Lesya V.

I help startups and growing companies with two things investors and operators care about most: the story that gets you funded, and the financial backbone that keeps the business running once you are. I've spent more than 12 years doing exactly this, as a corporate finance advisor, fractional CFO, and founder. The difference is that I don't only design the financial backbone. I build it. The reporting my CFO clients run on every day is software I wrote. Pitch decks, fundraising materials & financial models Through PitchStudio, the studio I founded, I've helped 200+ companies across 18 industries put together $330M+ in investor-ready pitch decks, business plans, and financial models. ✅ Pitch decks from scratch: research, financial modeling, storytelling, design ✅ Deck redesigns: turn your existing materials into something investor-ready ✅ AI deck humanization: already drafted your deck with ChatGPT or another AI tool? I'll rework the content, structure, and design so it reads like it was built by someone who actually understands your business, not a template ✅ Financial models for fundraising, planning, or due diligence ✅ Fast-turnaround decks, when you need something polished in days, not weeks Fractional CFO, and the person who builds the system Most finance teams are not short of analysis. They are short of numbers that are current. The ledger holds one piece, the bank another, then orders, suppliers, stock and marketing spend each sit somewhere else. Someone joins them by hand in a spreadsheet once a month, that file breaks silently, and by the time it is ready the decision it was meant to inform has already been made without it. The cost is never the hours spent on the file. It's the price left uncorrected for two months, or the hire made against a runway number that was three months optimistic. I hold fractional CFO roles with growing companies, and in each one I designed the reporting and then built it: a live accounting API integration, importers for the operational sources that have no API, rule engines that classify transactions the same way every month, and reconciliation checks that run on every load and report the result on screen. A spreadsheet never tells you it broke. ✅ Management accounts, cash flow forecasting, and board-ready reporting ✅ Connecting your accounting system to the operational sources it doesn't talk to ✅ Financial process setup and cleanup: reconciliations, chart of accounts, Xero ✅ Budgeting, forecasting, and scenario planning ✅ Investor and board reporting ✅ Financial due diligence prep, for fundraising or M&A Why founders and finance teams choose me 🛠 I build what I design. There are plenty of fractional CFOs and plenty of developers. Very few are the same person, which is why you get a system that keeps working instead of a file that needs maintaining 🎯 I've built and exited a company myself, so I know what actually matters versus what's just process for its own sake 📊 I work at both the strategic and the transactional level: I'm as comfortable presenting to a board as I am reconciling a bank statement 🌍 Cross-industry: SaaS, fintech, consumer, food, healthcare, nonprofit, real estate ⚡ 100% Job Success on Upwork, Top Rated I've also spent 10 years as a Teaching Assistant in M&A and Investment Banking at LUISS University, working alongside executives from Citi, Evercore, and Jefferies. Ready to talk? Tell me a bit about your project, or the decision you keep having to make without the numbers in front of you. I'll be honest about whether I'm the right fit.