Finance leadership, scoped to the question in front of you.
From monthly management reporting through to sell-side M&A — every engagement is scoped around a defined outcome, and fees are discussed openly on your free consultation rather than published as a rate card.
Senior finance leadership without a full-time hire. We work at the level your business is actually at, and step up as it grows — from disciplined monthly reporting through to board, M&A and exit-grade CFO support.
Finance Essentials
Typically £1m–£5m turnover businesses
Monthly management accounts
P&L, balance sheet and cash-flow review
KPI reporting
Budget vs actual analysis
Quarterly strategic review
Fractional CFO
Typically £3m–£15m turnover businesses
Everything in Finance Essentials
13-week cash-flow forecasting
Rolling 12–24 month forecast
Scenario modelling
Banking and funding support
Monthly strategic finance meetings
Strategic CFO
Typically £10m–£50m turnover and PE-backed businesses
A fixed-scope diagnostic that identifies where a business is losing profitability, cash or value — and what to do about it first. Deliberately time-boxed, so you get an answer rather than an open-ended project.
Deliverable: Danneau Business Performance Report: key findings, risks, profit and cash improvement opportunities, and a 90-day action plan.
Building or improving your finance function so it supports the next stage of growth rather than holding it back: reporting redesign, financial controls, systems and team structure.
Deliverable: A documented finance improvement plan with a phased roadmap.
Decision-ready models built to be interrogated: integrated P&L, balance sheet and cash flow, budgets and forecasts, scenario and sensitivity analysis, and bespoke acquisition, funding or exit models.
Independent valuation assessments using comparable company analysis, precedent transactions and discounted cash flow where appropriate — with the assumptions set out plainly.
Helping businesses prepare for and secure debt or equity funding: funding strategy, financial modelling, investor and lender materials, data-room preparation and support through the process.
Preparing a business for a future sale, well before a process starts: EBITDA quality review, customer concentration and management dependency analysis, and the value-enhancement opportunities worth acting on now.
Deliverable: Danneau Exit Readiness Report with a 12–24 month preparation plan.
Independent financial analysis for acquisitions, investments or disposals: quality of earnings, working capital analysis and the red flags that change a price or a decision.
Deliverable: A detailed financial due diligence report.
Cash-flow crisis analysis, 13-week forecasting, cost reduction, creditor negotiation support and turnaround planning. Where formal processes are required, we work alongside specialist insolvency and legal professionals.
Flexible, specialist financial support outside a formal engagement — one-off analysis, forecasting, board reporting or a commercial question that needs a senior view quickly.
Not a funnel and not a sequence anyone is pushed through — most clients start with one question, and the relationship deepens as the business does. Many stop at a single project; others are still with us at exit.
01
Discovery
Free
A free, no-obligation 20-minute consultation to understand the business and the question in front of you.
02
Financial Health Check
A first look at the numbers — where performance, cash and reporting actually stand today.
03
Diagnostic or Project
A fixed-scope piece of work: performance review, modelling, valuation or a targeted finance project.
04
Recurring CFO Relationship
Ongoing finance leadership at the tier that fits — from Finance Essentials to Strategic CFO.
05
Strategic Project
Funding, exit readiness or finance function transformation, when the business is ready for it.
06
M&A
Sell-side or buy-side execution — often years into the relationship, with the groundwork already done.
Every engagement is scoped around what you actually need, so we don't publish rate cards. We set out fees plainly in your free, no-obligation 20-minute consultation and confirm them in writing before any chargeable work begins. There is never a fee for that first conversation.
