Growth Businesses

Growth and scaling businesses will be seeking to build on the foundations that have been carefully laid and maximise the market opportunity and return on investment.

Our clients engage us to work with the business operating flexibly as an embedded part of your team, working alongside founders, CEOs and boards of small and mid-tier firms, maximising and realising value for all stakeholders.

The Numitas team of more than 100 CFOs and finance directors have experience of small family-run businesses to mid-market corporates.

Typical scenarios for the finance director include:

Maximising the market opportunity
Optimising cash and performance
Managing growth to control risks
Assisting with private equity and venture capital funding
Consulting on ‘buy v build’
Optimising operations
Short and long-term planning
Creating revenue and performance milestones
Improving productivity and efficiency
Appraising capital expenditure
Analysing avenues for international trade

Operating flexibly, we provide a broad spectrum of capability under a range of engagement contracts, at short notice.

We provide flexible resources increasing or decreasing as required, specialising in moving quickly from understanding the requirement to starting the project at very short notice.

Case Studies

Managing Growth

Scintacor (formerly Applied Scintillation Technologies) is a successful British company and the world leader in phosphor and scintillation technology, which allows the conversion of different radiations into light for imaging and detection. The growing demand for their expertise meant that Scintacor decided it was time to look for further investment into the business, which is where Numitas was able to help.

Scintacor

Raising £12m in funding for the tech sector

GeoSpock is an extreme-scale spatial big data platform company that provides analytics, visualisation and builds insight for four main verticals: location based mobile advertising, telecommunications, connected cars, and smart cities.

GeoSpock

Finding the right CFO

AIM-listed Ubisense was founded in 2002 and is a high growth, Cambridge-based technology firm. Its highly specialist expertise serves 500 customers in 50 countries with enterprise location intelligence products and solutions that help them with their high value manufacturing operations. For example, its work with automotive firms BMW and Aston Martin and with aerospace giant Airbus, enables specific components and tooling to be located and supplied automatically to a manufacturing location, using state of the art, ultra-wideband radio technology.

Ubisense

Professionalising the Finance Function

Our client is a SaaS business delivering real time data and information to the NHS and helping to manage patient footfall through its mobile app. The company currently turns over £2m and employs some 35 people onshore UK with an outsourced development centre in India.

Transforming Systems

Securing a £7.5m sale

i-graduate surveys international student opinion about different universities, then tracks and benchmarks the data, delivering comparative insight to the education sector worldwide, in order to help institutions deliver a world class student experience to enhance competitive advantage.

i-graduate