The role of the part time FD

A part-time Finance Director should help you achieve the following in a structured way:

  • Understand the financial drivers of your business and ensure appropriate staff do too
  • Assess the business and operational risks facing your business and help you to avoid or mitigate them
  • Ensure you are operating the most appropriate business model
  • Provide the strategic business orientated advice not usually provided by external or internal accountants
  • Critically assess, from a financial perspective, the management information you receive
  • Ensure that you and your management team receive appropriate and relevant financial information
  • Contribute to or facilitate your business planning process
  • Help you plan and implement the next stage in the development of your business
  • Advise and participate in complex financial negotiations, including funding, acquisitions, joint ventures and major contracts

And where appropriate:

  • Develop tax strategies for the business and the owners
  • Handle relationships with auditors, banks, investors and other parties
  • Develop an exit strategy for individual shareholders or the shareholders as a whole

The support of a part-time Finance Director should be flexible and relatively inexpensive. Azure Partners provide this service as part of a wider portfolio of business support and advice designed to help business owners build their businesses and create value in them for their shareholders

For more information, please contact Mike Robson on 0207 100 1233 or mike.robson@azurepartners.co.uk