Outsourced Finance Manager
The finance function, run properly. Without hiring one.
A Finance Manager owns the running of your finance function: month-end, management accounts, cashflow, budgets, reporting and financial process. Bluevista does that as a service, for a fraction of the cost of the equivalent hire.
Is this you
The bookkeeping is fine. The management information is not.
Most businesses come to Bluevista at the same point: the compliance work is handled, but nobody is turning the numbers into decisions, and the forward view lives in a spreadsheet nobody fully trusts.
Turnover is growing faster than control
More revenue, more staff, more moving parts – and less visibility of whether any of it is actually working.
A finance hire is premature
A capable Finance Manager is a substantial salary plus recruitment risk, and the role is not yet full-time work.
The board asks questions you cannot answer quickly
Margin by service line, cash in ninety days, the real cost of the last hire – all answerable, but not from statutory accounts.
The service
An embedded finance function
The running of the finance function, handled as a service: month-end, management accounts, cashflow, budgets, reporting and financial process.
Management accounts
Monthly, on time, and explained rather than emailed.
Cashflow management
Forward cash visibility, not a bank balance.
Budgeting
A plan the business can actually be held to.
Forecasting
Where the business is heading on current trajectory.
Management reporting
Reporting built for decisions, not for filing.
Financial controls
Process and control that scale with the business.
Performance analysis
Which parts of the business earn, and which do not.
Decision support
Someone to think it through with before committing.
Management information
Numbers are not the point. Decisions are.
Statutory accounts and management information are different documents, produced for different readers, answering different questions. Most businesses only ever see the first one.
Statutory accounts
Written for HMRC and Companies House
- Produced once a year, months after the event
- Aggregated to the whole business
- Formatted for compliance, not for reading
- Answers: what happened, and what is owed
Management information
Written for the person making the decision
- Produced every month, while it can still change something
- Broken down by service line, client or adviser
- Built around how your business actually earns
- Answers: what is working, and what to do next
Both matter. Bluevista produces both — but the second one is the reason clients stay.
Engagement
How Bluevista works
Step 01
Finance review
A structured look at how the finance function runs today, what the numbers say, and where the gaps are.
Step 02
Scope and rhythm
Agree what Bluevista handles, what stays in-house, and the monthly cycle the business will run to.
Step 03
Run the function
Month-end, management accounts, cashflow, reporting and the management conversation that follows.
Step 04
Step up when needed
Fractional FD input for planning, funding, modelling or board-level decisions as they arise.
Commercials
A fixed monthly fee, agreed in advance
Scope is agreed at the start of the engagement and priced as a fixed monthly fee, so the cost is predictable and the work is defined. Scope can change; surprises should not.
Fees depend on the size of the business, the state of the current records and the monthly cycle you want to run. The finance review establishes all three before anything is quoted.
Bluevista uses BlueChasqui, a separate finance-management platform, for the management information, planning and performance analysis behind the monthly cycle.
Start with a finance review
A straightforward conversation about how your finance function runs today and what would have to change for it to tell you something useful. No obligation, and no pressure to move your accounts.