For Growth-Stage, Startup and Impact Businesses with a Unique Approach
We offer a full suite of financial and risk management services to help you analyze, monitor, and control your organization in a cost-effective manner.
We deliver full-spectrum finance department support covering bookkeeping, establishing and tracking KPIs, budgeting, forecasting, strategic financial planning, and fundraising, all without the cost of a full-time CFO.
From ERM frameworks and operational risk reviews to crisis management and regulatory reporting, we help you identify vulnerabilities and build an organization that can endure.
Based on our core experience in finance, we help you prepare yourself from an investor’s perspective. We organize and improve your financial presentation into a tool that is clean and aligned with investor expectations.
We believe in transparency and maintaining open, interactive communication through a dedicated senior relationship manager and their team.
We understand young and emerging businesses and their resource constraints. You will find us to be economically frugal and committed to timely and efficient execution.
Simplifying the Complex — One Step at a Time
From strategy to execution, our collaborative process helps you move with clarity and confidence.
We begin with a discovery call to understand your unique context, business goals, and challenges. This ensures our approach is aligned with your priorities from day one.
We assess your current systems, risks, and financial gaps. Our diagnostic tools highlight what’s working, what’s missing, and where the biggest opportunities lie.
We design a strategic roadmap tailored to your needs, with clear milestones, deliverables, and actions — helping you move forward decisively.
At ARA, our consulting team combines deep domain knowledge in finance, risk management and investor readiness. With decades of combined experience across sectors, we help businesses navigate complexity, align strategy, and scale securely.
ARA is a subsidiary of SIMA Funds, a leading impact asset manager and advisor. We leverage SIMA’s experience working with more than [180] companies internationally. Like our parent company, we have a unique culture and business model that prioritizes transparency and innovation.
Here at ARA, your priorities are identified and understood. Our experts have decades of experience in managing all aspects of accounting, financial planning, and risk management for smaller companies. You’ll receive timely and quality service.
ARA has seasoned industry professionals to provide actionable insight and deliver concrete results. We see ourselves not just as service providers, but as partners. Our team helps clients manage core financial responsibilities with clarity, care, and efficiency.
We are focused on helping your company grow and thrive and are committed to on-time, on-budget delivery. Our fee structure is economically suited for younger companies, as well as non-profit organizations. As relevant, we can structure a portion of our fees to be based upon successful completion of the project.
Our team brings deep expertise that combines financial knowledge and risk advisory, ensuring thorough analysis and informed support. We undertake a complete assessment of your business and operations to set achievable goals and KPIs, identify blind spots, and optimize resource allocation. Our approach helps you adapt to market conditions and identify pathways to growth and profitability.
At ARA, we support small/medium enterprises (SMEs) and startups that prioritize impacts on society. We are here to provide personalized accounting, financial planning, investor readiness, and risk management solutions, offering trusted service to help companies grow and thrive.
