Alison Pettitt

Alison Pettitt Funding Accelerator Mentor

Bio

Alison had a successful career as a finance director for mid-sized manufacturing and engineering business. She now works as a part time finance director with SMEs. She is experienced in delivering year on year growth through organic, and M&A activities, and has a wealth of financial planning and control and cash and risk management tools to share. She is also experienced at raising capital from banks and institutions.

Focus of 1-2-1 Session

A 1-2-1 with Alison provides an opportunity to review and gain feedback on your financial forecast. She will explore your assumptions, your growth strategy and your cost base so that you know whether this will withstand interrogation by investors. Many investors ask if your financial forecast has been reviewed by an adviser and completing a 1-2-1 session with Alison allows you to confirm this is the case.

A session with Alison is ideal if you feel confident with Excel spreadsheets and forecasting and what someone to probe and test your assumptions.

What you need to prepare

Prior to attending a session with Alison, you need to have prepared:

  1. Your financial forecast using the template provided in workshop four (or similar) and set as that week’s assignment.
  2. You will need to supply this to Alison at least 24 hours in advance of your 1-2-1 session.

How to book your 1-2-1

Please use this link to book a 60 minute session with Alison: https://calendly.com/alison-cfo Please mention you are a participant on Focused For Business’ Funding Accelerator.