DEBT & LENDERS·Part of the fractional CFO scope

Debt and lenders

The credit package is assembled the week it is due, out of whatever exists, and it reads defensively. Covenants are agreed because they were in the term sheet, without anyone modeling them against the actual forecast — so the business signs up to a fixed charge ratio it will breach in month seven under its own plan.

How we run it
01 / 05

In the order we do it.

And the relationship is transactional: the lender hears from the company at renewal and when something is wrong.

01THE CREDIT PACKAGE

We prepare the credit package the way a credit committee reads it: the business case first, the risks named by us before they are found, and the numbers reconciled to the statutory accounts so nothing has to be explained away.

02COVENANTS, MODELLED FIRST

Every covenant is modeled against the forecast before it is agreed, including the downside. If a proposed covenant breaks under your own base case, that is the negotiation, and it happens before signature rather than after.

03RUNNING THE RELATIONSHIP

Then the relationship is run rather than endured: reporting on time every period, compliance certificates filed early, and a call before bad news rather than after. Lenders price uncertainty. Removing it is worth basis points.

What changes
02 / 05

What you can do afterwards that you cannot do now.

01

Walk into a lender meeting knowing what they will ask.

02

Understand what the term sheet in front of you actually costs across its life, not just its headline rate.

03

Renew without drama.

Who holds the seat
03 / 05

Your CFO does not do this alone.

WHO YOUR CFO DRAWS ON
Debt specialists who have sat on the lender side of the table
Brought in for this, at no change to the fee.

With a named controller alongside them, a named backup on every seat, and the specialist bench behind both — all inside one fixed monthly fee.

Who arrives with this
04 / 05

The situations that route here.

“My lender is asking for more than I can give them”
What happens next

Tell us what your month looks like. We will tell you whether this is the first thing to fix.

One hour on your business, with the CFO who would hold the seat rather than a salesperson. Nothing to prepare and nothing to sign. A written note back within two working days saying what we heard and what we would look at first.

THE HOURWhat the business does, how the cash moves through it, and what would have to be different in a year.
THE NOTEWhat we heard and what we would look at first, in writing, within two working days.
THE PODThe CFO and controller who would hold your seats, each with a named backup behind them.
THE STANDARDClose by the seventh working day, pack on the eighth, and a published response standard in between.
ONE HOUR · NO CHARGE · A WRITTEN NOTE BACK WITHIN TWO WORKING DAYS