Strategy & Growth
Corporate and business-unit strategy, investor-grade business plans, feasibility studies, market entry and expansion, and strategy execution with a PMO.
Management consulting · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
BrightNorth brings the discipline and frameworks of top-tier strategy consulting to owners, boards and CEOs of small and mid-sized enterprises: strategy, governance, restructuring, IFRS, IPO readiness and the hands-on finance and HR operations that make them stick.
Who we serve
Most SMEs must decide where to grow, how to organise, how to finance and how to govern, without an internal strategy or transformation function. Global firms are priced for corporates; independents lack method. BrightNorth fills the gap: senior-led, methodology-driven and right-sized.
Services
Most clients start with one focused engagement and expand as results build. Every practice ends in a defined output, and the same partners stay through implementation.
Corporate and business-unit strategy, investor-grade business plans, feasibility studies, market entry and expansion, and strategy execution with a PMO.
Corporate governance frameworks, policies and procedures written to be used, business process redesign, organisation design, and internal control and risk.
Financial, legal-entity and owners' equity restructuring, IFRS technical guidance, financial reporting upgrade, financial modelling and planning, and CFO advisory or interim CFO.
IPO readiness assessment, pre-IPO transformation, the equity story and investment case, adviser coordination as your own project office, and alternative capital.
Board and executive reporting, transformation PMO, decision support, management-system set-up, and retained advisory for the CEO and board.
Zakat and tax restructuring aligned with ZATCA, accounting policies and bookkeeping, Odoo ERP set-up, zakat and VAT records management, and PR and government services through Qiwa, Muqeem and Absher.
Business and HR consulting with a fractional Head of HR, payroll and personnel administration, recruitment, training and development, organisational development, and employee engagement and loyalty.
A two-to-four-week diagnostic sizes the problem, agrees the scope and gives you a fixed price before any larger commitment.
Book a diagnosticHow we work
Fixed-scope projects, phased programmes with stage-gates, monthly retainers for recurring work such as bookkeeping and payroll, and success-linked fees where the outcome can be measured.
A short review of the strategic, financial, governance and people position against your objectives, with the scope and price agreed at the end.
The solution co-created with your team: the strategy, structure, policy, restructuring entries or financial treatment, validated with the decision-makers.
Implementation, training and hand-over. We record the entries, prepare the statements, run the processes and stay until the new way of working runs on its own.
Optional retained support: quarterly reviews, KPI tracking, filing calendars and on-call advice for the board and the CEO.
Why BrightNorth
Few boutiques combine strategy, IFRS and capital-markets depth with zakat, tax, accounting and HR services. We do, with the same senior people from the first meeting to the last hand-over.
The frameworks of global strategy firms, adapted to companies with thinner teams and tighter budgets.
One team for the plan, the structure, the numbers and the people, so nothing has to be reconciled later.
Every engagement is led by a partner who has done the work before, never delegated to junior analysts.
We implement and operate: entries recorded, statements prepared, working policies handed over.
Fluent in Saudi zakat, tax, labour and accounting rules and in family-business realities; benchmarked to global practice.
Scope, price and deliverables agreed up front for every service. No surprises.
Leadership
Between them, executive finance roles at prominent Saudi organisations, IPO and transaction experience, restructuring and valuation work across manufacturing, real estate, hospitality and investment, and the audit discipline of the largest firms.
24+ years across manufacturing, real estate and financial investment. 12+ years of Big 4 audit and advisory, followed by Group CFO roles at prominent Saudi organisations. IPO and transaction experience.
20+ years of finance leadership on a Big 4 base. Leads business transformation and automation programmes that reshape how companies run, whatever the sector. Deep experience in restructuring, M&A, valuations, and policies and procedures, with industry background in steel, beverage, hospitality and property.
18 years in assurance, internal audit and advisory with top-tier firms. A finance-trained operator with an entrepreneur's drive: opens new channels and turns valuation insight into growth.
Our network: we complement the core team with vetted legal, tax, technology, HR and sector specialists, engaged as each project requires and working under BrightNorth quality control.
Contact
Tell us about the decision you are facing. A partner replies within two working days.