Aadil Butt FCCA MBA
Founder of The Finance Equation Ltd, a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a fractional CFO for London businesses, with an MBA from Cranfield School of Management and more than 30 years at CFO level.
Qualifications and experience
Aadil Butt is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA) and holds an MBA from Cranfield School of Management, one of Europe’s top-ranked business schools. He has more than three decades of CFO and finance director experience and leads The Finance Equation Ltd, an ACCA-regulated firm of chartered certified accountants based in London.
Track record
- Raised more than £65 million in commercial finance for clients.
- Helped release £10 million from a frozen offshore account through expert witness work.
- Added £2 million to a housing association’s balance sheet through a ransom strip settlement.
- Delivered a Kuwait Stock Exchange-listed audit with EY and no qualifications.
- Secured £3.7 million for a lease purchase and negotiated a £1.75 million factoring facility that capped director liability at £10,000.
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Teaching and communication
Aadil is a former visiting lecturer on MBA and MSc Financial Management programmes at the University of East London, and on ACCA professional papers at the London School of Business & Finance. That ability to explain complex finance clearly is what clients rely on in board meetings, and it shapes every guide in our Insights section.
Applied AI for finance
Aadil holds an Executive Certificate in Applied AI for Finance, during which six applied AI solutions were built, covering AI assistants, forecasting dashboards, financial analysis tools, Python-based workflow automation and machine learning forecasting models. He uses tools including Claude and Python to build AI-assisted forecasting and dashboards on top of accurate cloud accounting data, always reviewed by a CFO rather than left to a generic algorithm.
Work with Aadil
The Finance Equation Ltd advises property investors, business owners, CEOs and founders across London on tax, cloud accounting and fractional CFO services. The first 20-minute consultation is free and carries no obligation. Call 020 3086 7472 or send a message.