Raymond
Osei
Thirty years in finance, most of it as a CFO. Now on the boards that want someone who can read the accounts and the room.
The number is never the whole story.
Raymond spent thirty years in finance, most recently as chief financial officer of a listed infrastructure group. He reads a set of accounts for what they assume, not only for what they state.
He sits on boards because he likes the work of getting to the truth of a business. And somewhere along the way he learned to say the awkward thing kindly, which turns out to be the harder skill.
Illustrative figures for a sample director.
Three things he is genuinely good at.
Reading a company honestly
The accounts tell you what happened. The assumptions underneath tell you what management is hoping happens next. He reads both, and says which is which.
Knowing where the risk actually is
A practical nose for the one exposure that matters, sorted from the twenty that do not. Less a register to tick, more a judgement to make.
Capital, and character
How a business raises and spends its money says as much about the people running it as any board paper does. He has learned to listen to that.
“I have never met a clean set of accounts. I have met honest ones, and that is the more useful thing to be.”
Selected experience.
IllustrativeIllustrative. Raymond is a fictional director created to show the work; a real Dossier is written from your actual record.
Plainly written. Occasionally opinionated.
A short, regular note on the numbers behind the news, written with him and published here, so a committee gets to read him thinking, not just read his CV.
One director. One identity. Never a template.
This is a sample, written and designed around one person: how Raymond thinks, and how a board should read him. Yours would be built the same way, from your own record and in your own voice, and quietly kept current as your search moves. We do the work. You approve; we manage.
Scrye Labs Pty Ltd, Sydney · Raymond Osei is a fictional director created to demonstrate the work.