The CFOO Centre

What can a CFO do for your business?

• Has your organisation grown faster than you were prepared for?

• Has your organisation’s financials become too complex for your

accountant(s) to handle?

• Have you seen a downturn in your initially successful organization

and do you need a turnaround to assure its survival?

• Is your strategy relying on lag metrics alone?

• Are you not able to properly forecast and budget so as to keep

providing insights into your organization in order to be the

industry leader?

If your answer to ANY of the above is yes or don’t know, you

then need to hire us to drive your organisation to the next level

and be ready to become a leader in your industry.

What can a COO do for your business? • Do you know whether or not your organisation is performing at its peak?

• Does your organisation need a turnaround?

• Does your organisation need someone to complement the owners or

your CEO’s experience, style, knowledge base or needs and desires?

If your answer to ANY of the above is yes or don’t know, you then need to

hire us to attain peak performance in your organisation. Hiring us is a sign

that you’re ready to lead in margin and profit maximisation and operate in

the most efficient manner in your industry.

The CFOO Centre will provide you with access to high quality, high

ability (with a proven track record) Chief Financial Officers (CFOs)

and Chief Operating Officers (COOs), who will deliver value to your

organization. This service will be at a small proportion of the cost of

a full time CFO or a COO. Our mission is to help management teams

create extremely high levels of economic value quickly, so that “The

difference will be real”

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We, the Directors have been working in the East African region

for over 23 years and not only do we understand industry

norms but we also understand East African culture. We

specialise in placing the very best finance and operations

talent for fast paced and entrepreneurial growth organisations.

We offer a full recruitment service for interim and permanent

positions. We source, meet and screen all of our candidates.

We handle everything in-house and nothing is outsourced.

Rajeev Chatrath Rajeev is the Founder and the CEO of The CFOO Centre. Prior to setting up The CFOO Centre, Rajeev was the CFOO of a multinational plastics

manufacturer across Africa. He has worked for companies and groups whose turnovers have been from USD 3 million up-to USD 150 million including an

East African subsidiary of a FTSE 250 company. He has been instrumental in developing the business, its profitability (from low levels of profitability to

very high levels) and increased operational and supply chain efficiencies. He also specializes in financial planning, management and internal control,

governance.

Rajeev graduated in 1995 with Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC) as a Chartered Certified Accountant (FCCA). Rajeev is also a Chartered Management

Accountant (ACMA – 2003) , a Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA -2012) and holds an MBA from the Henley Business School (2007).

Rajeev has recently completed The AOTS Program on Production Management (Monozukuri) in Tokyo – Japan, The Organisation Development

International 20 Keys Program in South Africa and other programs including Scaling Up, Lean Programs and Leadership Development Programs from the

Manchester Business School.

Rina Chatrath Rina is the Co-Founder of The CFOO Centre. She has more than 15

years’ experience in various management, legal and human

resources roles. Prior to joining the CFOO Centre, Rina was pursuing

her fellowship in Arbitration through the Chartered Institute of

Arbitrators. Rina holds a MBA from the Edinburgh Business School

(Herriot Watt University) and an LLB (Hons) together with an LPC

from the Nottingham Trent University.

She has worked as an in-house legal consultant for various

companies in Nairobi. She has also held leadership positions in one

of Kenya’s largest supplier of home and electrical appliances and

one of Kenya’s largest pharmaceutical companies. Her

competencies lie in legal practice, governance and compliance,

human resource functions, supply chain, inventory management and

intellectual property.

Alnoor Amlani Alnoor is a Director at the CFOO Centre. He has over 20 years’

experience as a financial management professional and strategic

thinker. Alnoor qualified as a Chartered Certified Accountant while

working in audit with Deloitte. Thereafter he moved to KMPG

working as a senior financial management consultant, and later

with Githongo & Associates as an Associate Director.

His competences include audit, business valuations, business

and market modelling and analysis, business planning, risk

analysis, systems redesign, strategic evaluations and real estate.

Alnoor writes a regular monthly column focusing on Africa for

“Accounting and Business”; ACCA’s professional journal and is

also published by other national and international publications.

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