Your finance function isn’t broken.It’s buried.
FrontCFO is a finance transformation and leadership advisory practice for CEOs, CFOs, and the organisations that invest in them. We develop finance leaders who are carrying more than they should carry alone. And we diagnose, design, and transform the finance functions they lead. Every engagement led by a practitioner who has held the seat.
Develop
We provide structured advisory and development for CFOs and senior finance leaders through the Sounding Board and the Finance Leadership Development Programme.
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 and leadership advisory practice. The difference is how the work is done: through proprietary frameworks 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.
How we work
Three questions. Three frameworks. One complete answer.
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.
SCALE™
What should finance become?
Five stages. Six weeks. A board-endorsed Finance Strategy Charter with three signed commitments — mandate, resources, and accountability.
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.
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.
Finance function
You don’t know where finance value is leaking
Start here before committing budget to strategy or design. FORGE™ answers the question first.
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.
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.
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.
You’ve completed an acquisition and need to integrate finance fast
STRATA™ acquisition integration track. Speed of financial visibility takes precedence over optimal sequencing.
Preparing for a listing or capital raise
FORGE™ builds the evidence base institutional scrutiny demands. STRATA™ builds listing-grade governance and reporting infrastructure.
You want the complete transformation — cost efficiency, strategic capacity, and board mandate.
All three in sequence. FORGE™ quantifies. SCALE™ mandates. STRATA™ builds.
Finance Leadership
When the gap is the leader — not only the structure of the function.
The CFO is technically strong but strategically isolated
Finance Leadership Development Programme. Sponsored through HR or executive development.
The CFO produces good analysis that doesn't change decisions
Programme. The capability gap is influence and positioning, not technical skill.
The CFO has inherited a function they didn't design and can't rebuild while running it
Programme + Diagnostic. Develop the leader and diagnose the function simultaneously.
The deputy is 1-2 years from readiness but not seen as strategic
Programme succession track. Deliberate exposure in real, high-stakes settings.
Urgent CFO succession within 6 months
Accelerated succession track. Dual track for outgoing CFO and successor.
Development courses haven't closed the gap
Programme. The courses failed because the root cause is structural or perceptual, not educational.
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.
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™
Also available
Sounding Board & Programme
Structured advisory and development for CFOs and senior finance leaders. A 12-month programme with proprietary capability assessment, exposure strategy, and annual function Health Assessment. Sponsored by the organisation.
Explore →Gavin Jordan
Five CFO appointments. Group COO. Deputy CEO. 25 years of executive finance leadership across listed, regulated, and multi-jurisdictional environments in the Caribbean and the United States. FrontCFO is the advisory practice I built from the seats the work is meant for. I lead every engagement.
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.
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 CheckBook an Executive Reset
If you already know you need a diagnostic conversation, book directly. 30 minutes. Clarity first. Proposal afterwards.
Book an Executive Reset