Senior CFO expertise without the full-time cost. Transaction-ready, hands-on, and focused on outcomes that matter.
Independent, bespoke financial models built to withstand FDD scrutiny and secure investor and lender confidence.
Process, systems and people transformation for accurate, timely reporting at lower cost. FinOps built to scale.
Agile collaboration with CEOs, FDD teams, lenders and PE investors from mandate through post-deal integration.
AI applied with CFO-level judgement to automate routine workflows and deliver real efficiency gains.
Every client engagement is shaped by the same principles. Not just competence, but character.
We move first. Identifying issues, opportunities and solutions before they are asked for is how we add value beyond the numbers.
Every mandate is measured by outcomes. EBITDA improvement, cash certainty, funder confidence and deals that close.
Growth businesses are messy. We stay focused, work through complexity and deliver, regardless of the challenge in front of us.
We tell CEOs and investors what they need to hear, not what they want to hear. Trust is the foundation of every client relationship.
Clive Angel is a Chartered Accountant and fractional CFO with over 25 years of hands-on experience supporting SME CEOs and driving commercial performance. He brings a sharp financial lens and a growth-focused mindset to every client engagement, with a consistent focus on measurable outcomes tied to EBITDA, cash and transaction readiness.
Clive specialises in pre and post-transaction financial leadership — professionalising finance functions, systems and processes to ensure data quality, reporting credibility and deal-readiness.
CFO value depends on one thing: accurate, complete and timely data. Connexive FinOps is the finance function behind the CFO — delivering the numbers that make every strategic decision credible, fundable and defensible.
The CFO sets the direction. FinOps makes it happen on the ground. From clean books and month-end discipline to working capital management and system automation — FinOps closes the gap between ambition and execution, so the numbers that reach the board are ones you can stand behind.
Scope-based fractional bookkeeping across Xero, QuickBooks and specialist platforms — complete, current and audit-ready. The foundation the CFO builds on.
Monthly management reporting built around your KPIs — timely and structured to support CFO-level decision making. No surprises, no chasing.
End-to-end finance function management — systems, processes and people integrated for efficiency and scale. So the CFO can focus on what matters most.
A selection of recent Connexive mandates across transaction modelling, finance transformation and post-deal CFO support.
I strongly recommend Clive. He is an extremely organised, commercial and detail-oriented professional, focused on achieving good outcomes for his clients.
Clive is highly competent and very experienced. He is an absolute pleasure to work with, an excellent team member and sorely missed.
Clive has been an excellent finance leader supporting our business group across the UK and USA. He diligently executed a UK restructuring and led the due diligence process in selling our USA subsidiary to an NYSE-listed buyer. We highly recommend his services.
Clive grasped working in a new sector very quickly and was able to deal with multiple issues for us in parallel. He helped us successfully resolve a historic VAT issue with HMRC and get to grips with some complicated WIP valuation workings. A self-starter and great hands-on problem solver.
Clive's dedication, reliability, and passion for our company's success have had a positive impact. He has significantly improved our financial systems and management of our costs, which has enhanced our profitability. I wholeheartedly endorse Clive.
Clive is structured, pragmatic and insightful. Working with Clive enabled me to challenge and validate my assumptions and to ensure my model made objective commercial sense. I have no hesitation in recommending Clive to anyone looking for a straight talking entrepreneurial finance professional.
Pre-transaction, post-deal or simply overdue — we embed the CFO leadership and finance operations your business needs to perform and scale with confidence.