The Business Planner
Auckland
Auckland
Our CFO For Hire Service provides a high level of all important hands on finance and commercial support to business owners. With extensive commercial experience accumulated across numerous industry sectors. We offer a team of experienced finance & commercial advisors with extensive business knowledge.
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What do you love most about your job?
Helping other business owners make a success of running their business
What inspired you to start your own business?
My background which includes 17 years working in the UK, and the range of businesses I have worked in, suggested his would be a natural next step.
Why should our clients choose you?
Because we as a business treat clients as partners. We are brought on to challenge their thinking, to challenge the way they do business, and provide an extensive knowledge base to be tapped into for a fraction of the cost of a full-time resource. We also bring large and medium corporate experience to smaller and medium sized businesses at an affordable rate.
Can you provide your services online or remotely? If so, please add details.
Due to Covid, we have adapted out operating model to be able to provide a first class service online should we need to or where the client prefers it. We still like to see the business operating (at the coalface so to speak) as it sometime tells a different story to that otherwise told, and that helps with the advice we give about the way forward.
What changes have you made to keep your customers safe from Covid-19?
The provision of our services online is first and foremost, but our focus too is all about how best to manage disruptive influences on a client's business and marketplace. How best to adapt to those influences and how that all looks from a cashflow and profitability perspective. We want businesses to focus in a more structured way on the risks impacting their business, what they are, how influential they could be and how to manage or mitigate them.
Strategic Planning / Business Planning
We assist businesses define or review their strategic and operational plans, particularly in times where market conditions constantly change and where the business and its market are challenged with disruptive factors and events.
Cashflow Management & Forecasting
We help provide better transparency to owners and managers around cashflow and a business's cash position. We provide them with tools and best practice processes that highlight their cashflow sensitivities and options available to mitigate cash related risks.
Risk Management
We provide workshops and ongoing support to businesses who do not have a formalised or structured approach to managing all aspects of business risk. We help businesses identify their risks, assess each risk's severity and impact on the business and put in place workable plans to mitigate that risk. We also help businesses regularly monitor and report on those risks.
Detailed Analysis & Reporting of Business Performance
For owners to make good decisions about their pathway forward, they need good accurate and timely information bout what has happened in the past. We help businesses gather data, analyse and report on past results. We also help model potential future outcomes based on historical results and future expectations / risks, thereby helping owners make more informed business decisions.
Supply Chain Management
In times of constant and varied disruptive events, most businesses now need to review their supply chain to assess the risks associated with each element of it. We help businesses with this review and in seeking out alternative options that will protect the business's sustainabllity.
Finance and Commercial Advice
We support business owners by providing practical financial and commercial advice on matters of importance to them. Our extensive commercial experience provides a platform for owners to tap into and seek advice as and when they need it.
Growing or Buying a Business
We can help businesses that are seeking to grow their business either organically through increased sales, or through mergers and acquisitions. We have experience in due diligence work and business integration associated with acquisitions, without it costing owners an arm or a leg.
