Financial Leadership For Companies in Transition
You didn’t build this company to spend your time worrying about whether the numbers are right.
Does this feel familiar?
The board wants the reporting you can’t produce. Month-end close drags on for weeks. Your finance team is underwater, and you’re not sure the numbers you’re seeing are even accurate.
Meanwhile, there’s a funding round on the horizon. Or an acquisition. Or an audit that’s going to expose every gap you’ve been patching together.
You know the finance function needs to level up. You’re just not sure where to start—or who can actually make it happen.
Here’s how this works
Phase One: Diagnostic & Roadmap
Clarity before commitment
Before committing to anything long-term, let’s figure out what’s actually going on.
The diagnostic is a deep look at your finance operations—your systems, your team, your processes, and how finance connects (or doesn’t) with the rest of the business. Leadership interviews, stakeholder conversations, systems audit, the works.
You walk away with a written assessment and a prioritized roadmap—what needs to happen, in what order, and why.
Just as importantly, we both get to decide what kind of support makes sense going forward. No pressure, no assumptions.
Timeline:
4-6 Weeks
Ongoing Partnership: Fractional CFO
For companies that need ongoing financial leadership
If you don’t have a CFO—or your current finance team needs strategic leadership they’re not getting—this is the path.
You get strategic guidance: board reporting, financial planning, fundraising prep, M&A support. But you also get someone who leads the execution of the transformation roadmap. Not just advice. Actual leadership.
What that looks like:
- Month-end close oversight
- Team coaching and development
- Process redesign and implementation
- Systems strategy and vendor management
The model is simple: lead, design, and oversee. Your team executes. If you need a new accounting system, you get help selecting the right solution and consultant, managing the project, and holding everyone accountable. If processes need to be rebuilt, your team gets coaching to make it stick.
Timeline:
12-24 months
or until you’re ready for a full-time CFO
Project-Based Support: Transformation Project
For companies that have a CFO but need operational support
Sometimes you have financial leadership in place, but there’s a specific transformation that needs dedicated attention—a systems overhaul, a process rebuild, organizational restructuring, or getting the finance function through a major transition.
Your CFO is stretched thin, or this just isn’t their strength. You need someone who can come in, own the project, and get it done.
This is a defined engagement with a clear scope, built around the priorities identified in the diagnostic. I work alongside your existing leadership to execute the transformation—then hand it off when it’s running.
Timeline:
3-6 months
scoped to the project
Is This Right for You?
This works best for companies that:
- Are scaling quickly and feeling the growing pains in finance
- Have a small team (or outsourced bookkeeping) but no CFO—or have a CFO who needs support
- Are preparing for something big—fundraising, M&A, audit, or rapid growth
- Have leadership that’s ready to invest in fixing this for real
If you’re at an earlier stage, or primarily need bookkeeping and tax support, this probably isn’t the right fit—but I’m happy to point you toward someone who is.
Let’s Start With A Conversation
A short call to talk through what’s going on, what’s at stake, and whether there’s a fit. No pitch, no pressure.
Testimonials
Steady financial leadership when it matters most.
“Laura Wiler provided fractional CFO support to Pilot in 2025 at a time when we needed to materially strengthen our finance and accounting function. Her work was instrumental in helping us pass a Big 4 audit smoothly and with strong results, largely by increasing our credibility with the auditors and their confidence in our processes and judgment. Laura is deeply knowledgeable, highly detail-oriented, and exercises excellent judgment. She is proactive, communicates clearly, and consistently translates complex accounting and finance topics into concepts that are easy to understand for non-finance leaders like me. Working with her was straightforward and effective, and I would strongly recommend her to any company looking to uplevel its finance or accounting capabilities.”
Chief Administrative Officer, Pilot
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Mariana Antcheva
The kind of support you’ll wish you had sooner.
“There are many ways to solve accounting challenges, but Laura’s expertise and experience make a real difference. She helped us plan for a parental leave transition, think through team structure and roadmap, and navigate benchmarking and best practices. Working together is collaborative, efficient, and solution-oriented. She’s also great at async and remote work. If you’re considering similar support, don’t wait.”
VP Finance, Camunda
Insight/Highland backed SaaS Company
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★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Frederick Kurniadi