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CFO-as-a-Service

Part-time CFO for SMEs — MIS, budgeting, cash flow management, and board-ready reporting.

CFO-as-a-Service
60+Active clients
60+ Active clients
₹15L Avg. savings/year
24 Hr Response time
4.9★ Client rating
About this service

What we deliver

Most SMEs cannot afford a full-time CFO but desperately need strategic financial leadership. Our CFO-as-a-Service assigns a senior finance professional part-time — setting up MIS, managing cash flows, handling investor relations, and providing board-level financial insights.

Strategic finance, without the full-time cost

A capable CFO changes how a business runs — cash is forecast instead of discovered, pricing is informed by real margins, and decisions are made on numbers rather than instinct. But a full-time CFO costs far more than most SMEs can justify, so the role stays vacant and the accountant fills the gap with compliance-focused bookkeeping.

CFO-as-a-Service gives you a senior finance professional for a few days a month — enough to install financial discipline, run the reporting rhythm, and sit beside you for every major decision, at a fraction of a full-time hire.

What your virtual CFO delivers

A monthly MIS that shows the numbers that matter: revenue and margin by product line, cash flow actuals and 13-week forecast, receivables and payables health, and variance against budget. Annual budgeting and quarterly reforecasting. Pricing and cost analysis that protects margins as you grow.

For funded or fundraising companies: investor reporting packs, board meeting preparation, cap table hygiene, and fundraise support. For all clients: banking relationships, working capital management, and a finance team that gets coached, not just supervised.

Who this service is for

SMEs between ₹2 crore and ₹100 crore revenue that have outgrown accountant-led finance, funded startups needing investor-grade reporting, and family businesses professionalising for the next generation or a future sale.

How it works

Our step-by-step process

01

Finance function audit

We assess your current books, reporting, cash management, and team to identify what a CFO needs to fix first.

02

MIS & rhythm setup

In the first 60 days, the monthly MIS, cash forecast, and budgeting framework are installed and your team is trained to feed them.

03

Monthly CFO cadence

Your CFO runs monthly reviews with you — performance, cash, decisions pending — and joins key negotiations, banking, and investor conversations.

04

Quarterly strategy

Every quarter, budget versus actual is reviewed, forecasts are refreshed, and strategic priorities — pricing, expansion, funding — are recalibrated.

01

MIS & Dashboards

Monthly MIS reports, KPI dashboards, profitability analysis by product/segment, and variance reporting for data-driven decisions.

02

Cash Flow Management

Weekly cash flow forecasting, fund deployment optimization, and liquidity buffer management.

03

Investor & Board Reporting

Board packs, investor updates, quarterly reviews, and annual financial planning aligned with growth targets.

04

Compliance Management

Tax calendar management, statutory audit coordination, ROC filings, and regulatory compliance oversight.

Good to know

Frequently asked questions

How many hours per month?
Standard plans include 20-40 hours/month. Custom plans available based on business complexity and needs.
Will the CFO attend board meetings?
Yes. Your assigned CFO prepares board packs and presents financial performance at board meetings.
Can we upgrade to full-time later?
Yes. Many clients start part-time and transition to full-time as they scale. We facilitate smooth handover.
What industries do your CFOs cover?
Our CFO pool includes specialists across manufacturing, IT, healthcare, retail, F&B, and services sectors.

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