Experts in outsourced finance leadership and finance teams for SME’s in the UK

The Smart Team provides an outsourced finance team and part time finance directors to small growing businesses, giving access to commercially experienced finance leaders (and a core finance team if needed). We support your growing business through flexible outsourced FD’s without the hefty salary costs of direct employment.

Our Services & Fees

Your flexible partners for Outsourced Finance Directors, Non-Executive Directors and Finance Teams. We provide the team you need when you need it.

The Smart Team provides part-time finance directors without all the cost implications of taking on a new employee. The Smart Team provides access for small businesses to outsourced finance directors, with an array of highly experienced finance leaders who support your existing finance team and business specifically tailored to your businesses current finance needs.

The Smart Team’s finance professionals embed flexibly into your business without the hefty salary and employee responsibilities; with us on your team you will get accurate and useful financial information and fully bespoke support. Using outsourced finance leadership enables you to make better informed decisions about strategy, direction and growth. In short, we work ‘with you’ not simply ‘for you’.

Our outsourced finance model provides services that are both economical and fully bespoke – you only ever pay for the services your business needs. This means that you get access to experienced and highly skilled financial leadership, advice and services at an affordable price.

With your finance in our “safe hands” your time is free to concentrate on building the business; outsourcing finance actually adds value, because with a strategic finance focus, The Smart Team improves your businesses profitability. 

With our strength and depth of commercial experience on your side you will gain a better understanding of the critical success factors, profit drivers and KPI’s that will lead to better informed decision making. 

We work with businesses to provide high performing, cost effective finance teams who are genuinely part of your business.

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Outsourced Finance Services
improve your business with flexible support

Our services are bespoke to ensure you get what you really need but based around 4 key areas:

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Non-exec
Directorships

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Outsourced Finance
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Virtual
Finance Team

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What Our Clients Say

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By working with The Smart Team, we now have more clarity on the impact some of our operational processes have on financial reporting and controls, and we are implementing better control processes to help the handover of information from the Ops team into Finance.
Mark Lindsay, Director, WeDo Finance
Mark Lindsay, Director, WeDo Finance
Technically very able, Tracy has the rare skill of turning Finance into something real and meaningful that everyone can buy into.
Matt Tombes, Global Finance Business Partner Bibby Financial Services
Matt Tombes, Global Finance Business Partner Bibby Financial Services
The drive, honesty, and passion to develop the team, along with all the other skills a seasoned FD has, make Tracy someone really good to work with.
Thomas Greatorex, Head of Global MI.
Thomas Greatorex, Head of Global MI.
Tracy quickly understands the big picture whilst also appreciating the detail. Tracy is driven to deliver to deadlines, collaboratively finding solutions when issues arise.
Ian Freeth, Head of Finance, Business Partners UK
Ian Freeth, Head of Finance, Business Partners UK
The financial information she provided facilitated decision making throughout the planning and implementation of a major restructuring of my department. As my finance partner, she was a highly valued and committed member of my management team. Tracy provided robust financial control and actively resolved a host of legacy issues, she raised appropriate challenges and always acted with integrity.
Rob Daniels, IT Consultant
Rob Daniels, IT Consultant
Tracy has impressed me in her capacity as Outsourced Finance Director for the business.She is a finance professional who adds so much more than just the compliance activities you would typically expect for an FD in a small business. Of course she brings robust financial control, and has demonstrated this by improving our approval processes to ensure that our spend and investments are in line with our plans. She also keeps a close eye on the detail of our finances and our financial projections, giving me the confidence to focus on the strategic direction of the business.In addition, Tracy brings many years of commercial experience to our leadership group. She understands our business model well, and regularly brings a new perspective, and valued new ideas or approaches for the team to consider.
Alan D. RothCEO at Oxford Drug Design

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Blogs / Articles

Who do I need on my Finance Team?

As every football manager knows, a successful team needs players with a variety of skill sets, some more specialist, like goalkeeper, and others more flexible

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