What we do / SEE YOUR NUMBERS
Numbers you can steer by.
A monthly close that lands on a fixed day, one dashboard with the numbers you actually steer by, cash seen 13 weeks ahead, and reporting your bank and your board can trust. Built in your systems, run by your team.
$1B+
Revenue P&L owned, across 40 countries
20
Years as finance leader and Group CFO
4
Continents as Group CFO, GE Capital
Founders' prior roles and engagements, before Oostduin Associates. Company names and full detail are shared in conversation.
When this door is the right call
The business moved on, the numbers did not. You find out in March how December went. The close we build lands on a fixed day, every month.
A simple question takes a week of spreadsheet work. We write the reporting in the language your bank and your board expect, off one set of numbers.
Cash put on a 13-week view, updated weekly, with collections and payment runs planned. Surprises stop being surprises.
CFO discipline without the CFO salary: the routine designed, documented and handed to your own people to run.
Where this door fits, and where it does not
Best for
- An owner-run company whose business has outgrown its finance routine
- A scale-up between funding rounds that needs investor-grade numbers
- A PE-backed business that needs board-grade reporting now
- A bank relationship that depends on reporting arriving on time
- A finance team of one or two that needs senior hands beside it
Not for
- Bookkeeping, payroll or tax filings (your accountant keeps those)
- An audit, or a formal assurance opinion
- A thicker report nobody will steer by
- Replacing your finance team instead of building it
A finance routine your team owns
A close that lands on a fixed day, every month: checklist, owners and deadlines, built with your team, in your systems.
The numbers you steer by on one page: revenue, margin, cash and the drivers behind them. Board reporting and bank-ready reporting come off the same page.
Cash seen 13 weeks ahead, updated weekly, with collections and payment runs planned instead of improvised.
Every number arrives with its commercial consequence attached: pricing, terms and the customers behind the margin, the same week.
Scoped in writing, before we start
Every engagement starts with The 10-Day Diagnostic: a fixed fee, agreed in writing, delivered in 10 working days. You keep the report, whatever you decide next.
Scope and fees for this door are fixed in writing after the diagnostic, before the work starts. If the scope changes, the price changes in writing first.
No day rates, no open meters, no surprises in month three. Both partners on the engagement, and a handover at the end: documented, trained, yours.
From the first call to a close that lands
A free 30-minute conversation about where the numbers hurt. Not a pitch.
The 10-Day Diagnostic: where the cash leaks, which number to fix first, a plan in writing.
We build with your people: close, dashboard, cash view, reporting cadence.
Hand over: documented, trained, yours. Then we leave.
Ask us for references: two named clients, offered in the first meeting.
The questions owners ask first
Do you replace our accountant?
No. Bookkeeping, payroll and filings stay where they are. We build the layer above them: the close, the dashboard, the cash view and the discipline that keeps them landing on time, every month.
Do we need new software?
Usually not. We build in the tools you already run and only recommend a change when the current tool is the real problem. Your data stays in your systems; nothing lives in our drawer.
What happens when you leave?
Your team runs the routine, because it was built with them from the first week: documented, trained, theirs. We make ourselves unnecessary on purpose, and we are a phone call away if the business changes shape.