Cash, forecasting & control
Build reliable visibility and stronger financial discipline.
- Integrated forecasts and cash planning
- Management reporting and KPIs
- Finance team review and development
Based in Kent · Fractional CFO/FD support
Clarity for the decisions that shape your business.
Experienced, practical financial leadership for ambitious owner-managed businesses—bringing control, challenge and confidence through flexible CFO/FD support.
30+ yearsfinance and commercial leadership
PLC & SMEboard-level experience
Flexiblesupport shaped around your needs
More than reporting
A clearer view forward.
Barnlake helps business owners understand what is really driving performance, anticipate what is coming next and make better decisions with confidence.
Effective CFO/FD support goes beyond explaining last month’s numbers. It turns financial information into practical choices—where to invest, what to change and how to protect cash.
Support is hands-on where it needs to be and strategic where it matters most, working alongside owners, management teams, banks and advisers.
How Barnlake can help
Financial leadership
when it matters.
Flexible CFO/FD input for a specific challenge, a period of change or an ongoing role within your leadership team.
Growth, funding & strategy
Make investment and funding decisions with a commercial lens.
- Business plans and scenario modelling
- Funding and bank relationships
- Acquisitions and strategic options
Performance & turnaround
Restore grip, challenge assumptions and create a credible route forward.
- Margin and cost improvement
- Restructuring and recovery plans
- Stakeholder management
About Barnlake
Experienced judgment. Straightforward advice.
Founded by Paul Rosbrook, Barnlake draws on more than 30 years of finance and commercial leadership. Paul qualified at PwC and has held senior finance and operational roles across PLC and privately owned businesses.
His approach combines rigorous forecasting and cash management with a close understanding of operations, people and the realities facing business owners.
“My role is to give owners a clear picture, ask the questions that matter and help turn decisions into action.”
PwCQualified at PwC
LeadershipSenior finance and operational roles
CommercialStrategy grounded in operations
TrustedClear, honest stakeholder relationships
A practical approach
Understand. Focus. Deliver.
Every engagement begins with the owner’s priorities and is shaped around the value Barnlake can add.
Listen
Understand your ambitions, concerns and the decisions in front of you.
Diagnose
Review the numbers, assumptions, people and processes behind them.
Prioritise
Focus first on the changes that create confidence and business value.
Embed
Build lasting routines, capability and accountability within the team.
Start a conversation
What would greater financial clarity unlock for your business?
An initial conversation is an opportunity to discuss where you are, what is getting in the way and whether Barnlake can help.
Email: paul@barnlake.co.uk
Mobile: 07747 638843