Fractional CFO, Professional Services

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<p><strong>Position: </strong>Fractional / Contract Finance Professional.</p><p><strong>Location:</strong> Los Angeles hybrid preferred. Open to remote</p><p><strong>Company: </strong>B2B Professional Services</p><p><br></p><p>We want experienced financial leadership without a full-time hire: a hands-on partner to bring structure to our finances, sharpen decision-making, and build the systems a scaling firm needs. This is a fractional engagement with real influence on how the business is run.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>What the engagement involves</strong></p><ul><li>Owning financial strategy, planning, and forecasting for a small, growing firm</li><li>Building practical reporting and dashboards around the metrics that matter (margin, revenue per head, cash flow, utilization)</li><li>Designing our compensation and incentive structure, including an ownership-aligned upside component (for example phantom equity, profit sharing, or similar) suited to a privately held company</li><li>Bringing rigor to budgeting, pricing, and cash flow management</li><li>Putting lightweight, low-administration systems in place that the team can actually maintain</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>You may be a strong fit if you have</strong></p><ul><li>Experience as a fractional, interim, or full-time CFO, ideally with professional services or other people-driven businesses</li><li>A track record bringing financial structure to small or privately held companies</li><li>Comfort designing compensation and incentive plans, including equity or equity-alternative structures and the practical tradeoffs between them</li><li>A practical, build-it-yourself orientation rather than a large-enterprise mindset</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>The engagement</strong></p><p>Fractional and flexible on hours and structure. Project-based to start, with strong potential for an ongoing relationship as the business grows.</p>

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