Fractional Leadership Services

A fractional CFO is senior, partner-level financial leadership on a part-time basis — the judgment of a seasoned CFO, sized to what your company actually needs. A bookkeeper or controller records what already happened; a CFO owns the forward view: cash strategy, forecasting, and the numbers your board and lenders rely on. It fills the gaps a controller cannot, without the cost of a full-time hire.

Growth-stage owners who have outgrown bookkeeping but cannot yet justify a full-time CFO — and feel it when cash is tight or the board asks hard questions. If your finance function can close the books but cannot answer capital or forecasting questions, that is the gap this fills. It is built for that middle stage between a controller and a full-time CFO hire.

The critical turn is usually when cash is tight, a raise is approaching, or the board and lenders are asking questions your current finance function cannot answer. Engaging before those pressures peak means the forecasting and reporting are already in place when they matter most. Waiting until you are mid-raise or mid-crunch limits how much a CFO can do for you.

The work follows four stages: assess cash, reporting, and the gaps a controller cannot fill; install 13-week forecasting, budgets, and board reporting; lead capital strategy and the numbers your board relies on; then graduate — scaling down or handing off when you are ready for a full-time CFO. Concretely, that means rolling cash forecasts, FP&A and budgeting tied to real decisions, capital strategy for raises and debt, and board-ready reporting every month.

Since 1983, Inglewood has run senior-only, low-overhead engagements — the partner who scopes the work is the one who does it, with no junior bench to manage. You get a career CFO's discipline without the full-time cost or commitment, and a defined off-ramp to your first full-time CFO when the time comes. Engagements can flex up through a raise and settle into a steady cadence afterward.