Part-time finance director (CFO)

Raising in the next six months?

A part-time CFO builds the model, the data room and the story that survives diligence, then runs the round with you.

  • The financial model
  • The data room
  • A CFO in the room until close
Brief us on your raise

No search fee. Reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

A senior finance executive reviewing figures in a calm Dubai boardroom
400+curated executives in the UAE collective · embedded within weeks of the brief

Our fractional CFOs have owned the numbers at

Emirates NBDFirst Abu Dhabi BankMubadalaMashreqGoldman SachsHSBCPwCKPMG
The problem

Sound familiar?

  • Investors will test a model you have not finished.
  • Documents get gathered only when someone asks.
  • You are running the business and the round at once.
  • Nobody on the team has taken a raise through diligence.

A raise is won before the first meeting. A part-time CFO builds the model and the data room, then runs the round with you.

What changes

Go into your raise investor-ready

Today

A model investors can pick apart

With a part-time CFO

The financial model

A model investors can test, built on numbers you can defend.

Today

Documents gathered when asked

With a part-time CFO

The data room

Organised before investors ask, so diligence does not stall the round.

Today

Running the round alone

With a part-time CFO

A CFO in the room until close

The story that survives diligence, and someone running the round with you.

Brief us on your raise

No search fee. Reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

How we solve it

A CFO who has raised before gets you ready, then runs the round

Investors test the numbers, the data and the story. A part-time CFO who has been through diligence builds all three and stays in the room until close.

  1. First

    Build a model investors can test

    Built on numbers you can defend, with the assumptions written down.

  2. Then

    Prepare the data room

    Organised before investors ask, so diligence does not stall the round.

  3. Through to close

    Run the round with you

    Investor questions, diligence requests and the terms, handled alongside you.

Senior, and done it before

Leaders from our curated collective of 400+ who have held the role and solved this problem before.

Inside your business, part-time

Half a day to three days a week, working with your team and owning the outcome. Not advice from outside.

No long commitment

Contracted business to business on one month’s notice. No visa, no permanent seat on the payroll, no end-of-service liability.

Built for owner-led UAE businesses with five or more people.

The comparison

A fractional CFO, a full-time hire or a consultant

Three ways to bring in senior help. Only one owns the problem until it is fixed.

RecommendedFractional CFO
Full-time hire
Consultant
What you get
Fractional CFO · RecommendedA senior leader inside the business, owning the problem until it is fixed.
Full-time hireThe same seniority, at a full-time salary whether the work needs it or not.
ConsultantAdvice on one specific question, at a premium day rate.
Who does the work
Fractional CFO · RecommendedThey do, alongside your team.
Full-time hireThey do, once the search and the notice period are over.
ConsultantYou do. The recommendations stay with you to deliver.
Cost
Fractional CFO · RecommendedOur engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a full-time hire.
Full-time hireA senior package, plus visa, insurance and end-of-service liability.
ConsultantPremium day rates, which add up fast for anything ongoing.
Commitment
Fractional CFO · RecommendedBusiness to business, on one month’s notice.
Full-time hireA permanent contract.
ConsultantA fixed scope. More work is a new proposal.
Best when
Fractional CFO · RecommendedYou need the problem owned and fixed.
Full-time hireYou can keep a senior leader busy full time.
ConsultantYou need one specific answer and will pay a premium for it.
Brief us on your raise

No search fee. Reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

How it works

From the brief to the match

  1. STEP 1

    Tell us the problem

    A short brief, read personally.

  2. STEP 2

    Meet your shortlist

    Leaders from our collective of 400+ who have solved it before.

  3. STEP 3

    Embedded within weeks

    Business to business, on one month’s notice.

Your brief

Tell us about the round

A few questions on the business and the problem. Every brief is read personally, and we reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.

  1. We read your brief and reply within 24 hours, Monday to Friday.
  2. We come back with leaders from the collective who have solved this before.
  3. No search fee. Business to business, on one month’s notice.
Step 1 of 3About 3 minutes

Where to reach you

So we can come back to you with names, not a form reply.

We reply to this address within 24 hours, Monday to Friday. Every brief is read personally. No newsletter, no list.

If you stop before sending, we may keep what you have entered so far so the team can pick your enquiry up with you.

We ask for a number because the fastest briefs are settled in one short call. We will not add you to a list or pass it on.

No search fee.

What an engagement costs, plainly.

  • Priced on time and scope, not on a salary.
  • Our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire.
  • Business to business, on one month’s notice.
Questions

Before you brief us

Within weeks of the brief. Tell us the problem and we come back with leaders from the collective whose experience fits it.

An engagement is priced on time and scope, not on a salary. Our engagements typically run 30 to 60% less than a comparable full-time hire. There is no search fee.

Most engagements run half a day to three days a week, set to what the problem needs and reviewed as the business changes, contracted business to business with one month's notice either way.

Neither. The leader works inside the business, part-time, owns the outcome with your team and stays on to run it, without a visa, a permanent seat on the payroll or end-of-service liability.

Part-time finance director (CFO)

Go into your raise investor-ready.

Tell us the problem. We come back with leaders who have solved it before.

Brief us on your raise