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Six practice areas, one integrated team of finance, accounting, and data operators. Every engagement is scoped to your situation.
Financial leadership and services support for corporate leadership teams and middle-market PE companies. The anchor practice everything else plugs into.
Cash positioned, credit relationships managed, and a liquidity picture leadership can act on, not react to.
Cash lives in five bank portals and a spreadsheet. The real position is assembled by hand, days old by the time it's read, and the lender call still gets answered from memory.
One liquidity picture, current and trusted. Credit conversations happen on your timeline with your numbers, and the surprise low point stops being a surprise.
From screening through integration, the finance workstream run by operators who have carried deals end to end.
The deal team moves fast and finance is dragged behind it: diligence requests land at midnight, the model forks, and integration starts with nobody owning the numbers.
Finance keeps pace with the deal. One model, one data room rhythm, and a first hundred days where reporting works from the start.
New sponsor, new standard: the reporting cadence, the controls, and the first hundred days handled.
The sponsor expects monthly reporting at a standard the function has never produced, and every board cycle exposes the gap again.
The cadence the sponsor expects, installed and running: close, pack, KPIs, and a management team that walks into the board meeting already knowing the answers.
The annual plan and the monthly rhythm, designed once, built in your systems, and run well.
The budget is out of date by March, and the monthly review argues about whose number is right instead of what to do next.
A driver-based plan leadership actually steers by, refreshed on a rhythm, with one agreed number walking into every meeting.
Planning, forecasting, and the reporting infrastructure behind them, enabling a data-forward future state for the function.
The planning function stood up or rebuilt: models, cadence, and the team structure to run it.
There is no FP&A function, or there's one person drowning in it. Planning is an annual scramble and analysis happens only when someone important asks.
A working planning function: the model, the calendar, the meeting rhythm, and a team that runs it without you pushing every cycle.
Design, review, and build support for budgets and forecasts leadership actually trusts.
The forecast is directional at best. Everyone knows it, so it drives nothing, and the real decisions get made on instinct.
A forecast leadership treats as a commitment: driver-based, refreshed monthly, and accurate enough to move hiring, spend, and capital timing.
The short list of metrics that drive the business, each with an owner and a threshold.
Forty metrics in the pack, none with an owner. The dashboard reports what happened; it can't say what to do next.
A short list that runs the operating cadence: each KPI has an owner, a threshold, and a next action when it breaks.
The process and plumbing behind the KPIs, so reporting lands on time without heroics.
Reporting exists because two analysts spend the first week of every month copy-pasting. When one of them leaves, the pack breaks.
The pipeline does the assembling. Reporting lands on schedule from governed data, and your analysts spend their week on analysis.
Cash visibility, forecasting accuracy, and working capital strategy, run on a weekly rhythm leadership can act on.
Process-level discovery from order to collection: where cash slows down and why.
Cash arrives late, and ask where it stalls — quoting, invoicing, disputes, collections — and you get a different answer from every person you ask.
The order-to-cash path mapped with data: where days hide, which customers and process steps hold cash, and what to fix first.
The rolling view with the low point flagged early, refreshed weekly, labeled by week-ending date.
The cash forecast is a month old, so the team stops trusting it and works from their own numbers. The low point shows up in the bank balance before it shows up in a meeting.
A rolling 13-week view refreshed weekly, low point flagged weeks in advance, scenarios ready when the board asks what if.
DSO, DPO, and inventory levers analyzed and worked, not just reported.
DSO gets reported every month and moves nowhere, because reporting a number and working a number are different jobs.
Cash released from the balance sheet: terms, disputes, billing timing, and inventory levers worked to a target, with the trend proving it.
The daily cash motion wired from bank to ledger without the manual layer.
Every morning someone downloads bank files and keys them into the ledger. It's slow, it breaks on vacation weeks, and errors surface at reconciliation.
Bank to ledger runs itself, daily, with exceptions flagged to a person instead of a person doing all of it.
A hands-on approach to improving financial performance, stabilizing liquidity, and expanding enterprise value.
Margin walked line by line: pricing, cost, mix, and the actions that move each.
Margin is eroding and the explanations pile up: price, mix, freight, labor. All of them get named in the meeting; none of them are quantified.
The margin bridge, quantified. Which lines move, who owns each action, and a monthly rhythm that shows the recovery happening.
Cash released from the balance sheet before anyone asks for more of it.
Growth keeps consuming cash and the answer is always another draw on the revolver, because the balance sheet has never been worked as a source.
Cash funded from inside: receivables, payables, and inventory each carrying a target, before dilution or debt enters the conversation.
The operating model redesigned around capability, with finance leading rather than trailing.
The transformation deck is eighteen months old and the org chart is the only thing that changed. Finance was told about it, not part of it.
An operating model built around what the business needs to do well, with finance carrying the numbers that keep the change honest.
Stabilize liquidity, restore credibility with stakeholders, and buy the time the plan needs.
Cash is tight, the lender is asking harder questions, and every meeting spends its first half debating which numbers are real.
A stabilized cash position, a 13-week view stakeholders trust, and credibility recovered fast enough for the plan to get its chance.
An operator in the room for the decisions that move enterprise value.
The big calls — pricing, capacity, capital, the deal — get made with conviction but without the analysis that should be underneath them.
Decision support that shows up before the decision: scenarios, sensitivities, and a clear view of what each path does to value.
Support for CFOs and deal teams through every phase of the transaction: buy-side, sell-side, and integration.
Buy-side and sell-side diligence support from people who know where surprises hide.
Diligence is a fire drill run on top of everyone's day job, and the scary version is finding the surprise after the price is set.
A diligence process that runs on a clock: requests anticipated, quality of earnings understood, surprises found while they're still negotiable.
The separated entity's financial story built clean from day one.
The carve-out's numbers are tangled in the parent's: shared systems, allocated costs, and no clean view of what the business actually earns.
Stand-alone financials a buyer and a lender can underwrite: clean history, defensible adjustments, day-one reporting that works.
Systems, charts of accounts, and reporting consolidated on the deal clock.
Six months after close there are still two ERPs, two charts of accounts, and a consolidation still living in a spreadsheet.
One ledger, one chart, one reporting rhythm, on the integration timeline the deal model assumed.
The sponsor and stakeholder cadence installed and running from the first month.
Every sponsor request becomes a custom project, and the first year post-close is spent inventing reporting instead of running the business.
The reporting the sponsor expects, standing from month one, so the questions get answered by the pack instead of by fire drill.
Helping finance organizations assess, select, implement, and extract insight-driven value from their technology stack.
The stack assessed against what the function actually needs, vendor noise filtered out.
Every vendor demo promises transformation, the team is skeptical from the last failed rollout, and the selection process has no trusted referee.
A stack decision made from your requirements instead of a sales deck, with an implementation path the team actually believes.
Sources connected into one governed flow, so every report starts from the same truth.
The ERP, the CRM, and the billing system each tell a different story, and finance referees the disagreement every single month.
One governed flow feeding every report. The number negotiation ends, because everyone starts from the same source.
Data quality and pipeline health watched continuously, not discovered at month-end.
Data breaks silently and gets discovered at close, when it's expensive: a feed stopped, a mapping changed, a number quietly drifted.
Breaks caught the day they happen, flagged to an owner, fixed before they ever reach a board pack.
Reporting that refreshes from live data, in the systems you already pay for.
Reporting is a monthly manufacturing process: export, clean, paste, format, distribute. It's obsolete the day after it ships.
Reporting that refreshes itself from live data, in tools you already own, current whenever leadership opens it.
The Instrument
This is the view we stand up: thirteen weeks out, low point flagged, every receipt with a date on it. Risk one and see what the plan does. Some risks are survivable. One of these isn't. The discipline is knowing which is which, weeks before it happens.
The move
Low week: week 4 of 13, $30k of headroom. Thin, held, and visible 4 weeks out.
The tightest week in the plan. Everything after it rebuilds from $30k.
The moveProtect what lands before week 4. The receipts ahead of the low week are the ones that can break it.
Click any week in the chart to open it.
The move this week: nothing. Knowing that is the point.
"Thirteen weeks funded. Tightest week is week 4 at $30k. One receipt on watch, and we know which one."
Catalyst
A raise. A new seat. An exit. A deal just closed. Growth outrunning the systems. Pick the one in front of you. You may be facing it for the first time. We aren't. The first move is already a playbook.
The model doesn't survive diligence. Numbers shift between meetings. The data room is a scramble assembled the week the process starts.
Lender- and investor-grade modeling, standardized historicals, a data room built before it's requested, with PE, VC, and investment banking support behind it.
Weeks 1–3: model rebuild on governed data. Weeks 4–8: diligence-ready financial package. Weeks 9–12: process support, live.
Discuss this scenarioThe first board meeting arrives before the visibility does. Inherited spreadsheets, tribal knowledge, a team you didn't build.
A rapid finance-function assessment, the reporting rhythm stood up fast, and an embedded operator beside you until the seat is truly yours.
Weeks 1–2: diagnostic. Weeks 3–6: reporting cadence live. Weeks 7–12: the roadmap the board actually asked for.
Discuss this scenarioQuality of earnings finds what you already suspected. Add-backs are debated, not documented. Every buyer question takes a week to answer.
Exit-readiness as a standing state: clean historicals, documented adjustments, sell-side diligence support, and a finance story that matches the numbers.
Weeks 1–4: readiness assessment and gap list. Weeks 5–10: remediation and documentation. Weeks 11–12: dry-run diligence.
Discuss this scenarioTwo charts of accounts, three systems, one deadline. The 100-day plan assumed a finance function that doesn't exist yet.
Integration and stand-up: consolidated reporting from day one, the sponsor cadence installed, carve-out complexity handled by people who've done it.
Weeks 1–4: consolidation bridge live. Weeks 5–8: sponsor reporting installed. Weeks 9–12: run-rate visibility, real.
Discuss this scenarioThe finance function that fit $20M is failing at $60M. Product launched without KPI tracking. Leadership flies a quarter behind the business.
The function re-architected for the next phase: KPI infrastructure from day one, FP&A that keeps pace, and a data layer that scales with you.
Weeks 1–3: what breaks first, mapped. Weeks 4–9: KPI + reporting infrastructure. Weeks 10–12: forecast cadence at speed.
Discuss this scenarioThe Reporting Environment
The environment above is the demo, on sample numbers. Click through the views.
The Deliverables
Built inside your systems, reviewed with your management, and running with your team when we hand it off.
Real effort, highest impact. Every downstream fix depends on it.
Real effort, highest impact. Every downstream fix depends on it.
| The work | Overview | Epic Advisors | Other firms | IT firms |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FP&A build-out & forecasting | Models, cadence, and the team structure to run planning leadership trusts. | Yes | Yes | No |
| 13-week cash & working capital | The rolling view with the low point flagged early, and the levers worked, not just reported. | Yes | Yes | No |
| Board & sponsor reporting | The pack assembled on close, the KPI narrative, the cadence sponsors expect. | Yes | Yes | No |
| Operational reporting on your BI layer | Complex reporting requirements, solved in a way your team actually adopts. | Yes | No | Yes |
| Data deep-dives that surface value | Root-cause analysis and process-level workloads. Hidden value, found. | Yes | No | No |
| Business logic translated into technical requirements | The bridge role. Transformation teams move faster with us in the room. | Yes | No | No |
| Connecting your systems to a BI layer | Internal tech teams usually own this. We stand up the pipelines when they don't. | Yes | No | Yes |
| Two-way SaaS platform integration | We normalize the data. Platform integration belongs to technology professionals. | No | No | Yes |
| Exit readiness as a standing state | Clean historicals, documented add-backs, and a data room that exists before the process starts. | Yes | Sometimes | No |
Models, cadence, and the team structure to run planning leadership trusts.
The rolling view with the low point flagged early, and the levers worked, not just reported.
The pack assembled on close, the KPI narrative, the cadence sponsors expect.
Complex reporting requirements, solved in a way your team actually adopts.
Root-cause analysis and process-level workloads. Hidden value, found.
The bridge role. Transformation teams move faster with us in the room.
Internal tech teams usually own this. We stand up the pipelines when they don't.
We normalize the data. Platform integration belongs to technology professionals.
Clean historicals, documented add-backs, and a data room that exists before the process starts.
The Record
Every engagement starts by recording the baseline: where the close lands, where the hours go, where the cash sits. Those numbers stay the client's, not ours to claim.
Recorded at the baseline, tracked every month. The gap to the published bar is the roadmap.
The work that stops being manual, counted in the team's hours, month over month.
Cash freed from the cycle, measured against the baseline DSO, DIO, and DPO.
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