The seats we staff, and what the work actually is.
We are open year-round rather than only when something is posted, because the right person turning up is not something you can schedule. Each of these sits inside a pod with a named backup, working to the same published standard.
You own what the numbers mean and what to do about them. Two to four client businesses at a time, each with a controller and analysts underneath you and a named backup beside you. You sit in board meetings, take the lender's call, lead the diagnostic in the first fortnight, and write the assessment the client keeps. You are the person accountable for every piece of work the firm does on that account.
Board, lender and investor rooms are familiar ground. You have carried a covenant conversation, priced a decision, and told an owner something they did not want to hear.
Day-to-day client lead. The close finishes by the seventh working day and the pack lands on the eighth, every month, on every account you hold. You own the reconciliations, the judgment calls and the documentation behind them, and you set the standard the client's own bookkeeper works to.
You have made a slow close fast at least once, and you can say exactly what you changed to do it.
The close timetable, the reconciliations, the review of other people's work, and the standing calculations that stop a month depending on somebody's memory. You are the reason a close lands on the same day whether or not anyone is away.
Work gets better around you. You have trained somebody who is now better than you were.
The three-statement build, the rolling cash view rebuilt weekly, the scenario work, and the variance analysis that says which driver moved rather than that something moved. Your output goes in front of boards and lenders with your CFO's name on it.
You can explain a variance to an owner who does not work in finance, and you have built a model somebody else could pick up and change.
Selection, configuration, integration and automation, so a month stops being people re-keying what a system should already produce. You write the specification with the CFO who knows what the board needs to see, then build to it.
You have taken an accounting platform from working-around to working, and you know when the honest answer is that a replacement is not warranted.
Construction and trades, distribution, manufacturing, professional services, multi-unit and hospitality, property, technology, healthcare, transportation and fleet, franchise operators, consumer brands, nonprofit. You join engagements for the parts that need what you know, and you help match the CFO who will hold the seat.
You have run or advised finance inside that sector long enough to know what the reporting misses.
An ordinary week, whichever seat you hold.
The work is on a rhythm, which is the point. You are not firefighting somebody else's month with no calendar and no support.
How somebody gets matched to a seat.
We hire for what you have run rather than where you live. That is the only reason we can put a CFO into a distributor in Alberta or a contractor in Georgia who has already done that exact job before.
Your first ninety days here.
You are not dropped onto a client's month to find out what good looks like. The ramp is the same one we would want for ourselves.
What you get from being inside a firm rather than doing this alone.
Most fractional finance work is done by people on their own. Everything below is what sits behind the seat here.
A bench, on the hard monthsMore than two hundred specialists across twelve disciplines, and eight divisions of the group. When a month brings a systems rebuild, a debt negotiation and a technical accounting position at once, you are not choosing which one to be good at.
Cover that is realA named backup on every seat, drilled every quarter on live files. Holiday, illness and family are things that happen here without an account falling over or you working through them.
Work you can point atEvery engagement has measures written down at week three and reported against at ninety days. You will know whether what you did moved the business, which is not true of most finance jobs.
Sector depth, not sector driftYou go deeper into what you already know rather than being handed whatever came in. That is the whole reason we hire nationally instead of locally.
A standard worth working toPublished response times, published close dates, named people in the agreement. You are never asked to promise a client something the firm has not committed to.
Somewhere to go nextAnalysts become accounting managers, managers become controllers, controllers take the CFO seat. The pod structure is a ladder with the rungs visible, and the group runs eight divisions in all.
How to approach us.
No portal, no thirty-field form, no cover letter template. Send a note about the finance functions you have actually held, the sectors you know, and what you would want your next seat to look like. A partner reads it and replies.
That is the whole application. A few paragraphs, read by a partner.
What you have held, at what size, in which industries, and what you want your next seat to look like. If there is a fit now or likely within the year, you get a conversation about the work. If there is not, you get told this week rather than left waiting.