Fractional CFO, FP&A & performance
Build reliable plans, cash-flow visibility, management reporting and profitability insight — without waiting to hire a full-time senior team.
Learn more →Business Designer helps growing and global businesses turn fragmented numbers, disconnected systems and manual processes into a business that leaders can rely on.
We bring finance, ERP, accounting and automation expertise together to solve problems from strategy through implementation.
TRUSTED BY AMBITIOUS TEAMS
Most transformation challenges do not sit neatly inside one function. We connect finance, systems and operations so the whole business works better.
Build reliable plans, cash-flow visibility, management reporting and profitability insight — without waiting to hire a full-time senior team.
Learn more →Select, design, implement and improve ERP systems around real business processes, with independent leadership from planning to adoption.
Learn more →Resolve complex accounting matters, prepare audit-ready statements, accelerate close and strengthen readiness for investors and lenders.
Learn more →Redesign and automate workflows across finance, sales and operations using governed AI agents, integrations and human approval controls.
Learn more →We help management identify whether the issue sits in reporting, cash flow, accounting, ERP, workflows or operating discipline.
Management reporting is late, forecasts are unreliable, cash surprises recur, and teams debate whose numbers are correct.
↗Processes remain on spreadsheets and email, users bypass controls, reports do not reconcile, or implementation has stalled.
↗New standards, acquisitions, group reporting, investor requirements or audit scrutiny are stretching internal capability.
↗Recurring workflows depend on manual follow-ups, rekeying, reconciliations, status updates and individual knowledge.
↗Clear priorities. Practical delivery. Improvements that last beyond go-live.
Look across people, process, data, systems and governance.
Set a practical operating model and prioritised roadmap.
Turn requirements into models, workflows, controls and system design.
Work with management, internal teams and technology partners through implementation.
Establish dashboards, review rhythms and documentation that keep progress moving.
Senior expertise with the practical delivery to make change work — tailored to the way your business runs.
We start with how your business makes money, manages cash, closes books, reports performance and controls risk.
We work across SAP, Microsoft Dynamics, Oracle, NetSuite, Odoo, ERPNext and other platforms without forcing a predetermined answer.
We help build the models, requirements, controls, reports, workflows and governance needed to execute.
Complex issues receive senior attention and become usable outputs for teams, partners and management.
Engagements are shaped around the outcome your organisation needs most.
Management teams, finance leaders and promoters on working with Business Designer.
View all case studies →For a professional services business, we identified there was no ERP foundation — finance and operations ran on disconnected spreadsheets and tools. We led a full ERP implementation covering requirements, BRD, CRP sessions, UAT and go-live.
THE OUTCOME A unified platform now runs the business with real-time financial visibility.
Read the case study →Our experience is particularly relevant to operationally complex businesses and teams entering their next stage of growth.
Explore practical guides and resources to help you make sense of finance, reporting, ERP and business growth.
Browse all e-books →Real teams. Real operating challenges. Better ways to move forward.
Monthly sales data lived in raw system dumps. Finance teams spent hours cleaning, reconciling and rebuilding board presentations.
Not sure where to start? A focused conversation can help you find the right first step.
Talk to our team →It can include CFO and FP&A support, management reporting, accounting and close improvement, ERP implementation, data and control design, and workflow automation. The right scope depends on the business problem and your transformation maturity.
We stay alongside your team through implementation, helping turn recommendations into models, requirements, controls, workflows and practical ways of working.
Yes. We work independently with internal teams, auditors and technology partners, and can support your existing platform and delivery model.
Start with a focused diagnostic around the outcome you need, the current constraints and what you have already tried. We will help define a useful next step.
Start with a focused conversation about the outcome, current constraints and what you have already tried.
Book a consultation ↗Finance, systems and operations expertise — aligned around the way your business needs to work.
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