Company Overview

We believe every business deserves the right financial guidance without the burden of a full-time salary.

Our nationwide team of experienced finance professionals works alongside you as a trusted partner, providing flexible, fractional financial management services tailored to your needs.

Our role is simple: to take the pressure of financial management off your shoulders, so you can focus on running and growing your business.

From day-to-day essentials through to board-level insight and long-term planning, we provide the reassurance and expertise that helps leaders make better decisions with clarity and confidence.

Part of something bigger

EFM is now part of the MPA Group.

MPA brings together experts across finance, tax, and business services to help ambitious organisations innovate, grow, and thrive.

By being part of this wider group, we give our clients the reassurance of specialist support in every area, not just finance.

Our History

2000

EFM was established in 2000 by Gary Jesson and Tony Biddle – two experienced Chartered Accountants with a wealth of commercial acumen and an established reputation for professional standards.

2004

EFM launched in the North East. Co-founder Malcolm Holloway joined becoming a part of the management team.

2010

EFM launched a major expansion initiative and began to successfully license the brand and business model to highly skilled professionals, particularly Finance Professionals across the UK.

2017

Demerged the bookkeeping and management accounting focused team into OFD to give more prominent focus on running finance functions for SMEs and acquired De Novo Partners, a Cambridge based financial outsourcer

2018

EFM Ireland was formed jointly with Managing Director William Mundow

2019

Launched a major educational initiative with Informed Funding to help business owners better understand the funding landscape and all the financial aspects of running and growing a business

2020

In 2020, Covid-19 hit SMEs and the need for a part-time finance professional pivoted to more remote / online.

We delivered educational and supportive advice to SMEs around managing in a crisis and accessing the available reliefs.

2023

EFM and OFD join MPA group to expand service offering to SME’s

2025

Appointed our new Managing Director, Jonathan Wheeler and expanded our offering by partnering with Mature Accountants and appointing Nils Lloyd-Penny as our Operations Director

EFM’s expert network ensures you get the right support – from an individual or a small team – and you get as much, or as little input as you require and only pay for what you need.

The 3 founding principles for EFM were simple and are still relevant today:

01

Businesses benefit from first class financial advice.

02

Access to the best financial expertise should not be cost-prohibitive.

03

Businesses should only pay for what they need, when they need it and at the right resource level.

After witnessing many excellent businesses fail, simply because of poor financial management practices, we aimed to provide affordable and flexible financial management expertise to small and medium-sized businesses that cannot afford this necessary expertise full-time.

We now provide a multi-dimensional service offering:

Access to a panel of experienced professionals across the UK, providing specialist business advisory skills and expertise on a part-time, flexible basis
For investors a range of services to assist with due diligence pre investment, post investment support and reporting, efficiency and systems enhancements and support with other fundraising requirements
An insourced or outsourced delivery of our financial management services and finance team with a strong focus on bookkeeping, credit control and management accounting and reporting.

EFM provides an unrivalled nationwide business support team focused on delivering all the in-person and online financial management advice and tools businesses need to ensure compliance, survival or growth.