There are many challenges facing a growing business and our Virtual CFO service helps you navigate those challenges effectively by providing professional advice, analysis and support to management. Hiring a full-time professional CFO may not be in the budget of a small enterprise. Startups and SMEs are increasingly recognizing the need to have professional CFO services and realize that managing a businesses finance and accounts, compliances, corporate governance, reporting and strategic requirements are important tasks.
Virtual CFO is an outsourced service provider offering high skill assistance in financial requirements of an organization, just like a chief financial officer does for large organizations. Generally, it provides businesses which have a finance and accounts team but do not have a in-house CFO, a Finance Partner in their growth journey.
Small companies may need a controller on a weekly or fortnightly basis. Virtual CFOs also offer one-time help with strategic transactions, financial processes, business plans and budgeting. Clients are invoiced on an hourly or monthly rate depending on the nature of service. Specific services provide include:
- Analyzing the best form of legal entity structure considering various factors like resource requirements, fund raising requirements, tax efficiency, compliance cost, regulatory requirement etc.
- Providing advice on best practices to the client as and when required on matters related to Regulatory compliances including FEMA and International taxation and managing all taxation related activities such as processing and deposit of direct and indirect tax on a timely basis.
- Manage relationship with the investors and provide regular MIS and presentations as required by them (Banks, VC Funds, Seed Fund, PE Funds).
- Building detailed business plan after thorough research on client's company, products/services, industry and competition.
- Designing, formulating and implementing financial processes and controls across all mainline and support functions in conjunction with the client team.
- Creating budgets, predictive forecasts and provide sensitivity analysis for various market scenarios.
- Managing the client's funds to achieve objectives of best return on capital and liquidity on behalf of the client. Forecasting and evaluating the cash flows and working capital requirement of the client and providing MIS on fund utilization.
- Supporting in our clients in all aspects of the IPO process - meeting prospective institutional investors, preparing financials, handling compliances, etc.
- Supporting our clients in executing their M & A strategy by providing guidance on the benefits and risks involved and providing post M & A support for smooth integration between companies.
- Undertaking due diligence on a target company on behalf of the client or providing support and intelligence for due diligence being undertaken on client.