FRACTIONAL CFO • CONTROLLER • ACCOUNTING & ADVISORY
Clarity for the financial work that can’t wait.
Calibrate provides senior-level accounting and finance support when the close is slipping, the audit is consuming the team, leadership needs a clearer view of cash, or the finance function simply needs someone experienced to step in.
When companies call
The finance function is under pressure. The next move needs to be right.
Sometimes the team knows exactly where the pain is, but nobody has had the time to step back and fix it. The close keeps stretching. The same spreadsheets get rebuilt. The audit request list grows while everyone still has a business to run. Leadership has reports, but not always the answer it needs.
Calibrate helps connect the pieces, separate necessary rigor from expensive habit, and get the work pointed at the decisions that matter.
“That’s how we’ve always done it” is sometimes the most expensive sentence in accounting.
Experienced help, applied where it’s needed.
Leadership, accounting, reporting and decision support — applied where the finance function needs it most.
Finance Leadership
Interim and fractional leadership when a CFO or Controller gap, growth, or change is pulling the finance function off balance.
Typical situations
Controller or CFO departure · Close instability · Board or Finance Committee reporting · Finance-team transition · Temporary leadership gaps
Accounting & Reporting
Close, reporting, technical accounting, and the underlying work that needs to be right before the numbers can be useful.
Typical situations
Slow or inconsistent close · Financial cleanup · Revenue recognition (606) · Leases (842) · Business combinations (805) · Reporting-process improvement
Audit, Controls & Systems
Audit readiness, controls, process documentation, and systems work that reduces recurring fire drills.
Typical situations
Upcoming audit · Control gaps or remediation · Process documentation · ERP selection or migration · Reporting-system transitions
Planning & Decision Support
Cash forecasting, budgeting, KPIs, and financial analysis that help leadership understand what changed, what matters, and what happens next.
Typical situations
Cash-flow visibility · Forecasting · Budgeting · KPI design · Management reporting · Financial deep dives
HOW CALIBRATE WORKS
Good finance work should make the business easier to understand, not harder. Calibrate brings technical rigor, direct communication, and enough curiosity to ask whether the work still makes sense.
More than two decades across accounting, finance and advisory.
His background spans Grant Thornton, corporate financial reporting and SEC compliance, technical accounting, fractional CFO/controller work, audit readiness, internal controls and finance-system transitions.
Calibrate is deliberately hands-on. Clients work directly with Chad.
Let’s make the next move the right one.
Bring the problem as it is. We can start with what’s happening, what matters now, and what would actually help.
Calibrate Accounting & Advisory
Useful. Human. Clear.