Fractional CFO Services

Strategic financial leadership,
without the full-time cost.

KPM Financial Advisory delivers experienced, executive-level financial leadership to growing businesses on a flexible, fractional basis — the strategic insight, rigorous controls, and operational discipline of a seasoned CFO, aligned with your budget and tailored to your stage of growth.

  • Controller & CFO experience
  • GAAP-grade reporting
  • Board-ready storytelling
Menu of Services

Three engagement tiers, one rigorous standard.

Every engagement starts where the business is — books, systems, or strategy — and builds from there. Choose a tier or compose across all three.

Foundation

Accuracy & Compliance
  • Comprehensive balance sheet review, reconciliation, and remediation
  • Month-end close optimization and scalable process improvement
  • Financial statement accuracy assurance and GAAP compliance alignment
  • Audit readiness assessment and preparation support

Strategic Growth

Advisory & Execution
  • Embedded strategic finance partnership and executive advisory
  • Monthly financial narrative reporting and board-ready storytelling
  • Cost reduction and optimization initiatives
  • Financial systems evaluation, selection, and implementation support

Not sure which tier fits? Most engagements start with a free 30-minute working session to map the priorities.

Why KPM

The four things growing businesses ask for — and rarely get together.

Flexible

Engagement

Engage by the project, the month, or the quarter. Scale up for an audit, scale back when the storm passes.

Expert

Controller & CFO Knowledge

Decades operating across both seats: tight controls and clean books, paired with strategic finance and board-level storytelling.

Scalable

Grows With You

Right-sized for a five-person startup today and a forty-person org next year. The engagement evolves with the business.

Trusted

True Partner

Confidential, candid, and accountable. Closer to a co-founder than a vendor — your numbers held to the standard you'd hold them to yourself.

Who We Serve

Built for the businesses where finance has to do more with less.

  • Startups & Emerging Companies
  • Private Equity-Backed Firms
  • Small & Mid-Size Businesses
  • Family-Owned Businesses
  • Independent Grocers & ROFDA Member Co-ops
About Kevin

Two decades of controllership and CFO leadership — now on demand.

Kevin Murphy founded KPM Financial Advisory after years operating in both the controller and CFO seats — closing the books on tight deadlines, standing up audit-ready reporting, and translating spreadsheets into the narrative an owner or board can actually act on.

The work spans startups raising their first institutional round, PE-backed firms tightening up for a transaction, family-owned businesses planning succession, and independent grocers and retail-owned co-ops where every basis point of margin matters. The throughline is the same: bring rigor to the numbers, then turn the numbers into decisions.

KPM is a deliberate choice to engage with a smaller number of businesses at depth, rather than a roster of clients at arm's length.

Get Started

A 30-minute conversation is usually enough to know if it's a fit.

Tell Kevin what you're trying to solve — closing the month faster, forecasting cash, prepping for diligence, or just knowing where the margin is going. He'll come back within one business day with whether and how KPM can help.