Your finance function isn’t broken.It’s buried.

FrontCFO is an advisory practice for CFOs and CEOs of multi-entity groups. We redesign the finance function — its structure, its operating model, its mandate — so it stops drowning in operational load and starts creating enterprise value. Led by an operator who has sat in the chair.

Diagnose

We find where your finance function is leaking value, quantified in dollars.

Design

We build the strategy and secure the board mandate to fix it.

Rebuild

We restructure how finance operates across your entities, permanently.

Three frameworks. One system. Every engagement led by the operator who built it.

The real problem

The best finance functions fail for structural reasons — not personal ones.

As a group grows, its finance function quietly absorbs the operational load that growth creates — more entities, more reconciliations, more month-ends to survive. The capture is gradual, which is exactly why it’s invisible from the inside: every task looks essential, and the team is too busy delivering to see the pattern. No amount of effort fixes it — only a change in structure does.

Not a typical consulting firm.

A system.

FrontCFO is a finance-transformation advisory practice. The difference is how the work is done: through three proprietary frameworks — FORGE™, SCALE™ and STRATA™ — built from 25+ years of finance and technology leadership across Caribbean and emerging markets, with the founder leading every engagement — accountable for the outcome, not just the proposal. Each framework stands independently. Together, they address every structural reason a finance function fails to lead.

25+Years
Finance & technology leadership
3Frameworks
Each one proprietary. Each one standalone.
1System
Diagnose. Strategise. Build.
BoardDirector
Regulated financial institutions, Caribbean markets
How we work

How we work

Three questions. Three frameworks. One complete answer.

FORGESTANDALONE
01

FORGE™

Where is value leaking?

Six financial control levers. Four maturity layers. Two diagnostic scopes. A quantified value case in dollars — before any strategy or design work begins.

Six-lever diagnostic
Four-layer score → stage
Three-scenario value case
Prioritised roadmap
Quantified impact model
Learn about FORGE™ →
SCALESTANDALONE
02

SCALE™

What should finance become?

Five stages. Six weeks. A board-endorsed Finance Strategy Charter with three signed commitments — mandate, resources, and accountability.

Survey findings
Theory of Value Canvas
Board-endorsed Charter
Liberation Plan
Results Framework
Learn about SCALE™ →
STRATASTANDALONE
03

STRATA™

How should finance be structured?

Three-layer operating model. Design & Build first; full implementation when the architecture is ready. The structure that makes everything else permanent.

Target operating model
SSC architecture
Entity migration design
Layer 3 deployment path
SSC governance workbook
Learn about STRATA™ →

Each framework delivers its full value independently. A CFO who commissions FORGE™ alone gets a complete diagnostic. SCALE™ alone — a board-endorsed strategy. STRATA™ alone — a fully implemented operating model. The sequence multiplies the value of each. It does not make any one of them dependent on the others.

Start where you are.

The right framework depends on your current situation — not a predefined package.

FORGE

You don’t know where finance value is leaking

Start here before committing budget to strategy or design. FORGE™ answers the question first.

FORGESCALE

New CFO or new CEO appointment

FORGE™ establishes the evidence base. SCALE™ gives the new leader a board-endorsed mandate. The most powerful first 90-day finance agenda.

SCALE

The finance strategy exists but the board hasn’t committed to it

No diagnostic required. The Alignment stage converts CFO ambition into board-signed commitment.

STRATA

Finance is too expensive and too distributed across entities

The three-layer model and SSC implementation addresses this directly. Commission when the structural problem is the priority.

STRATA

You’ve completed an acquisition and need to integrate finance fast

STRATA™ acquisition integration track. Speed of financial visibility takes precedence over optimal sequencing.

FORGESTRATA

Preparing for a listing or capital raise

FORGE™ builds the evidence base institutional scrutiny demands. STRATA™ builds listing-grade governance and reporting infrastructure.

FORGESCALESTRATA

You want the complete transformation — cost efficiency, strategic capacity, and board mandate.

All three in sequence. FORGE™ quantifies. SCALE™ mandates. STRATA™ builds.

FREE · 20 QUESTIONS · ABOUT 4 MINUTES

Find out where your finance
function actually stands.

Answer 20 questions and receive your Finance Function Maturity Score — with specific insights on your highest-value gaps and a recommended starting point.

Your Maturity StageScorekeeper through Value Architect
Your Highest-Value GapsAcross six financial control levers
Your Starting PointFORGE™, SCALE™, or STRATA™
Take the Finance Health Check

No sales call required. Results delivered immediately.

25+ years

Finance & technology leadership

Practitioner seat

Group CFO, COO, Deputy CEO

Caribbean CFO Summit 2026

Fireside chat — Delivered

Three frameworks

FORGE™ · SCALE™ · STRATA™

Newsletter

The Tech-Forward CFO

Monthly insights for finance leaders navigating transformation, technology, and the decisions that shape both. Published on LinkedIn.

Subscribe on LinkedIn

Free · Monthly · Delivered where finance leaders already read.

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Also available

Sounding Board

Twelve-month sponsored development for finance leaders — or a direct retainer when the organisation is not the buyer.

Explore →

The Book

Buried by Competence — the intellectual architecture behind the system.

Pre-release list →

Companion tools

Something tangible before any advisory conversation.

Open tools →

Workshops

For teams that need the doctrine applied in a facilitated room.

See formats →

Speaking

Keynotes for CFO forums and executive events.

Enquire →
FOUNDER & LEAD PARTNER

Gavin Jordan

Group CFO, COO, and Deputy CEO with 25 years across financial services, consumer products, and distribution in Caribbean and international markets. FrontCFO is not a typical firm — it is a system I built and lead as Lead Partner on every engagement.

CPA · MSc Financial Management, University of London · BSc Accounting & Economics, UWI · Executive Education, Stanford GSB

More about Gavin →

Gavin Jordan — Founder & Lead Partner, FrontCFO

Leave clearer than you arrived.

A 30-minute Executive Reset. Not a pitch. A shared diagnostic conversation that ends with a clear starting point — and a proposal only if FORGE™ is the right fit.

RECOMMENDED FIRST STEP

Take the Finance Health Check

Answer 20 questions first. Arrive at the conversation already understood — with a stage, gaps, and a recommended starting point.

Take the Finance Health Check
SKIP TO CONVERSATION

Book an Executive Reset

If you already know you need a diagnostic conversation, book directly. 30 minutes. Clarity first. Proposal afterwards.

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