Corporate financial advisory
A finance executive in the room for the decisions that set the next two years.
Brooklyn, NY · Remote nationwide
Run your financials like a company ten times your size.
Jesse Mitchell has spent nearly 30 years leading finance teams, including as a finance executive at HBO / Warner Media Entertainment. Forecasting, cash, unit economics and board reporting — on a monthly retainer, an hourly rate, or a fixed-fee project. You pick.
Most companies between $500K and $50M in revenue have a bookkeeper and an accountant, and nobody who owns the number that actually matters — what the business looks like ninety days out.
Your accountant
Closes the books, reconciles the accounts, keeps you compliant. Essential, and entirely backward-looking.
A fractional CFO
Forecast and cash runway, pricing and unit economics, where margin is leaking, what to say to a board or a lender.
A finance executive in the room for the decisions that set the next two years.
An operating model you own and can actually drive — or a hard look at the one you have.
A rolling forecast, a cash view you trust, and a monthly pack that takes ten minutes to read.
What each customer, job or subscription is really worth, and what to charge for the next one.
Line-by-line, with the vendor conversations that follow. Usually pays for the engagement.
Decks and packs built the way the people on the other side of the table read them.
Published, because you should be able to work out whether this is worth a call before you book one.
Hourly
$250 / hr
$1,000 minimum retainer, paid in advance and credited against hours worked. Open to individual pricing where the scope warrants it.
Project
Fixed fee
Quoted against a written statement of work, so the number and the finish line are agreed before anything starts.
Fractional CFO retainer
$3,000 / mo
Up to 15 hours a month, including up to 6 hours of live 1:1 time. Up to 5 unused hours roll over. Cancel with 5 days' notice.
Quarter-time CFO
$11,000 / mo
60 hours a month — a deeper partner engagement, at a volume rate of roughly $183 an hour.
Bookkeeping & systems
$100 / hr, then $80 / hr
Bookkeeping, chart of accounts build and cleanup, and financial system implementation review or implementation management. $100 an hour for the first 10 hours in a monthly cycle, $80 an hour beyond that.
$1M to $50M in revenue, where retention, CAC and gross margin per cohort decide the next raise. Built on nearly 30 years in media, AdTech and subscription businesses.
$500K to $50M in revenue — trades, health and wellness, laundry and dry cleaning. Real books, a forecast, and an honest read on which locations and jobs make money.
Reporting a sponsor will accept, a model that survives diligence, and the discipline a board expects between quarters.
My retainer is $3,000 a month for up to 15 hours, including up to 6 hours of live 1:1 time. Quarter-time CFO is $11,000 a month for 60 hours. Hourly is $250 with a $1,000 minimum retainer credited against hours worked, and project work is quoted as a fixed fee against an SOW.
Usually at one of three moments: revenue past roughly $1M with no forecast you trust; a raise, a sale or a lending conversation coming up; or margins moving and nobody able to tell you why.
Your accountant reports the past and files the return. A CFO owns the forward view — forecast, cash runway, pricing and unit economics, board and lender materials. Most of my clients keep both.
Both. I'm based in Brooklyn and work on site with New York clients across Brooklyn, Manhattan and Queens. Most of the work is remote, and I take clients nationwide.
Yes — bookkeeping, chart of accounts, and financial system implementation review at $100 an hour for the first 10 hours a month and $80 an hour beyond that. Often the first thing worth fixing, because nothing above it works without it.
No charge, no deck. Bring your last twelve months and whatever question is keeping you up, and you'll leave the call with an honest read on whether this is worth paying for.
Book a 45-minute callServing Brooklyn & greater New York
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Remote nationwide