Fractional CFO · Fractional controller · Accounting
A CFO's judgment. A controller's discipline.
A clean set of books.
Vora runs finance for founder-led companies that have outgrown a bookkeeper and can't yet justify a full-time CFO. You get the whole stack — strategy, close, and daily accounting — for a fraction of one salary.
What you're carrying
What we take on
The month closes whenever it closes
Books closed by the 5th business day
A model that breaks every time you touch it
A forecast you can defend line by line
Runway you're estimating in your head
A 13-week cash view, updated every Monday
Investor questions answered from memory
A board pack that answers them first
Your Sunday nights, in a spreadsheet
Your Sunday nights, back
Balance
Both sides agree.
The month has a shape.
Every engagement runs on the same rhythm, so you always know what lands when — and never have to ask for a number twice.
Days 1–5
We close the month
Reconciliations, accruals, and revenue cut off on a fixed schedule.
Day 6
Flash report lands
P&L, cash, and the three numbers that moved most, in your inbox.
Day 8
We talk it through
Forty-five minutes on what changed, why, and what to do about it.
Every Monday
Cash gets updated
The 13-week view refreshes before the week starts. Quarterly, we reforecast.
We'd rather tell you now.
Fractional finance is a bad deal for both sides when the fit is wrong. Here's where we're useful, and where we aren't.
Call us
- You're between $2M and $50M in revenue, or funded and heading there
- The books exist, but you don't fully trust them
- You're raising in the next twelve months, or just closed
- You're still the one approving invoices at 11pm
- A full-time CFO is a year or two away from making sense
Not yet
- Pre-revenue with a handful of transactions — a bookkeeper is enough
- You need someone to sign an audit opinion or file your returns
- You want a person at a desk in your office five days a week
- You're shopping strictly on hourly rate
- The real problem is a sales problem
Fractional CFO · Fractional controller · Accounting
Three seats, filled the day you need them.
Take one, or take all three as a single finance function. Most companies start with the close and add strategy once the numbers are trustworthy.
Fractional CFO
The person who tells you what the numbers mean.
A senior finance partner in the room for pricing, hiring, and raises — usually one to four days a month, plus whatever a live deal demands.
- Forecasting and scenario models
- Board and investor reporting
- Cash and runway management
- Pricing and unit economics
- Fundraise and diligence support
- Budget vs. actuals review
Fractional controller
The person who makes the numbers true.
Ownership of the close and the controls around it, so every report downstream starts from the same set of facts.
- Month-end close ownership
- Revenue recognition
- Accounting policy and controls
- Audit and tax prep coordination
- Systems setup and migration
- Oversight of your bookkeeping team
Accounting
The work that has to happen every week.
Day-to-day transaction work, run by a dedicated team on your systems — not sent to a queue and returned three weeks later.
- Bookkeeping and reconciliations
- Accounts payable and receivable
- Payroll and benefits administration
- Sales tax filings
- 1099s and year-end packages
- Clean-up of prior periods
Where the books break
Every industry breaks the books somewhere different.
We take on companies where we already know where the hard part is. If yours isn't listed, ask — we'll tell you honestly whether we've done it before.
SaaS & software
Multi-year contracts, usage tiers, and annual prepays that make cash and revenue tell two different stories.
ASC 606 · Deferred revenue
E-commerce & CPG
Inventory sitting in four places, landed costs that shift with freight, and channel fees buried in net deposits.
COGS · Inventory costing
Professional services
Revenue tied to people. Utilization, realization, and unbilled work that never makes it onto an invoice.
WIP · Utilization
Healthcare & multi-site
Payor mix, slow collections, and per-location P&Ls that have to be comparable to be useful.
AR aging · Site-level P&L
Construction & trades
Job costing, retainage, and change orders that decide whether a project made money six months after it closed.
Percentage of completion
Nonprofits
Restricted funds, grant reporting on the funder's calendar, and a board that needs plain-language statements.
Fund accounting · Form 990 prep
Tell us your industry and we'll tell you what usually goes wrong in it.
Book an intro call
Selected engagements
Three engagements, and what actually changed.
Names withheld at client request. Figures come from the engagement files and cover the first twelve months.
SaaS · $8M ARR · Series A
The model and the bank account finally agreed.
Annual prepays were booked as revenue on receipt, so every strong sales month looked like a blowout and every renewal gap looked like a collapse. We rebuilt revenue recognition, restated four quarters before the raise, and put a deferred revenue roll-forward in the board pack. Diligence closed without a single accounting question.
- Close time, before
- 24 days
- Close time, now
- 5 days
- Restated quarters
- 4
E-commerce · $22M revenue · Founder-owned
Two products were losing money on every order.
Freight and marketplace fees were pooled in one operating expense line, so nobody knew which SKUs paid for themselves. We rebuilt landed cost by SKU, moved fees into COGS, and gave the team a weekly contribution margin report. They repriced two lines and killed a third within a month.
- Gross margin, reported
- 41%
- Gross margin, actual
- 29%
- After repricing
- 36%
Home services · 6 locations · Seller-financed exit
Six locations, one set of books, no comparisons.
Every branch coded expenses its own way, which made the roll-up useless and the sale process painful. We standardized the chart of accounts, split payroll by site, and produced eighteen months of comparable location P&Ls. Two underperforming branches turned out to be a labor problem, not a demand problem.
- Months rebuilt
- 18
- Days to data room
- 11
- Locations reported
- 6 of 6
Who you'll work with
You get named people, not a pool.
The same CFO and controller stay on your account for the life of the engagement. You'll have their direct line, and they'll know your business by the second month.
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Maya Reyes
Founder & CFO
Fifteen years running finance for software and services companies, including two through acquisition. Leads CFO engagements and every fundraise we support.
Previously: VP Finance, Latchford
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Daniel Okafor
Controller
CPA. Owns the close calendar and accounting policy across the portfolio. Has rebuilt more charts of accounts than he'd like to count.
Previously: Audit, Grant Thornton
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Sara Lindqvist
Controller
Specializes in inventory and multi-entity work — landed cost, intercompany, and consolidations that hold up under diligence.
Previously: Controller, Brightwell Goods
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Theo Nakamura
Accounting manager
Runs the weekly work: reconciliations, AP and AR, payroll, and sales tax. The person who notices the duplicate vendor before it gets paid twice.
Previously: Senior Accountant, Vantage Park
Start here
Tell us where the books are today.
Thirty minutes, no deck. We'll look at what you have, tell you what's missing, and say plainly whether we're the right people for it.
Questions we get in the first call.
Do you replace our bookkeeper?
Only if you want us to. More often we sit above them: our controller sets the policy and reviews the work, and your bookkeeper keeps doing the daily entries.
What systems do you work in?
Yours. We're fluent in QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Bill, Ramp, Brex, Gusto, and Rippling. If your stack is holding the close back, we'll say so and run the migration.
Do you file taxes?
No. We prepare the year-end package and work directly with your CPA so their questions are answered before they ask. If you don't have one, we'll introduce you.
How fast can you start?
Two weeks for accounting and controller work. CFO engagements depend on who's the right match — we'd rather wait a week than assign the wrong person.
What does it cost?
A fixed monthly fee based on scope and transaction volume, quoted after a look at your books. No hourly billing, and no surprise invoices in a month when things get busy.