Fractional Finance, Built For Growing Businesses

Fractional finance support, Business Planning & Forecasting, and Finance Systems & Automation - delivered as a flexible team so you’re event-ready, confident in your numbers, and making decisions faster.

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Businesses Served
£1m–£20m Turnover
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Results Timeline
3-6 Months
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Focus
Event-Ready Finance
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Who We Help

Board‑level finance for growing SMEs

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Small to medium companies (typically £1m–20m turnover) scaling and often preparing for an event - (think investment, acquisition, raising finance, business sale etc) changes - in the next 12–18 months. If your finance feels reactive, late or hard to trust, we’ll turn it into forward-looking insight.

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What You Get

What you get: A fractional team of experts (not just one person)

Many businesses either hire a full-time CFO too early (expensive person running spreadsheets)or under-recruit and miss strategic support and experience. A fractional blend gives you both -at the right time.
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CFO Level Support
Board-level challenge, funding strategy, investor confidence
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Planning & Analysis
Budgets, rolling forecasts, scenarios and storytelling with numbers
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Systems & Automation
Xero, Dext, Float - tuned to reduce manual work and speed month-end
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What You Expect

Outcomes You Can Trust

  • Forward-looking decisions: budgets, rolling forecasts and scenario planning become youroperating rhythm
  • Sleep-better with confidence: weekly finance dashboards surface issues before they bite
  • Event-readiness: cleaner data, KPI trends and models that stand up in diligence
  • A visible step-change in 3months vs. your prior state
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How We Work

Cadence that Sticks

Making finance forward-looking and dependable, not just compliant.
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Weekly check-ins
Keeping an eye on the measures that matter (cashflow,  debtors, overdue items, HMRC,  process backlogs)
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Momentum  between on site days
We keep banks, lawyers and advisors moving - not just’one day a week’
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The Black Book
Trusted lenders, investors, lawyers, accountants and fellow fractional specialists.
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Communicate your way
Teams, WhatsApp, email, whatever works for you - with a two-way challenge ethos
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Tools We Use

Tooling we implement

Xero, Dext, ScaleXP and Float - tuned to reduce manual work, speed up close and scalevolume without adding headcount.
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Andy Mellor
Founder of Summit 17
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Testimonial

Proof

Transformational in 6 months’ compared to where we were - forward-looking insight, notjust late, backward-looking numbers.
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Exciting times at Seda Pharceutical Developmental Service
This week, I'm highlighting my fractional CFO work with SEDA, a dynamic and growth-focused company in the life sceinces space working with biotech and big pharma.
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Exciting times at Seda Pharceutical & Clincial Manufacturing Services
This week, I'm highlighting my fractional CFO work with SEDA, a dynamic and growth-focused company in the life sceinces space working with biotech and big pharma.

Public Case Study

How Summit 17 achieved instant gross-margin clarity and a faster month-end using ScaleXP (replacing manual spreadsheets).
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Summit 17

Get Started

From initial review to ongoing support — a clear path to forward-looking finance.

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Event-Ready Finance Review

30 minutes to explore goals, red flags and timelines.
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02

90-Day Plan

30 minutes to explore goals, red flags and timelines.
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03

Run

The fractional blend (CFO/Reporting/Systems) flexed to your stage.

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30 minutes to explore goals, red flags and timelines. No obligation, just clarity on whether we can help
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