Your financial sense check: maintenance, scaling, and re-sizing
Get ready to learn to diagnose your company’s financial reality and operational decisions, before misalignment becomes expensive!
As ops leaders, we’re constantly making calls on hiring, tooling, process design, and resourcing. But those decisions only work if they match the company’s current financial reality.
What’s smart during rapid scaling can quietly destroy runway in a constrained period. What feels “lean” can choke growth when the business needs to move fast.
This webinar will help you learn to calibrate your decisions to the financial mode your business is actually in.
We’ll break down how to operate in three common business modes:
Scaling (growth state)
Maintenance (steady state)
Re-sizing (capital-tight / cost-focused state)
You’ll leave with practical clarity on what to prioritise, what to pause, and what to double down on - without needing to become a finance expert.
By the end of this session, you will:
⚡ Understand the key finance priorities at different business stages - including scaling, maintenance, and right-sizing
💡 Know which metrics and reports actually matter at each stage, and which ones can wait
🧭 Learn how to align hiring, tooling, and resourcing decisions with runway, burn, and revenue efficiency
🧩 Walk away with practical actions you can take immediately, including a Finance Cheat Sheet for your current stage
You should join us if you are:
✅ An operations leader looking to build stronger financial acumen
✅ Involved in budgeting, hiring decisions, or resource allocation
✅ Owning Finance, partnering closely with Finance, or feeling slightly disconnected from financial conversations
✅ Navigating growth, stability, or cost-cutting and want clarity on what to optimise for
However, you're unlikely to benefit if:
🚫 You are not involved in operational or financial decision-making
🚫 You are looking for deep, technical Finance training rather than practical guidance
🚫 You are not currently working in or with a startup or scaleup environment
Event details 📝
Webinar Agenda (60 mins)
Timing may be adjusted as needed.
Welcome & intro | 10 mins
Maintenance mode: understanding business health and focus areas | 10 mins
Scaling mode: what to prioritise and what to watch | 10 mins
Re-sizing mode: cash, costs, and critical decisions | 10 mins
Final Q&A | 10 mins
This session will be recorded, including the Q&A. If you’d prefer any part of your question or comment to be kept off the recording, just let us know (either during or right after the session) and we’ll make sure it’s edited out.
The recording will be shared with all Operations Nation Members. You do not need to sign up to get the recording.
Meet our speakers 👋
Miriam Grant
Head of FinOps @ RORA
Charlie Hunt
Fractional Finance & Operations Director @ RORA
Together with RORA 🙌
RORA provides flexible, high-impact fractional teams designed to support startups and growing businesses. Their expert teams offer operational support across key areas such as finance, helping companies scale efficiently without the overhead of full-time hires, delivering tailored solutions that drive growth and success at every stage.
🎁 ON Members can book a free 60-min Finance Health Check with RORA. You'll get a tailored report within 72 hours, showing how well your Finance function is set up to scale. DM Charlie on Slack to book!