Virtual CFO

We will provide you with a highly commercially experienced virtual CFO who will work as part of your team and take ownership of your finance function as well as provide high level strategic guidance.

The challenge of any small or medium sized business wanting to grow is ensuring they have the right financial management disciplines in place as well as having a strategic plan to help them achieve their goal. This is when a virtual CFO or chief financial officer can be advantageous.

We provide a number of talented and highly experienced virtual CFOs who each have a substantial commercial background and have worked with various businesses, including large multinationals, start ups, public companies and private enterprises, across a vast array of industries.

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An independent strategic review of your business will help you to have a clearer understanding of how to overcome your challenges, what opportunities for improvement may be present and how to achieve greater efficiency and productivity.

The focus of the strategic review is to identify the core areas of improvements that if addressed will give significant medium term benefits to your business. Areas for improvement include leadership, staffing, organisational structure, communication, KPIs, marketing/sales, processes & systems and financial management.

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We prepare sophisticated financial budgets that are aligned with key performance indicators (KPIs), objectives and the financial targets for the directors and the business. Our budgets establish the fixed costs, like overheads, incurred for the business to break even, as well as the revenue and associated variable costs, like marketing, that will deliver profits back to the business.

Our 3-way budgets are especially designed for larger and more complex businesses, our sophisticated 3-way financial budgeting model brings together the profit and loss budget (as above) with a cash flow budget and a balance sheet budget, all linked to the business KPIs to give a comprehensive outlook for the business.

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Our team of virtual CFOs and corporate advisors have strong commercial backgrounds and the necessary expertise to develop financial models that reflect the intricacies of a business to construct a workable and useful tool. 

In addition, they provide financial figures that have integrity; plus with the backing from Azure Group as well as your experienced virtual CFO, this lends significant weight to investors injecting capital into your business.

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A strategic business plan will help you define the direction of your business as well as what you hope to achieve. It will also help to make informed decisions regarding resource allocation, spending and capital management.

By undertaking a financial analysis of the business we can prepare a strategic business plan to support the objectives and targets of the directors and the business.

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Implementing a commission plan for sales, bonus or share scheme can be critical to the success of the business, resulting in higher levels of productivity and a stable and loyal workforce.

However, often staff incentives are not aligned with the business needs or objectives. In many instances staff may be receiving sizeable bonuses but the business will still be performing poorly.

We can help you develop an appropriate plan that works for your business that is well structured, aligned with the business’ objectives and is also tax effective for the business and its employees.

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Our corporate advisory services have been developed to ensure your business implements a solid foundation for success no matter how complex the project may be. We do this by utilising the talent and experienced of our highly skilled virtual CFOs combined with our technical compliance teams.

Our corporate advisory services cover mergers & acquisitions, financial modelling, financial systems reengineering, employee incentive schemes, succession planning and business valuations.

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One of our highly experienced virtual CFOs will undertake a review of your business accounts to identify any discrepancies, errors, fraud or misappropriations. They will be able to address and efficiently resolve any complex accounting errors or issues.

We will also undertake a review of your reporting system to ensure you have a system that is reliable and is able to deliver timely and accurate financial information.

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Our virtual CFOs and advisors can work with you to review workplace relations and HR systems in your business and implement effective strategies, processes and procedures to ensure compliance, mitigate risk and improve overall operational performance.

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Azure Group’s team of talented virtual CFOs and corporate advisors have considerable experience in undertaking business valuations for companies, trusts, partnerships and unincorporated joint ventures for the above reasons.

Azure Group can work with you to achieve your business valuation goal. For instance if you are looking to sell your business, our team can work with you to implement a plan that will maximise its value. This may include helping you to improve profitability and also de-risking the business.

Our commercially experienced virtual CFOs have a vast experience in managing mergers, acquisitions and sale of businesses.

We have achieved many successful results for our clients assisting them with strategic planning for their M&A project, helping them with deal negotiations, secure funding as well as the subsequent taxation and compliance implications.

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