Why Cypher · One connected finance team
Your next stage needs more than a closed month.
Accounting, controllership, planning and CFO guidance, connected to the decisions your business needs to make.
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Cypher works inside the business like an in-house team, not a vendor at arm's length.
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A full finance function, built for growth
Cypher covers the entire finance stack, from day-to-day bookkeeping to CFO-level advisory. Records are kept in your own accounting system by the in-house team, and the close, the controls and the reporting run as one function rather than as three services handed between departments. The senior people who scope your engagement stay accountable for the numbers you report to your board, your auditors and your investors.
01 · Keep
Accounting & bookkeeping
The complete and reliable records every other decision stands on.
02 · Control
Controller & finance operations
Close quality, internal controls, AR/AP and cash discipline.
03 · Plan
FP&A & modeling
Budgets, forecasts and models connected to the business story.
04 · Guide
CFO guidance
Trade-offs interpreted with leadership, boards, auditors and investors.
Why choose Cypher?
Behaviors you can check, not adjectives
Hands-on and embedded
Cypher works inside the business like an in-house team, not a vendor at arm's length.
Tools prepare, people own the numbers
Connected systems reduce repeated data entry. The close, the controls and the reporting run as one function, with preparation and review responsibilities agreed as part of the engagement.
Strategy-first
Financial data gets turned into decisions about cash, margin and growth, not just a closed month.
A personalized approach
Scope reflects your stage, goals and operational complexity, from the first conversations onward.
Connected delivery
Expert leadership, day-to-day execution and finance workflows work together, rather than as disconnected services.
Where those distinctions show up
Each one has a published client story behind it. The numbers in those stories are the clients' published figures, not independently audited results.
Records rebuilt, then a working month-end
Xero and Dext implemented, years of records cleaned up, monthly reporting running afterwards.
AutoUp →Cash discipline and AR/AP
Accounts receivable pulled back under control for a mission-driven SaaS company after two failed hires.
Galaxy Digital →Reporting under VC/PE cadence
Investor-ready books and automated invoicing for a fast-scaling AI company.
Panoplai →
How Cypher works
Two conversations before anything is touched
Discovery, onboarding and execution stay distinct. Start with the business and its goals, agree the scope, then build the operating rhythm together.
01 · Discovery
15 minutes
Challenges, goals and expectations. We confirm whether we're a fit before anything else.
02 · Strategy
One hour
The Financial Success Framework, your apps map and a proposal built together and adjusted before approval.
03 · Onboarding
Your first 30 days
Data collection, the onboarding call, iterative refinement and your first check-up call. The Cypher team steps in and operates as part of yours.
Client results
The story behind the work
Explore Cypher's existing case library across technology, e-commerce and services. Read how the team worked through each company's financial challenges.
The founder
Salma Hatim
Salma trained in public accounting and spent her early career working with enterprise clients at PwC. She founded Cypher because the businesses that need financial judgement most are rarely the ones that can justify a full finance department.
Her test for the work is simple: the numbers should answer a question the founder is actually asking. Cypher pairs accounting, financial strategy and the systems that connect them, so leadership spends less time assembling the picture and more time acting on it.
The team behind the work
Cypher is senior-led and in-house. The people who scope your engagement stay on it, and the close, the controls and the reporting run as one function rather than three services handed between departments.
Our values: ambition, generosity, authenticity, curiosity, collaboration and commitment.
Your next stage
Get a finance readiness review
Talk to the team about where your finance function stands and what you need next.