"Stop guessing. Start knowing. The detail behind your numbers changes everything.”
ABOUT
Finance that focuses
on what matters
We specialise in the financial work that drives performance: understanding your numbers, controlling costs, planning ahead, and building the kind of insight that helps you run a more profitable business.
Our expertise is in financial analysis, planning, and management insight - the work that makes a real difference to your bottom line, and the work that too often gets overlooked in favour of compliance.
SERVICES
Where we can help
Our focus is on the financial work that drives commercial performance - the planning, analysis, and insight that shapes how your business grows and how profitably it does so.
Financial Planning & Analysis
The core of what we do. Budgets, forecasts, and rolling models that reflect how your business actually works. We help you understand what’s driving revenue and margin, model the impact of key decisions, and plan with confidence rather than instinct.
Profitability & Cost Analysis
Where is your money going - and should it be? We break down your cost base by driver, identify margin leakage, and analyse profitability by product, customer, or channel. The result is a clear picture of where to focus and where to act.
Management Reporting & KPIs
Management packs should drive decisions, not gather dust. We design and build reporting that tells the right story - the metrics that matter, at the right frequency, in a format your leadership team will actually use and act on.
Business Insight & Advisory
Sometimes you need a trusted finance professional to look at the numbers with fresh eyes and tell you what they mean. We work alongside business owners and leadership teams as a commercial sounding board - translating data into clear, honest guidance.
Cash Flow & Working Capital
Profit and cash are not the same thing, and many businesses find that out the hard way. We build cash flow models, identify working capital pressure points, and help you understand the liquidity implications of decisions before you make them.
Accounts Preparation & Audit Support
Where needed, we prepare the schedules, reconciliations, and workings that feed into your statutory accounts and support your audit process. We work alongside your appointed accountant - the groundwork is ours; the sign-off is theirs.
WHERE WE OPERATE
From analysis to strategy -
we scale with your business
Most businesses bring a bookkeeper and an accountant to the table. We cover everything in between - and depending on where your business is, that can mean analytical support, strategic financial leadership, or both.
ASPEN MAINE CONSULTING COVERS THIS RANGE
FOUNDATION
Bookkeeper
Records transactions, reconciles accounts, and keeps the financial data accurate and up to date.
Your existing team
Your existing team
ANALYSIS
Management Accountant
Analyses performance, builds forecasts, explains variances, and turns financial data into commercial decisions.
Core offering
STRATEGY
FD / CFO Advisory
Strategic financial leadership — planning, commercial guidance, and board-level financial input for growing businesses
Also available
COMPLIANCE
Accountant / Practice
Statutory accounts, tax filing, and the regulated sign-off. We’ll work seamlessly alongside yours.
Your existing team
We work across both these levels
The right level of support, at the right time
A bookkeeper keeps your records straight. An accountant keeps you compliant. But neither is asking why your margins are shrinking, what your numbers say about next quarter, or whether your growth plans actually stack up financially.
For most growing businesses, that analytical layer is the gap — and filling it with someone who can also step up to strategic financial leadership when you need it means you’re not outgrowing your support as you scale.
Whether you need rigorous FP&A, a senior finance voice in the room, or both - we can flex to meet you where you are.
Budgets, forecasts, and variance analysis -management reporting your team will actually use
Two levels of support,
one trusted partner
ANALYSIS
ANALYSIS
Profitability and cost analysis - finding the margin leakage and fixing it
ANALYSIS
Upskilling your existing finance function so analytical capability stays in the business
STRATEGIC
Commercial financial guidance for owners and leadership teams
STRATEGIC
Board-level financial input, planning, and scenario modelling for key decisions
STRATEGIC
Senior finance resource without the cost of a full-time FD or CFO
HOW WE WORK
Practical, honest,
and on your side
Before we open a spreadsheet, we take time to understand how your business actually works — your revenue model, your cost structure, your pressure points, and your ambitions. Good financial analysis starts with context, not data.
Understand your business first
Surface-level reporting tells you what happened. We go deeper — interrogating variances, challenging assumptions, and identifying the signals that explain performance and point to what should happen next.
Get under the numbers
The output of financial analysis should make things clearer, not more complicated. Everything we produce is designed to be understandable, actionable, and useful to the people who need to make decisions with it.
Deliver clarity, not complexity
We work as a trusted partner rather than a one-off resource. Whether that’s a monthly management pack, a quarterly planning session, or being on hand when something unexpected comes up — we stay close to your numbers.
Stay close to the business
GET IN TOUCH
Ready to understand
your numbers?
Whether you have a specific project in mind or just want to explore whether we can help, we’re always happy to have an initial conversation - no obligation, no jargon.