We already have a bookkeeper and an audit firm. What do you add?

The layer in between. Your bookkeeper keeps the ledger and your auditor signs off the accounts; neither tells you what the numbers mean or what to do next. Alehar owns management reporting, the cash and working-capital forecast, budgets and the board or shareholder pack, and works with your bookkeeper and auditor rather than replacing them.

What should we have ready before we talk?

Whatever you have, in whatever state it is in: the latest accounts, the management reports you produce today, the bank position, and any budget or model in use. Add the deadline you are working to, whether that is a board meeting, a bank review or a raise. The first conversation is about agreeing what the first month should fix, not about presenting tidy numbers.

Fractional and outsourced CFO services in Abu Dhabi

An Abu Dhabi business can outgrow its bookkeeping long before it needs a full-time CFO. Alehar's Corporate Finance as a Service gives you a senior finance team that scales with the business, from one view of cash to the numbers a bank, a fund or a buyer will ask for.

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The engagement

Why companies in Abu Dhabi work with Alehar

A senior lead, a complete team, no lock-in, and a partner for the transaction when it comes.

A senior lead who is accountable

One senior person owns your finance function. They work alongside the people you already have, and take on what your team does not have the capacity or the experience to run.

A complete team, not a single hire

Behind the lead is a team from analyst to executive, drawn from private equity, investment banking and strategy consulting. Reporting, planning and transaction preparation are covered without adding headcount.

Month to month, without lock-in

The engagement runs monthly and can be ended at any time, without penalty. You pay for a senior finance function, not for the cost of building one.

The same partner for the raise or the sale

Alehar advises on fundraising, debt and M&A, and brings a network of venture, private equity and corporate investors. When the next step comes, the people who have run your numbers run the process.

Tell us what the next twelve months look like.

We reply within 24 hours with how we would approach it.

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Client situations

When companies in Abu Dhabi engage us

“Our customers sometimes pay late and I never know where cash will be in three months.”

“Investors have reached out to me previously, but I haven't been ready to present the business in the best way to them.”

“An investor asked for our data room and we don't have one I'm happy to share.”

“We're planning to expand next year and I need to know what it will do to our cash.”

What we offer

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Historical Performance

We get you a true financial picture of your company

By reconciling your historical and current performance and putting in place critical financial processes and systems

Reconciliation
Financial Systems

Optimization

We help you save costs and improve cashflow

By analyzing your financial performance to identify quick and easy actions to save costs and improve working capital management

Working Capital Improvements
Cost Savings

Financial Planning

We develop effective plans to help you grow revenue

By working closely with you to do short and long-term financial budgeting, forecasting and modeling different scenarios.

Modeling
Forecasting
Budgeting

Growth and Expansion

We help you identify and decide between growth initiatives

By supporting you in the assessment of the ROI and feasibility of potential growth initiatives for your company.

Feasibility
ROI Analysis

Investment Readiness

We get you ready for an investment or a sale

By working backwards from your target (debt/equity investment, partial sale, full sale) to identify the changes needed to get your company ready.

Equity
Debt
Partial / Full Sale

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Frequently asked questions

Fractional, virtual, part-time and outsourced CFO are different names for the same arrangement: one senior finance person who works for you a few days a month, often remotely. An interim CFO is different again, one person covering a vacancy full time for a fixed period. Alehar is neither. You get a senior lead who is accountable for the finance function and a team behind them, engaged month to month, so reporting, planning and preparation for a raise or a sale are covered without making a hire.

Not for the finance function itself: reporting, forecasting and planning are the same wherever the company is licensed. It matters for the inputs and the calendar, such as corporate tax and VAT filings, audit deadlines and ADGM's own filing requirements. Those stay with your accountant, tax adviser and auditor. Alehar builds their deadlines and outputs into the forecast and the monthly reporting cycle.

Less than a full-time CFO, and you get a team rather than one person. Alehar's Corporate Finance as a Service is a fixed monthly retainer, starting from USD 2,500 per month and scoped to the work agreed for the month rather than billed by the hour. There is no lock-in: the engagement can be ended at any time without penalty. Our pricing page has the detail, or send us your context and we will quote for your situation.

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