Strategic CFO Advisory
Big decisions need more than a forecast.
Expansion, major contracts, financing and capital investments change what an organization needs from cash, people and performance. R² helps leadership test the consequences before committing.
Strategic CFO Advisory is senior financial judgment applied to a defined leadership decision or period of change. It connects the record of what has happened with the scenarios, constraints and choices shaping what comes next.
Depending on the decision, the work may involve cash flow projections, operating forecasts, location or entity-level profitability models, financing scenarios, capital planning or sensitivity analysis.
The decisions behind the numbers.
Distributed Services, Programs & Locations
Can we afford another location?
Location-level profitability model and new-site cash forecast.
Location contribution margins · Break-even volume · Staffing scenarios · Cash runway
Contracts, Grants & External Accountability
Can we finance the next award?
Contract cash forecast and delivery-capacity model.
Labor burn · Indirect-rate sensitivity · Billing and collection timing · Mobilization requirements
Capital, Projects & Complex Entities
Where should we commit capital?
Entity-level cash forecast and capital allocation model.
Debt coverage · Capital requirements · Liquidity reserve · Distribution scenarios
Explore R² operating environments
Illustrative engagement situations reflecting R²’s areas of practice. They are not presented as specific completed client engagements or guaranteed outcomes.
A model is useful only if leadership can see what the answer depends on.
Bring the decision, the timing and what feels uncertain. We establish what can be relied upon, test the consequences and make the next actions visible.
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What is the decision?
Define the choice, timing and people responsible for making it.
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What is known?
Establish which financial and operating facts can be relied upon.
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What is assumed?
Make the forecast drivers, constraints and dependencies visible.
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What could change the answer?
Test the sensitivities, thresholds and risks that matter most.
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What will leadership do next?
Record the decision, owners, dates and conditions that require another look.
Leadership leaves with more than a recommendation.
The precise work depends on the decision. An engagement may produce three things:
Decision brief
A concise statement of the choice, the recommendation and the reasoning behind it.
Financial model
An integrated forecast or scenario model showing cash and capital consequences, with the assumptions, sensitivities and thresholds that matter.
Action record
The decision, its owners and dates, agreed in a working session with leadership or relevant stakeholders.
It can stand alone. It becomes stronger when the financial record is already working.
A defined decision
Focused work when leadership needs additional senior judgment for a specific choice.
Alongside your finance team
Additional senior capacity for an existing CFO, controller or finance team during growth, financing, a transaction or restructuring.
An extension of Managed Financial Control
Managed Financial Control is R²’s recurring financial-control relationship. When it is in place, current records and reporting flow directly into scenarios and decisions.
If the underlying information cannot yet support the decision, we will say so. The work may need to begin with a Financial Control Diagnostic, stabilization or transformation before leadership relies on a forecast.
Questions leadership often asks
Is Strategic CFO Advisory the same as hiring a fractional CFO?
Not by default. Strategic CFO Advisory is organized around a defined decision or period of change rather than a generic outsourced title. R² can add senior financial capacity and work alongside an existing CFO, controller or finance team.
Does every engagement begin with Managed Financial Control?
No. Some decisions can be addressed as defined standalone work. When the underlying accounting or reporting cannot support the decision, we will explain what must be established first.
Can R² work with our existing advisers and finance team?
Yes. R² defines responsibilities at the start and works with the people who already hold relevant knowledge, including internal finance leaders, tax advisers, lenders, attorneys and other specialists.
Bring us the decision.
Tell us what leadership is deciding and when. You do not need a finished model or a perfectly framed question.