Arcus CFO

About Arcus CFO

Arcus CFO provides senior finance leadership to life sciences and medical device companies, from post-Series A through pre-IPO, typically 10 to 150 employees. The problem. Your strategy is ahead of your finance function. You are building the product, raising capital, and hitting regulatory milestones, and finance has not kept pace. The close takes too long. The forecast lives in a spreadsheet one person understands. The board package gets rebuilt every quarter. No one owns the runway number, and diligence questions take days instead of hours. The cost: raises take longer and price worse, transactions stall in diligence, and the board questions the numbers instead of using them. A full-time CFO does not pay for itself yet. The problems do not wait. The solution. Arcus gives you CFO-level leadership without the full-time cost: an experienced executive who owns the numbers, stands behind them with your board and investors, and builds the function your next stage requires. How we deliver it is the Arcus Method, a consistent set of tools adjusted to fit your company. The Method starts with a diagnostic that assesses six finance functions across five dimensions and three stages. It answers two questions: which gaps actually matter at your stage, and which tools close them. Behind every engagement sit five sets of tools: engagement playbooks, financial infrastructure blueprints, regulatory-aware frameworks, quality control standards, and a knowledge repository. Each applies as built or gets adjusted to fit, decided on evidence from the diagnostic. You engage in one of three ways: a focused Capital Readiness project, a Strategic Engagement for inflection moments, or an ongoing Operating Partnership. The structure sets the focus, size, and length. The team is the same in all three: Fractional CFO, Senior Manager, and Analyst. Built on over 35 years of finance leadership inside life sciences and medical device companies. arcuscfo.com · info@arcuscfo.com