Virtual Finance Director

Would you like an experienced FD to give your financial strategy some direction?

As your business grows, keeping control of your finances and planning for future requirements becomes much more complicated.  In many businesses the bookkeeper produces just enough information to keep the VAT-man and the accountant happy; while the accountant produces accounts that tell you how good things were eighteen months ago!  But this is not enough to ensure the financial security of the business.

Platinum’s Virtual Finance Director (VFD) service provides you with a part-time senior financial expert with years of experience directing the financial strategies of SMEs.  Our VFD focuses on providing you with the most appropriate combination of the following support:

• cash flow forecasting and management
• cost control
• ensuring that you have the right management information to run the business efficiently and make decisions regarding expenditure and investments
• ensuring that you are able to make financial decisions fully aware of the implications and without over stretching the business
• providing introductions to finance providers, ensuring that any external options you choose do not impinge on the flexibility you are likely to require in the future
• ensuring that the business is using its resources and assets to borrow in the most cost effective manner
• being your peer for discussing business decisions (and a mentor by virtue of the experience they bring to such discussions)
• ensuring that your business is generating a good return for the investment of cash and energy you have made
• ensuring that your are well placed to get a good rate when seeking loans and business finance
• being affordable because you only buy the time you need

You may not feel that employing a full time finance director is justified – however an interim step may be to use the services of a VFD.

Users of our Virtual Finance services now get a “Executive Dashboard” sheet on a monthly basis – it includes all the indicators you need to steer your business towards your objectives. Click here to see a sample.

To find out more about our VFD services and for a free initial assessment please call 0845 054 5061 or email vfd@platinum-business.com.

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