Ophélie Fender
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Ophélie Fender
Fractional CFO
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Stop steering your profitability blind.

Your revenue is growing but your profit isn’t keeping up? You don’t know which of your business units are profitable and which could do better? Every investment or hire is made on gut feeling? Stop deciding blind, with a full audit of your numbers and financial management tailored to your business.

Book a callFree, no commitment or try the simulator
10 yearsof experience in financial management
4 to 6 weeksto get an accurate picture of your true profitability
€1–5Min revenue: the size of the SMEs I work with
30 minfree, to review your numbers together

The 5 warning signs that lead business owners to call me.

01Growth without profitRevenue is rising, but profit is flat.
02Financial blind spotsIt’s hard to pin down profitability by project, business unit or team.
03Flying blindHiring and investment decisions are based on intuition, for lack of hard numbers.
04No clear directionNo clear dashboards, and little visibility over the medium and long term.
05Information lagYour accounts describe the past, but don’t give you the forward view you need for strategic decisions.

If these situations sound familiar, your financial organisation has reached its limits. It all starts with an in-depth audit of your profitability, to find out exactly where the problem lies.

Case study + €100,000

of profit impact, identified in six months at a Paris firm of around twenty people

This business owner managed by revenue alone. By reconciling the data down to the last cent, he saw for the first time what each team really cost him compared with what it brought in. No more blind spots, like the “top salesperson” whose team turned out to be the least profitable. Today he no longer decides on gut feeling, but on facts.

Read the full case

You’re an SME with €1–5M in revenue

Law firms
Agencies & IT services
Architecture firms
Consulting firms
Recruitment
& training firms

You’re at the turning point of a growing SME: teams are expanding, clients are multiplying and the numbers are getting harder to follow. To decide quickly and safely, you need visibility on what weighs on your profitability and on what really pays.

Simulator

What is one point of margin worth to you?

Enter your current figures and move the sliders to reveal your true profit potential. Margin, productivity, payroll and overheads: test the direct impact of the levers we can optimise together.

Your situation today

Rough figures are fine.

Your levers

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Your simplified P&L

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Let’s check together whether these levers apply to your business.

Book my review (30 min)

“Higher revenue doesn’t guarantee higher profit. And vice versa.”

Identifying and activating the levers that secure your profitability: that’s the heart of what I do.

From blind spots to precision management

01

The management audit

For 4 to 6 weeks, we review everything from the ground up. We rebuild your real margins by business unit, reconcile the data precisely and put a figure on your profit leaks. You end up with a foundation you can finally rely on.

02

The forecast

We build a dynamic budget. We model your scenarios to put a figure on the direct impact of your next decisions (hires, investments) before you even make them. You know where you’ll land.

03

Tailored follow-up

Once the foundation is sound, you choose what comes next: I take over every month as your fractional CFO, or I train someone on your team to bring this skill in-house.

It all starts with a review of where you stand. The first 30-minute call is free.

I give you financial clarity, so you can excel at what you do with peace of mind.

After a decade in group finance, I saw from the inside what a lack of visibility costs a company. One day, at a fine business that was generating revenue but had lost control of its costs, I had to build a redundancy plan. Cut the payroll in half, cross names out in red.

I chose to work with SME owners to spare them that situation, so they can keep excelling at what they do without having to become finance managers overnight. I give you the visibility you need to make the right decisions, before it’s too late.

My background
30
minutes

Thirty minutes to lay your numbers on the table

By video call or at your offices in Paris. We start from your situation: your business, your organisation, what you track today, and we answer all your questions.

Book a slot Paris and Île-de-France · By video or at your offices
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