Finance Executive · Non-Executive Director · Cape Town

Finance leadership built on numbers that hold up, and judgement beyond them.

I'm Daniel Eardley, a CA(SA)-qualified finance executive with over a decade in strategic finance, FP&A and scaling finance functions inside growth-stage and FinTech companies. I'm currently building Stratum CFO, and open to non-executive director conversations where financial and governance judgement are needed at board level.

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Daniel Eardley

Track Record

A career built on getting the numbers right, then using them.

My path into finance started in technical accounting and reporting, where the discipline of getting the numbers exactly right lives. Over 11 years that grew into strategic finance leadership: partnering with product, ops, and executive teams to turn financial data into decisions a business actually acts on.

Jul 2026 — Present

Founder

Stratum CFO

Founded a fractional CFO and finance transformation practice for scaling SaaS and FinTech companies. Details below.

Oct 2024 — Apr 2026

Head of Finance

Future Forex

Executive finance leader for a high-growth FinTech operating across foreign exchange, cross-border payments, and digital asset arbitrage products.

Jul 2022 — Oct 2024

Senior FP&A Analyst

Prodigy Finance

Strategic finance partner within a global FinTech lending platform for international postgraduate students. Built unit economics models across multiple geographies and loan cohorts, led cash flow forecasting and liquidity planning, and developed executive dashboards translating complex financial data into board-level insight.

Nov 2018 — Jul 2022

Senior Accountant

Prodigy Finance

Led a finance transformation programme during a period of rapid growth, including the implementation and optimisation of NetSuite ERP, strengthening internal controls and improving management reporting reliability and speed.

Jan 2012 — Dec 2014

Auditor — CA(SA) Articles

Grant Thornton

Completed Chartered Accountant articles with audit exposure across financial services, retail and multinational engagements — the technical grounding in financial accounting, controls and regulatory compliance everything since has built on.

Board & Advisory

Financial and governance judgement at the board table.

I'm open to non-executive director and advisory conversations where a finance-trained perspective adds real oversight, particularly for growth-stage and FinTech businesses navigating scale, risk and investor scrutiny.

Financial governance, risk oversight and audit committee experience
First-hand experience scaling finance functions through high-growth stages
FinTech domain depth — cross-border payments, FX, digital assets
Comfortable translating financial detail into board-level decisions

Also Open To

The right full-time leadership seat.

Alongside Stratum CFO and board conversations, I'm open to the right full-time strategic finance leadership role — particularly CFO, CSO or COO mandates in FinTech and tech-enabled, high-growth businesses where financial rigour and commercial judgement drive real decisions.

Current Venture

Founder, Stratum CFO

Fractional CFO & finance transformation

Stratum CFO is where my hands-on CFO and finance transformation work now lives — fractional CFO engagements, finance function diagnostics, and FP&A for scaling SaaS and FinTech companies. If that's what you're looking for, it's the right place to start a conversation.

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