Croftlands Consulting Limited

The CFO Your
Growth Stage Demands

Interim and fractional finance leadership, data-driven systems, and technical expertise for PE-backed and founder-led businesses in SaaS, events and high-growth services.

25+
Years Board-Level
Experience
CA(SA)
Chartered Accountant
Big 4 Trained
MIT
Applied AI & Data
Science Program
PE
SaaS & Events
Specialist
What We Do

Nine Ways We Add Value

From stabilising a finance function to building machine learning models — senior expertise applied to the specific challenges of growth-stage businesses.

Interim CFO / Finance Director

Board-level finance leadership on a fixed-term basis — covering parental leave, sudden departures, or bridging to a permanent hire during critical growth phases.

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Fractional CFO

Part-time strategic finance leadership without the full-time cost — ideal for businesses that need CFO-level thinking but are not yet ready for a full-time hire.

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Finance Function Build-Out

Designing and implementing the entire finance operation — ERP selection, management accounts, board packs, KPI dashboards and the right team structure for scale.

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Data & Analytics

Python-powered dashboards, churn models, customer segmentation and time-series forecasting — turning raw data into decisions that drive growth.

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Process Automation

Eliminating manual effort across the finance function — from PipeDrive–Xero integrations to automated deferred revenue recognition and reporting pipelines.

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Technical Accounting

Purchase price allocation, going concern assessments, impairment reviews, transfer pricing and complex consolidations — rigorous technical work, clearly communicated.

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M&A & Acquisition Support

Company valuations using DCF and comparable analysis, financial due diligence, deal structuring support and sell-side advisory for owners considering an exit.

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Growth Modelling & Cashflow Forecasting

Regression-based ARR and churn models, 12-week rolling cashflow forecasts, and scenario planning that gives boards genuine visibility of their financial runway.

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Acquisition Integration

From Day 1 post-signing to the first clean month-end in the parent's systems — chart of accounts mapping, ETB management, governance and policy alignment.

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CA(SA)
Chartered Accountant
Big 4 Trained · KPMG
25+
Years at Board &
Executive Level
PE
Private Equity
Environments
MIT
Applied AI & Data
Science (2026)
FTSE
Including FTSE 100
Informa plc
Sector Focus

We Know Your Business Model

Deep familiarity with the metrics, terminology and pressure points that matter most in SaaS and events — two sectors where generic finance advice often falls short.

Software as a Service (SaaS)

From deferred revenue accounting to churn modelling, ARR waterfall analysis and CAC payback periods — we speak the language of a SaaS board and a SaaS investor.

Recent experience includes a global PE-backed SaaS business operating across UK, North America, APAC and South Africa, with end-to-end finance transformation, NetSuite automation and acquisition integration.

ARR / NRR Churn Analysis CAC & LTV Deferred Revenue Transfer Pricing NetSuite

Events & Live Experience

Event-level P&L, yield per m², sponsorship and attendee revenue mix, re-booking rates at event close — we build the reporting that events businesses actually need.

Recent experience spans a FTSE 100 global events group and a PE-backed international events business operating across the UK, Europe and the USA.

Event P&L Yield per m² Sponsor Mix Re-booking Rates Cashflow PE Reporting
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About Graeme Weeden

25 Years of Finance Leadership — With a Data Science Edge

Graeme Weeden is a CA(SA)-qualified finance leader with over 25 years of board and C-suite experience across private equity-backed businesses, investment banking, and independent consulting in South Africa and the United Kingdom.

His career spans KPMG (articled clerk through to audit supervisor), investment banking in London (Lehman Brothers, UBS Warburg, CSFB), ABN AMRO, Coronation Capital (COO), and senior interim roles at Dext Software, Informa plc and Raccoon Media Group.

What sets Graeme apart is the combination of deep CFO credentials with genuine technical capability in Python-driven data analytics — actively studying in the MIT Professional Education Applied AI & Data Science Program alongside client work.

CA(SA) B.Comm UCT B.Compt (Hons) UNISA MIT AAIDSP CS50 Harvard
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Insights

Finance Thinking for Growth Businesses

Practical articles on the financial challenges facing SaaS founders, events operators and their investors.

SaaS Finance

Five SaaS Metrics Every CFO Must Track — And How to Automate Them

ARR, NRR, CAC payback, churn and LTV:CAC ratio — why each matters and how Python eliminates the manual work of tracking them.

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Cashflow

Building a 12-Week Cashflow Model That Actually Prevents a Crisis

The architecture, assumptions and weekly discipline behind a rolling cashflow model that gives boards genuine visibility of financial runway.

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Finance Transformation

When Your Finance Function Is No Longer Fit for Purpose

Six warning signs that your finance operation has not scaled with your business — and what to do about each one.

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Ready to Talk?

Whether you need interim cover, a fractional CFO or a specific project delivered — let’s start with a no-obligation conversation.

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Or reach out directly: graemeweeden@croftlandsconsulting.com