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Diagnose
We map the finance function as it stands today. People, close, systems, reporting cadence. Then we name where output actually breaks down.
Built in the UAE. Serving businesses globally.
Finance leadership for companies that outgrew their books.
Finascale builds the finance function inside founder-led and PE/VC-backed companies, with vetted finance talent to run the engine underneath.
Experience built inside
By the numbers
FINASCALE
$200M+
In deal and fundraising experience.
12+
Countries with finance teams built.
50%
Payroll savings from embedded finance talent.
7 days
From first call to engagement action.
The Problem
Finance is the last function
most companies scale.
Product ships weekly. Sales runs on a CRM. Marketing has dashboards. Finance is still cleaning up the last quarter.
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Close drags on
Books land two weeks late. Half the team is still chasing entries post close.
02
Unit economics are a void
Nobody can say what a customer, a channel, or a product line actually earns.
03
Reporting is late
The pack shows up after the decision has been made. Ops runs on gut. Finance runs on catch-up.
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Systems drift
Billing, ERP, and BI stop agreeing. Reconciliations grow every quarter instead of shrinking.
05
Hiring stalls
A Controller req sits open for six months. When it fills, the person inherits chaos and leaves.
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Founders in the finance seat
The CEO is still approving invoices at 11pm. That is capacity going the wrong way.
Why It Persists
The tools changed. The operating model didn’t.
Every company bought the software. Almost none rebuilt the function underneath it. That’s the gap we work in.
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Software was treated as the fix
New tools were bought, but the operating model underneath was never rebuilt.
02
No one owned the seams
Billing, ERP, and reporting each had an owner. The handoffs between them didn't.
03
Built for compliance, not decisions
The function was designed to close the books, not to shape where the business goes next.
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Seniority was skipped
Judgement calls landed on people hired to process, not to decide.
What We Do
Three ways to work with us. One finance function that scales with you.
LEAD IT · STAFF IT · WIRE IT
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Finance Leadership
A senior team that steps in to solve acute finance problems, and stays on to steer growth and profitability.
90-Day Rebuild
A senior team parachutes in to fix a specific finance problem in one quarter.
- ✕Compliance and regulatory irregularities cleaned up
- ✕Failed or stalled ERP and systems implementation put back on track
- ✕Audit blockers cleared and readiness restored
- ✕Board or investor reporting rebuilt after a diligence failure
CFO Leadership on Retainer
An operating CFO focused on growth, margin, and the next stage of capital.
- ✕Profitability, margin, and unit economics ownership
- ✕Growth planning: pricing, capital allocation, investment cases
- ✕Board, investor, and lender relationships
- ✕Fundraising, diligence, and capital strategy
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Embedded Specialists
Controllers, FP&A, Business Partners, Finance Engineers, and Finance Analysts placed inside your team.
Embedded Specialists
Finance operators who plug into your team, your tools, and your stand-ups from week one.
- ✕Controller for close, controls, and audit readiness
- ✕FP&A for planning, forecasting, and unit economics
- ✕Finance Business Partner embedded with a commercial or product team
- ✕Finance Engineer for systems, data flows, and reporting infrastructure
- ✕Finance Analyst for day-to-day ledger ownership
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Automation & Systems
The architecture and tools your finance function runs on.
Workflow Automation
We remove the manual work that quietly consumes the function.
- ✕Close acceleration and reconciliation automation
- ✕Reporting pipelines and management dashboards
- ✕AR/AP and approval workflow automation
- ✕Data flows between finance, sales, and ops tools
ERP & Architecture
We select, implement, and structure the systems your finance team lives in.
- ✕ERP selection and implementation (NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Xero, QuickBooks, Odoo)
- ✕Chart of accounts, entity, and cost-centre design
- ✕Data model, integrations, and reporting layer
- ✕Finance stack: billing, expense, close, BI
Use Cases
Where teams call us in.
A partial list. If your situation looks close, it probably is. If it doesn’t, tell us anyway.
/ Signals
Close cycle
> 15 days
Cash visibility
< 8 weeks
Board pack
Late or missing
ERP go-live
Stalled or off-track
Controller seat
Empty or overloaded
Audit or due diligence
In 60 days
OUTGROWN
Outgrown your accountant
You've moved past a compliance firm. You need operators who close the books, own the model, and sit on calls with you every week.
- Operational finance
- Board-ready reporting
- Systems cleanup
SCALE-UP
The founder is still the CFO
A fractional CFO for the board, a Controller for the close, and a finance analyst handling the day-to-day. You get your Fridays back.
- Fractional CFO
- Controller layer
- Daily ledger owner
FUNDRAISE
Getting ready to raise
Historicals cleaned, a defensible model, a data room investors don't send back with 40 questions.
- Restate and reclassify
- Board-grade model
- Diligence pack
PE PORTCO
First 100 days after acquisition
A Controller in seat, sponsor-grade reporting, two ledgers consolidated into one. Post-merger integration handled without hiring a permanent team you'll cut in a year.
- Controller in seat
- Ledger consolidation
- Sponsor reporting
AUDIT
Cleanup before an audit
Reconciliations closed, revenue policy documented, schedules ready before the auditor asks twice.
- Balance sheet cleanup
- Rev-rec review
- PBC pack ready
ERP MIGRATION
Off QuickBooks, onto NetSuite, Dynamics or Odoo
Chart of accounts redesigned, data migrated, integrations tested, with a clean month in the middle.
- CoA redesign
- Data migration
- Go-live and hypercare
The Method
Four principles behind every engagement.
We didn’t invent finance. We are opinionated about the order things get done in, because we’ve watched the wrong order fail enough times.
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Operators before tools
Software doesn't fix a broken close. We put people who have run finance functions in the seat first, then automate what they prove is worth automating.
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Fix the silos and the seams
Most finance pain lives inside legacy silos and between systems that were never wired together. We work billing, ERP, and BI as one flow, so numbers stop drifting between them.
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Ship in weeks
Every engagement lands something usable in the first month. Big-bang implementations cost finance teams a year of leverage.
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Leave documentation behind
Runbooks, decision logs, and a handover your next hire can actually use. We measure ourselves by how cleanly we can leave.
Why Finascale
Built to fix the reasons finance usually breaks.
Most finance problems aren’t about talent or tools in isolation. They’re about the seams between them. We work all three at once.
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One partner for all of it
People, workflows, and systems come from the same team. One relationship instead of juggling an agency, a recruiter, and an implementation shop.
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Led by finance operators
Every engagement is led by someone who has closed books, run FP&A, or sat in the CFO seat. You get advice you can actually action.
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Live in one week
A scoping call in the first week and a team in your tools the next. Value in month one.
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Flex up and flex down
Add a Controller for the raise. Drop a Finance Analyst after ERP go-live. Your commitment matches the shape of the business.
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Fluent across your stack
NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Xero, QuickBooks, Odoo, plus the billing, expense, and BI tools around them. We meet you where you already work.
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Human accountability
A named lead owns the relationship. Weekly rituals, a shared workspace, and a clear number for every deliverable.
The Approach
A short engagement to see us work. A long one to change how the function runs.
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Deploy
Operators first, then automations, then the systems underneath. You feel it in weeks, without a big-bang replatform.
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Operate
We run alongside your team, transfer ownership on your timeline, and leave documentation your next hire can actually use.
Built For
Growth-stage companies and PE-backed portcos scaling their finance function.
Engagement Models
RETAINER · FIXED PROJECT
Questions
What buyers ask us first.
01How is this different from hiring in-house?
You get an operator working from day one with a delivery team behind them, and you can flex the engagement as the business changes. Hiring one person and hoping they build the function alone is the risk we most often replace.
02What size company do you work with?
Founder-led and PE-backed companies scaling between roughly $10M and $80M in revenue. Post product-market fit, pre full in-house finance team.
03Do you replace our existing accountant or finance team?
Often we sit alongside them and lift the operational load off. If the current setup isn't working, we can take it over end to end and run the function ourselves.
04Which ERPs and tools do you work with?
NetSuite, Microsoft Dynamics, Xero, QuickBooks, and Odoo on the ERP side, plus the surrounding stack for billing, expense, close, and BI. We recommend based on your stage and geography.
05How do you cover our time zone?
We staff engagements with delivery capacity aligned to your working hours, and your embedded operator works your calendar from day one.
06How fast can you start?
A scoping call in the first week and a project team live within one week.