About
I build finance functions, then hand them over.
Randy Brown Advisory is a one-person practice. When you hire it, you get me — not a team you met once during the pitch and never saw again.
How I think about the work
Five things I will not be talked out of.
Finance should reduce uncertainty, not produce documents
A report that nobody acts on is overhead. The measure of a finance function is whether decisions get made earlier and with more confidence than they otherwise would have.
The boring work is the valuable work
Chart of accounts design, a published close calendar, reconciliations that actually gate. None of it presents well. All of it is what separates a finance function that works from one that merely produces output.
If only I can run it, I have failed
The deliverable is not a model. It is your team being able to operate the model after I stop showing up. Documentation and handover are part of the engagement, not an afterthought.
Say when it is not worth doing
Plenty of problems do not need a consultant. Some need a different one. Telling you that costs me a project and buys something more useful, which is being worth calling next time.
Publish the price
Every rate I charge is on the pricing page. Making you book a call to learn what something costs is a negotiating tactic, not a business model, and it is a strange way to open a relationship built on handling your money carefully.
The other half of the job
I write the software too.
Most finance consultants stop at the edge of the spreadsheet. I do not, which is occasionally the difference between a recommendation and a solution.
When a client's reporting problem is really a data problem, I can fix it in the platform rather than write a memo suggesting someone else should. PlanVector — the financial operating system behind this practice — came out of exactly that: enough clients with the same structural problem that building the system properly beat rebuilding it by hand every time.
Let's talk.
Thirty minutes to describe what is breaking. No deck, no obligation.