Fractional CFO & Finance Leadership
Board-grade finance leadership, sized to your stage. A senior CFO on your team — without the full-time cost.
A Fractional CFO (also called Virtual CFO or Outsourced CFO) gives you senior, board-grade finance leadership on a part-time, fixed-fee basis. It's the right answer when your business needs CFO judgment — fundraising, board reporting, strategic planning, M&A, investor relations, scenario modeling — but the volume does not justify the SAR 60,000–95,000 / AED 55,000–85,000 monthly cost of a full-time CFO.
A Fractional CFO (also called Virtual CFO or Outsourced CFO) gives you senior, board-grade finance leadership on a part-time, fixed-fee basis. It's the right answer when your business needs CFO judgment — fundraising, board reporting, strategic planning, M&A, investor relations, scenario modeling — but the volume does not justify the SAR 60,000–95,000 / AED 55,000–85,000 monthly cost of a full-time CFO.
Axcell's CFO bench is built from ACCA, CPA, and SOCPA-credentialed practitioners with 20+ years of corporate experience — including Big 4 audit, multinational corporate finance, and operating CFO roles at companies running SAR 50M to SAR 2B.
- Strategic finance leadership — present in board meetings, investor meetings, banking relationships
- Annual budgeting, rolling forecasting, scenario and sensitivity modeling
- 13-week cash flow forecast and runway management
- Capital structure design, debt and equity raising, term sheet negotiation
- M&A buy-side and sell-side support: target screening, valuation, due diligence, integration
- Investor reporting, lender reporting, board pack production
- KPI design, financial dashboard, performance management framework
- Business valuation for shareholders, transactions, and disputes
Businesses with annual revenue between SAR 10M and SAR 250M facing a finance-leadership-shaped problem: fundraising, transaction, restructuring, scale-up, or board-readiness.
Founder-led companies where the founder is the de facto CFO and needs to redirect that time to growth, product, or sales.
Family businesses moving toward institutional governance, professional board, or generational handover.
- Discovery: 2-week deep dive into the business, financials, team, systems, and stakeholders
- Diagnosis: written assessment with prioritized issues list and 90-day plan
- Engagement: 1–4 days per month on-site or remote — defined cadence with the CEO and board
- Outputs: monthly board pack, 13-week cash flow, quarterly forecast update, ad-hoc strategic memos
- Special projects: fundraising round, transaction, restructuring, ERP migration, audit cleanup
You receive a senior named CFO — not a rotating team. The same person attends your board, knows your story, and is accountable for the output.
Working model: typically 1 strategy day + 1 reporting day + 1 stakeholder day per month, scaling up during high-intensity periods (fundraising, year-end).
Backed by Axcell's full bench: when you need a controller, an auditor, a tax specialist, or an ERP consultant for a project, the bench is one call away.
Three engagement tiers based on intensity and seniority:
Advisor (1 day/month, board attendance, monthly review): SAR 12,000–25,000 / AED 11,000–22,000 / EGP 55,000–110,000 per month.
Fractional CFO (2–3 days/month, full reporting, strategic planning): SAR 25,000–55,000 / AED 22,000–48,000 / EGP 110,000–250,000 per month.
Embedded CFO (4+ days/month, fundraising or transaction-active): SAR 55,000–95,000 / AED 48,000–82,000 / EGP 250,000–425,000 per month.
Project-based engagements (one-off fundraising, transaction, restructuring) priced on scope.
- A working 13-week cash flow that your bank, your investors, and your board trust
- Investor-ready monthly board pack — replaces the late, partial reports you used to send
- Closed fundraising round at favorable terms (where applicable)
- Clear capital allocation framework — every SAR/AED/EGP of operating cash is accounted for
- A finance leader who shares your accountability — without the SAR 1M annual cost
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