CFO leadership - at your table

Your accountant typically looks after compliance and tax, which is important work. CFO leadership is forward-looking: it's about how the business performs and the decisions you make to shape where it goes.

Most of the businesses we work with turn over between $2M and $50M, but it’s less about size and more about the questions you’re asking. If they’ve moved beyond day-to-day bookkeeping, to things like which locations are actually profitable, and why? or how do we fund growth?, you may very well need CFO-level support.

Yes, and we often do. We can add leadership to the team you already have rather than replacing anyone.

A fractional CFO does what a full-time CFO does, just not five days a week. That means understanding how the business makes money, improving its performance, building forecasts and budgets, reporting to the board, and bringing rigour to big decisions. You’ll also hear the terms “outsourced CFO” and “virtual CFO”. For most people they mean much the same thing: senior financial leadership, brought in for the time and scope that your business needs. At Navigate, your CFO-led board level support is backed by our wider finance team, so the day-to-day work behind the advice is taken care of too.

It costs a fraction of a full-time CFO salary, scaled to the days and scope you need. Some businesses need a few days a month, others need more support during busy periods or a big project. And because you’re backed by a wider finance team, you’re not paying CFO rates for work that doesn’t need a CFO. We’re always happy to talk through what that might look like for your business.