Cognism

“CFPro were brought to provide book-keeping and financial statement preparation services in support of ACG’s aim of publicly listing. Following the successful IPO on the London Stock Exchange, CFPro’s offering was extended to include technical accounting support, preparing memorandums on several complex and judgemental aspects of the IPO transaction. The provision of timely and meaningful management information, as well as clear and concise technical accounting guidance as a one stop shop finance solution, means CFPro have been a valued partner supporting the company’s wider strategy.”

ACG

“CFPro were proactive and provided pragmatic thinking which enhanced deal value. We were impressed with their independent, specialist approach and recommend they be considered for transaction support.”

AQA

“Before working with CFPro, a huge number of hours each week went into managing meeting notes, circulating papers and shareholder communication and keeping on top of record keeping and statutory compliance. With CFPro’s help, we outsourced this work and freed up time for ourselves to focus on strategy and driving our business forward.”

Wentworth Resources PLC

“CFPro are our trusted commercial finance partners. Their insights and financial appraisal skills have been invaluable during critical phases of key projects. They are fast, flexible and sensibly priced.”

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