Finance expertise with a business-partner mindset

VFPA Advisory is an independent FP&A advisory practice helping growing businesses build better visibility over performance, strengthen financial planning and make better-informed business decisions.

Founder & Principal Consultant

Prabhakar Chandran

Prabhakar is a finance professional with experience in FP&A, business controlling and management reporting across multinational organisations. His experience includes budgeting and forecasting, profitability analysis, cost management, financial modelling and management performance reporting.

He founded VFPA Advisory to bring structured FP&A capabilities to growing businesses that may not yet require a full in-house FP&A team.

Our approach

Good FP&A connects finance with operations.
We combine financial discipline with commercial thinking so that budgets, forecasts and reports are useful to the people running the business.
We aim to make finance easier to understand - not more complicated.
Outputs are designed to be concise, decision-oriented and appropriate for the size and maturity of the business

Who we support

SMEs building a more structured finance function
Growing companies that need better forecasting
Owners who want clearer management information
Finance teams needing additional FP&A capability
Businesses preparing for expansion or major decisions

How an engagement works

1. Understand

Discuss your business model, finance processes, pain points and management priorities.

2. Diagnose

Review the information currently available and identify the highest-value FP&A improvements.

3. Build

Develop practical reports, forecasts, models or dashboards around your business.

4. Explain

Present findings clearly, including the business drivers and implications behind the numbers.

5. Improve

Refine the process as the business grows and management's information needs evolve.

6. Ongoing support

VFPA can complement your existing accounting or finance team with focused FP&A capability.

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