About | CFO Hive

About CFO Hive

Built by a CFO who saw what growing businesses were really missing.

Jill Bell, Founder of CFO Hive

Hello, I'm Jill.

I'm a Chartered Accountant and the founder of CFO Hive, based in Brisbane. I've spent my career inside the finance functions of growing businesses, and I kept seeing the same problem.

Businesses would outgrow their bookkeeper, but a full-time finance team was out of reach. So they made do. The bookkeeper stretched into work beyond their experience. The owner became the de facto CFO at ten o'clock at night. The accountant showed up once a year with a tax return, long after the decisions that mattered had already been made.

CFO Hive exists to close that gap. Not with another bookkeeping service, and not with a consultant who drops in and disappears, but with a complete finance function. Bookkeeping, finance management and CFO leadership, each done by people with the right skills for that level, and all of it designed and supervised by an experienced CFO who is accountable to you.

You pay only for what your business needs at each level, and the function grows and flexes as you do.

  • Chartered Accountant, CA ANZ
  • CA ANZ Certificate of Public Practice
  • Experience across legal, professional services, e-commerce, trades and investment groups

What we believe

Leadership before labour

A finance function is only as good as the thinking behind it. Every engagement starts with CFO-level design, so the day-to-day work always serves a strategy.

Quality is structural

Review and supervision are built into how we work, not added when something goes wrong. Every layer of your function is checked by the layer above it.

Clarity creates confidence

Numbers should make decisions easier, not harder. We report in plain language, on a reliable rhythm, so you always know where you stand.

"Growing businesses deserve the same calibre of finance function as the companies they're becoming, without having to hire one person at a time to get it."

Jill Bell · Founder, CFO Hive

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