Leading the Finance discipline is Norm Paquette, a Chartered Accountant and respected executive with over 25 years of senior management experience in start-up and growth companies.
All successful businesses require the rigor in planning, the discipline in control and the access to sources of capital that an effective CFO provides. It is the difference between struggling to break even and having the resources to capitalize on opportunities to grow your business. Stratford Managers works with you to strengthen the financial foundation of your business.
A Trusted Financial Guide
Our clients contact us when they are trying to improve their business operating model or support growth through external financing and M&A activities. We often start as trusted advisors to the CEO or CFO in formulating strategies on these issues. Our experience in financial operations and financial transactions help sharpen your thinking and identify key areas to address as we coach and assist you. In other cases, we step in as an embedded senior finance manager to fill a temporary gap in the senior management team or to provide skills and resources to drive a special project.
Lasting Financial Performance
Working side-by-side with your senior management team, we provide continuous coaching and leadership by example. Through our engagement we ensure that your capabilities grow so that your company is equipped to operate at a higher level. We also work with the various corporate stakeholders (management, investors, and bankers) to ensure that strategic initiatives are well defined, well communicated, and yield credible operating plans.
Finance Services
Stratford Managers provides the following services and more.
Financial Operations
- Development of internal controls
- Reporting
- Financial systems
- Compliance and financial risk management
- Cost and asset efficiency
External Financing
- Corporate strategy and presentation
- Sources of financing
- Access to government programs
Mergers and Acquisitions
- Target identification and assessment
- Due diligence
- Negotiation
- Implementation
Restructuring
- Asset maximization
- Cash management
- Financial restructuring
- Sustainable operating plan
- Liquidation/wind-down
Virtual CFO
- Interim responsibility for finance function
Take the next step. Call 1 877 325 2688. Email norm.paquette@stratfordmanagers.com.
