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The discipline of a finance department — without the department.

Your outsourced FP&A function: annual budgets, rolling forecasts, and monthly variance & KPI reporting that keep you ahead of the numbers — for a predictable monthly fee.

Founding-client rate: retainers from $975/month $1,950 — scope and fee agreed before any work starts.

When you need this

The situations this is built for.

Your budget is one flat number, and every month's result is a surprise you explain after the fact.

You find out about a bad month six weeks after it happened — when the fix is already expensive.

You've thought about hiring a controller or CFO, but the workload doesn't justify a full-time salary yet.

Staffing and growth decisions get made on gut feel, because by the time the numbers arrive they're stale.

The process

How the engagement works.

One setup month, then a monthly rhythm that keeps the plan current and every miss explained.

01

The setup month

I build your annual budget bottom-up from operating drivers — volume, pricing, labor, conversion — not last year plus a percentage. We agree the KPIs that actually decide your margin and set the monthly rhythm.

02

Monthly: close to forecast

When your books close, I take the actuals and decompose every variance to its cause — rate, hours, volume — not just "over budget." Then the rolling forecast updates, so the plan never goes stale.

03

The monthly call

A walkthrough of what changed, why it changed, and what I'd do about it. You get decisions and recommendations, not a spreadsheet to decode on your own time.

04

Quarterly re-plan

Each quarter we step back: reset the plan against reality, pressure-test the next quarter's decisions — hiring, pricing, capacity — before they're committed.

05

Scale up, down, or hand over

The engagement flexes with your business. If you eventually hire in-house finance, everything — budget engine, forecast, reporting — hands over clean, because it was built to be yours from the start.

The monthly rhythmClose → cause → forecast → decision, every month
Actuals land Miss → cause Forecast refreshed Decide & act Rate Hours Volume Every miss is decomposed to its cause — so you fix the driver, not the symptom. Quarterly · step back & re-plan pressure-test next quarter before it's committed
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Deliverables · every month

What lands on your desk.

Variance reportEvery miss attributed to its cause — rate, hours, or volume
Rolling forecastAlways looking twelve months forward, refreshed as actuals land
KPI packThe handful of numbers that decide whether you make money
A standing callWhat changed, why, and a recommendation — not just a file
Packages & pricing

Founding-client pricing, in the open.

Fixed fees, agreed in writing before any work starts. Founding rates are locked for our first clients while we build our public track record — list rates apply once those slots fill.

Setup month

$975 $1,950
One-time · fixed fee
  • Annual budget built bottom-up from your drivers
  • KPIs defined — the numbers that decide your margin
  • Monthly rhythm agreed and set up
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Foundation retainer

$975/mo $1,950
Monthly retainer
  • Rolling 12-month forecast, refreshed as actuals land
  • Every variance attributed to its cause
  • Monthly call: what changed, why, what to do
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Growth retainer

$1,725/mo $3,450
Monthly retainer
  • Everything in Foundation
  • KPI pack + board-ready reporting
  • Quarterly re-plan deep-dive
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Retainers signed at the founding rate keep it for the life of the engagement. Complex scopes are quoted on the call — always fixed before work begins.

Where the money is

Why a monthly rhythm pays for itself.

Most margin isn't lost in one bad decision. It leaks — a point here, a point there — until year-end makes it visible.

Leaks caught while they're small

Overtime creep, collections slippage, quiet price erosion — these compound month after month when nobody's attributing variances to their cause. Caught in month one, they're a correction. Caught at year-end, they're a write-off.

Decisions priced before they're made

A staffing ramp or a capacity bet gets tested in the forecast before payroll is committed. You see the EBITDA impact of the decision while it's still reversible — which is the only time seeing it matters.

The hire you don't make yet

You get the rhythm and rigor of a finance function for a predictable monthly fee — and when the business grows into a real in-house hire, the whole system hands over clean instead of starting from zero.

"FP&A doesn't replace your bookkeeper or your CPA — it sits on top of them. They keep the record straight. This makes the record useful."

Straight answers

What this is — and isn't.

Do you replace my bookkeeper or accountant?

No. Bookkeeping records what happened; your CPA handles tax. FP&A is the layer on top — planning, variance analysis, and forecasting. Clean books make it faster, and I work alongside whoever keeps yours.

What's the commitment?

Scoped in the first call and sized to your business. And because everything I build is yours to keep, you're never locked in by the tooling — if we stop, the budget engine, forecast, and reporting stay with you.

What do you need from me each month?

Closed books — an export or accountant access — and the monthly call. The system is built to run on what your business already produces, not to create homework for you.

Seth Briggs
Who does the work

You work directly with the principal, start to finish.

Every engagement on this page is scoped, built, and delivered personally — no hand-offs. The same rigor behind the Rapid Emergency Management build goes into yours.

Seth Briggs · Founder · FMVA®, FPAP™ — Corporate Finance Institute  ·  About Seth →
Start here

One setup month. Then you're never surprised by your own numbers again.

The first conversation is free — bring your current budget (even if it's one number), and I'll show you what a driver-based version would tell you.

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