Craig Rutherford

💼 Your CFO or controller isn’t just a “numbers person.” They could be your biggest untapped asset for business growth, innovation, and smarter decision-making. In our latest article, we break down how strategic finance leaders can help you: 🔹 Build smarter business plans 🔹 Streamline outdated practices 🔹 Drive innovation with data-backed confidence The modern CFO is no longer stuck in the back office — they’re at the core of operational agility and growth strategy. If you're still using finance leadership only for compliance and budgeting, you’re missing a critical opportunity. ➡️ Read now: https://lnkd.in/eZxWQtgF 📊 CFOs and controllers aren't just bookkeepers — they're business builders. #CFOservices #FractionalCFO #FinanceStrategy #BusinessGrowth #ControllerSupport #Innovation #StrategicPlanning #ProcurisConsulting

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Why aren't more CFOs treating the accountant shortage as a top priority? Hiring U.S.-based accountants, especially those with CPG experience, isn’t getting easier. So why are so few CFOs planning for how they’ll resource their teams over the next 1, 2, or even 5 years? We’ve seen the numbers. The shortage is real. And the clock is ticking. #ExpertiseAccelerated #CFO #Shortage #AccountingShortage #CPGfinance

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Most CFOs stepping into a PE-backed company quickly realize: it's a different job than the title suggests. The board isn't watching your audit readiness or your ERP migration. They're watching for momentum against the value creation plan. Today, FinQore is hosting a candid conversation with Steve Isom (COO & CFO, Bloomerang) on exactly this tension — and how the best PE-backed CFOs navigate it. 💻 "Inside the PE Boardroom: How CFOs Win (or Lose)" — LIVE TODAY at 12:00 pm ET | 9:00 am PT Steve will share hard-won perspective on: → What PE firms actually expect from your first 90–180 days → How to hold conviction with investors without losing operational credibility → Why translating investor priorities, not just repeating them, is what keeps you in the seat If you're in a PE-backed finance leadership role (or heading into one), we'd love to have you join us. Comment "Attend" below to save your spot 👇

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🔎 Before Strategy Comes Structure At CFO Vertical, we often see growing companies treat accounting as a back-office necessity. But strong accounting isn’t overhead. It’s infrastructure. If your accounting function is: • Always behind on month-end • Scrambling at audit time • Producing reports no one trusts • Focused only on historical data You don’t have an accounting problem. You have a visibility problem. High-performing organizations use accounting to: ✔️ Drive clean, reliable financial reporting ✔️ Strengthen internal controls ✔️ Improve cash flow visibility ✔️ Support better forecasting and decision-making ✔️ Prepare for lenders, investors, or exit A disciplined close process, clear reconciliations, documented procedures, and strong internal controls aren’t just accounting best practices — they’re strategic advantages. Whether you’re a founder preparing for growth, a PE-backed platform building infrastructure, or a Controller stretched too thin, elevating your accounting function creates leverage across the entire organization. Accounting done right builds confidence — internally and externally. If you’re thinking about strengthening your finance and accounting foundation in 2026, let’s connect. #Accounting #Controllership #CFO #AccountingLeadership #InternalControls #MonthEndClose #AccountingTransformation

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CFOs aren’t short on strategy. They’re short on trusted data. In conversations with finance leaders over the past few months, one pattern keeps showing up. Teams have strong FP&A talent, solid ERPs, and no shortage of dashboards. Yet the same metrics still change from report to report. Forecasts quietly break each month. Board decks require last-minute reconciliation. The problem usually isn’t planning. It’s the data layer underneath it. When financial and operational data isn’t standardized and refresh-safe, every downstream effort struggles. FP&A spends time reconciling instead of analyzing. Reporting becomes harder to defend. AI initiatives stall before they start. At Brillifi, we focus on that layer first. We help finance teams build a clean, durable data backbone so every number means the same thing across ERPs, billing systems, spreadsheets, and models. When that foundation is in place, something shifts. Forecasts hold. Reporting stabilizes. Finance teams get time back to focus on insight, not cleanup. The future of finance isn’t just better tools or smarter models. It’s building the data once and using it everywhere. #CFO #FPandA #FinanceData

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Most CFOs learn the business from the inside. CFO Alex Melamud of Engine learned it from both sides—years in investing, a dozen boards, then the leap into the CFO seat at Engine. In our full conversation, he gets specific about what changes when finance is measured by signal, not noise: why he checks NPS first, how a usage-based model forces better daily pacing, and why capital allocation is really about “the next dollar” and incrementality. And many more insights along the way LISTEN HERE: https://lnkd.in/eFqT9zQ6

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