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A CFO at your side, in the shape the company needs.

Each engagement is led from Dubai by Charif Takieddine, with a team of specialists.

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Fractional CFO

Your CFO, one to two days a week, working with the team you have, for one company or a group, including family groups.

  • The month-end, with a short pack by day 5 as the aim. The full close can follow by mid-month.
  • Cash, week by week, and the big decisions with the numbers behind them.
  • Where the money goes next: what the next investment would earn, and what it does to the rest of the business.
  • For a group, one set of numbers, and each company on its own.

A monthly retainer.

Deal CFO

For a raise, a loan, a buy-in, a sale or an acquisition.

  • The financial model, built for the other side to test.
  • The finance documents for the data room.
  • Answers to their questions, as they arrive.
  • The terms to aim for, and the numbers behind the structure: what each price, each term and each way of funding it would do to the company.
  • On an acquisition, the numbers and what you can pay.

It ends when the deal closes, or carries on as a monthly engagement for the integration and the financial oversight of the combined group.

Finance transformation

When the company has outgrown its finance function.

  • New people where needed, and routine work to people who do only that.
  • Processes that hold, systems connected to each other, and a month that closes faster.
  • AI and automation on the routine work.
  • A finance function rebuilt around the people you have.

A project, with its scope and timing set in the proposal. It ends when the new set-up runs on its own.

Interim CFO

When the finance head leaves.

  • The month-end keeps running.
  • The processes optimised along the way.
  • Help building the team that follows.

Month by month, for as long as the seat is empty, and through the handover to the new finance head.

Senior-led, with a team of specialists

Charif Takieddine leads every engagement and answers for the work. Around him is a team of specialists:

  • CFOs who can lead or co-lead a workstream, or bring a particular industry or skill.
  • A transaction (M&A) lead, for the numbers and the diligence on a purchase or a sale.
  • Analysts, who build the models, the packs and the finance documents for the data room.
  • An accounting team, which runs the month-end under our direction.

We work alongside your accountant, your auditor and your advisers. Bookkeeping on its own, tax filing and audit stay with them. When the finance function itself needs rebuilding, that is our work: the processes, the systems and the team.

How we work, as your CFO

  1. We set down what the company is trying to achieve, in one sentence.
  2. We find the few things that move it most.
  3. Money and time move toward those, and away from what drains them.
  4. The reporting is rebuilt so you see those few things move, fast enough to steer by.
  5. The cash is mapped: what needs to go where, and when.
  6. Incentives are set so everyone pulls the same way.
  7. What is gained goes back in where it earns more than it costs, to get there faster.

On a deal, the deal sets the order: the terms to aim for, the model, the documents, and the questions as they arrive.

Five questions, worked through

Start with a call.

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A 30-minute intro call with Charif.