Every mandate starts with the same question: what is actually broken, and what does "fixed" look like in three to six months? These are the four shapes that work usually takes.
The finance seat is empty — a departure, a leave, a search that is taking too long — and the business cannot wait.
I step in from day one: board relationships, reporting lines, and decision-making continue without a visible gap.
Continuity. The business feels no disruption while the permanent search runs its course.
Budgets slip, forecasts miss, and reporting lags the business — nobody quite owns the numbers anymore.
I rebuild the control backbone from the inside: budget ownership, forecast accuracy, and reporting discipline the business can rely on.
A finance function the CFO trusts again, without double-checking every number.
Legacy systems and manual processes are slowing the close and hiding the real numbers behind spreadsheets.
Hands-on redesign of processes and systems — including rollouts of platforms like Hyperion, Qlik, Tableau, and PeopleSoft — so finance scales with the business.
A faster close, cleaner reporting lines, and a function built for the next stage of growth.
A deal has closed, or a carve-out is underway, and integration risks stalling the business it was meant to strengthen.
Sell-side and integration experience across multiple completed transactions — information memoranda, data rooms, due diligence, and post-deal integration.
A clean close or divestment, with the underlying business still running while it happens.