Part-Time Fractional CFO Services in Tampa

A part-time fractional CFO provides senior financial leadership without requiring a full-time executive arrangement. Support may include budgeting, forecasting, cash-flow planning, profitability analysis, management or board reporting, strategic finance guidance, and coordination around complex accounting matters. The role can also help strengthen finance processes and translate accounting information into practical operating decisions for management.

Businesses often consider fractional CFO support when internal finance leadership lacks the capacity or specialized expertise required for growth, reporting obligations, transactions, or complex accounting questions. Common signals include limited visibility into future cash needs, unreliable forecasts, delayed reporting, new lender or investor expectations, transaction activity, leadership vacancies, or a need to improve close processes and controls.

Yes. Strategic finance and fractional CFO advisory can include cash-flow planning, budgeting, forecasting, scenario analysis, and profitability analysis. The goal is to help management understand expected financial conditions, evaluate alternatives, and connect financial information with operating decisions. The scope is tailored to the company’s needs and may be coordinated with the existing accounting and finance team.

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. Support is custom-scoped based on the transaction’s complexity, timing, reporting requirements, and the level of execution capacity available internally.

Technical accounting advisory may address revenue recognition, debt and equity transactions, stock-based compensation, leases, business combinations, and impairment. Stratum helps management develop clear, supportable accounting conclusions and documentation. The engagement can be useful when a company faces a significant accounting question, reporting requirement, audit issue, or transaction-related matter that requires expertise beyond the internal team.

Yes. Support may include management reporting, dashboards, financial statement preparation, disclosures, accounting analyses, schedules, and documentation. Stratum can also help improve finance workflows and appropriate automation while building on existing accounting systems where feasible. The objective is clearer, more reliable reporting that gives management useful information for planning, performance evaluation, and operating decisions.

Stratum provides interim CAO and controller leadership during executive vacancies, organizational transitions, transactions, or periods of increased demand. Responsibilities may include oversight of the financial close, reporting, audit preparation, accounting-team execution, and continuity of finance operations. This support is designed for companies that need experienced hands-on accounting leadership while addressing a temporary or evolving capacity need.

Fees are determined after discussing the scope, complexity, timing, and level of support required. Stratum Advisory Partners uses custom-scoped engagements rather than presenting a standard price for every business. The initial discussion clarifies the company’s objectives, existing finance capabilities, key accounting or reporting needs, and the type of senior leadership or execution support that would be appropriate.