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KANTON-WEST

CFO advisory services.

Funding, banking, cross-border operations, tax and the finance function. Done personally.

About Kanton-West

Kanton-West is the advisory practice of a career CFO. Twenty years as CFO, Financial Director and GM Finance of groups between ZAR 1.5 billion and ZAR 4 billion in revenue, across South Africa, the DRC, Zambia, Namibia, Mozambique, Mauritius and Australia. The work is done personally.

Kanton-West puts no letters behind the name. Each service on this page says what the work is and when it is done. If it cannot be written that plainly, it is not offered.

Owners do not need another report. They need the tender priced right, the facility signed, the settlement in writing. The person who takes your call is the person who does that work and answers for it.

CFO services

What we do

  1. 01Tender pricing and guarantees
  2. 02Foreign company setup
  3. 03Moving money across borders
  4. 04Tax disputes and back taxes
  5. 05Raising finance
  6. 06Bank applications
  7. 07Part-time financial director
  8. 08Monthly management accounts
  9. 09Catching up the books
  10. 10Personal and company tax
  11. 11Finance review
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Finance hiring

Finding the finance person

  1. 01Priced as work, not commission
  2. 02Repeat hires give to an NGO or your training
  3. 03The fee falls with every hire
  4. 04Transparent pricing, below the norm
  5. 05Value for what you spend, matched by the quality
  6. 06Curated, never a CV dump
  7. 07Matched to how the business runs, not a keyword list
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Private AI

Private AI you own

Private AI runs inside your own walls. Your data and your prompts never leave your network, are never seen by an outside cloud, and never train someone else's model. A capability brought to a finance function, alongside the hands-on CFO work.

  1. 01Private by design, on your own hardware
  2. 02You own the system and the data
  3. 03A scoped fee, no usage fees
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The record

CFO of a ZAR 1.5 billion engineering group. Financial Director of a USD 175 million multi-country group. GM Finance of a ZAR 4 billion operation. Exco, board and risk committee seats.
The work, then the record behind it. Stated plainly.

This is not bookkeeping, and it is not a franchise. One man who ran group finance for twenty years, at your table, doing the work himself.

Contact

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