Cash-flow forecasting, management reporting, budgeting, board support and finance-function leadership for growing UAE businesses.
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Read the briefing →Growing businesses often need stronger financial leadership before they need, or can justify, a full-time CFO. The gap usually appears in forecasting, board reporting, financing, controls, performance analysis and ownership of the finance roadmap.
CBM Consultants provides an outsourced CFO service with an agreed operating rhythm and defined deliverables. We work with owners, management teams and internal finance staff to turn accounting information into decisions and to build a finance function that can scale.
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Build rolling forecasts, scenario analysis, payment priorities and working-capital actions.
Translate strategy into operating budgets, KPIs, variance analysis and accountable actions.
Prepare concise packs covering performance, cash, risks, forecasts, decisions and covenant information.
Set the close calendar, team responsibilities, controls, systems roadmap and reporting standards.
Prepare financial information, forecasts, due-diligence responses and lender or investor materials.
Coordinate accounting, VAT, Corporate Tax, audit, insurance and other finance-related obligations.
The engagement should define which matters the outsourced CFO owns, recommends or escalates.
Forecasting and performance analysis require timely, reconciled accounting information.
Weekly cash and monthly performance rhythms keep decisions current.
Processes and models should remain understandable and usable by the internal team.
Assess cash, reporting, team, systems, controls and near-term decisions.
Prioritise the first 90 days and define the recurring operating calendar.
Create forecasts, packs, dashboards, controls and responsibilities.
Lead the agreed weekly, monthly and quarterly finance rhythm.
Improve systems, team capability and reporting as the business changes.
Our engagements connect the accounting record with tax, audit, governance and commercial reporting. A named senior contact coordinates the work, material positions are documented and issues are raised early enough for management to act.
Where another licensed or jurisdiction-specific adviser is required, we identify the dependency and coordinate the information needed for that work.
Bookkeeping maintains the accounting records. CFO support uses reliable financial information to manage cash, performance, risk, financing and forward decisions.
Yes, when the scope is proportionate. The priority may be cash visibility, investor reporting, controls and establishing a basic finance rhythm.
Yes. Clear ownership between bookkeeping, controller, CFO and management is established at the start.
The cadence is tailored to the need, commonly weekly for cash or active projects and monthly for performance and board reporting.
We can define roles, assess capability and support a transition to a stronger internal function.
Book a 30 minute consultation to discuss your accounting, tax or business requirements. If we are not the right fit, we'll say so and point you to someone who is.
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