FRACTIONAL FINANCE
Finance leadership, on your terms.
Bracknwell Partners provides flexible FD and CFO support for growing businesses that need senior financial leadership without committing to a full-time hire.
Growing businesses often reach a point where the existing finance team is stretched, reporting is not keeping pace and key decisions need stronger financial input. Fractional Finance gives you access to experienced finance leadership on a flexible basis, whether part-time, interim or ongoing.
What this service covers
We provide senior finance leadership and hands-on support across the areas that matter most to growing businesses.
- Fractional CFO support
- Fractional Finance Director support
- Interim FD or CFO support
- Board-level finance leadership
- Financial strategy and business planning
- Budgeting and forecasting
- Cash flow management
- Working capital support
- Management reporting
- Board and investor reporting
- KPI development and tracking
- Business modelling and scenario analysis
- Fundraising and investment readiness
- Transaction and exit support
- Finance function improvement
- Financial controls and governance
- Finance systems and process improvement
- PE and VC-backed growth support
- Stakeholder and lender reporting
- Support for scaling finance teams
When this helps
You need senior finance leadership
You need FD or CFO level thinking, but a full-time hire is not the right next step.
Reporting is not good enough
Management information is late, unclear or not useful enough for decisions.
Cash flow needs more control
You need better visibility over cash, working capital, funding requirements and financial pressure points.
You are preparing for funding or investment
You need credible forecasts, reporting and financial leadership that investors or lenders can trust.
The business is scaling
Growth is creating more complexity across reporting, systems, controls, people and decision making.
You need interim cover
You need experienced finance leadership during change, recruitment, absence or transition.
How we work
Understand your finance needs
We review your business model, current reporting, finance team, cash flow, systems and the decisions management need to make.
Define the right level of support
We agree whether you need part-time CFO support, FD support, interim cover, project support or a more embedded finance leadership model.
Improve financial visibility
We strengthen reporting, forecasting, cash flow, KPIs and the routines that help management see what is happening and what needs attention.
Support better decisions
We provide ongoing or project-based finance leadership around growth, funding, investment, profitability, systems, controls and strategic choices.
What you get
Senior finance judgement
Experienced finance leadership without the commitment of a full-time executive hire.
Clearer reporting
Management information that helps leaders understand performance and act earlier.
Better forecasts
Budgets, forecasts and scenarios that support planning, funding and operational decisions.
Cash flow discipline
Improved visibility over cash, working capital and future pressure points.
Stronger governance
Better finance routines, controls, accountability and reporting quality.
Flexible support
Part-time, interim or ongoing support shaped around the stage and needs of the business.
Who this helps
- Growing SMEs
- Owner-managed businesses
- Scale-ups
- PE-backed businesses
- VC-backed businesses
- Businesses preparing for fundraising
- Businesses preparing for acquisition or exit
- Businesses undergoing change or transformation
- Businesses with weak or inconsistent reporting
- Businesses without a full-time FD or CFO
- Boards needing stronger management information
- Finance teams needing senior leadership or additional capacity
Fractional Finance or Virtual Finance Office?
These services are connected, but they are not the same. Fractional Finance gives you senior finance leadership. It is for businesses that need FD or CFO level judgement, better reporting, cash flow discipline, board support, funding readiness or financial leadership during growth and change. Virtual Finance Office gives you an outsourced finance function. It is for businesses that need reliable bookkeeping, reconciliations, VAT, payroll, management accounts, dashboards, cloud accounting and day-to-day finance support. Many clients need both. Virtual Finance Office keeps the finance function running properly. Fractional Finance helps leadership use the numbers to make better decisions.
Fractional Finance
- Senior FD and CFO support
- Finance leadership
- Board and investor reporting
- Forecasting and cash flow
- Funding readiness
- Business modelling
- Financial controls
- Growth and performance support
Virtual Finance Office
- Bookkeeping
- Bank reconciliations
- VAT returns
- Payroll support
- Management accounts
- Cloud accounting
- Dashboards
- Ongoing outsourced finance function
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