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Finance as a Service
Cash ↗Forecast ↗Revenue ↗Margin ↗Controls ↗Data ↗

Enter the AI era with a complete finance function.
No team to build, all the margin to keep.

Senior financial expertise, connected operations and AI-enabled efficiency. Everything designed to help ambitious companies run finance without building the entire department themselves.

§ 02 — The shift

More finance.Fewer people.

Traditional finance organisations accumulate roles, workflows, tools and manual processes. Growing companies need the capabilities, not necessarily the structure to hire for.

The old modelThe Botakman model000
Spreadsheet v14FP&AManual exportFinance leadershipRe-keyingReportingEmail approvalsRevenue operationsTool #7InvoicingDuplicate reportCash managementHandoffControllingDataAutomationForecastingBOTAKMAN

One connected finance function.

Don't build the department. Get the capability.

§ 03 — The finance engine

Everythingconnects.

Six disciplines. One financial system. Your revenue, cash, forecasts, controls and strategic decisions should not operate in separate worlds.

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BOTAKMANCOORDINATION01Strategic02FP&A03RevOps04O2C05Controlling06AI & Data
03 / Discipline

Revenue Operations

Makes commercial activity measurable, consistent and financially reliable.

Receives

  • ←CRM data
  • ←Signed contracts
  • ←Pricing

Produces

  • →Bookings
  • →Billing triggers
  • →Commercial forecast
  • →Commission calculations

Problems it solves

  • —Commission plans nobody can explain or recalculate
  • —CRM data too inconsistent to forecast on
  • —Sales targets disconnected from the budget

Connected to: Order-to-Cash · FP&A · AI, Automation & Data

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§ 04 — The structure

A full finance function,without the payroll.

A traditional finance organisation comes with salaries, recruitment, management, software and coordination. The service model replaces the structure with the output: the same function, scoped to what the business needs, adjusting as it grows.

THE DEPARTMENTFinance leadFP&A analystRevOps managerBilling & collectionsControllerSheetBI toolSheetCRM add-onBillingSheetExportToolFixed cost · grows with every hire010203040506Scoped to the output · adjusts as you grow

Enter the AI era.

  • 01

    Lower, more predictable cost

  • 02

    Scope that flexes month to month

  • 03

    Senior expertise you could not hire yet

§ 05 — The intelligence

AI does the heavy lifting.Experience makes the call.

Automated execution
  1. 01Capture data
  2. 02Structure and reconcile
  3. 03Prepare reports
  4. 04Flag exceptions
OUTPUTS · EXCEPTIONSDECIDE
Human judgment
  • Financial judgment
  • Risk management
  • Business trade-offs
  • Strategic priorities
  • Decisions

Automation informs the call. It never makes it.

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§ 06 — The service setups

The right finance setup.At every stage.

I

Finance Essentials

For early-stage companies establishing financial discipline.

Typically at the Start stage.

Typical focus

  • Cash forecast
  • Business plan & budget
  • Monthly reporting
  • Founder decision support
  • Admin & accountant coordination
II

Finance Operations

For growing companies requiring a stronger operational finance function.

Build and Scale.

Typical focus

  • FP&A & rolling forecast
  • Revenue operations
  • Order-to-cash
  • Controlling & month-end close
  • Reporting automation
III

Finance Leadership

For established growing companies requiring more sophisticated finance management.

Scale and Transact.

Typical focus

Everything in Operations, plus:

  • Strategic finance & scenario models
  • Board & investor reporting
  • Finance operating system
  • Transaction readiness
  • Team & process leadership

Configurations, not fixed packages. Scope depends on complexity and outputs, not on revenue alone.

Find your finance setup
§ 07 — Outcomes

What is in your hands at the end?

What each setup leaves in your hands.

OutcomeArea
An investor-ready business plan, with assumptions you can defend line by line.01 · Strategic Finance →
Numbers reconciled and stress-tested before a buyer opens the file.01 · Strategic Finance →
A budget, a rolling forecast and a monthly review that explains the variance.02 · FP&A →
A 13-week cash forecast that shows the pressure point weeks ahead.02 · FP&A →
Sales reporting that reconciles with the accounts, every month.03 · Revenue Operations →
A commission plan that is legible, defensible and calculated automatically.03 · Revenue Operations →
CRM data clean enough to forecast on.03 · Revenue Operations →
Invoices issued on time and a dunning process that runs on its own.04 · Order-to-Cash →
Days taken out of DSO, with the cash gained tracked month by month.04 · Order-to-Cash →
A close that lands on its calendar, with margins explained by product and customer.05 · Controlling →
An approval path in front of every penny that leaves the company.05 · Controlling →
Manual file-shuffling replaced by automated runs, with controls attached.06 · AI, Automation & Data →
Systems connected so data flows instead of being re-keyed.06 · AI, Automation & Data →
§ — The human behind the system

Technology makes it efficient.Experience makes it work.

Charly Arnaud

Founder, Botakman

Senior finance expertise. Direct involvement. Personal accountability. Experience spanning FP&A at Netatmo, L'Oréal and PepsiCo, and 5+ years at AssessFirst, post-LBO.

“Whatever you sell, the business runs on finance. Growth and profit start here.”
Meet Charly
Charly Arnaud, founder of Botakman
Charly Arnaud — Founder, Botakman
§ — Final invitation

A complete finance function.AI-powered execution.Delivered as a service.

Let's build the finance capabilities your business actually needs.

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