Senior CFO leadership, without the full-time hire.
Virtual CFO gives startups and SMEs an experienced CFO and the finance team behind them, for planning, reporting, tax, funding and the decisions in between. Since 2019 we have worked with more than 300 companies in Egypt and Saudi Arabia.
A finance department you can scale up or down.
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Senior, part-time
Retainers run from two to thirty-five hours a week. Your CFO budget stays variable; the experience stays senior.
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A team behind your CFO
More than 50 finance professionals — controllers, finance directors and analysts — join the work when it calls for them.
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Across industries
Retail, technology, healthcare, education, fintech, logistics, FMCG and more, from early-stage startups to listed companies.
Where should we start?
- You think your company should be more profitable than it is.Cash flow and cost management
- The business is growing, but without a plan behind it.Strategic planning
- Your accounts don’t give you timely, accurate numbers to decide with.Operational support
- Policies, procedures and internal controls feel loose.Health check
- You need outside financing but have no bank relationships.Access to finance
- You are raising investment, acquiring a company or preparing to sell.Transaction support
- You want to reduce your tax burden legitimately and stay compliant.Taxation
- Your finance team needs support, training or new people.Finance team organization
Run by people who have led finance teams themselves.
Ahmed Farouk founded Virtual CFO in 2019 after more than 30 years in audit and corporate finance. He began his career at Arthur Andersen, Coopers & Lybrand and Deloitte, then spent a decade as financial controller and senior finance director at publicly listed Egyptian companies.
Today he leads a team of more than 50 finance professionals and serves as an independent board member at companies including Aman Microfinance and Fawry Microfinance.
Accounting and HR systems, supported by finance people.
Through our partnership with Fawry Business, we provide and support its cloud ERP and HRMS for Egyptian SMEs, with accounting linked to the tax portal for e-invoicing and payroll paid through Fawry.
Tell us what’s changing in your business.
Share where you are and what a good outcome looks like. We’ll recommend a scope, whether that’s a few hours a week or a single project.