Scaling under PE, preparing for IPO, or both at once. We build the policies, processes, reporting and controls that institutional investors, banks and auditors expect — delivered by practitioners who have lived it.
How we work
High-growth treasury functions run at capacity. A retainer gives you flexible, senior specialist support without the overhead of Statements of Work per task — priority response, email / Teams-based instruction, and outputs that are audit- and Board-ready from the first draft.
Where it makes sense, the same retainer absorbs the technology work too: Python and SQL automation, BI reporting and data engineering delivered alongside the documentation and governance uplift — not as a separate project with a separate vendor.
A typical pathway
Indicative sequencing — the retainer tier typically steps up as the timeline progresses. Most groups start with Standard and graduate into Transformation Partner around audit-ready documentation, then move to IPO Readiness when the filing calendar firms up.
What you can pull on
Request support at any time across any of the four workstreams. Your Treasury's combination of treasury practitioner expertise and hands-on AI & automation skills lets the same engagement cover both the governance uplift and the technology work.
End-to-end workflows documented, desktop procedures standardised, control execution tracked — so knowledge stops living in one head and audits stop being a scramble.
Gap analysis against public-company standards, policy and governance uplift, treasury-specific sections of the prospectus — prepared for external audit and regulator scrutiny.
TMS, Coupa and Excel mapped, data flows diagnosed, reporting rebuilt so management and accounting outputs finally agree without a Friday afternoon of manual work.
Where the retainer moves beyond documentation. Python, SQL and AI-assisted tooling deployed against the manual work, with BI reporting and data engineering that scale with the business.
Engagement model
Start where you are today, move up as the IPO timeline takes shape. Option C delivers an embedded analyst alongside senior advisory at a materially lower cost than a Big-4 structure or an in-house hire.
Documentation and knowledge transfer alongside day-to-day operations.
IPO governance uplift with audit-ready documentation across the function.
An embedded treasury function — full-time dedicated analyst plus senior advisory.
Commercial terms (fees, surge rates, expense handling) are set out in the engagement letter issued on instruction.
Two journeys
Every PE sponsor wants the same thing from treasury: policy, process, control. Said fast, that sounds like a weekend of work. In reality it's the difference between the next bolt-on going smoothly and it eating a quarter.
Treasury policy, counterparty framework, investment policy, hedging mandate and delegation of authority — written, approved and actually followed. The document the CFO hands to the next fundraise.
Close cycle, payments workflow, approval chains, segregation of duties, evidence trail. The plumbing that stops the next ISAE/SOC audit turning into a three-month blocker.
Multi-bank, multi-entity visibility. Daily cash position, liquidity forecasts and covenant metrics board-ready without someone in the team spending a Thursday pulling spreadsheets.
ISO 20022, SWIFT gpi, SCT Inst, and the bank-specific idiosyncrasies that eat onboarding budgets. We stand up the rails so payments stop being a per-entity integration project.
KYB/KYC files, signer mandates, authorised-user matrices, banking contracts rationalised. The boring work that makes every future audit, acquisition and re-financing 10x easier.
Going public is an operational change as much as a capital event. The controls, forecasts, disclosures and financing stance all need to be at listed-company standard before the bell rings — not after.
IR-ready liquidity, debt and FX packs. Quarterly disclosures that answer the questions analysts will actually ask — not the ones you hope they ask.
SOX readiness, ICFR, whistleblower / AML frameworks, tax transparency, Pillar II data requirements. The control environment a listed company is held to, installed before the bell rings.
Integrated 13-week to 3-year cashflow models. Scenario-tested, sensitivity-tested, signed off by the audit committee. Built alongside the team, not behind a curtain.
Capital structure design, RCF vs term vs bond, covenant headroom modelling, rating-agency dialogue, IPO proceeds deployment. From road-show deck to drawdown.
Cash pooling, in-house bank, supply-chain finance, treasury risk framework — right-sized so the first 10-Q doesn't need a warning.
We have lived it
This isn't a theory engagement. Every framework we deploy has been stress-tested in real PE-backed scale-ups and at FTSE 100 scale. You get the playbook someone else paid to learn.
Group treasurer across PE-backed crypto and fintech unicorns. Hands-on track record building the policies, systems and controls PE sponsors and regulators expect — award-winning for AI cashflow forecasting and digital-asset transaction management.
FTSE 100 treasurer with three listed-company rotations. Lived the investor-relations, rating-agency and audit-committee cadence from the inside — Adam Smith, Alexander Hamilton and TMI awards for technology-led treasury transformation.
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Book a 30-minute diagnostic call. We'll tell you within the hour whether we can help, and where the biggest wins likely sit.