A full finance department. A CFO’s salary. One line item.
Access CFO gives growing businesses a senior finance team — CFO judgment, controller discipline, board-ready reporting — for a fraction of what one full-time hire costs. You run the business. We run the numbers.
You’ve outgrown your accountant.
You’re not ready for a ₹50-lakh hire.
That gap — between “someone files my GST” and “someone owns my numbers” — is exactly where most growing businesses bleed money, miss deadlines, and fly blind. It’s the only gap we work in.
₹2–20 Cr revenue
The founder-run business
You’re still approving every payment yourself and finding out your margins three months late. You need visibility before you need headcount.
- Monthly close & MIS you can read in 10 minutes
- Cash flow forecast so payroll is never a surprise
- Compliance handled without you chasing anyone
₹20–80 Cr revenue
The scaling company
Banks want projections. Investors want data rooms. Your books were built for tax filing, not for growth. Time to institutionalise the finance function.
- Driver-based budgets and quarterly reforecasts
- Fundraise & debt-raise readiness, end to end
- Unit economics by product, channel and region
₹80 Cr+ revenue
The established SME
You have an accounts team — what’s missing is the layer above it. Strategic finance, internal controls, and someone senior who pushes back in the room.
- A named CFO in your leadership reviews
- Internal controls, audit readiness, board packs
- M&A, restructuring and succession support
Everything a finance department does.
Nothing you don’t need yet.
Pick the modules that match where you are. Scale up when the business does — without a single new hire.
CFO on your side
A named senior CFO in your leadership meetings — pricing calls, bank negotiations, hard decisions. On your team, not on your payroll.
Cash flow command
13-week rolling cash forecasts, working-capital discipline, receivables chasing with teeth, and early warnings before a crunch becomes a crisis.
Board-ready MIS
Monthly P&L, balance sheet, cash flow and KPI packs your board and lenders actually read — closed, reconciled and delivered by the 7th.
Budgeting & forecasting
Annual operating plans, driver-based financial models and quarterly reforecasts that tie your strategy to numbers you can actually defend.
Fundraise & diligence prep
Investor-grade financial models, clean data rooms and the numbers-side narrative — so diligence is a formality, not a fire drill.
Compliance backbone
GST, TDS, ROC, PF/ESI and payroll compliance run on a calendar, not on panic. Zero missed filings is the baseline, not the goal.
Analyse performance
Spot opportunities
Manage risk
Drive growth
You don’t hire a freelancer.
You plug into a department.
Every engagement is staffed as a three-layer pod. The CFO thinks, the controller checks, the analyst executes — the same structure a ₹500 Cr company runs, scaled to fit yours.
From messy books to a machine
that runs itself.
A structured onboarding, because “we’ll figure it out as we go” is not a finance strategy.
Diagnostic
We audit your books, compliance status, cash position and reporting gaps. You get a written findings memo — blunt, prioritised, yours to keep either way.
Stabilise
Books cleaned, backlog cleared, compliance calendar live, chart of accounts rebuilt to tell you something useful. The foundation gets poured here.
Operate
Monthly close on schedule, MIS by the 7th, forecast reviews with your named CFO. The rhythm most companies only get after their Series B — from day 30.
Same rhythm.
Every single month.
Outsourced finance fails on consistency, not competence. So we publish our calendar and hold ourselves to it — you always know what lands on your desk, and when.
Senior finance talent is expensive. Renting it isn’t.
An experienced CFO costs ₹40–60 lakh a year — before the controller, the team, and the six months it takes to hire them. We’ve already done the hiring. You get the output. See full pricing →
The people who’ll actually
pick up your call.
No account managers, no handoffs to juniors you’ve never met. These are the people in your WhatsApp group from day one.
R.D.S. Bawa
Over 40 years of finance leadership, capped by his years as Group CFO of Network18 — which he joined in its early days and helped grow into one of India’s largest media groups.
Mehar Puri
Co-founder of Access CFO. A Chartered Accountant who has cleared CFA Level I, with six years across statutory audit at Walker Chandiok & Co (Grant Thornton Bharat) and large-corporate credit at ICICI Bank’s Wholesale Banking Group.
Gurdeep Singh Puri
Founder of Access CFO. 28+ years of finance leadership — large IPOs, rights issues, fund-raising, M&A and deal structuring — with a gift for building teams and keeping investors close. Ex-Den Networks, TV18 and NDTV.
Manoj Sharma
15 years across management, MIS, compliance and internal financial control — plus valuation, bank financing, rights issues and ERP implementations.
Bhim Bhardwaj
42 years with Saudi Arabia’s Olayan Group — rising to CFO of its flagship trading company and finance chief for the Burger King master franchise, 500+ restaurants across MENA. Deep expertise in M&A, restructuring and multinational governance.
Mohammad Ghulam Azhar
25+ years in strategic and financial planning, capital structuring and M&A. Spent 12 years as COO of DEN Networks, and earlier led fund syndication at Access Financial Services.
Abhishek Kumar
Managing Partner at Rainforest Venture Network, backing early-stage tech. Nearly two decades investing and operating in tech and media — 20+ M&As and a dozen-plus start-up investments, with leadership roles at Snapdeal and Network18.
Venketesh M. Chaurasia
An advocate with 15+ years representing tax matters for PSUs, corporates and individuals alike — arguing appeals from the Income-Tax Tribunal all the way to the High Court and Supreme Court.
What it feels like on the other side.
Our bank asked for three-year projections on a Tuesday. We had them Thursday, and they were defensible. That’s the difference between an accountant and a CFO.
I used to find out our cash position by calling my accountant and waiting two days. Now it’s a dashboard, and I’ve stopped waking up at 3 a.m. before payroll.
Diligence for our Series A took eleven days. The investors’ counsel said it was the cleanest data room they’d seen from a company our size. That closed the round.
The questions founders
actually ask us.
Your CA looks backward — filings, audits, tax. A virtual CFO looks forward — cash, margins, decisions. Keep your CA for the statutory audit; we are the finance brain in between.
Almost never. Your bookkeeper stays and gets better — we are the senior layer they report into: the controller and CFO you could not justify hiring full-time.
At Access CFO, engagements run from ₹50,000 a month, or roughly ₹6 lakh to ₹36 lakh a year depending on scope and company size — against ₹80 lakh to ₹1.2 crore for the equivalent in-house team. See our pricing page for what moves the number.
We work in your systems — Tally, Zoho Books, QuickBooks, Busy or your ERP. Migrating software is never a precondition for starting.
Every engagement runs under a signed NDA: role-based access, no client data on personal devices, and strict information barriers between account pods.
Onboarding is a structured 30 days: a written diagnostic in week 1, books and compliance stabilised in weeks 2–3, and the monthly reporting rhythm live from week 4.
Tell us what’s broken.
We’ll tell you what it takes to fix it.
Thirty minutes with a partner, not a salesperson. You leave with a prioritised list of what your finance function is missing — whether or not you work with us.
Prefer to talk first?
Most founders would rather ask two quick questions before filling in anything. That is completely fine.
WhatsApp +91 83830 53534 Call +91 98119 99041Thirty minutes. We’ll tell you exactly what your finance function is missing — free, either way.
If we’re not the right fit, you’ll still leave with a prioritised list of what to fix. That’s the worst-case outcome.