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Randy BrownAdvisory

Fractional CFO · FP&A · Finance automation

Finance that keeps up with the business.

I help small companies and nonprofits build the planning, reporting, and forecasting they should have had two years ago — then hand it over so their team can run it without me.

Typically for organizations between $2M and $50M in revenue — large enough that the numbers matter, small enough that nobody has time to own them full-time.

Where I usually come in

None of this means anyone did anything wrong.

It means the business grew faster than the finance function did. That is normal, and it is fixable.

The close takes three weeks

And it still surfaces surprises. By the time the numbers are final, the month they describe is already over.

Budget season eats the fall

Six weeks of emailed workbooks, broken links, and three people arguing about which version is current.

Someone rebuilds the same report

Every month, by hand, from the same exports. It works right up until that person takes a vacation.

How engagements work

The goal is to make myself unnecessary.

  1. 1

    Diagnose

    Two weeks inside your actual books, systems, and close calendar. You get a written assessment of what is fragile and what it is costing you — useful whether or not we work together.

  2. 2

    Build

    Foundation first: chart of accounts, close calendar, reporting package. Then the planning cycle on top of it. All of it built in PlanVector, so it lives in one place rather than a folder of workbooks.

  3. 3

    Hand off

    Your team runs it without me. Documented, owned internally, and deliberately boring. If you need me after that, it should be for the next problem, not this one.

Software · PlanVector

One system to run finance on.

PlanVector is the financial operating system I built for the organizations I work with. Actuals arrive from QuickBooks on their own, the plan and forecast live beside them, and the board package comes out of the same place without a single copy-paste.

  • Actuals, plan, forecast, and reporting in one place
  • Connections to QuickBooks and HubSpot that I keep current
  • Two-factor sign-in, encryption, and nightly off-site backups
  • One central copy in a browser — no hunting for the latest version

Worth a conversation?

Thirty minutes, no pitch deck. Tell me what is breaking and I will tell you whether it is something I can help with — and if it is not, who you should be talking to instead.