Writing from the desk
Geetanjali Virmani
Senior Network Partner
- Accounting & Compliance
- Controllership
Senior Network Partner at Nucleus Advisors.
Body of work
All articles by Geetanjali.
vCFO & controllership
Controllership from scratch: the 0-50 employee playbook
Founders going from 0 to 50 employees consistently make the same finance hiring mistake: a CFO at headcount 15, before the books are clean. The right structure is staged, and the cost difference across stages is significant.
10 min read
FP&A
Annual budget vs rolling forecast: which discipline scales as you grow
The annual budget cycle is a relic of a slower era. The rolling forecast, done with discipline, is the operating tool that scales with growth. Replacing one with the other takes four quarters and changes how the company plans.
11 min read
Close & reporting
The seven reports your CEO actually reads — and why your finance team builds the wrong ones
Most finance teams build 30-page board packs that the CEO scans for 90 seconds. The seven reports that drive decisions are a fraction of that, and most finance teams build the wrong reports because they are optimising for completeness instead of utility.
10 min read