Three founding partners — Chartered Accountants and C-suite finance leaders — with more than 50 years of combined experience across multinationals on two continents — embedded directly into your business. From first-entry bookkeeping through to audited financial statements, strategic finance leadership, and Power BI dashboards.
JD Intelligence is built around two founding partners — Peter Venter, a Chartered Accountant, and Digby Beyleveld, a seasoned C-suite finance executive — who together bring more than half a century of finance and general management experience across multinational entities spanning multiple geographies. We've led organisations with revenues exceeding $1.7 billion. We've delivered transformations across three continents. We've sat at the table you need someone at.
We serve growth-stage and mid-market businesses in the US and South Africa who need that calibre of financial leadership without the full-time overhead. Senior accountability at every touchpoint, with a fully managed delivery team beneath.
You deal with CFO and FD-level minds directly. Always.
Bookkeeping, management accounts, statutory reporting, and BI dashboards.
Power BI dashboards and data architecture built alongside your financials.
All principals operate at CFO level — but each brings a distinct specialism that makes the practice broader than any single generalist could be. Peter leads on fractional CFO and turnaround work. Digby leads on business intelligence and finance transformation. Both Peter and Digby cover accounting, financial reporting, and technical compliance across engagements. There's no intake team, no handoffs, and no junior assigned to your file once the contract is signed.
Most outsourced accounting firms give you a process and a portal. We give you a Chartered Accountant who personally oversees your books — and has spent over two decades knowing exactly what a CFO needs to see, and when.
For US-based businesses in particular, this is where we see the biggest gap in the market. You're dealing with offshore accounting teams where the most senior person you'll ever speak to is a project manager. At JDI, the person reviewing your management accounts is the same person who has led multi-country finance organisations with revenues up to $1.7 billion, working across US GAAP and IFRS simultaneously. That context changes everything — from how your chart of accounts is structured to how your monthly pack is presented to your board.
We handle everything from first-entry bookkeeping through to audit-ready financial statements. But unlike a traditional accounting firm, every layer of the work is designed with the end output in mind — because we know what a CFO actually reads on a Monday morning.
"The person reviewing your numbers has managed finance organisations at scale — across currencies, jurisdictions, and reporting frameworks. That changes what they look for, what they flag, and what they tell you."
First-entry through to trial balance. Clean, structured, audit-ready from day one.
AP processing, reconciliations, payment preparation, AR collections and reporting.
Monthly pack prepared and reviewed by a principal. Variance analysis, commentary, board-ready format.
Annual financial statements prepared to the standard your auditors and stakeholders expect.
Daily or weekly cash position visibility, fully reconciled.
A fractional CFO is only as valuable as the experience behind the title. Peter Venter has spent over 20 years leading finance and operational teams in some of the most demanding turnaround situations a business can face — selling, closing, or fixing companies with revenues exceeding $560 million across three continents.
Most fractional CFO services offer financial oversight. We offer something harder to find: a senior finance executive who has sat in the chair when the business is under real pressure — restructuring debt, resetting strategy, managing stakeholders through uncertainty, and driving a path back to sustainable performance. That experience is what separates a useful advisor from an indispensable one.
This service is built for businesses that need more than a steady hand on the numbers. Whether you're navigating a critical inflection point, preparing for a transaction, or rebuilding financial foundations after a period of difficulty, we bring the strategic and operational depth to lead the work — not just advise on it.
"The most valuable thing a fractional CFO can bring isn't a framework. It's having been through it before — knowing what to do when the situation is messy and the answer isn't obvious."
Strategy and execution for businesses that need to stabilise, reset, or be repositioned for sale or closure.
Long-range planning, scenario modelling, and financial architecture aligned to your growth trajectory.
Board packs, investor updates, and financial narrative prepared and presented by a principal.
Buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence, valuation, and deal structuring support.
Budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and financial risk management.
20+ years as a finance executive and GM. Specialist in business turnaround — selling, closing, or fixing organisations across three continents.
Most BI implementations fail not because of the technology, but because the developers don't understand the business. Digby Beyleveld has spent his career closing that gap — as both a senior finance executive who depended on data to make decisions, and as the person who built the systems that produced it.
With deep expertise in Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, SQL, Azure, and AWS data platforms, Digby leads JDI's BI practice from technical strategy through to delivery. He has led large-scale ERP implementations and data engineering projects across multinational organisations — which means he understands not just how to build a dashboard, but how to design the data architecture underneath it so it doesn't break when the business scales or changes.
Our BI work is built in lockstep with your financial reporting. The numbers your dashboards show are consistent with your management accounts, statutory reports, and board pack. That coherence is rare — and it matters enormously when you're making decisions or presenting to investors.
"Good BI isn't about the dashboard. It's about the architecture underneath it — and knowing what questions the business will be asking in 18 months, not just today."
We design the right data infrastructure for your business before writing a single line of code.
End-to-end dashboard and report development — from data model to published, maintained solution.
Clean, reliable pipelines on Azure or AWS connecting your source systems to your reporting layer.
Reporting suites aligned to your management accounts, KPIs, and board requirements.
Corporate and individual training so your team can own and extend what we build.
Senior finance and BI executive with hands-on expertise across Microsoft Fabric, Power BI, Azure, AWS, and large-scale ERP implementations in multinational environments.
Five decades of combined experience across two continents — distilled into a practice built for the modern finance function.
Seasoned executives. Every client gets senior-level involvement — not a junior account manager.
A Chartered Accountant with over 20 years leading finance and operational teams in complex, multi-country environments. Specialises in business turnaround strategy and execution — whether that means selling, closing, or fixing a business — with a strong track record of stabilising organisations and driving sustainable performance improvements. Has led businesses with turnovers exceeding $560 million across three continents.
Over 20 years supporting and leading organisations in complex, multinational environments. Brings a distinctive blend of financial, risk, and technology expertise — including large-scale ERP implementations across organisations with revenues exceeding $1 billion. His experience spans finance transformation, governance, and operational enablement, with hands-on delivery of accounting and payroll services across two continents.
Senior financial leadership delivered locally — in the US and across Southern Africa.
On-the-ground presence for American clients requiring fractional CFO support, financial oversight, and BI implementation across US time zones.
Headquartered in Port Elizabeth (Gqeberha), with reach across South Africa. Our SA principals lead engagements for South African clients and manage the broader delivery team.
A structured engagement model built for minimal disruption and maximum clarity.
You speak directly with one of our three senior team members — not a salesperson. We understand your business, your pain points, and what good looks like for you.
A clean, specific proposal covering scope, team structure, pricing, and timeline. No generic decks. No fluff.
We handle the transition — from connecting to your accounting systems to establishing reporting cadences — with a principal overseeing every step.
Your day-to-day work runs through our managed delivery team. Your senior touchpoints — board packs, strategic reviews, escalations — come directly through the principals.
Whether you're a US-based business looking for on-the-ground CFO support, or a South African company needing a full outsourced finance function — the first conversation is always with one of our principals. No handoffs.