£10M
Funding round prepared
Investor-ready data room, model and Board pack delivered for a recent SME funding round.
Chiltern Advisory · Fractional Finance & Operations
A Fractional CFO for the decisions that move the value of your business.
A senior CFO partner to the CEO and Board — shaping capital strategy, value creation and the path to the next round or exit. The forecasting, cash discipline and Board reporting that make the strategy credible run underneath, with COO depth included where the numbers need an operator behind them.
- Engagement
- 2–4 days / week
- Horizon
- 6–24 months
- Mandate
- CEO & Board
Typical fractional cadence
Founder-transition or value-creation
Strategic CFO partnership
Operating experience built inside
- AWS
- Amazon
- Arcadia Group
- RHM Foods
Why Chiltern
CFO leadership shaped by real-world scale — not just the theory of it.
Operator, not accountant
Multi-$Billion P&L ownership inside AWS and Amazon — not a career spent observing growth from the audit side.
CFO + COO on one engagement
Operational depth included on the same mandate, not billed as an extra or handed to a separate consultant.
One operator end-to-end
No bench, no handovers, no junior delivery team. The person you meet is the person doing the work.
What we do
A Fractional CFO — with an operator's instinct.
Chiltern leads with strategic CFO work — capital strategy, value creation, M&A and Board partnership — and brings the forecasting, reporting and operational discipline underneath it. Where finance and operations meet, a former COO leans in on the same engagement.
Fractional CFO — core offer
Forecasting, cash, board reporting, FP&A, fundraising and exit readiness, led by a senior finance operator.
CFO+ with embedded COO
When finance issues are operational at root — pricing, productivity, cost-to-serve — COO depth is included, not bolted on.
Diagnostic sprints
Two-to-six-week CFO-led reviews that surface where margin, cash and growth are leaking.
Value-creation programmes
18–24 month CFO engagements for PE-backed value plans and founder-to-CEO transitions.
Selected outcomes
Numbers a board can rely on, and an operating model that delivers them.
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Governance policies approved
Drafted and shepherded 23 governance policies through Board approval ahead of the raise.
$Billions
AWS EMEA P&L
Strategy and operations leadership for a multi-$Billion EMEA business through a year of double-digit growth.
Who we work with
Where a wrong CFO call costs shareholders seven figures.
Chiltern is built for the deals and transitions where the CFO seat carries real consequence — not a generalist SME bench.
- Size
- £10m–£50m revenue
- Ownership
- PE-backed or founder-led
- Stage
- 12–24 months out
EBITDA up to £8m
Pre-institutional, pre/post-transaction
Next round, exit, or sponsor inflection
For Private Equity
Operating Partner thesis: 20–30% sales productivity uplift in 18 months.
For PE firms backing £30–200M B2B SaaS or commerce-tech businesses in founder-transition or value-creation phase — a four-move playbook covering motion, expansion, telemetry and cadence.
A 30-minute conversation is enough.
Bring the situation. We'll tell you, candidly, whether Chiltern is the right fit.