Your Strategic Finance Office from $50k/year.
Best Value
Predictable
No HR hassles
Yearly Contract
Best Value
Predictable
No HR hassles
Yearly Contract
Most CFOs, whether they're in-house or outsourced, often have backgrounds in accounting and operational finance.
As a result, they often lack exposure to the strategic finance expertise commonly acquired in fields like Investment Banking, Private Equity or Venture Capital.
Likewise, they might not feel too confident with data analytics, which is actually a pretty big deal to understand the details of a business and meet transparency requirements.
FiftyKay fills this gap.
Critical - Communication with key (external) stakeholders necessitates compelling and informative narratives.
Minor - Communication primarily directed towards internal management, leading to less emphasis on narratives.
Short-Term - Involves tasks like accounting supervision, budgeting, controlling, cash management, working capital, and credit.
Advanced - Engages in sophisticated business analytics (future analysis), using data processing technologies and modern notebooks.
Valuation - Growing and monetizing the equity value of the company.
Efficiency - Supporting internal operational efficiency within the organization.
Sell-Side - The CFO defends management positions and is subject to internal biases.
Basic - Primarily involves Excel modeling for budgeting and controlling, possibly incorporating business intelligence tools (past analysis).
External - Ideally positioned outside the company, detached from day-to-day management. This detachment enables critical and strategic thinking.
C-Suite - Catering to the CEO and other CxOs (CMO, CTO, etc.).
Long-Term - Encompasses Financial Planning & Analysis, equity management, fundraising, M&A, investor relations & reporting.
Internal - Demands a physical presence (typically the CFO) within the office for managing routine tasks, overseeing workflows, and coordinating teams.
Buy-Side - The SFO reports to stakeholders adopting an investor or banker viewpoint.
Shareholders - Engaging shareholders and long-term financial partners.
Late Stage - Gains significance as the company matures, typically becoming more relevant around the 20 Full-Time Equivalent.
Any Stage - Becomes crucial as soon as the company aims to attract, engage, or satisfy shareholders and long-term financial partners.
Investing time is not the same as investing money. They come with different risks, priorities, and interests.
This difference often results in a 'principal-agent problem,' where investors (the principals) rely on founders (the agents) to get things done.
If there is misalignment, misinformation, or mistrust between them, the company is at risk of internal conflicts, down round or even bankruptcy.
FiftyKay helps reduce this risk.
Ensure legal compliance with proper accounting and use FiftyKay to establish strong foundations that will grow your equity -organically or through fundraising. To qualify, the company needs at least USD 1 million in revenue or funding.
Your in-house CFO (or VP Finance) manages operational finance and related day-to-day workflows. FiftyKay can seamlessly extend this resource by providing a more analytical and strategic layer.
Pat has a decade of experience in strategic finance and private equity, having worked with renowned institutions like Rothschild & Cie, Close Brothers, and SFF Financial Services in both France and Switzerland. Over the next ten years, he supported over 300 SMEs, including startups, growing businesses, and industrial companies. Pat holds economics degrees from Sorbonne and Dauphine universities, along with a master's in finance from HEC Paris.