Nimbus Partners: finance-grade rigour, founder-grade execution
Nimbus Partners is a finance and AI advisory founded by Mohamed Elyas, an ICAS Chartered Accountant and former Finance Director. Nimbus builds the finance function and the AI that lives inside it: finance infrastructure for businesses that don't have it yet, and for businesses that have outgrown what they've got.
What Nimbus Partners does
I build the finance function, and the AI that lives inside it. Finance and AI are not two separate offerings. They are one fused practice, delivered by the same person who designs the controls and writes the automation.
- Build: finance infrastructure for businesses that don't have it yet: controls, reporting, month-end close, and the systems a serious finance function needs from the start.
- Transform: finance infrastructure for businesses that have outgrown what they've got: re-engineering the function so it scales with the company.
Mohamed Elyas, Founder
ICAS Chartered Accountant and former Finance Director. Built and scaled finance functions from nothing. Hands-on start-up, scale-up and listed finance experience across FP&A, month-end closes, controls, multi-jurisdiction audits, acquisitions and fundraising. Today builds and runs his own always-on, multi-agent AI infrastructure. Speaker at the 2026 NEXGEN Finance Transformation Summit on AI-Driven Cost Optimisation, alongside fellow leaders and practitioners from the finance and technology sectors.
AI and Finance Native
Fluent in the tools your teams use: Copilot, Gemini, ChatGPT, Claude. And in the ones that actually build systems: Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode, and the always-on, multi-agent infrastructure I run in production.
Fluent, too, in the questions that decide whether AI belongs near your numbers: what stays private versus what trains a vendor's model, API versus consumer tiers, and controlled versus lighter-touch deployment.
Vendor-neutral, and shaped to the constraints you already work within: your risk tolerance, your existing agreements, the stack you run. Honest about what AI can and cannot do.
Experience
Sectors worked across:
- Oil & Gas
- FinTech
- Digital Assets
- Consumer Goods
- Legal Tech
- Custody
- Retail
- SaaS
- Legal Services
Ground covered:
- Venture Capital
- PCAOB
- Audit readiness
- FCA-regulated firms
- Multi-entity operations
- M&A integration
- Client money (CASS)
- Capital raises
- Global audits
Experience spans Deloitte, BP, Centrica, Procter & Gamble, 2 Sisters Food Group, Bravura Solutions, Zodia Custody and Lawhive.
Contact
Start a conversation: hello@nimbuspartners.io
LinkedIn: Mohamed Elyas
Nimbus Partners Ltd. Registered in England and Wales, company number 17286040. Registered office: 71-75 Shelton Street, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ, United Kingdom.
Frequently asked
What is Nimbus Partners?
A finance and AI advisory that builds and transforms finance functions, and the AI that lives inside them, for founder-led and scaling businesses.
Who runs Nimbus Partners?
Mohamed Elyas, an ICAS Chartered Accountant and former Finance Director who builds both the finance function and the AI infrastructure himself.
Where is Nimbus Partners based?
The United Kingdom. Nimbus Partners Ltd is registered in England and Wales (company number 17286040).