Our Founder Services
Transforming Finance Teams
IS THIS YOU?
- Need help to move the business or finance team forward?
- Unsure how to showcase your forecast, prepare for a fundraise or complete monthly reporting?
- Due for your first audit and don’t know if your team is ready?
- Need a strategic partner within the business to help maximise growth and minimise risk?
Then you have come to the right place.
Financial Foundations for Fundraising
3-Month Programme:
Prepare your business for growth and fundraising in just 3 months. Our signature program focuses on cleaning up your financials, improving cash flow, and building a foundation investors trust.
Key Features:
- Financial due diligence to identify risks and opportunities.
- Optimised cash flow management for steady scaling.
- Reporting systems that tell a clear, compelling story to stakeholders.
Ongoing Fractional CFO Support
When your business needs long-term strategic financial leadership, we provide Fractional CFO services tailored to scale-ups. We’ll help you drive growth, manage cash flow, and oversee your finance team, ensuring sustainable progress.
Financial Leadership Foundations
If you’re interested in upskilling your finance team, particularly your finance lead, so they become a strong and confident Finance Director and moving towards more strategic leadership skills – then take a look at our courses that sit with our company, Financial Leadership Foundations. Further details can be found here.
Your finance lead can also join our free workshops, that we hold bi-weekly. They can register for our latest workshop here.
Bookkeeping Guide
Not ready for a CFO? Download our free guide to help you navigate bookkeeping challenges and manage your financial function with ease . Plus, check out our YouTube channel for practical tips updated fortnightly and subscribe to our monthly newsletter.
Keeping the lights on
- Due Diligence
- Compliance
- Cashflow & Cashburn
Maintenance
- Audit current reporting & make enhancements
- Review & improve processes and procedures
Adding Value
- Prepare for fundraise (debt / equity)
- KPI’s, Metrics & Trend Analysis
- Growth Model & Budgeting Resources
Strategy & Growth
- Team Development
- Business Growth
- Margin Improvements
- Profitability Enhancements
An overview of our Framework
We have built a flexible Framework that we use with all clients and can mould to suit each client’s needs.
We start with the baseline to ensure that the foundation is there and that there are no issues with regulated requirements or future audits and finance due diligences post a fundraise (debt or equity).
We then build the framework with a focus on reporting, adding value and forward-looking analysis. We also help you plan a Finance Function that can support the business’s growth effectively and efficiently.
“I knew Alysha well as she worked with me for years at Funding Circle, so when I started Super Payments in 2022, I had no hesitation hiring her company, Fast Growth Consulting when I needed a Fractional FD.
We even hired an in-house CFO that Alysha handed over to at the end of 2022, but we ended up switching back to her services as it worked out better for us. Alysha and her team continue working with us in 2024 and we won’t look to hire internally again until the new year. I would highly recommend Alysha’s services to any founder needing her support.”
Why Choose Fast Growth Consulting?
- Over 15 years of experience in transforming finance teams.
- Proven track record of preparing start-ups for successful fundraises.
- Practical, results-driven solutions for time-strapped founders.
Ready to Elevate Your Finance Function? Let’s chat.
What does partnering with Fast Growth Consulting look like?
We start all our engagements ensuring we have a thorough understanding of our client’s business. Through review of your current financial frameworks and meetings with key stakeholders, we assess the current situation and priorities and map out an estimated timeframe for implementing our framework. Generally, we partner with businesses for 12 – 18 months when we transition in an in-house Finance Director or CFO that we helped recruit in-house.
Throughout the engagement, we hold weekly or bi-weekly meetings with company Founders and senior finance staff to keep all parties up to speed.
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are the answers to some of the most common questions about our consulting services.
What is the process for hiring Fast Growth Consulting as our Fractional CFO?
The first step is scheduling a call with Alysha to make sure that our services and framework are a good fit for your business’s needs. If we are a good fit, the rest of the process for kicking off the engagement is outlined below:
Post contract signing, we will send you a short questionnaire that will cover your Company and Financial information
We will organise a kick-off meeting whereby we can get an understanding of your current situation and priorities
We schedule a weekly or bi-weekly 30 min check in meeting with one of your Founders as well as regular catch ups with your most senior finance member
From there, we start the due diligence and work through the priorities we have established with you
How quickly can you implement your entire framework?
The speed at which the Framework can be delivered is dependent on the existing Finance team and the quality of the existing processes. Our engagement with businesses is generally for 12 – 18 months and we usually handover to a Finance Director / CFO that we helped to recruit in-house. However, this can all be discussed in the initial call – as not all businesses are the same.
How do we transition to our own Finance Director or CFO?
At some point, the business will require a FD / CFO full-time. We will discuss with you when we feel that the workload requires that additional support.
Sometimes a Head of Finance can be recruited, and we can support them in their leadership role and potentially upskill them to a FD.
Otherwise, we will assist you with the recruitment (if required, generally clients want us to be part of the interview panel) and then we will do a full handover when the new person starts – similar to any team member transition.
We will agree with the founder and the new recruit how much support is required and when we can end the engagement. We will always be around to ask questions if you need advice/ guidance further down the line.
What can we expect for a successful engagement?
The goal for the life of the engagement is a solid baseline that can be audited at any time. This includes:
- Strong internal processes and the finance function to be a well-oiled machine operationally
- Interesting and accurate reporting that helps you make the right commercial decisions
- Useful rolling budget and growth model that Investors understand and are interested in
- Improved understanding of the business across the leadership team and insights into how the business can maximise growth and minimise risks
- Strategies to manage cashflow runway and raise investment or other instruments
Are you currently accepting new startup / scale-up clients? How long until we can begin working together?
We currently have availability for two further clients (2025).
Contact me today and we can work out if our services meet your current needs.