FinTeam Business Consulting
Financial operations

Efficient and accurate financial records.

Clean books. Timely closes. Reliable reports. We build the financial infrastructure your business needs to make confident decisions, pass every audit, and stop paying for cleanup work every year.

Our standard monthly workflow
Every client. Every month. Every step documented.
1
Transaction categorization
Bookkeeper
2
Bank & credit card reconciliations
Bookkeeper
3
Month-end adjusting entries
Bookkeeper → Controller
4
Controller review & sign-off
Controller
5
Financial package & CFO review
FP&A → CFO

Signs your financial operations need help.

Most of these aren't bookkeeping problems — they're process problems. If any of these sound familiar, your financial operations are costing you more than they should.

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You have to file tax extensions every year because your books aren't ready.

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Lenders or investors have passed on you because your financials weren't reliable.

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Your team is consistently weeks or months behind on reconciliations.

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You know your books aren't right, but you can't tell where they've gone wrong.

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Preparing financial reports for CPAs, banks, or peer groups takes days every time.

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You've outgrown your current bookkeeper but don't know who to replace them with.

The infrastructure behind every number you see.

Anytime a transaction happens — cash in, cash out, or a non-cash event — financial operations is the process that transaction goes through to be recorded, categorized, reconciled, and reported.

It covers bill pay, invoicing, payroll, credit card spending, debt service, investments, assets, and anything else that hits your financial statements. Done well, it's invisible — you just get accurate numbers on time. Done poorly, it's the reason you can't trust your own P&L.

Our job is to build the infrastructure, simplify the process, and automate what can be automated — so your financials are ready when you need them, not when the bookkeeper catches up.

What financial operations touches
  • Bill pay & accounts payable
  • Invoicing & accounts receivable
  • Payroll & contractor payments
  • Credit card & expense management
  • Debt service & loan amortization
  • Fixed assets & depreciation
  • Inventory & cost of goods sold
  • Intercompany & multi-entity transactions

A dedicated finance team, not just a bookkeeper.

Most firms give you one person. We give you four roles working in sequence, each with a clear scope, so nothing slips between the cracks.

Role 01

Bookkeeper

Day-to-day recording. Transactions in, reconciliations done.

  • Transaction categorization
  • Bank & CC reconciliations
  • AP & AR maintenance
  • Basic clean-up
Role 02

Controller

Oversight, quality control, and month-end close. The second set of eyes.

  • Month-end review
  • Complex clean-up
  • Financial controls
  • System & process design
Role 03

FP&A analyst

Turns clean data into insight. Builds the reporting package.

  • Monthly financial package
  • KPI tracking
  • Budget vs. actuals
  • Variance analysis
Role 04

Fractional CFO

Final review and strategic interpretation. The meeting you actually want.

  • Monthly CFO review
  • Strategic recommendations
  • Decision support
  • Stakeholder comms

Build. Simplify. Automate.

Every financial operations engagement runs the same three-step playbook.

01 · Build

Create a solid infrastructure.

We start with the foundation: chart of accounts restructured, accounting system configured, bank feeds cleaned, SOPs documented. Everything downstream depends on getting this right.

02 · Simplify

Simplify existing processes and tools.

We cut the software sprawl, kill manual workarounds, and replace one-off processes with repeatable workflows documented in Loom videos and standard operating procedures.

03 · Automate

Automate what can be automated.

Bill pay, expense capture, bank feeds, recurring entries, report distribution. If a computer can do it reliably, a human shouldn't be doing it every month.

What a perfect close looks like.

From the last day of the month to your financial package in your inbox. This is what we build toward for every client — and what most clients hit within the first 90 days.

Day-by-day close timeline

Close complete by Day 10 of the following month
1–2
Capture
Bookkeeper

Transactions in, categorization underway

Bank feeds sync, credit card activity imports, invoices and bills finalize. Bookkeeper begins categorization of all month-end activity.

3–5
Reconcile
Bookkeeper

Bank, credit card, and loan reconciliations

Every account reconciled to the statement. AR and AP aged. Adjusting entries drafted for depreciation, amortization, and accruals.

6–7
Review
Controller

Controller review & sign-off

Controller reviews the full close, flags anomalies, verifies adjusting entries, and signs off. This is the quality gate that separates clean books from close-enough books.

8–9
Analyze
FP&A analyst

Financial package assembled

P&L, balance sheet, cash flow statement, KPI dashboard, budget-to-actuals, and variance narrative. Everything your CFO needs to walk you through the month.

10
Deliver
Fractional CFO

CFO review & package delivery

Your fractional CFO reviews the package, adds strategic context, and delivers it to you alongside recommendations and action items. Ready for your monthly meeting.

Opinions you can use. Tools we've actually implemented.

We've implemented dozens of finance tech stacks across industries. We know which tools play well together, which ones over-promise, and which ones are right for your size and stage. Tech stack consulting is included in every engagement.

Accounting & GL
QuickBooks Online Sage Intacct Xero

From SMB to multi-entity. We match the GL to your complexity, not the other way around.

Spend & AP
Ramp Sage Bill.com

Cards, bill pay, expense management, and approval workflows — with a focus on what integrates cleanly with your GL.

Reporting
Fathom Custom Excel & Google Sheets Proprietary tools

Standard reporting for fast-moving businesses, customized packages for complex ones, and internal tooling we've built for edge cases.

Payroll
Gusto Rippling Paylocity Harvest

From small teams to complex multi-state payroll with benefits and time tracking. We help you pick the one that actually fits.

The outcomes you can expect.

Specific, measurable differences our clients see within the first 90 days.

Month-end in 10 days or less

Clean books closed and reviewed by day 10 of the following month, every month. No more waiting until the quarter to see how things went.

Tax-ready, always

No more filing extensions because your books aren't done. Your CPA gets clean, reconciled financials on schedule, every year.

Reports you can trust

P&L, balance sheet, and cash flow statements that tie out, match the source data, and hold up to lender or investor scrutiny.

Audit-ready documentation

Every transaction has a trail. SOPs, controls, and supporting documents in a structured vault, ready for lenders, buyers, or auditors.

Decisions on facts

Finally stop making decisions off gut feel. Every choice gets backed by numbers that you and your team know are accurate.

Time back for you

Stop being the bottleneck for your own financials. Your team handles the month. You get the report and the recommendations.

Ready to stop chasing your own numbers?

Start with a Drake Check. We'll show you exactly where your financial operations are leaking time, money, or accuracy — and what we'd do about it.

Schedule your Drake Check