Interim & fractional Financial Controller / FD
ACCA · 12+ years · UK finance for a £2bn+ investment portfolio · 29-country EMEA close
Hands-on support to get your numbers accurate, on time and investor-ready, without the cost or delay of a full-time hire.
Most businesses don't have a finance problem. They have a visibility problem, and it usually shows up as one of these.
Two or three of these is usually enough to justify a few days a month of senior support.
Usually at a moment when finance has to step up quickly and a permanent senior hire is either premature or months away.
Three formats, each with a scope and fee agreed in writing before any work starts.
Set days each month, ongoing
A senior finance lead for businesses that need FC or FD judgement, but not five days a week.
Best for: PE-backed and growing SMEs
Full-time for a defined period
Stepping in during a vacancy, a period of change or a transaction, then handing over a stable function.
Best for: gaps, transactions and turnarounds
Fixed scope, fixed outcome
A specific piece of work with a clear finish line.
Best for: one clear problem to solve
You'll know exactly what happens and what it costs before anything is agreed.
20 minutes on where the business is, what's not working and what good would look like.
A short proposal within a few days: format, days, deliverables and fee.
A diagnostic of the close, controls, cash and reporting, with quick wins delivered early.
Regular reporting, or a clean handover to your permanent team with documented processes.
No account managers, no junior team. The person you speak to on the first call is the person who does the work.
From roles at Artmax (the UK arm of a £2bn+ global investment portfolio), CBRE and ISS.
Experience of the issues that actually move the numbers in each sector.
Contract margins, mobilisation costs, change control and multi-site reporting.
Work in progress, cost-value reconciliation, retentions, project accounting and cash.
SPV structures, service charges, development budgets and lender reporting.
Pricing, utilisation, recurring revenue and PE-style KPIs.
I'm Khayyam Pervaiz, an ACCA-qualified finance leader with more than twelve years' experience in real estate, investment, facilities management and business services.
Most of my career has been spent building or repairing finance functions: taking over from external accountants, consolidating groups across several countries, getting businesses audit-ready, and giving owners and investors numbers they trust. I work closely with founders, management teams and investors, and I'm comfortable doing the detailed work myself.
KYM Group Ltd is my consultancy, registered in England and Wales since 2016.
The things clients usually ask on the first call.
Interim is full-time cover for a defined period, often during a vacancy or transaction. Fractional is a set number of days each month on an ongoing basis. Project is a fixed scope with a clear end point, such as an acquisition integration or a systems change.
A Financial Controller makes the numbers accurate and on time: close, reconciliations, controls and the audit. A Finance Director uses those numbers to steer the business: forecasting, cash, funding, investors and the board. Many SMEs need some of both, which is exactly what a fractional arrangement covers. A fractional CFO and a part-time FD are essentially the same role.
Either a day rate or a fixed fee for a defined project, agreed in writing before any work starts. Fractional arrangements run month to month on 30 days' notice, so there's no long lock-in.
Engagements are contracted through KYM Group Ltd, a UK limited company. IR35 status is assessed at the outset of each engagement, based on how the work will actually be carried out.
Remote-first, with time on site when it adds value, such as board meetings, audits, stock counts or team handovers.
Not necessarily. Many businesses keep their accountants for statutory accounts and tax while I run month-end, reporting and controls. Where it makes sense to bring work in-house, I'll plan the transition with you.
Usually within a couple of weeks of agreeing the scope, sometimes sooner for urgent situations such as a sudden vacancy before a year-end.
A 20-minute call is usually enough to work out whether fractional, interim or project support is the right fit, and what it would cost.