Bermuda · Financial Advisory

AI-Enabled
Transformation
for Finance & Growth.

Seabright Financial helps ambitious companies modernise their finance function and scale with confidence — pairing hands-on CPA leadership with AI-native systems, strategy, and institutional-grade rigour.

Our Services Speak to an Advisor
15 Yrs
Finance leadership experience
$250M+
Capital raised across high-growth businesses
CPA
Chartered Professional Accountant · Canada
50x
Revenue scale delivered at AI-enabled companies
Founder-Led Advisory
Finance Transformation · Growth Strategy · Compliance · AI Governance
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What We Do

Six capabilities.
One advisor.

Seabright Financial pairs senior finance leadership with AI-native execution — bringing finance transformation, growth strategy, compliance, and governance together in a single, founder-led advisory practice.

AI-Enabled Finance Transformation

Modernising the finance function end to end — close acceleration, reporting automation, and AI-assisted workflows across AP, AR, and reconciliation — with the controls and auditability a serious business requires.

Close Acceleration Automation Reporting
Fractional CFO & Controllership

Senior finance leadership without the full-time cost — owning the numbers, board and investor reporting, treasury and cash management, and audit readiness across single and multi-entity structures.

Finance Leadership Board Reporting Treasury
Financial Modelling & Growth Strategy

Decision-grade forecasting, scenario planning, and unit economics — the models behind fundraises, expansion decisions, and pricing — built to be owned and updated, not admired and abandoned.

Forecasting Unit Economics Fundraising
Compliance & AML/ATF Advisory

Advisory on anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing frameworks under Bermuda's POCA regime — risk assessments, programme design, remediation planning, and BMA reporting readiness for regulated entities.

AML/ATF POCA BMA Reporting
AI Governance Advisory

Practical governance for organisations deploying AI in finance and operations — accountability structures, audit trails, human oversight mechanisms, and compliance monitoring that stand up to scrutiny.

Accountability Audit Trails Oversight
Finance Systems & Automation

Designing and implementing the finance stack — ERP and accounting systems, data infrastructure, and automated workflows — so reporting is real-time, reconciliation is continuous, and the team scales without headcount.

Systems Design Data Infrastructure Workflows
AI Transformation

A finance function that works at the pace of the business.

AI is rewriting what a lean finance team can do — but only when it is deployed with real controls, clean data, and clear ownership. Seabright Financial has built AI-native finance functions from the inside, not advised on them from a distance.

01
AI-Native Close & Reporting

Compressing the month-end close and automating management reporting — reconciliation, flux analysis, and variance commentary produced in days, not weeks, with every number traceable.

02
Decision-Grade Data

Building the data infrastructure beneath the numbers — a single source of truth across entities and systems, so forecasts, KPIs, and board materials draw from the same well.

03
Controls & Auditability

Automation that auditors can follow — segregation of duties, approval workflows, and audit trails designed in from the start, not retrofitted after the first finding.

04
Capability Transfer

Engagements that leave the team stronger — documented processes, trained staff, and systems the business owns outright, so the gains persist after the engagement ends.

Practice Area
AI-Enabled Finance Transformation
Close · Reporting · Automation
Practice Area
Fractional CFO & Controllership
Leadership · Reporting · Treasury
Practice Area
Modelling & Growth Strategy
Forecasts · Scenarios · Fundraising
Practice Area
Compliance & AML/ATF
Monitoring · Screening · Reporting
Practice Area
Finance Systems & Automation
ERP · Data · Workflows
Growth Transformation

Finance built for the company you're becoming.

High-growth companies outgrow their finance function in predictable ways — the close slips, the forecast loses credibility, the board deck takes a week, and the next raise exposes it all. Seabright Financial builds the foundations before they become the bottleneck.

Scale-Ready Finance Foundations

Chart of accounts, policies, close cadence, and reporting structures designed for where the business is going — built once, built properly, across single and multi-entity groups.

Fundraise & Transaction Support

Financial models, data rooms, and diligence preparation that hold up under institutional scrutiny — drawn from direct experience raising $250M+ and supporting an exit to a global acquirer.

Operating Cadence & KPIs

The metrics that actually run the business — unit economics, cohort performance, cash runway — surfaced in a reporting rhythm leadership can act on, not a quarterly archaeology project.

Multi-Entity Structure & Consolidation

Clean consolidation, intercompany discipline, and entity-level reporting for groups operating across jurisdictions — keeping complexity manageable as the structure grows.

Engagement Scope ● Founder-Led
Finance Function Diagnostic Current state · Gap analysis
Close & Reporting Acceleration · Automation
Forecasting & Scenarios Driver-based · Rolling
Fundraising Support Models · Data rooms · Diligence
Board & Investor Reporting Decks · KPIs · Narrative
Multi-Entity Consolidation Intercompany · Cross-border
Systems Implementation ERP · Automation stack
Compliance Frameworks AML/ATF · Programme design
Audit Readiness Controls · Documentation
Ongoing Advisory Fractional · Retained
How We Work

A disciplined path from
diagnosis to lasting change.

01 / Diagnose
Finance Function Diagnostic

A structured review of the current state — close cycle, reporting quality, systems, controls, and team — producing a candid gap analysis and a prioritised roadmap, typically within the first two weeks.

Current State · Roadmap →
02 / Design
Target Operating Model

Designing the finance function the business actually needs — processes, systems architecture, reporting cadence, and governance — sequenced so quick wins fund the deeper work.

Architecture · Sequencing →
03 / Implement
Hands-On Delivery

Building alongside the team, not presenting to it — configuring systems, automating workflows, rebuilding models, and running the first cycles personally until the new way of working holds.

Build · Run · Prove →
04 / Embed
Capability Transfer

Documenting, training, and handing over — so the business owns its transformed finance function outright, with ongoing fractional support available where it adds value.

Documentation · Handover →
Compliance & Governance

Frameworks that hold up when it matters.

Growth without governance is borrowed time. Seabright Financial designs the compliance and control frameworks that regulators, auditors, and investors expect — grounded in Bermuda's regime and built to travel across jurisdictions.


The approach is advisory and design: frameworks, risk assessments, and readiness — built with the people who will own them day to day.

POCA · AML / ATF
Proceeds of Crime Act and Bermuda's AML/ATF regulations. FATF-aligned programme design — enterprise risk assessments, customer due diligence standards, transaction monitoring, and reporting frameworks.
BMA Reporting Readiness
Regulatory reporting for BMA-supervised entities. Filing calendars, data readiness, and preparation for supervisory reviews — so regulatory deadlines stop being emergencies.
Economic Substance
Economic Substance Act 2018. Advisory on substance requirements, governance evidence, and annual declarations for in-scope Bermuda entities.
Audit & Controls Readiness
Institutional-grade audit preparation. Control design, documentation, and PBC discipline drawn from leading audits for institutional investors across US GAAP and IFRS environments.
AI Governance Frameworks
Emerging standards for AI in finance and operations. Accountability chains, human oversight, and audit requirements — governance that keeps pace with the automation it supervises.
About

Founder-led. AI-native. Bermuda-based.

Brett Williamson
Brett Williamson, CPA
Founder & Managing Director

Brett is a Chartered Professional Accountant with over fifteen years leading finance, treasury, and reporting functions inside high-growth, multi-entity companies — from a pediatric healthcare platform that scaled 50x in revenue and raised $250M+, to an AI-enabled construction developer managing $300M+ in projects, to a hospitality technology company that completed a $78M exit to Hilton.

That experience — building finance functions from the ground up, leading audits for institutional investors, and operating across the US, Canada, the UK, and Bermuda — is the foundation of Seabright Financial. Brett works directly with every client: no leverage model, no hand-offs. Just senior judgment, AI-native execution, and a finance function the business ends up owning outright.

CPA · Canada 15+ Years Finance Leadership $250M+ Capital Raised AI-Enabled Businesses Multi-Entity Groups Bermuda
Get in Touch

Ready to transform how
your finance function works?

Whether you're modernising the close, preparing for a raise, strengthening your compliance frameworks, or bringing AI into finance with proper governance — Seabright Financial brings the senior judgment and hands-on delivery to get it done.

info@seabrightfinancial.bm
Hamilton, Bermuda
Serving clients in Bermuda & North America
+1 441 704 9977