About CFO Evolve
How we grow your business with an exceptional part-time CFO
Over the years, CFO Evolve have grown our clients revenues on average 24% year on year through part-time CFO services and in doing so have assisted them evolve their businesses to the next level.
We can grow your business by:
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Providing immediate expertise
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Coach your business to increase performance
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Provide a combination of strategic & financial experience to evolve your business
About CFO Evolve
CFO Evolve was established in 2014 to bring the strategic and financial capability of large corporates to SMEs and through the process help them evolve to the next level.
We understand that the cost of a highly experienced, strategic CFO may be out of reach for many small - medium sized businesses. CFO Evolve was established to enable business growth through providing a highly strategic part-time CFO, reducing the cost to the business and allowing flexibility on the commitment of the finance role.
The Chief Financial Officer or CFO traditionally manages the finance team and is intimately familiar with timely and meaningful information from throughout the organisation. The modern CFO, has become a Chief Operations Officer now utilising that information to create meaningful strategies. Our team of highly strategic part-time CFOs have worked in senior management at multi-nationals or public companies. We only employ exceptional part-time CFOs that understand how to maximise the result to your business.
A part-time CFO can scale up or down how frequently they work with you to suit your budget. This could be 2 days per month through to 2 days per week. As your business demands change, you can adjust your part-time CFO requirements. For example, requiring a part-time CFO to provide comprehensive forecasting for strategic funding purposes or to provide due diligence as part of an acquisition or merger transaction.
Our Approach
Our approach is centred on delivering practical cost effective solutions that help improve our client’s financial management, strategic alignment profit improvement and ultimately profitability. The following principles describe how we work with our clients:
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We are passionate about growing your business.
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We provide an experienced part-time CFO able to deliver results in a friendly and approachable manner.
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We are a team of part-time CFOs that collaborate in order to bring the sum of all our experiences to your organisation.
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We achieve exceptional customer service to ensure clients are cared for.
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We present a flexible tailor-made senior part-time CFO with a human touch delivered in a cost effective way.
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We maintain the high standards, ethics and integrity that come with all our part-time CFOs being professionally qualified.
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We ensure our clients will always and only be dealing directly with a part-time CFO.
Our Values
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Passionate about building a community of healthy, growing businesses through the delivery of strategic part-time CFOs.
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Dedicated in the way we maintain the highest standards expected of experienced and professionally qualified part-time CFOs.
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Determined to enjoy the journey with clients, even if it is in a slightly accounting way.
Part-time CFO Services
Our part-time CFOs have experience across a broad range of C-suite services. Our team of part-time CFOs can assist with your budgeting and forecasting through developing a strategic plan, an acquisition strategy or up-skilling your current financial team through CFO coaching and mentoring.
Below details some of our core services provided by our part-time CFOs, but for a more in depth conversation about how we can help you, please contact us for a confidential conversation.
If you are looking for business growth in your business a dedicated part-time CFO could grow your business with a combined approach of strategy and financial insights across process improvement, business efficiencies and business growth through inorganic means such as acquisition or partnerships.
Cash flow is critical to your business' success and survival. If you don’t take care of your business' cash flow, you could end up not having enough to continue running the business.
A part-time CFO could guide you through a cash flow restriction to ensure your business remains cash flow positive.
If you need to provide robust forecasting for one-off funding purposes or wish to use a forecasting model in an ongoing manner that incorporates your profit and loss, balance sheet and cash flow to have full understanding on where your business is going and its challenges, engaging a part-time CFO may assist evolve your business to the next level.
Having a clear strategy, strategic plan or business plan are fundamental building blocks to achieve growth. Your business plan needs to expressly state where the business is going, the strategies to achieve those outcomes, who is accountable for the strategy and the timeframes and measures to ensure they are on-track.
At CFO Evolve; our part-time CFOs build your company a strategic plan or business plan that works.
There are risks associated with many parts of business. Anticipating a business risk and uncertainties before they occur and ensuring the mitigation strategies are incorporated in the strategic plan goes a long way to taking the fluctuations out of your business and ensuring you are on a steady growth curve.
If your business requires a business risk review, a part-time CFO can begin the process much quicker than if you hire an internal CFO.
Whether through debt or equity, a bank, venture capitalist or private equity, it is important to make your organisation ready as a solid business with a strong profit & loss and balance sheet and as an attractive investment to optimise the result.
Our part-time CFO services prepare your company through 3-way forecasting, business planning and process improvement to enable your business is prepared for funding, investment and capital raising.
CFOs typically enjoy to teach and they love to help build team, skill sets and overall, the business. CFO Evolve offer their highly experienced team of part-time CFOs for CFO coaching and mentoring purposes to financial teams that have incurred rapid growth, undergoing inorganic growth such as via a merger, acquisition or strategic partnership and require extra assistance and guidance from a strategic financial perspective.
As the business grows and becomes more complex, even if you have the capability to effectively monitor your financial controller and accountant in particular, it becomes questionable whether you have the capacity or if this is taking you away from growing the business. A part-time CFO can provide this oversight of your accounting functions, providing guidance and an expert skill set to ensure the delivery of this department.
One of the milestone developments of your business will be the creation of an advisory board. It could be the next step in reporting and governance or a pre-cursor to a board of directors. Whilst it is important to have an industry specialist and someone strong in governance such as a lawyer, having a part-time CFO member to provide strategic financial advice in the team is key to the success of the advisory board.
Different from classic business planning, the strategic variety (incorporating acquisition, exit and other strategic activities) involves a long term horizon and out-of-the-box thinking. A strategic acquisition plan helps to provide direction and focus. It points to specific and rapid growth plans with results that are to be achieved and establishes a course of action for achieving them.
If you are looking to maximise business profit, CFO Evolve could grow your business with process improvement, business efficiencies and focus on the areas of your business to maximise profits, turn wasted hours into productive ones, saving time, frustration and money.
A good business coaching provider will not only review your business for growth areas but review the ability of the senior team and the leadership. Business coaching provides developmental ideas that can increase performance from the top down and can provide a sounding board for the CEO and Managing Director on business pain points to be addressed.