Fractional & Interim CFO Leadership
Senior financial leadership for manufacturers and distributors, sized to what your business needs right now.
Most finance gaps are capacity problems, not competence problems.
Small finance teams are usually good people buried in transactional work. They don't have the bandwidth to build the systems (cost accounting, forecasting, ERP structure) that would eventually free them from that same transactional burden. It's a chicken-and-egg trap, and it's often broken only by a triggering event: an outside investor, a bank covenant, an ownership transition or a costly discovery that a product line has been unprofitable for years.
Bridge helps you break that cycle before the triggering event does.
A fractional CFO gives you full value at a fraction of the cost: a variable cost instead of a fixed one, no up-front recruiting fees and low exit costs compared with a full-time hire.
How Bridge Fills the Gap
Fractional CFO
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Financial planning and forecasting
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Timely, reliable financial reporting
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Metrics and KPIs that guide decisions
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Capital structure and funding strategy
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Coaching leaders as they step into new roles
Interim CFO
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Orientation and triage
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Diagnosis
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Stabilizing and communicating
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Ongoing leadership and onboarding support for your new CFO
Project Leadership
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M&A analysis and integration
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ERP implementation or upgrade
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Exit planning and pre-sale optimization
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Make vs. buy, expansion and consolidation modeling
What Clients Have Achieved
Hospitality Group
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Replaced a full-time CFO with fractional support
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Saved the client about $70K per year
Vertically Integrated Operation
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Coached the Controller and adopted full GAAP accounting
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Redefined business segments and improved product costing
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Reached 5% operating income after several years of losses
Automation Company
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Implemented liquidity and full P&L forecasting
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Reduced the break-even sales point by about 30%
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Moved from annual losses to modest profitability
What Our Clients Are Saying
David Fallon, Chief Financial Officer, Vertiv
"Tim was instrumental to the profitable growth of the company. He brought sophistication and discipline to the operations with an intense focus on process. Virtually every operational and financial metric improved during his tenure. I continue to incorporate many of the tools Tim introduced in my everyday management and leadership."
