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Sheikh S.

Virtual CFO & Financial Modeling Specialist | QuickBooks & Xero Expert

Senior Virtual CFO and Financial Modeler with 23+ years of corporate finance expertise, helping US, Canadian, UK, and Australian founders scale profitably, raise capital, and maintain pristine accounting. Top Rated Plus with 313+ completed projects and 17,000+ billable hours on Upwork. I bridge the gap between day-to-day accounting compliance and high-level executive strategy. Whether you require retroactive ledger clean-ups, dynamic 3-statement financial models for investor fundraising, or ongoing fractional CFO oversight, I ensure your numbers tie out seamlessly while driving forward-looking profitability. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎯 CORE VIRTUAL CFO & FINANCIAL SERVICES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1. Dynamic Financial Modeling & Valuation (150+ Models Built) • 3-Statement Architecture: Fully integrated Income Statement, Balance Sheet, and Cash Flow models tailored to operational constraints. • Fundables & Investor Readiness: Unit economics, burn rate, runway projections, and sensitivity analysis for SaaS, E-Commerce, and Startups prepping for Seed/Series A funding. • Valuation & M&A: FCFF/FCFE discounted cash flow valuations and feasibility studies. 2. Strategic Fractional CFO & Treasury Guidance • Cash Flow Optimization: Cash burn reduction, working capital restructuring, and liquidity preservation. • KPI Dashboards & Performance Tracking: Corporate variance analysis comparing actual monthly performance against targeted budgets. • Boardroom & Investor Support: Pitch deck financial backing, board packs, and investor Q&A prep. 3. Accounting Clean-Up & Monthly Recurring Close • Ledger Repair & Catch-Up: Diagnosing complex accounting errors, fixing broken charts of accounts, and reconciling multi-year historical backlogs. • Multi-Entity Reconciliations: High-volume bank, credit card, and payment processor (Stripe, PayPal, Shopify) reconciliations inside QuickBooks Online (QBO) and Xero. • Monthly Executive Close: Investor-ready monthly and year-end financial statements prepared under local compliance frameworks (US GAAP & IFRS). ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 📈 PLATFORM AUTHORITY & PROOF ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ • 23+ Years Corporate Finance Experience (16+ Years Dedicated Remote Consulting) • 313+ Completed Upwork Projects | 17,000+ Verified Billable Hours | Top Rated Plus Status • Global Jurisdiction Expertise: US, Canada (CRA compliance), UK, and Australia If you need an experienced financial partner to clean up your ledgers, build an investor-grade forecast, or guide your growth as a Fractional CFO, let’s connect. Click "Invite to Job" above to schedule a discovery call.

🇵🇰Karachi, Pakistan$8/hr100% JSS4.82 (270)Since Nov 2010

Earnings and projects

MRR
$1.2k

Last 6 months ÷ 6

World#40,315 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#4,724 / 52.9k
Revenue, last 30 days
$986

Last 6 months: $7.3k

World#43,273 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#5,147 / 52.9k
Total earnings
$133k

Billed in all: $140k

World#27,554 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#2,086 / 52.9k
Per project
$426

$909 in the last 6 months

World#197,984 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#21,685 / 52.9k
Projects, last 6 months
8
0% fixed100% hourly
World#24,499 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#5,527 / 52.9k
Projects in all
313

Across 382 contracts

52% fixed48% hourly
World#4,531 / 412k
🇵🇰Country#646 / 52.9k

Earnings, last 30 days

$140k+$986 earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$138.5k$139.0k$139.5k$140.0kOct 8Oct 23Nov 7

Skill rankings: Top 9% in Business Plan

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