Kingswell

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Start with clarity, not software.

Before rebuilding reports, buying systems or hiring more finance resource, understand what is actually limiting the business.

01How it works

One conversation. One structured diagnostic. One plan.

A defined piece of work with a defined output. No retainer required to find out whether Kingswell is useful to you.

  1. 01

    Conversation

    Where the business is going and what is getting in the way.

  2. 02

    Diagnosis

    Cash, profitability, forecasting, reporting, process, automation.

  3. 03

    Priorities

    The constraint that matters, separated from everything else.

  4. 04

    90-day plan

    Sequenced work with owners, dates and expected effect.

02The diagnostic

Six dimensions, scored against how the business actually runs.

Exhibit 01

Illustrative example

Finance maturity, scored — then sequenced

What is limiting the business, and what should be fixed first?

Where do we actually stand?

Illustrative example
  • Cash visibility

    No forward view beyond the bank balance

  • Profitability

    Margin by customer and job is unknown

  • Forecasting

    No maintained forecast

  • Reporting

    Accurate, but slow and manual

  • Processes

    Re-keying between systems each month

  • Automation

    Systems already in place to build on

Forecasting and cash visibility are the constraint — not reporting quality.

  1. Days 0–3013-week cash view and one management pack
  2. Days 30–60Customer and job margin, driver-based forecast
  3. Days 60–90Automate the month-end that is still by hand

A low score is not a criticism. It is a sequence: cash visibility first, because every later decision is tested against it.

03From diagnosis to plan

One constraint. Ninety days.

Most finance functions have several weaknesses and one real constraint. The value of the review is deciding which is which — and then doing the first thing properly rather than five things partially.

What you leave with

  • A scored view of six finance dimensions
  • The primary constraint, stated plainly
  • A 90-day priority plan, sequenced
  • What to fix yourself, and what needs help
  • What not to spend money on yet

From diagnosis to a 90-day plan

Illustrative example

Diagnosis

Six dimensions assessed against how the business actually runs.

Primary constraint

Forecasting and cash visibility.

Reporting quality is not the limiting factor. The forward view is.

90-day priority plan

  1. Days 0–30One 13-week cash view, owned and updated weekly0
  2. Days 30–60Management pack rebuilt around customer and job margin1
  3. Days 60–90Automate the two heaviest manual month-end routines2
04Where it fits

This is probably for you if…

  • £3m–£20m turnover, growing faster than the finance function

  • An accountant, bookkeeper or small finance team already in place

  • Cash visibility that stops at the bank balance

  • No confident answer on customer or job profitability

Particular depth in construction, property, engineering, project-based businesses and professional services — though the work is not limited to them.

05Tell us where it hurts

Pick the pressure point and we will start there.

What do you wish you understood better about your business?

Next

Most reviews point to one of three places first: the forward cash view, the margin picture, or the manual work behind both.