Enterprise-grade finance.
At a fraction of the cost.

Businesses at $10M–$100M often have an ineffective finance team: static monthly reporting, poor use of technology, non-peak cycle underutilization, and a lack of best-in-class budgeting and forecasting practices. Wilson Advisory delivers a technology-enabled, world-class finance function using industry best practices proven in Fortune 500 and PE-backed companies — with an AI-enabled technology stack. Dynamic, mobile-ready, and built for your business, at a fraction of what a full build-out costs.

15+
Years Finance Experience
Fortune 500
& PE-Backed Background
Modern AI
Technology Stack
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Acme Manufacturing
Management P&L · February 2025
FEB 2025⚠ AR 38d
Revenue
$4.2M
▲ 8.4% YoY
Gross Margin
32.1%
▲ vs 31.4% plan
Operating Income
$438K
10.4% margin
YTD vs Plan
+$62K
ahead of budget
Revenue of $4.2M in February was $330K (8.4%) ahead of prior year and $62K ahead of plan, driven by continued strength in the Commercial channel and a strong month in the Midwest region. Gross margin of 32.1% exceeded the 31.4% plan — product mix shift toward higher-margin SKUs was the primary driver. Operating income of $438K represents a 10.4% margin, above the 10% target.
P&L Detail ($000s)
Line ItemFebJanVar $Var %YTD ActYTD PlanYTD Var
Revenue
Commercial$2,310$2,180+$130+6.0%$4,490$4,320+$170
Retail$1,260$1,190+$70+5.9%$2,450$2,400+$50
Other$630$590+$40+6.8%$1,220$1,200+$20
Total Revenue$4,200$3,960+$240+6.1%$8,160$7,920+$240
Cost & Profit
Cost of Goods$2,851$2,697+$154+5.7%$5,548$5,402+$146
Gross Profit$1,349$1,263+$86+6.8%$2,612$2,518+$94
GP Margin %32.1%31.9%+0.2pp32.0%31.8%+0.2pp
Operating Expenses$911$895+$16+1.8%$1,806$1,800+$6
Operating Income$438$368+$70+19%$806$718+$88
OI Margin %10.4%9.3%+1.1pp9.9%9.1%+0.8pp
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Acme Manufacturing
13-Week Cash Forecast · Direct Method
WK 1–13 · 2025
Opening Cash
$246K
Week 1
Total Inflows
$5.4M
13 weeks
Total Outflows
$5.1M
13 weeks
Ending Cash Wk 13
$538K
▲ $292K
Weekly Cash Balance vs $150K Minimum
13-Week Direct Method ($000s)
CategoryW1W2W3W4W5W6W7W8W9W10W11W12W13Total
INFLOWS
Customer Receipts3854104283954204454083924304484204054305,316
Total Inflows3854104283954204454083924304484204054305,316
OUTFLOWS
Vendor / COGS2602782902682853022772662923042852752923,574
Payroll112011201120112011201120112784
Rent & Utilities04800480048004800192
Other18181818181818181818181818234
Total Outflows3903444202864633204073324223224632934224,784
Net Cash Flow-5+66+8+109-43+125+1+60+8+126-43+112+8+532
Beg. Balance246241307315424381506507567575701658770
Ending Balance241307315424381506507567575701658770778
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Acme Manufacturing
Working Capital Dashboard · February 2025
⚠ DSO 38d vs 30d target
AR / DSO
38d
▲ 8d above target
Inventory / DIO
28d
▼ 2d improving
AP / DPO
22d
stable
Cash Conv. Cycle
44d
target 36d
DSO Trend — 13 Months
Cash Tied Up — Working Capital Stack
AR Aging by Customer
CustomerTotal ARCurrent31–60d61–90d>90dStatus
Riverside Industrial$186K$186KCurrent
Lakeview Institutions$158K$66K$66K$26KWatch
Hartley Holdings$105K$40K$40K$25KWatch
Old Mill Supply$53K$13K$13K$27KAction
Midwest Grocery Co.$79K$79KCurrent
Other (12 accounts)$52K$40K$12KCurrent
Total AR$633K$424K$131K$51K$27K
Bringing DSO to the 30-day target would release approximately $158K in cash. Lakeview Institutions ($66K past due) and Old Mill Supply ($27K >90 days) are the priority collection touchpoints this week.
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Acme Manufacturing
Scenario Model · Annual Revenue Forecast
Monte Carlo · 2025
Bear Case (P10)
$21.8M
vol. down 12%, price flat
Base Case (P50)
$28.4M
+6% vol., +2% price
Bull Case (P90)
$36.2M
new channel + price up
Simulations Run
10,000
95% CI: $19.4M–$38.1M
Probability Distribution — Annual Revenue ($M)
Scenario Comparison — Key Metrics
MetricBear (P10)Base (P50)Bull (P90)Swing
Revenue$21.8M$28.4M$36.2M$14.4M
Gross Margin %28.4%32.1%34.8%6.4pp
Operating Income$654K$2.96M$5.43M$4.78M
OI Margin %3.0%10.4%15.0%12.0pp
Ending Cash (Yr)$182K$778K$1.84M$1.66M
Cash at Risk vs Base–$596K+$1.06M
Key Sensitivities — Revenue Impact
Driver–10%Base+10%Elasticity
Volume$25.6M$28.4M$31.2MHigh
Pricing$27.1M$28.4M$29.7MMedium
COGS Rate–$2.84M OI$2.96M OI+$2.84M OIHigh
Enterprise
Grade reporting infrastructureDynamic, mobile-ready, built for decisions
50%
Less than a comparable hireWith more capability, not less
Weeks
Not months to go liveInfrastructure running before month one
Yours
You own everything builtNo lock-in, no proprietary systems
Who It's For

Built for businesses that have
outgrown their finance function.

You probably have people doing finance work. The question is whether that work is actually driving the business forward.

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Static Reporting & Excel Dependency

Monthly financials arrive late, live in spreadsheets, and require manual effort to update. No dynamic dashboards. No mobile access. Reporting that describes the past rather than informing the future.

Dynamic, mobile-ready reporting from day one
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Time Spent on Non-Value-Add Work

Too much bandwidth goes toward building presentations, reformatting data, and maintaining stale reports. The strategic work — forecasting, scenario analysis, decision support — never gets done because the team is buried in mechanics.

Automate the routine. Focus on what moves the business
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Skill Gaps in True Decision Support

Legacy finance teams are built for data transformation — closing books, reconciling accounts. True business partnership — scenario modeling, capital allocation, strategic financial analysis — requires a different skillset that most teams at this size don't have.

Finance expertise that participates in the decision
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Lack of Finance Best Practices

No formal budgeting process. Forecasts that are rarely updated. Working capital managed reactively. The operational finance discipline that PE-backed and Fortune 500 companies build by default simply doesn't exist — not because it's too hard, but because no one has built it.

Install the system. Keep it running
Our Capabilities

A finance function — not a finance person.

Enterprise-grade reporting, planning, forecasting, and strategic support — built around your business model. Scope is flexible: as much or as little as your business needs, delivered on an ongoing basis.

Management Reporting

Enterprise-grade reporting delivered immediately after closing the books — dynamic, mobile-ready, and built for the person making decisions, not the accountant closing the month. Streamlined updating means the package is current within days of close, not weeks. Management P&L with channel and segment cuts, KPI dashboards, variance analysis, and plain-language executive commentary.

Delivered immediately after the close — not weeks later
Dynamic dashboards — mobile-ready, not static PDFs
Streamlined monthly update — minimal manual effort
Plain-language executive summary included

"Reporting that arrives on time and actually tells you something."

Core Deliverable

Financial Statement Analysis

Deep analysis of what the income statement, balance sheet, and cash flow are telling you — not just what happened, but why margins moved, where working capital is tied up, and what the trend line signals about the health of the business. The kind of analysis a PE finance team runs every month as a matter of course.

Margin bridge and cost driver analysis
Working capital decomposition and trend
Customer and channel profitability
Balance sheet and liquidity commentary

"Know what's driving the numbers — not just what they are."

Analytical Layer

Planning & Forecasting

A rolling 13-week cash forecast maintained weekly. An annual operating plan built from business model assumptions, updated quarterly as the year develops. Forward-looking visibility that tells you where you're headed, not just where you've been — maintained on a cadence, not rebuilt every quarter from scratch.

13-week rolling cash forecast (weekly)
Annual operating plan with driver assumptions
Quarterly reforecast — plan vs. actual
Budget process facilitation end-to-end

"Always know where you're headed — not just where you've been."

Forward Visibility

Scenario Modeling

What happens if revenue drops 20%? If you add a shift, lose your largest customer, or push a price increase through? Scenario and sensitivity analysis turns uncertainty into defined outcomes with real numbers attached. Every major decision should have a model — and at this scale, it rarely does.

Upside / downside / base case modeling
Sensitivity analysis on key assumptions
Capital allocation and investment modeling
Stress test against downside scenarios

"Every major decision with a model behind it."

Decision Framework

Strategic Support

Finance as a real business partner — not just a reporting function. Pricing strategy, capacity decisions, M&A support, capital structure, and the financial framing for board or investor conversations. On-call support for the decisions that don't fit a standard cadence, built on the infrastructure already in place.

Pricing and margin strategy analysis
Acquisition and due diligence support
Capital and debt structure analysis
On-call decision support — between cycles

"Finance that participates in the decisions, not just reports on them."

Advisory Layer

Lender & Board Prep

Clean, credible financials that hold up under scrutiny. Renewing a line of credit, presenting to a board, refinancing real estate, or preparing for an investor conversation — the financial package needs to tell a coherent story with the right level of detail. Built by someone who has been in the room on both sides of that table.

Board and investor reporting packages
Lender covenant tracking and bank reporting
QBR and business review preparation
Financial narrative and management commentary

"Financials that tell your story with the credibility it deserves."

Stakeholder Ready

Systems & Automation

Connecting your accounting data to reporting that runs largely on its own. Less time pulling and formatting numbers — more time reading and acting on them. Built in Power BI, Excel, and direct-method data pipelines connected to what you already use. Documented, maintainable, and fully owned by you.

Power BI dashboards connected to source data
Automated data flow and refresh pipelines
Automation opportunity assessment and roadmap
Documented process — no black boxes

"A reporting system that largely runs itself — and you own it."

Infrastructure
How It Works

A finance function for
what you actually need.

Fully integrated into your business or just handling specific portions — we can be a partner to an existing team or an entire finance function in itself. As much or as little as the business requires.

01

Discovery

Understand the business, systems, and current state. Assess pain points and reporting needs. No pitch — just listening and learning.

02

Planning

Recommend a solution. Define scope. Walk through proof of concepts using real examples. Establish timelines and agree on what success looks like.

03

Implementation

Establish access to systems. Build the foundation — reporting setup, learning the business, connecting data flows. Delivered into your environment.

Ongoing Partner: Engage in established operating rhythms. Deliver on committed scope. Ongoing calls, support, and continuous improvement as the business evolves.

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About

Built by a practitioner,
not a consultant.

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The Founder
Wilson Advisory
MBA BS Finance FP&A Power BI PE-Backed Fortune 500
"Wilson Advisory exists because the financial discipline built inside large organizations — Fortune 500 companies, PE-backed businesses — has never been accessible to the businesses that needed it most."

15+ years of FP&A experience across public companies and PE-backed businesses — building reporting infrastructure from the ground up, leading forecasting and planning cycles, supporting M&A, and partnering directly with executive leadership on the decisions that shape organizations.

The common thread: the financial operating systems that large companies take for granted don't exist at most growing businesses — not because it's too hard, but because no one has built them. Wilson Advisory is the vehicle for changing that.

AI-enabled tooling now makes it possible to deliver enterprise-grade finance infrastructure at a fraction of the traditional cost. The expertise to build it, interpret it, and maintain it is what this practice is built around.

Why This Is Different

Not a fractional CFO.
A finance function.

Legacy fractional CFOs sell their time and presence. Wilson Advisory delivers the infrastructure, the reporting, and the ongoing operating system — at a price point that was previously impossible for this market to access.

Traditional Fractional CFO
Full-Time Hire
Wilson Advisory
Speed to value
Slow — advisory only
3–6 months to hire + ramp
Infrastructure live in weeks
What you get
Advice and presence
A person
A function — models, reports, systems
Cost
High hourly / retainer
$150K–$200K fully loaded
Fraction of a hire
Scales with you
Limited by their time
Limited by headcount
Scales with tooling, not hours
Reporting quality
Static, periodic
Depends on the hire
Enterprise-grade, dynamic, mobile-ready
You own it
No
Yes, but person-dependent
Yes — always, fully documented
Get Started

A first conversation is
low commitment, high value.

We'll assess whether there's a fit, understand your current state, and give you a clear picture of what's possible. No deck, no pitch — just an honest conversation about the business and where the financial gaps are.

Prefer direct? [email protected]