Fractional CFO leadership
Board-level ownership of your numbers without the full-time hire. Strategy, pricing, cash, and the hard commercial calls — from a CFO who knows your business, not a report you file away.
Strategy · Cash · Board
Fractional CFO consulting · UAE & worldwide
Finance leadership, installed.
Sidekick Consulting gives growing businesses the leadership of a seasoned CFO — and builds the full finance function underneath it: the systems, controls, reporting, and forecasting that hold up as you scale.
Capital & strategy
Forecasting & cash
Reporting & board packs
Controls & close
Ledger & systems
Most growing companies don’t need a full-time CFO. They need the full finance function — installed properly, run by someone senior.
That’s the gap we fill. A small team of chartered accountants, ex-founders, and operators, led by Ash Khan, who own the numbers, build the machinery behind them, and stay accountable for both.
Meet the teamServices
What we do
Finance function build-out
We design and stand up the whole function: month-end close, payables and receivables, payroll cadence, documented processes, and the right first finance hires.
People · Process · Close
Financial infrastructure
The systems layer done properly: ledger and chart of accounts, billing and expense tooling, integrations, controls and approval flows — automated where it should be.
Systems · Controls · Automation
Reporting & forecasting
Management accounts your leadership team actually uses. KPI reporting, board packs, budgets, rolling forecasts, and a live view of cash and runway.
Board packs · Budgets · Runway
Fit
Who we work with
Company size
100 to 1,000 employees
Large enough to need a proper finance function. Not yet large enough to justify a full-time CFO and the team beneath one.
Sectors
Service businesses · Online businesses
Professional and business services, agencies, consultancies, and online businesses: SaaS, e-commerce, marketplaces, and digital subscription models.
Systems
Xero · QuickBooks · Sage · NetSuite
We work across the leading cloud ledgers and mid-market platforms every week, and the billing, payroll, and expense tools that connect to them.
Approach
How an engagement runs
01
Diagnose
We review the function as it stands — systems, people, close, reporting — and map the gaps against where the business is heading. You get a clear-eyed assessment and a sequenced roadmap.
02
Install
We build in priority order: infrastructure first, then process, then reporting. Everything is documented and handed over — designed to be run, not to make you dependent on us.
03
Operate
Ongoing fractional CFO leadership on a monthly rhythm: close reviewed, forecast updated, decisions supported, and the board kept ahead of the numbers.
Contact
Tell us where your finance function stands.
A short call is usually enough to tell whether we can help. Write to us with a few lines on your business and what’s prompting the conversation.
Based in Dubai, UAE · Working with clients worldwide