Kingswell Consulting
Know what’s happening. Know what’s next.
The finance capability growing businesses need before they need a full finance team. Kingswell connects financial data, reporting and forecasts so management can understand performance, anticipate what happens next and make better decisions.
- Performance
- £4.8m
- Revenue, +12.4%
- Cash
- £640k
- Debtor days 42 → 57
- Forecast
- £184k
- Projected December low
Rephase two hires by one quarter. December cash holds above £400k, headcount unchanged by year end.
Not client data.
Your accounting system records the numbers. It does not answer the question.
Xero, QuickBooks, Sage and enterprise ERP all hold the data. What management needs is interpretation: what is happening, what happens next, and what to do about it.
Revenue is growing, so why does cash still feel tight?
Which customers, projects and products actually make money?
Why has margin fallen when we are busier than ever?
Can we afford this hire, and when?
Why does management reporting still take days of spreadsheet work?
Nobody really trusts the forecast. Should they?
Most businesses need management finance long before they need a finance department.
Between an accountant who records what happened and a full in-house finance function, there is a gap. Kingswell fills it — the forecasting, management information and commercial judgement of a senior finance team, without building the team.
Your accountant
- Bookkeeping
- Statutory accounts
- Compliance
The gap
Kingswell
- Management information
- Forecasting and planning
- Decision support
Full finance function
- Finance director
- FP&A analysts
- Finance systems team
Often a £250k+ annual commitment
Foundation. Insight. Plan. Decide.
One chain, four stages. Most businesses enter at the stage that hurts, and move along it as the business grows.
Get the numbers working properly
Finance system, chart of accounts, dimensions, month-end and reporting architecture — so the data can be trusted before anything is built on it.
- Finance system review
- Reporting structure
- Month-end process
- Data quality
The finance intelligence behind the service.
Your finance system shows balances. Kingswell Insight shows conclusions — and the evidence behind them. Select a finding to see how it is explained.
- Revenue
- £4.8m
- +12.4%12 months
- Gross margin
- 31.4%
- −2.1ptsvs prior year
- EBITDA
- £720k
- +4.8%12 months
- Cash
- £640k
- −£95kmonth on month
- 13-week low
- £310k
- Week 9projected
What needs attention
Evidence
33.5% → 31.4%
- Price+0.3
- Mix−0.6
- Labour recovery−0.8
- Subcontract−1.0
Delivery cost, not pricing. The question becomes a resourcing question.
Conclusion. Subcontract cost and labour recovery account for 1.8 of the 2.1 point fall. Price is holding.
Figures are illustrative and do not represent a client.
Technology does not replace senior finance judgement. It gives it better information.
Kingswell Insight prepares the ground. A Finance Partner sits with the leadership team each month to interpret performance, challenge the forecast and agree what changes.
Your accountant
Records and compliance
Bookkeeping, statutory accounts and tax. Unchanged, and often improved by better underlying information.
Kingswell
Insight · Planning · Decisions
Management information, forecasting and the commercial judgement applied to it. We build on the numbers your accountant produces.
We don’t replace your accountant. We build on the numbers they produce.
Two markets. One discipline.
The problems are different, so the work is different. Choose the environment that sounds like yours.
Growing businesses
Management finance for businesses outgrowing their spreadsheets.
- Management reporting and profitability
- Cash and working capital
- Budgets, forecasts and scenarios
- Finance systems and process
Typically £2m–£30m revenue · 10–200 people · owner-managed or professionally managed
Projects & programmes
Financial control where delivery is complex.
- Portfolio forecasting and cost-to-complete
- Investment appraisal and governance
- Risk, opportunity and contingency
- Executive management information
Infrastructure, property, capital and transformation programmes · enterprise ERP environments
Experience
Senior finance experience. Built for growing businesses.
Kingswell brings the disciplines used in sophisticated finance functions — forecasting, management information, scenario modelling and finance business partnering — to businesses that do not yet need to build those capabilities entirely in-house.
Usman Qureshi · Founder, Kingswell Consulting
- £3bn+
- Major programme environments
- £1bn+
- Infrastructure and capital investment
- £200m+
- Complex operating portfolios
These figures describe the scale of environments in which Kingswell practitioners have worked during their careers. They are not Kingswell client outcomes.
Next
Better information is only useful if it leads to better decisions. Start with a conversation about how your finance function is working today.