Fractional Controller · For venture-backed, post-Series A startups

Built for the scrutiny your company is growing into.

Caroline Eduards Jannusch

Operational finance for regulated-industry startups crossing into the stage where auditors, boards, and investors start asking real questions. Monthly close on a schedule. Board-ready financials. Audit-ready controls. Forecasts you can defend. Five years in Deloitte's CFO Advisory practice, embedded inside Fortune 500 and Nasdaq-listed companies running their financial operations.

Get a clear read on your finance operations 30 minutes · No prep · No pitch

Background

Deloitte CFO Advisory

Five years in the Strategic Finance Advisory practice. Interim financial controller and finance lead for Fortune 500 and Nasdaq-listed clients including PayPal, Blackstone, and Isofol Medical.

Disciplines

Close · Reporting · Controls

Monthly and year-end close, board reporting, internal controls, post-acquisition integration, audit readiness. Audit-ready is not a slogan — it's the standard.

Stack

NetSuite · SAP · Oracle · Workday

Adaptive Insights, Power BI, Tableau, Salesforce. Comfortable in whatever your team already runs on.

Built for

Venture-backed 20–200 employees First audit ahead Post-Series A Real revenue Boards that ask real questions

The Work

Operational finance, delivered on a schedule.

Not advisory. Not strategy decks. The monthly cadence that keeps your numbers defensible to your board, your investors, and anyone who will ever ask to see your books.

Monthly close oversight

Your bookkeeper or accountant runs the close. I make sure it produces numbers you can actually use. Reconciliation review, revenue recognition policy, accrual judgment, and the variance commentary that gets written before anyone has to ask for it.

Close ReviewRev RecVariance AnalysisGAAP & IFRS

Board-ready financials

P&L, balance sheet, cash flow. KPI dashboards built to read in three minutes by anyone in the room, and survive scrutiny from the ones who will spend three hours on them. The deliverable your board, your investors, and your CEO actually see.

Board PackageKPI DesignInvestor Reporting

Forecasting & cash visibility

Driver-based operating model tied to your plan. Thirteen-week rolling cash forecast, refreshed weekly. The number you give your board on Monday is the same number you can defend on Friday.

Driver-Based13-Week CashOperating Model

Weekly working sessions

One 60-minute session per week with you and your team. Review the numbers, discuss what changed, plan the week ahead. Slack and email access in between — 24-hour response time, from me, not a bot or a ticket queue.

Weekly CadenceDirect AccessTeam Integration

Additional Scope

Beyond the monthly retainer, scoped separately.

Focused engagements for moments that need dedicated work outside the monthly cadence. Scoped, timelined, and priced on their own.

Audit readiness

Workpapers, schedules, internal controls documentation. Built from co-led audit engagements across multi-jurisdiction portfolios.

Project

Post-acquisition & M&A integration

Financial integration of acquired entities. Reconciliation of revenue streams, reporting alignment, accounting policy harmonization.

Project

Board prep & investor diligence

Focused sprints ahead of a board meeting, a fundraise, or due diligence. Built from the inside of companies that went through it.

Sprint

Finance systems & process build

QuickBooks → something better. Close checklist, controls documentation, reporting architecture. Finance infrastructure that doesn't live in one person's head.

Project

Years in finance operations

Embedded inside Fortune 500 and Nasdaq-listed companies through Deloitte's CFO Advisory practice.

Deloitte 2020–2025

$5B

Assets under audit

Co-led audit engagements for Blackstone portfolio companies across multiple jurisdictions.

Blackstone Portfolio

$10M+

Budgets managed

Owned annual budget and long-range forecast for a publicly traded biotech's clinical R&D program.

Nasdaq-Listed Biotech

Audit restatements

Maintained 100% P&L accuracy across high-volume revenue periods at a global fintech.

PayPal / iZettle

Monthly Cadence

The same rhythm, every month.

Not a project. Not a one-off. A recurring monthly cycle your team, your bookkeeper, and your board can depend on. The work that has to happen every month happens on time.

Week 1

Close & Reconcile

Review the prior month's close. Reconciliations, revenue recognition, accrual judgments.

Week 2

Package & Report

Board-ready financials. P&L, balance sheet, cash flow, KPI dashboard with written variance commentary.

Week 3

Forecast & Session

Refresh 13-week cash forecast. Weekly working session with you and your team.

Week 4

Plan & Prepare

Next month prep, audit-readiness check, project work, and a second working session if needed.

What we usually find

The same six things, across most growing companies.

Growing companies don't have messy books because anyone is careless. They have messy books because the close was set up for a five-person company that's now fifty. These are the patterns that show up before they become problems.

01 · Close

Accruals booked from memory, not from documentation.

The close finishes, but no one could rebuild it. The first auditor request is the moment that becomes visible.

02 · Reporting

Board reports that show what happened, not what it means.

Variance from plan is noted but not explained. The narrative gets reconstructed in the meeting, not before it.

03 · Cash

Forecasts that update quarterly, not weekly.

Runway is a slide, not a model. The number on Monday and the number on Friday are different, and no one knows which is right.

04 · Revenue

Rev rec rules that lived in someone's head.

The treatment is consistent until it isn't. New contract types, new products, new geographies, and the policy gets reinvented each time.

05 · Reconciliation

Balance sheet accounts that haven't been touched in months.

Prepaids, accruals, intercompany. The totals reconcile at the top, and quietly diverge underneath.

06 · Process

Approvals that everyone respects but no one documented.

The controls work because the team is small and trusting. They stop working the month someone new joins.

The Difference

Inside the business, not outside it.

Most fractional finance work is advisory. A call, a deck, a recommendation, an invoice. The numbers stay where they were.

This isn't that. The close gets reviewed. The forecast gets built. The board package gets written. The work that has to happen every month happens on time, in your stack, alongside your team.

Five years at Deloitte's CFO Advisory practice running interim financial controllership inside Fortune 500 and Nasdaq-listed companies. Same operational standard, applied to regulated-industry startups at the stage where it starts to matter. Most fractional finance people run from compliance. I came from it.

Fit

Honest about who this is for.

Operational controllership is a specific kind of engagement. It's the right fit for some companies and the wrong fit for others. Worth being clear before either of us spends a call finding out.

A good fit

VC-backed, post-Series A, 20–200 employees
You have a bookkeeper or accountant but no senior finance person
Your board is asking questions your current reporting can't answer
You're scaling fast and the finance function hasn't kept up
An audit is on the horizon and you want to be ready before it starts

Not the right fit

Pre-revenue or still validating product-market fit
You need a full-time hire and want to backfill temporarily
You want pure advisory — decks and recommendations without execution
Your books haven't been touched in months and need a full reconstruction first
You're looking for the lowest price, not the right standard

Engagement

How it works.

A clear structure from day one. No ambiguity about what's included, what's extra, and how the relationship runs.

01 · Retainer

Monthly, transparent pricing

Fixed monthly retainer covering the deliverables described above. No hourly billing, no surprises. Project add-ons scoped and priced separately.

02 · Onboarding

First month: deep dive

Get inside your stack, your books, your team. Map the close process, identify gaps, set the reporting architecture. By day 30, the rhythm is running.

03 · Steady state

Embedded, not overhead

Monthly cadence runs. Weekly sessions keep momentum. Slack and email access means you're not waiting for the next meeting to get an answer.

Get a clear read

Your numbers, understood.

A 30-minute conversation about where your finance operations are today and what they'll need to look like at the next stage. No pitch. No prep. Just a clear read.

Start the conversation eduards@eduardsjannuschco.com