CAREERSUNITED STATES AND CANADA · REMOTE-FIRST

We hire people who have held the seat, not described it.

Three decades, eight divisions, and more than two hundred specialists in the finance practice alone. What we look for is straightforward: you have run the thing rather than advised on it, you can explain a number to somebody who does not work in finance, and you would rather own an outcome than bill an hour. Below is what the work actually is, what the week looks like, and how somebody gets matched to a seat — so you can decide before you write to us.

REMOTE-FIRST

United States and Canada, hired for the sector rather than the commute

A STAFFED POD

You hold a seat with named colleagues either side of you, not a stack of accounts

A NAMED BACKUP

Somebody else always knows your files, which is what makes time off real

ONE STANDARD

The same published response times and close dates on every account in the firm

OPEN YEAR-ROUND TO THE RIGHT PERSONA PARTNER READS EVERY APPROACH

The Seats

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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.

Fractional CFO

You have run a finance function, not advised one.

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.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

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.

Controller

You own a close and the accuracy of a record.

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.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

You have made a slow close fast at least once, and you can say exactly what you changed to do it.

Accounting manager

You run the calendar and the review.

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.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

Work gets better around you. You have trained somebody who is now better than you were.

FP&A analyst

You build models people actually decide on.

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.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

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.

Systems and implementation

You make the platform produce the numbers.

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.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

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.

Sector specialists

You know one industry the way an operator does.

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.

WHAT WE LOOK FOR

You have run or advised finance inside that sector long enough to know what the reporting misses.

The Week

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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.

The close and the pack

Dates that do not move. Everyone in the pod knows where the month is on any given day, because the calendar is agreed with the client before the engagement starts.

The client sessions

Your CFO takes a working session every fortnight on each account, and on demand when something cannot wait. Controllers and analysts sit in the ones their work drives.

The build

One thing every week that makes next month easier than this one: a control, a standing calculation, a report that stops depending on somebody remembering.

The firm

Specialists move between accounts by discipline. You will be pulled onto other people's engagements for the parts you are best at, and you will pull others onto yours.

Cover

Every quarter you run your backup's file, and they run yours. It is drilled, not assumed — which is why time off here is actually time off.

The Match

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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.

The sector

What you have run, in what industry, at what size and structure. This carries more weight here than anything on a resume, because it is what the client is buying.

The situation

A turnaround reads differently from a raise, and a first-time finance function differently from a group consolidation. We match the shape of the problem, not just the label.

The pod

Who you would sit with, who backs you up, and whose file you would carry. We introduce those people before anything is agreed, in both directions.

The standard

Everyone works to the same published response times and close dates. If that rhythm suits how you work, this is a good place. If it does not, better to find out now.

Your First Ninety Days

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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.

WEEKS 1–2

The standard, not the software

How the close runs, what the response standard commits you to, how the assessment is written, and what a good pack looks like here. You shadow a live diagnostic.

WEEKS 3–6

Second seat on a live account

You carry real work beside somebody who has held the seat for years. You are not left to find out what good looks like on a client's month.

WEEKS 7–12

Your own seat, with cover behind you

You take an account with a named backup already carrying your file. Your first close is reviewed, and so is your first assessment.

AT NINETY DAYS

A written review, both directions

What went well, what did not, and what you want next. You tell us the same. It is one page and you keep it.

Why Inside A Firm

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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 months

More 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 real

A 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 at

Every 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 drift

You 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 to

Published 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 next

Analysts 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

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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.

What to send

A few paragraphs is plenty. What you have run, at what size, in which industries, and what you are looking for next. A resume if you have one to hand, but the paragraphs matter more.

What happens

A partner reads it. If there is a fit now or likely within the year, you get a conversation about the work rather than a competency questionnaire.

Who you meet

The people you would actually sit with, including whoever would be your named backup. In both directions — they are deciding too.

How fast

Straight, either way, and quickly. We would rather tell you no this week than leave you waiting a month.

Tell Us What You Have Run

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.

BOOK A CONVERSATION SEE HOW AN ENGAGEMENT RUNS

A PARTNER READS EVERY APPROACH · UNITED STATES AND CANADA

THE NOTEA few paragraphs on what you have run. The resume matters less than those.

THE CALLAbout the work, with the people you would sit beside — not a competency questionnaire.

THE SEATMatched to sector and situation, with a named backup and a firm behind you.

THE ANSWERStraight and quick, either way.