Fractional CFO Services for Startups & Growing Businesses
Senior financial leadership for cash flow, growth and funding decisions.
Flyn & Co. provides fractional CFO services for startups, SMEs and growing businesses that need experienced financial leadership on a flexible basis. We help founders and management teams understand cash runway, improve profitability and prepare for financing.
What do fractional CFO services include?
A fractional CFO provides senior financial leadership for an agreed share of your business’s needs. Also described as outsourced CFO services or part-time CFO support, the engagement combines forward-looking analysis with recurring management decisions.
The scope should start with the questions that matter to your business.
- Are we making decisions with the right financial visibility?
- Where are margin, cash, or profitability issues emerging?
- What does the next 3, 6, or 12 months look like financially?
- Which KPIs should management actually track?
- How much cash do we need to fund growth, hiring, or investment?
- Are we ready for a bank, investor, board, or shareholder discussion?
- What should change in the business model, cost base, or operating cadence
The goal is better decisions, stronger control, and a clearer view of performance.
Fractional CFO for startups, SMEs and growing businesses
A fractional CFO for startups can connect burn rate, runway and fundraising milestones. For established SMEs, the priorities often shift to working capital, margins, investment capacity and more reliable reporting. The right support depends on the decisions ahead and the strength of your finance function.
Fractional CFO for startups
Connect cash burn and runway with hiring, product investment and fundraising milestones. Test how slower revenue or a delayed funding round affects the decisions you can afford.
Part-time CFO for SMEs
Give management a dependable forecast, clearer margins and a regular performance review as the business grows beyond its existing reporting processes.
Cash flow is becoming harder to manage
Revenue may be growing, but timing, working capital, investment, hiring, or debt repayment creates pressure on liquidity.
Reporting exists, but it does not drive decisions
You receive financial information, but it does not clearly explain what is changing, what matters, or what action should follow.
The business is entering a new phase
You are preparing for growth, financing, acquisition, restructuring, pricing changes, hiring, or operational transformation.
Leadership needs a stronger finance rhythm
You need recurring financial reviews, clearer KPIs, stronger management packs, and more disciplined decision-making.
How our outsourced CFO services work
We start with your immediate decisions, the reliability of your financial data and the support your team already has. Together, we agree priorities, deliverables and a review cadence for cash, forecasts and performance.
The initial work can establish a cash baseline, test the main revenue and cost assumptions, and identify reporting gaps. Recurring reviews then compare actual results with the plan, update scenarios and assign actions. The engagement can evolve from focused financial planning and analysis to broader finance leadership as your needs change.
Financial visibility and management reporting
We help management understand what changed in performance, why it changed and which action should follow.
- Monthly P&L and balance sheet review
- Cash movements and working capital analysis
- Budget and forecast variances
- KPI dashboards and performance bridges
- Board and investor reporting with decision-focused commentary
A useful review separates changes in sales volume, pricing and costs so management can assign an owner to each issue. Our monthly management reporting guide explains how to structure that discussion.
Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
Our financial planning and analysis support connects revenue, staffing, margins and working capital to a budget you can update.
- Annual budgets and rolling forecasts
- Revenue, hiring and operating cost drivers
- Investment and working capital assumptions
- Base and downside scenarios
- Budget-to-actual variance analysis
Explore our financial modeling services or the driver-based budgeting guide to see how operating assumptions flow into the financial plan.
Cash flow and runway management
We build a view of expected receipts, payments and minimum cash needs so management can see when to act.
- Rolling 13-week cash flow forecasts
- Burn rate and cash runway analysis for startups
- Working capital and collections monitoring
- Debt repayments and funding requirements
- Downside scenarios for delayed sales or financing
A longer customer payment cycle can reduce available cash even when revenue is on plan. Read our cash flow forecasting guide for the method.
Strategic decision support
Fractional CFO support can also help when the business faces decisions with financial consequences.
This can include:
- pricing and profitability analysis,
- growth investment decisions,
- hiring plans,
- cost review,
- market expansion,
- acquisition or disposal considerations,
- debt or equity financing preparation,
- shareholder or board discussions.
The role is to clarify trade-offs and support better decisions with financial logic.
Financing, investor, and lender readiness
We help startups and SMEs prepare the financial case behind a fundraising, bank financing or shareholder discussion.
- Financial models and funding scenarios
- Cash runway, funding requirements and use of funds
- Investor or lender financial materials
- Debt capacity and covenant headroom analysis
- Board reporting and financial due diligence preparation
The work connects the capital you need with the milestones it should fund and the assumptions investors or lenders will challenge. Where relevant, business valuation support can inform the ownership discussion.
Financial systems and process improvement
As businesses grow, finance processes often become fragmented, manual, or difficult to scale.
We help strengthen the underlying finance infrastructure so reporting, forecasting, and decision-making become more efficient and reliable.
This can include:
- finance process review,
- reporting workflow improvement,
- spreadsheet and model optimisation,
- management information design,
- finance controls enhancement,
- data consistency review,
- finance team support and coordination.
The objective is to create a more efficient finance function that delivers timely, accurate information and supports better business decisions.
Why Flyn & Co.
Flyn & Co. provides direct access to a finance advisor who connects financial planning, business performance and management decisions. Learn more about the experience behind Flyn & Co. and explore our finance resources and worked methods.
Forward-looking financial leadership
We work alongside your accountant and finance team to connect reliable accounting information with forecasts, reporting and the decisions management needs to make next.
Principal-led
You work directly with a finance-led advisor who understands FP&A, modeling, valuation, strategy, and business performance.
Built for decisions
The work is designed to support management action, not just document past performance.
Practical and scalable
The support can start focused and expand as the business grows, from a monthly finance rhythm to deeper strategic support.
Stronger link between numbers and execution
We connect financial analysis to the business choices that matter: growth, profitability, cash, investment, hiring, and risk.
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Fractional CFO services FAQs
A fractional CFO typically provides ongoing financial leadership for part of the time. An interim CFO usually fills a temporary leadership gap or supports a defined transition. Flyn & Co. can structure a recurring, temporary or project-based engagement around your priorities and agree the level of involvement at the outset.
Consider a fractional CFO when hiring, cash runway or a funding round depends on a forecast you cannot yet rely on. Support can help founders connect revenue assumptions, burn rate and spending commitments with the milestones they need to fund. Flyn & Co. also works with established SMEs and growing businesses.
Yes. The work can include a financial model, cash runway and funding scenarios, use-of-funds analysis, and financial materials for investors or lenders. We help management explain the assumptions behind the funding requirement and prepare for financial questions during due diligence. The scope depends on your stage and financing objectives.
Yes. Part of the work can include structuring the financial information, identifying data gaps, and building a more usable reporting and planning framework.
The fee depends on the agreed scope, the condition of your data, the reporting cadence and the level of involvement required. A focused cash forecasting mandate and recurring CFO leadership require different amounts of work. In the consultation, we discuss your priorities and define the support needed before proposing a scope and fee.
We agree deliverables, responsibilities and a review cadence around your needs. Typical outputs include a cash forecast, a budget or rolling forecast, management reporting and a list of decisions and actions. Cash pressure or an upcoming financing may require more frequent reviews than a regular monthly reporting cycle.
Your accountant supplies the accounting, tax and statutory expertise appropriate to their mandate. A fractional CFO uses reliable financial information to build forecasts, interpret performance and support management decisions. We work alongside your existing team and agree who owns each input, reconciliation and reporting deadline.
Discuss your fractional CFO needs
Whether you need a fractional CFO for a startup, stronger cash control for an SME or support ahead of a funding decision, start with the challenge you need to solve.
Tell us about your business, your immediate priorities and your timeline. We can discuss the financial visibility, deliverables and level of support your situation requires.
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