CFO advisory in the UAE.
CFO advisory UAE owners reach for when they need a senior finance brain without a full-time salary: cash-flow management, budgeting and forecasting, board and investor reporting, KPI dashboards, and finance-function build. A fractional CFO works on your business on a transparent fixed retainer, owning the decisions between the monthly numbers.
Senior, not salaried
A CFO-grade brain without a full-time hire.
Cash first
Forecasting and runway watched, not just reported.
Board-ready
Reporting your board and investors actually trust.
Fixed retainer
A transparent monthly fee, scoped before we start.
The steering, not just the reporting.
Six areas of senior finance leadership, run on a retainer, so the judgment is there when the decisions are.
Cash-flow management
A live view of cash and runway, working-capital levers identified, and the short-term decisions made before cash, not after, becomes the problem.
Budgeting and forecasting
An annual budget and a rolling forecast you can actually run on, with the scenarios that show what each big decision does to the numbers.
Board and investor reporting
Board packs and investor updates that present performance, cash, and risk clearly, so the people you report to get a straight read.
KPI dashboards
The handful of metrics that actually drive your business, built into a dashboard you check weekly, not a report you ignore monthly.
Finance-function build
The team, systems, controls, and cadence designed and put in place, so the finance function runs without depending on you for every number.
Decision support
The numbers behind pricing, hiring, investment, and financing decisions, modelled by a senior principal before you commit.
AI assembles the forecasts, dashboards, and board packs so the senior principal can interpret them and own the recommendation.
A fractional CFO gives a UAE mid-market owner the financial steering of a senior CFO, cash, forecasting, reporting, and decision support, on a fixed retainer rather than a full-time salary.
A retainer that earns its place every month.
A senior read of your finance function
What to change firstA principal assesses where your cash, reporting, and controls actually stand, and what a CFO would change first.
A scoped retainer, agreed up front
No hourly surprisesYou see exactly what the fractional CFO will own and the fixed monthly fee, before any work begins.
Cash and forecasting put on a cadence
Live, not quarterlyWe stand up the cash view, the rolling forecast, and the KPI dashboard, so the steering numbers are live, not quarterly.
AI builds the models, the CFO reads them
Senior ownedProprietary AI assembles forecasts, dashboards, and board packs; a senior principal interprets them and owns the recommendation.
In the room for the decisions
When it countsThe fractional CFO is present for board meetings and the big calls, with a senior reply within one business day in between.
A bookkeeper reports the past. A CFO steers the future.
The usual pattern gives you monthly numbers and leaves you to interpret them alone. A fractional CFO turns those numbers into decisions, and stands behind the call.
A senior CFO interpreting the numbers and steering
Not monthly accounts, then silence until next month.
Cash and runway forecast, with levers ready to pull
Not cash managed by checking the bank balance.
A rolling forecast that drives real decisions
Not a spreadsheet forecast nobody updates.
Board and investor reporting owned by a principal
Not board packs assembled the night before, by you.
Frequently asked questions.
What does CFO advisory in the UAE cover?
Cash-flow management, budgeting and forecasting, board and investor reporting, KPI dashboards, and building out the finance function. You get a senior finance brain on the decisions between the monthly numbers, without hiring a full-time CFO.
What is a fractional CFO?
A fractional CFO is a senior finance leader who works with you part-time on a retainer, owning the financial steering of the business: cash, forecasting, reporting, and the numbers behind big decisions, at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire.
Do I need a full-time CFO or a fractional one?
Many UAE mid-market owners need senior finance judgment regularly but not full-time. A fractional CFO gives you the seniority and the steering without the salary, and we are honest about when your scale genuinely warrants a permanent hire.
How is CFO advisory priced?
On a transparent fixed monthly retainer, scoped to what you need, agreed before we start, and not billed by the hour. The retainer scales with the depth of involvement, not with how many questions you ask.
Can you build our finance function from scratch?
Yes. We design the finance function, the reporting cadence, the controls, and the dashboards, and put the people and systems in place so it runs without depending on you for every number.
Do you prepare board and investor reporting?
Yes. We produce board packs and investor reporting that present cash, performance, and the KPIs that matter clearly, so the people you report to get a straight read and you get fewer follow-up questions.
Guides on this.
Put a fractional CFO on your business.
Tell us where the financial decisions are getting hard. We will read your finance function and come back with a scope and a fixed monthly retainer, and a senior reply within one business day.