From financials that are completely upside down to a clean, audit-ready close — hands-on financial leadership that gets you from crisis to clarity.
Schedule a ConsultationInterim CFO and corporate controller work for companies that need an experienced hand fast — without the overhead of a permanent hire or a big-firm engagement.
Hands-on financial leadership during a transition, a gap, or a period that needs more oversight than you currently have.
Getting the books, reconciliations, and documentation ready before a first audit or a public-readiness review.
Building the financial planning process a growing company doesn't have yet — or fixing one that's stopped working.
Sorting out unfiled sales and business tax across states — not tax preparation or attest services.
Financial integration after an acquisition, or preparing the numbers cleanly for a sale or carve-out.
Replacing manual, error-prone processes with systems that hold up as the company scales — including practical AI tools where they earn their place.
Most people who call aren't looking for a routine check-in — something specific has happened, and the path out isn't obvious yet. That's the work: finding the path, then walking it with you.
That experience spans manufacturing, financial services, and agriculture, built through senior finance leadership inside multinational companies and C-suite roles in privately held ones — the breadth that comes from three decades of doing this work across sectors, not specializing in just one.
A direct conversation about where things stand and what's actually at stake.
Fast, focused review of the real problem — no lengthy onboarding before work starts.
Hands-on work against a clear scope, with regular visibility into progress.
Documentation and systems left in a state your team — or your next hire — can run with.
Whether it's a first audit, an acquisition on the clock, or financials that have gotten away from you — the earlier the call, the more options you have.
Clearspan works with privately held companies — typically family- or VC-owned, up to around $200M in revenue, across the US, Europe, and the Middle East. What they have in common isn't size or sector. It's a specific event already in motion: a first audit, an acquisition or divestiture on the clock, a leadership gap in the finance function, or books that have quietly gotten away from the team.
Even a larger organization can be the right fit when the actual scope is a single business unit, or one distinct piece of a bigger whole.
More on who this is built for →No audits, no tax return preparation, no bookkeeping. The work here is financial leadership and strategy — not compliance. That's a deliberate line, and it keeps every engagement focused on the problem that actually needs solving.