F & D Consulting finance × systems
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About F & D Consulting: Finance and technology, one team.

We are a consultancy for established businesses that have outgrown the way they run. We look at your finance and your technology together, find what is really costing you, and fix it.

Why we exist

Most businesses get half the picture.

A manager and a colleague reviewing a clipboard while walking through a stock aisle

A bookkeeper can read the ledger but not the systems. An IT provider can read the systems but not the controls.

So the problem that lives between them — the invoice typed twice, the report nobody trusts, the process only one person knows — never gets measured. It just gets absorbed, a few hours at a time.

We built F & D Consulting to look at both in the same pass, and to write it down as one scored document you own. The name comes from our founders, Fernando and Dias.

finance × technology,
one pass.

Leadership

The people behind it.

Founding partner

Ranahesha Fernando

Finance and controls

Ranahesha leads our finance and controls practice. An ACCA finalist with a Big Four audit background, Ranahesha worked on statutory audits of listed banks, finance companies and diversified groups, and now helps growing businesses find and fix the gaps in their reporting and controls. Areas of focus include audit readiness, internal controls, IFRS reporting and financial analysis.

Founding partner

Oneth Dias

Technology

Oneth leads our technology practice. A computer science graduate and former e-commerce developer at an Australian digital agency, he built websites and online stores for clients in Australia and Europe, and now helps businesses find and fix where their systems fall short. Areas of focus include websites, business systems and integration, Microsoft 365, and automation and AI.

Advisory board

Ruwan Fernando

Director, SYSGIANTS (PVT) LTD

Ruwan is a director of SYSGIANTS (PVT) LTD, the company that provides F & D Consulting, and advises on large systems and digital transformation work. He brings more than 20 years of experience digitising supply chain and accounts operations for clients in Singapore, the USA and New Zealand, including connecting web, app, EDI and point-of-sale ordering to core ERP. He has led ERP delivery teams as a project and delivery manager, and was previously a vice president of operations at a global bank and of delivery at a technology consultancy.

How we work

Remote-first. Never out of reach.

We are remote-first by design. Here is what that means for you.

  • Your working hours

    Calls, interviews and the roadmap presentation all happen inside your working day.

  • Everything in writing

    Every finding, decision and next step is written down, so nothing depends on remembering a call.

  • Named, logged access

    Read-only, under NDA, to named people only. How we handle your data has its own page.

  • The report is yours

    Take it to your existing provider, or to nobody. Nothing in it depends on hiring us.

What we hold ourselves to

Five rules, in writing.

  1. 01

    Show the working

    Every score and every ranking comes with the reasoning, so you can disagree with it.

  2. 02

    Mark it, don’t invent it

    If a number isn’t confirmed, we say so. We would rather show a gap than guess.

  3. 03

    Independence up front

    Where we would earn from a recommendation, you read that before the recommendation.

  4. 04

    Same scale, every year

    Every client is scored on the same five bands, so next year’s number means something.

  5. 05

    Cheapest fix first

    Use what you have, then connect it, and only then replace it.

Experience

What the team has done.

The experience behind every diagnostic, across both practices.

Finance & controls

Our finance practice is led by an ACCA finalist with Big Four statutory audit experience on listed banks, finance companies and diversified groups, to IFRS and ISA.

  • Listed bank audits Banking Financial statements and controls tested to IFRS and ISA
  • Finance and leasing company audit Lending A listed lender’s accounts, audited to IFRS
  • Manufacturing group reporting Manufacturing Group accounts across the companies in the group
  • Group consolidations Consolidation Many entities brought into one set of accounts
  • Healthcare provider audit Healthcare A private provider’s annual accounts, to IFRS and ISA

Technology & systems

Our technology practice is led by a computer science graduate with agency e-commerce and systems consulting experience: the website your customers see, and the systems your team runs on.

  • Client websites and online stores Agency Built, rebuilt and maintained for clients
  • Website performance and enquiry reviews Consulting Why visitors were not becoming enquiries
  • Business systems and ERP rollouts Systems Configured around how the business actually works
  • Finance system integrations Integration Invoices and expenses moving between systems without retyping
  • IT and access management IT Devices, accounts and sign-in across the business
  • Automation and AI tooling Automation Repetitive work taken off people

Our first diagnostic clients get a reduced rate in exchange for a written case study they approve word by word. Request a place.

Talk to the team.

Tell us what is going wrong and a founding partner will tell you honestly whether we can help.

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