Meet your CFO
Bastian Kneuse
Fortune 50 discipline. Operator level practicality.
After 18+ years across investment banking, corporate finance and finance leadership, including work with Wells Fargo, American Express, BMW and Google, Bastian founded Core CFO Partners to bring enterprise grade financial judgment to founder led companies.
“The model is not the work.
The decision is the work.”
When growth outruns visibility
You do not need more reports.
You need the answer behind the decision.
Core CFO connects cash, operations and strategy so every major decision has a financial point of view.
The Core CFO system
Clarity. Control. Confident growth.
A proven system to turn financial complexity into clear, actionable decisions.
Financial Clarity
Cash forecasting, KPI dashboards and board ready reporting.
Profit & Performance
Margin analysis, pricing, cost structure and operating cadence.
Growth & Capital
Scenario planning, hiring, financing, M&A and capital allocation.
Built for the complexity you are in
A founder’s journey
From uncertainty to a decision cadence.

Multiple offices, growing team, increasing complexity.
Fragmented reporting, unclear cash visibility and rising complexity made it difficult to assess tradeoffs and move forward with confidence.
Installed a 13 week cash model, unified reporting and a management cadence to connect financials with operating decisions.
Moved from reactive calls to proactive decisions, with a clear view of opportunities, risks and next steps.
Practical tools for real decisions
See the next cash decision
before it becomes urgent.
Get the weekly cash framework Core CFO uses to turn uncertainty into action.
Useful finance. No noise.
decisions
brighter
tomorrows
How it works
A clear path from questions to control.
Diagnose
Understand your goals, challenges and current financial reality.
Build the decision system
Design and implement the right models, reporting and cadence.
Lead the cadence
Turn insights into action, together, month after month.
Ready for a clearer path?
Your next decision deserves a CFO level answer.
30 minutes. No pitch deck. Just clarity.


