Fractional leadership Excavation Contractors Oakland County
You can see money in the bank and still not know if you can afford the next hire.
A senior finance lead for Oakland County excavation contractors a few days a month: cash forecasts, margin reviews and a plan you can run the business on.
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Excavation contractors in oakland county
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It is the Sunday before payroll in Oakland County, and you are at the kitchen table with your bank app open, adding up what has to clear by Friday. Sales were good last month, so you cannot work out why the account feels this thin.
With a fractional CFO on your side, that question has an answer before you ask it. Someone reads your books every week, builds a cash forecast that shows the lean weeks coming, and tells you which jobs make money and which ones only keep the team busy.
Sundays go back to being Sundays. You walk into the bank with numbers you trust, price your jobs knowing your real margins, and make the next hire because the forecast says you can.
Tap the ones that sound like your week.
42 excavation contractors operate in Oakland County. Clean numbers and steady systems are what let one of them pull ahead.
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The share of a full-time year you use
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Days a month over about 21 working days. A fractional fee is quoted on that share of the work, not a full salary.
Fix this in Oakland CountyWe get read access to QuickBooks or your accounting system and review the last year of numbers with you.
We work with your bookkeeper to fix categories and close gaps so the reports mean something.
We build a rolling cash forecast and a budget, then walk you through both until they make sense.
Every month we meet, review results against plan and decide the next moves together.
What we report every month: Cash on hand against forecast, Gross margin by service, Net profit against budget, and Days to collect receivables.
A fractional CFO is a senior finance person who works with you part of each month instead of full time. The job looks forward: forecasting cash, setting budgets, pricing for margin and getting you ready for the bank. Your bookkeeper records what happened, and the CFO tells you what it means and what to do next.
The price depends on how messy the books are, how many entities and bank accounts you run, how often you want to meet and whether a financing or sale project is on the table. A business with clean monthly closes needs fewer hours than one catching up. We scope it on a short call and set one fixed monthly fee, so you are never watching an hourly meter.
A bookkeeper records transactions. A controller makes sure the books close on time and the reports are right. A CFO uses those reports to plan cash, pricing, hiring and growth. Most owner-run businesses in Oakland County need all three jobs done but not three full-time people, which is why the fractional model fits.
A useful forecast starts with what is already booked, what is owed to you and which bills are due, then layers in seasonality. In Michigan that means planning ahead for the months when weather or holidays slow things down. Updated weekly, it shows you a tight stretch long before you are in it.
Look for someone who has worked with businesses your size and in your kind of work, who can explain a balance sheet without jargon and who will work alongside your current bookkeeper or CPA. Ask to see a sample monthly report. If it does not make sense to you on the first read, keep looking.
You know the business best, but finance work happens late at night and usually after the decision is already made.
Deep focus and always available, but the salary and benefits rarely make sense for an owner-run business.
A senior finance lead a few days a month, working with your bookkeeper and CPA, with a forecast and a monthly meeting you can count on.
Who you are dealing with
Before Rebuild Detroit, Tevin Jackson helped scale more than 100 home service brands with marketing, sales and operations. Business Services is that playbook, run for Oakland County excavation contractors with the local numbers on this page, by the team behind the Rebuild Detroit directory.
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