About Fix Finance Consulting
Set up in 2025 by Alexandra Donaldson, Fix Finance Consulting aims to support your organisation build its financial management capacity to enhance project implementation and provide longer term stability at affordable prices.
It provides a range of consultancy services including, but not limited to financial and capacity gap assessments, systems improvements, policy development, proposal development and mentoring.
Fix Finance Consulting will also conduct a range of trainings for both finance and non finance professionals on a wide range of grant related financial management. It can provide in-house bespoke training programs on proposal budget development, budgeting and forecasting, monitoring grants and general financial understanding.
Vision:
For small and medium size businesses and not-for-profit organisations to be able to maximise impact and long term sustainability through good decision making based on sound financial principles
Mission:
To provide financial management advice and training at affordable prices to enable better understanding of how good financial management can enhance decision making
Values:
Fix Finance Consulting will conduct it business based on the following values:
Inclusiveness
Professionalism
Honesty
Transparency
Fairness
Alexandra Donaldson
Financial Management Consultant
Alexandra Donaldson is a CIMA qualified accountant with nearly 30 years' experience in financial and grant management.
She received her training within organisations such as Pepsi and Hewlett Packard and so is well versed in financial accounting practices and compliance to international standards.
Over the past 15+ years she has worked as a regional Business Partner in Southern Africa and Asia, working to provide support to country programs in terms of developing proposal budgets, managing grants and annual budgets and forecasts. More recently she has implemented a financial change program for WCS Cambodia. During this time, she has had much success in developing systems and procedures and providing multi-day trainings to 100+ staff
Her proven ability to communicate simple financial terminology to technical staff combined with her problem solving approach has resulted in increased cross departmental collaboration, enhanced donor compliance and improved decision making across all her roles
She has gained experience managing grants for multilateral and bilateral donors such as DfID, USAID, USFWS, EU, WHO and UNDP. She has also managed external audits for these organisations and internal audits for local country programmes. She was selected to conduct whistleblowing and fraud investigations at VSO.
“It was an absolute pleasure working with Alexandra at ZSL. She consistently demonstrated exceptional dedication, passion, and a strong work ethic. Her technical accounting skills are truly outstanding, making her a highly capable and reliable professional. Beyond her technical prowess, Alexandra excelled at building strong relationships with programme staff, proving to be an excellent finance business partner. Any organization would be incredibly fortunate to have her.”
— Joe Thomas, Head of Finance, ZSL
