Gareth Ross
BA · FCMA · CGMA · Finance Director
Figures out within days of month end, not weeks. Job costing and WIP that show which jobs are making money. One set of numbers everyone uses.
Forecasts that start from what's actually in the bank and why, so you can see what's coming.
Less typing things in twice, fewer workarounds, written down so they don't depend on one person. Software set up to match how the business actually runs.
Looking at your data to answer the questions you're actually asking, like which jobs, customers or types of work pay best.
Training and mentoring your accounts team and its finance lead, and helping project and operations managers understand which of their figures matter and why. Also stepping in as cover when a finance person leaves or is struggling.
A senior finance person you can talk decisions through with sits behind all of this.
Monthly figures brought forward from 30 to 40 days after month end to 5 to 10, with forecasts built in. Within the group, a small factory's financial performance rose 200%.
Worked with project managers so the figures they fed in meant something. Changed how job progress was measured, so monthly profit became more reliable.
Supported a contracting firm's management accountant through month end while their finance lead was on maternity leave, including cost-to-complete adjustments and a disputed contract valuation. Their MD later came back for help choosing new finance software.
A job looks fine, until it finishes. Then it's lost money.
The business is busy and profitable on paper. But you're often short of cash.
One question gets three answers, across three spreadsheets.
You have to check the bank most mornings, just to be sure.
Software and AI make numbers faster and neater. That doesn't make them right.
Twenty five years as a management accountant and finance director, most of it alongside project managers and operations teams, not stuck in the accounts department.
BA, FCMA, CGMA. Based in Gloucester.
FCMA, Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants
In person or on a video call.
Agreed before any work starts.
I work alongside your people, the accounts team and the people running the jobs.
One thing sorted, cover for a while, or someone on hand every month.
Regular, ongoing work
a day. Like running your monthly accounts.
Short, specialist work
a day, for fewer days. Like sorting out job costing, cash forecasting, or supporting your finance lead.
Or a fixed price for a project, agreed up front.
First meeting's free.