Advice & Manage
We bring to you on-demand Finance leadership services by providing CFOs, experienced FDs / Controllers on a part time, project or interim basis.
The CFO on-demand phenomenon started in Silicon Valley and is widely practiced in US, Canada and Australia. This trend is now gaining traction in many parts of the world including Asia with the advent of entrepreneurial initiatives globally.
Many Start-ups and small businesses are not big enough to warrant a full-time CFO but are engaging in fundraising, contracts, deals or expansions that are complex enough that requires the support of an experienced CFO. Size is no longer a consideration for CFO overview.
We understand that often business owners do not need or cannot afford a CFO on a full-time basis but may appreciate a regular discussion around plans or strategies or to bounce off and exchange ideas. In critical times, business owners may need a more experienced level of support or it could very well be to just handover a gambit of back office task such as Finance, HR, legal, and IT to an experienced executive, freeing the time of the owner or CEO to focus on the front line.
Beatum’s ambition is to be a pillar for Businesses and Entrepreneurs embarking on their growth journey, to become scalable or even simply to support them in whatever their current challenges are. We want to bring our Click-CFO services to as many businesses as possible. By offering on-demand services, we hope to keep the cost of CFO services affordable. It could be a couple of hours per month just to work on ideas and plans or for major projects such as fund raising or M&A activities. We are CFOs you can go to for flexible time and rates.
Our Click-CFOs are Finance leaders with proven track record, who are qualified and experienced in overseeing the broad spectrum of CFO responsibilities and activities. They typically have more than 15 years of experience in senior management roles with diverse industry and environments, from start-ups to top tier firms. Engagement of our CFOs will provide confidence to stakeholders and investors due to financial overview by an independent person. Nevertheless, he or she will become part of your management team and some of the support you can expect from our CFOS are:
- Deriving and driving the business strategy.
Development of business plan including building roadmap for implementation.
- Assist in raising capital and capital restructuring and turnaround strategies
- Advice on M&A activities, Investment appraisal and business valuation
- Participate in planning and management meetings.
Financial analysis and looking beyond numbers to assist business owners and managers make informed decision
- Provide leadership to cross functional teams and staff
- Support or manage change projects like digital transformation, finance transformation, system implementation etc
- Implementation or reengineering of business processes and control framework
- Budget and tax planning
- Business case analysis or Implementation of Shared Services / Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
Valuation
We provide Valuation and Pricing Analysis. Sometimes, owners would like to own how much their business or shares are worth. We can help provide such independent reports (“valuation”). Alternatively, management sometimes would like a second opinion on their estimated valuation (“pricing analysis”). We can also undertake specific valuations – for instance valuing trademarks, patents, share options etc
Corporate Finance (Fund-Raising & Listing)
We can help you raise funds. We can also help you explore and prepare for a listing locally or even overseas. This would involve advising you on the process, preparing relevant documents and engaging professionals for the job.