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Run Your Finance Function Like a Public Company.

Move beyond "bookkeeping" to true financial optimization.

Kenekt provides outsourced CFO services and financial performance management in Dubai for UAE SMEs and growth-stage businesses. We build dynamic 3-way financial models, lead your budgeting and forecasting process, conduct monthly variance analysis, and give your board the financial visibility needed to make confident capital allocation decisions.

Strategic Financial Solutions

  • Outsourced CFO: High-level strategic guidance without the cost of a full-time executive.
  • Budgeting & Forecasting: Building dynamic 3-way financial models (P&L, Balance Sheet, Cash Flow).
  • Variance Analysis: Monthly deep-dives into why you missed or exceeded targets.

Frequently Asked Questions

An outsourced CFO provides strategic financial leadership at a fraction of the cost of a full-time hire. In practice: leading budgeting and forecasting, sitting in on board and investor calls, managing banking relationships, overseeing the finance team, and providing the financial truth — even when it is uncomfortable. For most UAE SMEs, a full-time CFO is premature; an outsourced CFO gives you the capability when you need it.

Accounting and bookkeeping are backward-looking — recording what has happened. Financial performance management is forward-looking — analyzing why it happened, what it means for your forecast, and what decisions follow. We work alongside your existing accounting team, not as a replacement.

A 3-way model integrates your P&L, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow Statement into a single dynamic model where any change in a revenue or cost assumption flows automatically through to the cash position. This is the standard used by institutional lenders and investors — and it allows genuine scenario planning rather than single-point forecasts.

Alan Peter Rajan

Senior Manager, Transaction Advisory

MSc Financial Management, University of Manchester | MBA, Curtin University

Abhijeet Sharma

Senior Advisor, Risk Advisory Services, Kenekt

Chartered Accountant (ICAI) | 18 years: EY, KPMG, Grant Thornton, Mazars, MBG Corporate Services