Fractional Controller & FP&A Services
The financial
leadership your
business needs,
right now.
Kendle Belle Consulting delivers fractional controller and Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) expertise to growth-stage companies. You get the financial rigor of a seasoned finance executive, without the overhead of a full-time hire.
Finance expertise,
delivered differently.
Most growing businesses hit a point where the numbers get complicated faster than the team can handle them. The books fall behind, the close takes forever, and leadership ends up making decisions without reliable data. That’s the gap Kendle Belle Consulting was built to fill.
Kerry, the firm’s founder, brings more than two decades of finance experience spanning both controllership and FP&A. She has managed corporate close processes, built management reporting infrastructure from scratch, overseen bank line compliance on portfolios exceeding $100M, and designed financial models used in board and investor reporting. She works as a true embedded partner, not a vendor delivering a report and moving on.
Every engagement is scoped around your specific gaps, your team’s capacity, and the outcomes that matter most to your business right now.
You get someone who owns the work, not someone who reviews it. Deliverables are built, implemented, and handed off functional.
Every process, report, and model is documented and transferable. The goal is a stronger internal team, not a dependency on outside help.
You work with Kerry directly. No account managers, no rotating associates. That means faster context-building and better outcomes.
Engagements are designed around what you need now, with the flexibility to expand or wind down as your business evolves.
The financial controls
your business runs on.
If your books are always behind, your close takes weeks, or you’re not confident your numbers are right, that’s a controller problem. This is what fixes it.
Still waiting weeks to know if last month was profitable? Accurate, timely closes with reconciliations and financial statements your team can actually rely on.
Cash flow oversight, covenant reporting, and line of credit management, so your lender stays happy and you’re never caught off guard.
Outgrown your current system or still running on spreadsheets? Selection, setup, and training so your new system works the way your business does.
Have a bookkeeper or staff accountant who needs direction? Interim oversight and process coaching that builds your team’s capability alongside the work.
Turn your numbers
into decisions.
Financial Planning & Analysis (FP&A) turns your accounting data into forecasts, budgets, and reports that help you run the business, not just record it. For companies with solid books that are ready to do more with them.
Monthly reporting packs and dashboards built around the questions your leadership team is actually asking, not a generic template.
Annual budgets and rolling forecasts that give you a reliable view of where the business is headed, so you can lead it there.
Dashboards and automated reports that replace time-consuming manual processes. Less formatting, more analysis.
Scenario models and profitability analysis that make the trade-offs behind major decisions visible before you commit to them.
Budget-to-actual analysis and operational metrics that give your team a clear, shared picture of what’s working and what needs attention.
Simple, clear,
and no surprises.
Starting something new with a finance partner should feel straightforward. Here is exactly what to expect.
A relaxed 45-minute conversation, no pressure, no pitch deck. We’ll talk through where your business is, what’s not working, and whether working together makes sense.
You’ll receive a straightforward proposal: what we’ll do, when it’ll be done, and what it costs. No vague retainers, no surprise scope creep.
Kerry works alongside your team to build what we agreed to, with regular check-ins so you always know where things stand.
Everything is documented and handed off to your team. The systems, the reports, the processes all belong to you, and your team knows how to use them.
Why not just
hire someone?
A full-time Controller or Director of Finance runs $150K to $250K annually before benefits and overhead. Fractional engagement delivers the same expertise at a fraction of that cost, applied only where you need it.
Fractional executives build context fast. It is a core part of the skill set. You get someone productive quickly, without the risk of a costly mis-hire in a critical seat.
Engagements scale up during a close, a transaction, or a system implementation, and scale down when the work is done. You are never paying for capacity you do not need.
Setting the record straight
on fractional executives.
The fractional model is still new enough that a few persistent myths get in the way of good decisions. Here is the reality.
“Fractional means part-time. I will only get a fraction of their attention.”
Fractional means focused. Without internal meetings, HR overhead, and organizational politics, a fractional executive typically delivers more productive output per engagement hour than a full-time hire. You get that capacity applied directly to your highest-value problems.
“They will not understand our business well enough to be useful.”
Fractional executives build business context quickly. Exposure across multiple industries and company stages is a feature, not a liability. Pattern recognition developed across many businesses accelerates the diagnosis of problems your own team may be too close to see.
“We are not big enough to need, or afford, this level of expertise.”
Growth-stage companies need this level of financial thinking the most and can rarely justify the full-time cost. Fractional finance is designed precisely for this gap: deep expertise that helps you make better decisions now, at a cost structure that fits where you are.
“Once the engagement ends, we will be back to square one.”
A well-run fractional engagement leaves your team more capable than it found them. Systems are documented, processes are transferable, and your internal staff learns alongside the work. The goal is not dependency. It is infrastructure that runs without outside help.
Ready to talk
about your numbers?
Start with a no-commitment discovery call. Tell us a bit about your company and what you are working through, and we will take it from there.
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