Fractional Finance Director
An outsourced experienced finance leader to help you navigate key business challenges, our Fractional Finance Director (FFD) service is built for organisations with complex needs, from ambitious scale-ups to established bodies responsible for governance and accountability.
No matter your industry, your Framework FFD is there to help you move forward with confidence, offering hands-on expertise to your business.
What is a Fractional Finance Director?
A Fractional Finance Director provides strategic, senior-level finance expertise and insights to businesses. This enables them to make data-driven decisions, achieve sustainable growth, and maintain financial stability and governance where that is the priority.
A Fractional Finance Director can help you:
Develop strategic business and financial plans
Manage the audit process and liaise with external auditors
Provide support to the board to strengthen governance
Manage the finance and accounts function
Improve processes and make systems more efficient
Manage strategic and operational projects
Advise on strategic business development opportunities
Liaise with senior executives in other disciplines and the board.
And more, with your business enjoying the expertise of a top finance professional, without the significant financial outlay.
Helping you achieve growth, stability, and good governance
Your Framework FFD will essentially be your Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at a fraction of the cost, offering the same level of expertise, whether your organisation is focused on growth, stability, or governance.
Bringing an entrepreneurial, commercial, and ambitious mindset to the table, they’ll get to know how your business operates and makes money. These insights will be combined with historical numbers to plan for and meet your objectives, whether that’s scaling into new markets or strengthening governance and accountability for members, boards, or funders.
Digging beneath the surface is what your Framework FFD does best: understanding the culture, what works, and what doesn’t, and working on financial priorities to help your business communicate better and move forward.
This may include setting up important processes, better tackling bookkeeping and pay runs, management reporting, and assisting with statutory accounting and filings.
What a Framework Fractional Finance Director Can Do For Your Business
Of course, no two companies are alike, and our FFD service can include any (or all) of the following:
Strategy setting and business planning
Drive things forward with business strategy development, whether formulating a business plan, defining objectives and actions to reach them, allocating resources, or tracking performance metrics.
At Framework, this isn’t about producing a document that gathers dust. It’s about embedding strategy into the way your organisation actually operates. We work with senior teams and boards to align financial priorities with wider organisational goals, making sure every pound or grant is being directed in the right place. In practice, this means setting realistic targets, modelling different scenarios, and building accountability into the plan so progress can be tracked and reported with confidence.
For growing businesses, this can come from additional resource allocation and investment planning. For governing bodies or membership organisations, it might include ensuring that strategic objectives are transparent, funder requirements are met, and financial discipline underpins long-term credibility.
Whatever your requirements, a Framework FFD gives you the insights and tools to develop and grow with measurable outcomes.
Financial strategy and planning, budgeting, and forecasting
Your Framework FFD helps you develop robust, realistic financial strategies. Setting the direction and a roadmap to get there, think of your Framework FFD as the GPS of your business, without the annoying computer-generated voice.
Liaising with all areas of the organisation, your FFD will guide you forward with financial analysis and budgeting. They’ll work towards building healthier cash flow, with modelling, forecasting, and cash flow management, so you can stay solvent and stride forward.
This can include cash flow corrections when needed, too, as well as cash deployment when the tracking calls for it, and finding investment opportunities that can bolster growth.
Finance and accounts team management
A Framework FFD will make your day-to-day finance and accountancy run as smoothly as possible. Working through the wider Framework team, we take responsibility for the core finance function and deliver it to a consistently high standard.
The result is a streamlined, reliable service that supports your organisation without the need to manage or expand in-house resources.
Process improvement, systems efficiency, and compliance
Are your operational processes up to par? Your Framework FFD will uncover how efficient your financial systems are, so you can streamline automation and migrate to systems using the best-suited technology.
Not only will this save you time and money, but it’ll keep you compliant with regulatory and legislative requirements.
Project management
Change management, new products and services, sales and marketing, major events and tournaments, new sites, mergers and acquisitions.
Your Framework FFD can contribute to all of the above, and more, delivering strategic and operational advice using years of experience and vast finance knowledge.
Risk management
Risk is part and parcel of any business, but your Framework Fractional Finance Director can help you identify and mitigate them. This is achieved with bespoke strategies that safeguard your assets and reputation.
Fundraising advice and support
Raising funds can be complex, but your Framework FFD can liaise with potential private equity investors, banks for debt finance, public bodies for loans and grants, or funding councils for not-for-profits. For sports bodies and clubs, the strategic financial oversight and transparent reporting you gain from an FFD can help maintain sponsorship confidence and governance standards.
They can also lend an expert hand to corporate finance, legal, and other relevant professionals to help you get the funding and advice you need.
Senior executive coaching and mentoring
Even those at the top need advice and encouragement, and this is what your Framework FFD can provide to senior decision-makers and leadership teams.
As with all of our FFD engagements, knowledge transfer is key, and a trustworthy, impartial sounding board helps everyone unlock their potential and move the business forward, improving strategic and operational thinking and decision-making along the way.
Board liaison and management
Board effectiveness is crucial for any business, and robust financial management oversight ensures transparency and clarity between board members and senior leadership teams. Strong corporate governance and boardroom cohesion are achieved through regular reviews, increasing confidence in financial management.
This, ultimately, leads to stronger decision-making, clearer accountability, and greater confidence from stakeholders, members, and funders alike.
The nuts and bolts of our Fractional Finance Director service
Enjoy the impact of financial experience and expertise without the cost of a full-time CFO, with different levels of support for developmental stages. This will usually be on a project-by-project basis or a retainer, with remote and in-office options available.
FFD projects include advice and support on any strategic or operational purpose, including:
Advising on strategy and developing a business plan
Creating a financial model
Managing the budgeting process
Setting up investor infrastructure and advising on fundraising (including pitch decks)
Reviewing, improving and overseeing business and finance systems
Managing the audit process, liaising with external auditors
Supporting and reporting to your board, strengthening governance and dealing with risk management, and coaching business leaders.
And more.