Fractional CFO
When finance becomes too important to manage in the gaps.
When important financial decisions keep returning to the founder, senior finance support can provide structure without requiring a full-time CFO hire.
The difference
Not another reporting layer.
Senior finance thinking for decisions that cannot wait for a full-time CFO.
What stays on the founder's plate today?
Still on the founder's plate
Cash decisions
Budget questions
Performance review
Finance coordination
Investor preparation
Planning
Important trade-offs
Supported through the partnership
Financial leadership
Planning and forecasting
Performance review
Decision support
Reporting rhythm
Accountability
A typical month
Ongoing, not a one-off project.
Week 1
Review performance.
Week 2
Understand changes and risks.
Week 3
Support upcoming decisions.
Week 4
Plan priorities and follow through.
An example of how a month tends to run. The rhythm follows what the business needs.
Who this fits
Complexity is increasing
The founder is still the finance bottleneck
Decisions need stronger analysis
Planning needs discipline
A full-time CFO is premature
Outcome
Finance stops depending on one person's memory.
More consistent visibility, better planning discipline, and stronger support at the moments decisions are actually made.
Common questions
Before you get in touch.
In practice, yes. Virtual CFO, or VCFO, is the more common term in India and fractional CFO is more common elsewhere, but both describe senior finance leadership brought in part time rather than hired full time. The distinction people sometimes draw, that virtual means remote and fractional means part time, does not hold up in how the services are actually delivered.
Bookkeeping records what happened. Accounting makes sure it is correct and compliant. This is about the decisions ahead: what to plan for, which assumptions to test, what the numbers imply for hiring, pricing or raising. It sits alongside your accountant rather than replacing them.
Usually when financial decisions start returning to the founder faster than they can be thought through properly. Common triggers are a fundraise coming into view, planning that keeps happening after the problem rather than before it, or reporting that has outgrown the person currently producing it.
No. Reporting is an input. The work is decision support: bringing senior finance thinking into planning and performance so that the important calls are made with better information, earlier.