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25+
Years Experience
Global Brands: L'Oréal & Chicco
SME Focused
Amit Pasricha
Founder, ValueSpan Partners LLP
CFO Experience

Amit Pasricha

Finance Professional with Global Brand Pedigree

With over 25 years of financial leadership experience at global conglomerates including L'Oréal and Chicco, Amit Pasricha brings enterprise-grade rigor to the SME world. His career spans CFO roles and financial transformations that have shaped businesses across sectors.

Through ValueSpan Partners LLP, Amit has partnered with founders, management teams, and investors across all levels to translate financial data into actionable insights and investment-ready narratives. The goal is always the same: clarity behind the numbers.

25+ Years in Finance Leadership
Top-Tier Global Brand Experience
Actionable Financial Insights
SME Focus

Four Ways We Create Clarity

Whether you're raising capital, evaluating an investment, or need strategic finance leadership — we provide the financial clarity that builds confidence.

01

Investor Readiness for Founders

Preparing the financial story investors will interrogate the hardest. We clean your data, refine EBITDA, surface gaps, and create defensible confidence before diligence begins.

  • Clean and credible financial information
  • EBITDA normalisation and adjustments
  • Red flag identification before due diligence
  • Due diligence preparation and question prep
For Founders
02

Financial Due Diligence for Investors

Independent diligence support designed for investors evaluating SME opportunities with speed and rigour. We separate quality earnings from noise and identify risks early.

  • Quality of earnings analysis
  • Working capital and cash flow review
  • Debt and contingent liability assessment
  • Risk and red flag identification
For Investors
03

Fractional CFO Services

Strategic Finance Leadership for Growing Businesses

We work with founders, SMEs, and growth-stage companies as an extended finance leadership partner — helping businesses improve financial visibility, investor readiness, cash flow management, and strategic decision-making without the cost of a full-time CFO.

Our Areas of Support

Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A)
MIS & Management Reporting
Cash Flow & Working Capital Management
Budgeting & Forecasting
Investor & Lender Reporting
Financial Modelling
Business Performance Review
Board & Investor Presentation Support
Strategic Finance Advisory
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04

SOP Development

Internal Audit & Controls Perspective

Effective internal controls begin with clearly defined processes. ValueSpan's SOP development service is designed for organisations that want their procedures to do more than document the obvious — they should actively reduce risk, enable auditability, and reinforce accountability across every level of the organisation.

Whether you are building SOPs from scratch, revisiting outdated procedures, or preparing for an upcoming internal audit, ValueSpan brings the expertise to turn your processes into a true competitive and compliance advantage.

Risk & Control Mapping

Analyzing existing processes, pinpointing structural control weaknesses, and developing practical checklists to mitigate operational threats.

Audit Readiness & Scrutiny Prep

Crafting precise, high-rigor documentation built to seamlessly stand up to intense internal and external audit review.

Accountability & Ownership

Working directly with management and control owners to clearly define workflows, reducing human error and strengthening compliance.

A Structured Path to Clarity

Our four-step process ensures every engagement delivers actionable financial clarity.

1

Initial Discovery

We understand your business, goals, and the specific transaction or challenge you're facing.

2

Financial Assessment

Deep-dive into your numbers — EBITDA, working capital, debt structure, and cash flow patterns.

3

Gap Analysis

Identify what investors will question and fix issues before they become deal-breakers.

4

Ready Package

Deliver an investor-ready financial narrative with confidence and clarity.

Built for These Conversations

For Founders

You're preparing for a capital raise, strategic investment, or acquisition. You want to present your financials with confidence and answer investor questions before they ask them.

  • Planning to approach angel investors or PE funds
  • Going through an acquisition process
  • Need to understand your EBITDA and working capital
  • SMEs of all sizes

For Investors

You're an angel investor, family office, or small PE fund evaluating an SME opportunity. You need independent, structured financial assessment to support your investment thesis.

  • Need quality of earnings analysis
  • Want debt and liability reviewed
  • Require independent red flag identification
  • Evaluating SME businesses

Frequently Asked Questions

Problem: “There is no affordable, reliable, and fast due diligence solution for small-ticket SME investments.”

Solution: A structured, affordable, and quick financial due diligence solution tailored specifically for SME deals.

Investors look for predictability and transparency. SMEs often have unstructured financials or intermingled personal/business expenses. Investor readiness sanitizes these numbers, normalizing EBITDA to show true operational strength and preemptively addressing red flags before due diligence begins.
EBITDA Normalisation adjusts a company's earnings to remove non-recurring, irregular, or one-time expenses (or revenues). This gives investors a clear, highly accurate picture of the recurring cash flow they can expect from the core operations of the business.
We act as an analytical firewall for angel investors and PE funds evaluating SMEs. We perform rigorous Quality of Earnings (QoE) analyses, assess hidden liabilities, and review working capital dynamics to ensure you are entering a secure valuation framework.
The most frequent challenges we solve include poor working capital management, undocumented liabilities, and the lack of proper management information systems (MIS). We restructure these areas to provide clear visibility, ensuring the business is operationally robust and fully defensible during due diligence.

Let's Have the Right Conversation

Whether you're a founder preparing for capital or an investor evaluating opportunities, let's discuss how we can help.

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