Part-Time CFO Services in Seattle

A part-time CFO provides senior financial leadership without requiring an immediate full-time executive hire. Support may include budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow planning, scenario analysis, profitability analysis, management or board reporting, and guidance on strategic operating decisions. The role can also address complex accounting matters, reporting requirements, transactions, finance-process improvement, or leadership gaps.

Companies often consider part-time CFO support when financial leadership needs have outgrown internal capacity, forecasts lack reliability, reporting demands have increased, or management needs clearer insight into cash, margins, and performance. It can also be useful during transactions, leadership transitions, reporting projects, or finance-process improvements when the business needs senior expertise and hands-on execution.

Yes. Stratum Advisory Partners supports accounting and financial reporting associated with acquisitions, divestitures, carve-outs, and ownership changes. Services may include purchase accounting, opening balance sheets, coordination with valuation specialists, and post-acquisition accounting and reporting integration. The engagement is scoped around the transaction’s complexity, timing, and the responsibilities requiring additional support.

Technical accounting advisory may address revenue recognition, debt and equity transactions, stock-based compensation, leases, business combinations, and impairment. Stratum develops clear, supportable accounting conclusions and documentation to help management resolve difficult questions and communicate the accounting treatment effectively to relevant stakeholders, including external auditors when appropriate.

Stratum can assess and strengthen financial close processes, reconciliations, accounting policies, documentation, and internal controls. Support may also include remediation of control deficiencies and material weaknesses. The work is designed to improve the reliability of financial reporting and help finance leaders address process gaps that have not kept pace with the company’s complexity or reporting obligations.

Yes. Interim CAO and controller leadership can support companies during executive vacancies, organizational transitions, transactions, or periods of increased demand. Responsibilities may include oversight of financial close, reporting, audit preparation, and accounting-team execution. This helps maintain continuity while management addresses a leadership gap or determines its longer-term finance structure.

Engagements are custom-scoped after discussing the company’s needs, the complexity of the work, timing, and the level of support required. Fees are determined from that scope rather than using a standard published price. This approach allows the work to align with a specific advisory need, improvement project, transaction, reporting requirement, or ongoing finance leadership role.

Stratum Advisory Partners lists Seattle-Bellevue among its service areas. Support is available for companies seeking strategic finance guidance, transaction accounting, technical accounting, reporting assistance, close and control improvement, finance modernization, or interim accounting leadership. Contact the firm to discuss whether the requested scope and engagement structure align with your company’s needs.