Lucy Hoye

Lucy Hoye

ACA qualified Fractional CFO specialising in recruitment and professional services

CFO Profile

Lucy specialises in bringing clarity to performance, improving cash flow visibility, strengthening reporting, and creating forecasting models that help founders make confident, data-led decisions.

With deep experience across multi-brand recruitment groups, consulting firms and service-based SMEs, Lucy understands the operational drivers behind revenue, margins, contractor costs, utilisation and headcount planning.

She works closely with founders and leadership teams to improve financial processes, enhance management information (MI), support pricing and commercial decisions, and prepare businesses for investment, acquisition or exit.

Pragmatic, collaborative and hands-on, Lucy provides the senior financial leadership that growing businesses need.

CFO Highlights

  • Strategic Financial Leadership for SMEs
  • Management Reporting & MI Improvement
  • Budgeting, Forecasting & Cash Flow Planning
  • Finance Function Setup & Optimisation
  • Commercial Insight for Recruitment & Professional Services
  • Pricing, Costing & Margin Analysis
  • Board & Investor Reporting
  • Process Improvement & Finance Systems (Including Xero)
  • Mentoring & Developing Finance Teams

Years Experience

20 Years

Areas of Expertise

Recruitment companies, Professional services firms, Founder led and family-owned businesses, Private Equity backed SMEs, Service based SMEs. Multi-entity or multi-site organisations, Businesses seeking system or process improvements

Location

Brighton
 / Remote

Top Skills

Risk Management
Corporate Governance
Board Advisory
Exit Planning
Systems Implementation
Business Strategy
Compliance
Scaling Businesses
Business Transformation
Mergers & Acquisitions
Financial Strategy
Team Management
Reporting & Analysis
Finance Transformation
Cash Flow
Due Diligence
Financial Modelling
Strategic Planning
Fundraising

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