Abu B.

How long does the cash last? Can you afford the next hire? Will the numbers hold up in front of a board or a bank? I build the financial model, cash forecast, and reporting that answer those questions, and I fix the books underneath when they cannot support the answer. Fractional CFO and controller, with a team that also runs the bookkeeping and accounting underneath. More than 19 years across finance, accounting, FP&A, controllership, and operations, and more than 100 client engagements, from funded pre-revenue startups to companies above $25 million in revenue. Former corporate controller and SaaS division lead at a venture-focused finance firm. FMVA certified through the Corporate Finance Institute. QuickBooks Online ProAdvisor. Rippling partner. Industries: tech and SaaS, e-commerce and DTC, agencies and professional services, healthcare, and venture-backed startups. Problems I fix most often: Profitable on paper but short on cash. A 13-week cash forecast built on real receivable and payable timing, so the gap shows before it hits. A close that drags into the third week. A close calendar, checklist, and monthly reconciliations that bring it into the first week. Books months or years behind. Every bank and card reconciled back to a clean baseline, with duplicates from bank feeds removed, processor payouts from Stripe, Shopify, or Amazon recorded gross, and owner money separated out. Raising, borrowing, or selling. A model where every number traces to an assumption, plus historicals that hold up in diligence. Tools that don't talk to each other and finance that lives in one person's head. Connected systems and documented processes. What I do: FRACTIONAL CFO. Three-statement and driver-based financial models for fundraising, budgeting, and scenario planning. 13-week cash flow forecasts and runway analysis. Rolling forecasts and budget-to-actual variance with commentary. Board and lender reporting packages and KPI dashboards. CONTROLLER. Senior review and sign-off on every close, variance analysis with written commentary, documented close process, internal controls and segregation of duties, multi-entity consolidations and intercompany eliminations, ASC 606 revenue recognition, and audit and due diligence readiness. CLEANUP AND CATCH-UP. Reconciling past periods and establishing a clean baseline when the books are behind. Includes QuickBooks Desktop and Enterprise to QuickBooks Online migrations, with open AR and AP carried at invoice level and a signed-off tie-out proving QBO agrees to the source file. ACCOUNTING. Bookkeeping handled with consistency: transaction coding, bank and credit card reconciliations, and a clean month-end close. OPERATIONS AND SYSTEMS. Workflow audits, SOP documentation, automation of repeatable manual tasks, finance stack implementation, payroll system migration, and KPI dashboards. Tools: QuickBooks Online and Desktop, Xero, Excel and Google Sheets, Gusto, Rippling, Justworks, TriNet, Deel, Ramp, Brex, BILL, Tipalti, Mercury, Stripe, Shopify, Amazon, A2X, HubSpot and Carta. How I work: fixed scope, named deliverables, and a written summary of what I found and what to do about it. Send me the decision you are facing or the file that is not tying, and I will tell you what I would build.