Leigh Foster

Fractional CFO | Finance Leadership for High Growth Businesses

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

About

Chartered Accountant and seasoned finance professional with a passion for high growth and purpose led organisations. I have a proven track record in building high performing teams, developing efficient, compliant finance functions and helping to shape & deliver financial strategy.

Experience

  • Fractional CFO at Self-employed
    Nov 2024 - Present · 1 yr 8 mos

    I work with founders and leadership teams in high growth and purpose led businesses, providing hands-on, embedded CFO support through periods of growth, capital raising, and operational complexity or change. My focus is on building financial clarity and control so leadership teams have the visibility they need to make confident commercial decisions, ensuring finance enables growth rather than reacting to it. In practice, this includes building agile finance functions, strengthening forecasting and cash flow management, and optimising systems and processes to support the needs of scaling businesses. I also work with clients to ensure they are capital raise ready, supporting both preparation and execution, delivering tailored financial models, preparing board and investor materials, and navigating due diligence processes, enabling management teams to engage with investors with confidence.

  • Fractional CFO at 10x Labs
    Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

    10x Labs partner with companies to build, scale, automate and optimize their tech. With a foundation of elite engineering talent paired with deep expertise in corporate strategy and operations, we support the full digital lifecycle from rapid MVP development to building enterprise-grade AI enabled platforms handling billions of transactions. We deliver digital transformations, complex platform rebuilds, project rescues, AI strategy and agentic process automation, built on a resilient future focused tech stack, to help you reduce cost and accelerate growth.

  • Strategy Consultant at White Box Enterprises
    Jan 2026 - Present · 6 mos

    Bold entrepreneurs on a mission to mainstream jobs-focused social enterprise. White Box works with social enterprises, government, investors and philanthropists to build, support and advocate for large-scale jobs-focused social enterprises, so that every individual can access meaningful and inclusive employment. Since its inception in 2019 White Box have raised over $51 million to support job creation projects, launched 4 large-scale jobs focused social enterprises, created 4 jobs hubs and enabled over 900 jobs for people shut out of mainstream employment.

  • Chief Financial Officer at Evergen
    May 2020 - Nov 2024 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    Founded in Australia, Evergen provides a software platform that enables the digital optimisation of energy supply chains, maximising the benefits of adopting renewable technologies. This includes utility-scale generation and storage assets, C&I sites, homes and businesses with solar power and storage, and many other devices. The company's systems are used by OEMs, installers, power retailers, networks, asset owners and operators, and consumers to ensure optimal functioning of their assets. Evergen is currently participating in projects around the world and is supported by shareholders including FRV-X, AMP, Artesian Capital Management and CSIRO Energy. Evergen's mission is to decarbonise the energy system by accelerating the retirement of coal-fired power plants and facilitating the transition to resilient and renewable energy systems. Visit evergen.energy

  • Project Manager - KOTRA Riel bookkeeping app at SHE Investments
    Nov 2019 - Dec 2021 · 2 yrs 2 mos

    SHE is a social enterprise designing and delivering gender-focused, culturally tailored business incubator and accelerator programs for women in Cambodia. Women run 65% of businesses in Cambodia but 96% of those are micro-sized, employing less than 4 people. SHE are bridging the SME gender gap by scaling up women's micro enterprises and empowering them to enter the formal economy, creating long-term social and economic impact through job creation and women’s economic empowerment. SHE provide business training, mentoring, consulting, financing and networking opportunities for Cambodian women in business. Through our bookkeeping app, KOTRA Riel, our mission is to change the way micro entrepreneurs approach finance. By developing a simple, affordable and accessible bookkeeping solution, we are supporting Cambodia’s micro entrepreneurs to scale their businesses through increased financial acumen and improved access to finance. One of the major barriers to micro businesses accessing finance is lack of available financial information on borrowers and asymmetric information between micro businesses and financial institutions. With KOTRA Riel, micro-entrepreneurs can easily and affordably produce finance reports which can be provided to financial institution to support a loan application. KOTRA Riel is available to download on both iOS and Android and works both online and offline. It is affordable, free to download and is simple to use for people of low financial and digital literacy levels.