The right senior-level financial resources at the right time
Maintaining a fully in-house finance team is not always the most efficient approach. More organizations are choosing outsourced CFO services for agile and specialized financial guidance. Our fractional CFOs and controllers apply insights to your business shaped from a wide range of industry and client experience. The flexibility of our service allows you to adjust and scale support as your needs evolve.
BDO's CFO & Controllership Services help organizations of all sizes and industries navigate transitions, challenges, and unexpected opportunities with seasoned leadership. Whether you need to fill a short-term talent gap, or ongoing support, our part-time controllers and CFOs provide you with the agility you need to be cost effective. We do this with a consistent collaborative approach, ensuring that services match the unique needs of each client and leverage existing capacity, as appropriate.
Our delivery model provides both virtual and hybrid resources across Canada, giving you access to top talent as you require it. Our financial professionals assist with all operational and planning services, including:
- Strategic support for financial planning & analysis (FP&A)
- Robust cash management and cash optimization processes
- Financial stewardship and implementing controls over company assets
- Financial stewardship and implementing controls over company assets
- Enhance decision making acumen of owners, founders and CEOs with application of financial tools (break even analysis, project profitability, estimating to optimize pricing, contribution margin analysis, resource optimization)
- Bank and stakeholder negotiations
When to hire a fractional CFO
We help our clients address the unique needs of their finance function, based on their organization's situation.
As a business trying to grow and thrive, you may often feel overwhelmed by the ongoing challenges of financial planning and regulatory compliance.
If you are an international company faced with rapidly changing legislation and regulatory requirements, our services can help you ensure compliance through leveraging the use of our local and global expertise in a cost-effective manner.
You could be a large parent company that just purchased another entity and now need guidance on executing an effective integration of that entity and new financial reporting requirements.
If you are a private equity firm, CFO and controllership services may evolve with your portfolio of companies, and/or be mandated as part of the purchase.
As a private lender or a bank preparing to lend to a potential new client, let us conduct a finance function assessment to help provide comfort they will be able to comply with interim reporting requirements and covenants.
If you are in the scale-up phase of development, you may need a more mature finance department but just don't have it right now.
You could be a small or mid-sized private company that is embarking on a digital transformation journey and your current finance leader just doesn’t have the right technical know-how.
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