- The CFO Centre
Largest UK fractional network. Right if you want a match from hundreds, not a named principal.
- The FD Centre
Part-time FD model for SMEs. Regional hubs. Same shape, different brand.
- FD Capital
ICAEW-registered placement of independents. You hire the person; they introduce.
Stack
We do not resell software. We specify it, then sit with the people who build it.
Each brief has three firms who already do that work at scale. Use them when the job is theirs. Use this practice when the job is a named principal on the plant’s ledger.
The briefsSystems and the professional stack
Ledgers and ERP
Sage X3 / Intacct
Mysoft, X3 Consulting, Datel — we specify costing and the chart; they build.
NetSuite
Manufacturing and multi-entity. Numeric sits on top for the close.
Dynamics 365 BC
SMB mixed-mode plants. Partner-led; finance-owned item master.
Xero + MRP
Sub-£5m job shops. Do not ask Xero to be a costing engine.
Close and cash
FloQast
Close checklist, recs, evidence. Human still signs.
Numeric
AI flux and cash recs. NetSuite-native teams.
Sixthfin
Multi-entity groups on more than one ERP.
HighRadius / BlackLine
When the group is already there. We do not resell.
Professional stack
Your accountant
Statutory, tax, VAT. We do not take that work.
Your solicitor
TUPE, SPA, entity work. We write the numbers they need.
Your IFA / private office
Pensions and family capital. Rathbones and The Private Office live here.
Your bank
Facilities and covenants sit in the retainer when the brief needs them. We do not run a public funding toy.
Next ninety days
The practice, not the slide.
Now
Named seat, written letter
Retainers, day-rate and FTC as they stand. Two live mandates. Capacity is the constraint.
30 days
Partner introductions
Written intro pack for one Sage X3 partner, one close platform (FloQast or Numeric), and one TAS firm for QoE we will not write ourselves.
60 days
Productised diagnostic
The £4,800 pack as a fixed artefact: close, costing, cash, systems, team. PDF the client keeps. Credit against a retainer inside 60 days.
90 days
13-week cash on the site
Productised diagnostic as a PDF the client keeps. Then a governed-AI close map for one plant. Facilities stay on the seat, not on the homepage.
Three firms, per brief
Honest adjacency. If their model is what you need, go there. The service pages say the same thing next to the deliverables.
- Odgers Interim
National interim bench at FD/CFO height. Right for a hired-in contractor you do not yet know.
- Alvarez & Marsal
When the brief is a 100-day plan under stress, not a vacant seat.
- The CFO Centre
Can stretch a fractional into heavier days. Still a network match.
- Grant Thornton
CFO advisory and manufacturing coverage. Right for a group-wide operating-model programme.
- BDO
Outsourced finance and manufacturing as a priority sector. A team, not a principal.
- Forvis Mazars
SME outsourcing through to FD support under one roof. Brand the audit committee already knows.
- FRP Advisory
Most active UK administrator by volume. Right when the process is formal.
- Quantuma
Restructuring and SME options papers. Sit them next to the board, not instead of the close.
- AlixPartners
Turnaround at scale. Too heavy for a two-entity manufacturer; right for a group in distress.
- Chartwell
Manufacturing cost-out without CapEx. Operations, not the standard-cost file.
- Levantar
Named manufacturing consultant on the factory. MRP and BoM from an operations seat.
- Skynet Accounting
UK manufacturing accountant with product-costing as a specialism. Compliance plus costing, not the FD seat.
- Mysoft
Leading UK Sage X3 / Intacct partner. Food, process, manufacturing. Sit them on the build; keep the chart.
- X3 Consulting
Sage X3 and Intacct delivery. Fast go-live frameworks. Need a costing spine first.
- Datel
Long-standing Sage X3 manufacturing partner. Distribution and plant.
- FloQast
Close management with an audit trail. Huel cut two days off month-end on it, with PwC on the integration.
- Numeric
AI flux, recs and UK GAAP guidance. Strong on NetSuite teams. Not a manufacturing BOM.
- Sixthfin
UK multi-entity close across fragmented ERPs. 2026 Odoxa study: reliability of accounts still the first worry.
- FTI Consulting
Turnaround and restructuring at corporate scale.
- Alvarez & Marsal
Interim and performance improvement under pressure.
- FRP Advisory
When the next step may be formal. Keep them in the room; do not pretend to be them.
- Grant Thornton TAS
Financial due diligence, working capital, net debt. The report a credit committee expects.
- BDO Deals
Mid-market manufacturing M&A. Independent QoE.
- FTI Transaction Services
Upper mid-market and sponsor-grade diligence.