LLT Advisory — Fractional CFO for owner-led businesses

Sound familiar?

The gap every growing business hits

The business has outgrown its bookkeeping — but a full-time CFO is neither affordable nor necessary yet.

You're flying blind

Results arrive late, get a glance, and raise more questions than they answer. You're uncertain about the financial health of your own business.

Cash is tight — on paper you're fine

Profit on the statement, pressure in the bank account. Cash sits locked in receivables and stock, and there's no forecast telling you when it bites.

The bank wants a plan

Financing, investors, a board — someone is asking for projections that hold up to scrutiny, and there's no budget or roadmap to point at.

Services

Two levels of involvement

Start where the pain is, and scale up or down as the business changes — that's the point of fractional. The first thirty days stand on their own: a full diagnostic of your numbers, and if it's not for you, you keep the findings and walk. No notice, no argument.

Operational

The plumbing done right — so you can trust every number.

Evaluation of your financial infrastructure
Management reporting
Accounting support & outsourced resources
Clean-up projects
Annual financial statements
Project management

Strategic

The numbers turned into better, faster decisions.

Advanced financial reporting
In-depth cash-flow management
Budgets, forecasts & FP&A
Scenario planning & what-if analysis
Business plans & financing support
Stakeholder management & risk mitigation

Why fractional

Senior finance, sized to fit

Everything a full-time CFO brings, at the fraction your business actually needs.

Deal-grade rigour

Your monthly numbers get the same scrutiny a buyer's advisor brings to an acquisition — because that's the work I come from. Nothing important stays hidden for long.

Answers in hours, not weeks

Live dashboards and automated reporting, built with modern tools. Ask the question in the morning; have the answer by lunch — not in next quarter's board pack.

Senior finance, a fraction of the cost

Everything a full-time CFO brings, at the slice your business actually needs — and you decide how involved it gets as things change.

How it works

Ninety days to running by the numbers

A clear path from “I’m not sure what my numbers say” to running the business on them — with a way out at day thirty if it’s not for you.

Days 1–30

See it clearly

I go through your last two years the way I’d review a business someone was about to buy, and come back with the three numbers that actually run the place — and which one’s lying to you.

Stop here if you like — you keep every finding.

Days 31–60

Take control

We fix the two biggest leaks, build the live dashboard and reporting pack, and put a rolling cash-flow forecast in place so you can see what’s coming.

Days 61–90

Run by numbers

A twelve-month plan built on numbers that are finally true, the monthly rhythm installed and handed to your team, and the first forecast against actual — the month you stop being surprised.

Who you work with

Thys van Schoor CA(SA)

Fifteen years where the numbers actually happen: audit, cross-border operations, franchise retail, listed-company property, and nearly seven years running the finance function of a major agricultural producer.

Then I did what my clients do — I started my own business. So the advice comes from both sides of the desk: I know what a board pack needs to survive scrutiny, and I know what it feels like when payroll is Friday.

CA(SA) · FMVA® · Founder, LLT Advisory & GreyMatters · Cape Town, South Africa

Questions

Before you book

How is this different from my bookkeeper or auditor?

Your bookkeeper records what happened; your auditor checks it. Neither owns what happens next — the cash, the margins, the big calls. That’s the gap I fill. I don’t replace either of them; I sit between them and you.

Isn’t a fractional CFO just a report I’ll never read?

That’s the usual failure, and it’s why the first thirty days end in a decision, not a document. You get a plain-language findings memo, and the fixes start in month two. If it’s not working at day thirty, you keep everything and walk. The value is in what changes, not what gets printed.

Why not just hire a full-time financial manager?

A financial manager will close your month faster — but that’s probably not your problem. Your problem is the decisions: pricing, cash, which customers and products actually make money. That’s a CFO’s job, and you don’t need one five days a week. You need the seniority a fraction of the time.

What does it cost, and am I locked in?

A monthly retainer, with a three-month minimum and month-to-month after that — no long contract. And the first thirty days carry an off-ramp: if it’s not for you, you stop and keep the findings. We’ll talk specifics on a call, once I understand your business.

What size business is this for?

Owner-led businesses, roughly R10m to R100m turnover — big enough that the numbers matter and the decisions are getting harder, but not yet needing a full-time CFO.

What actually happens in the first 90 days?

See “How it works” above: thirty days to see it clearly, thirty to take control, thirty to get you running by the numbers. After that it’s a monthly rhythm, with a deep-dive theme each quarter.

Numbers, without the theatre.