ARAH Consulting — Cape Town, South Africa
Fractional Financial Manager · Financial Systems & Inventory Consultant · Finance Business Partner
About
I spent 20 years inside the finance functions of South African manufacturing, retail and logistics businesses – progressing from Accountant to Financial & Operations Manager, most recently in furniture manufacturing and retail. I ran month-end close, led audits, managed teams, and owned the stock and costing systems those businesses depended on.
ARAH brings that capability to owner-run businesses that need senior financial leadership but are not ready to carry a full-time Financial Manager. The work falls into three areas: keeping the finance function running properly, making the systems produce numbers you can trust, and sitting with you when the commercial decisions get made.
Who I Work With
Owner-managed manufacturers, wholesalers, distributors and multi-channel retailers – businesses that make, move or sell physical stock.
Businesses turning over roughly R5 million to R150 million, with 10 to 100 staff.
Companies running, implementing or migrating between cloud accounting and inventory platforms – whichever system you are on.
Businesses where month-end drags, stock counts never balance, or product margins are unknown – and it is starting to cost real money.
What I Do
01 — Numbers you can trust, every month
02 — Systems that finally reconcile
03 — A finance partner in the room
Why Work With Me
I have sat on the factory floor, in the warehouse and in the boardroom. That combination – senior financial management plus deep, practical fluency in the inventory and accounting systems these businesses run on – is rare, and it is exactly what a business carrying physical stock needs. You get a Financial Manager who understands where the numbers come from, and what to do with them.
Twenty years' progression from Accountant to Financial & Operations Manager across manufacturing, retail and shipping/logistics
Hands-on experience running full finance functions, not advising on them from the outside
A proven record leading teams, implementing internal controls, and turning financial data into operational decisions
IFRS-compliant reporting and audit leadership experience
Deep, practical fluency in cloud inventory and accounting systems – a genuinely uncommon pairing of financial and systems expertise
You deal with me directly. No juniors learning on your account, and no account manager in between
Sector Experience
Practical depth in the areas where product businesses actually lose money: bills of material, overhead absorption, goods-received processes, work-in-progress, stock counts and inventory valuation.
Systems
I work across various ERP, cloud accounting, inventory and reporting platforms. The disciplines that matter – stock codes, bills of material, costing, goods-received controls, integrations and reporting – carry across whichever system your business runs on.
From implementation to optimisation, migration and rescue, I work in whichever system your business runs on – and if a platform is new to me, I will say so upfront.
Direct Contact
If month-end drags, stock counts never balance, or product margins are unknown — start the conversation.