Fractional CFO Services in Chicago, IL

Our seasoned fractional CFOs have decades of experience in a wide range of industries, ideally equipped to take your business to the next level.

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As a fast-growing venture-stage business, you need an agile partner who can support your evolving needs. Propeller provides comprehensive finance and accounting services to equip you with the team, technology, and tools that enable you to focus on running your company with confidence and clarity.

The Unique Value of Our Chicago, IL Fractional CFOs

At Propeller Industries, our Chicago fractional CFOs bring an entrepreneurial spirit cultivated from years of experience helping build, finance, and sell companies across industries. As business owners ourselves, we understand the challenges you face and provide strategic guidance to grow your bottom line.

With backgrounds spanning tech startups, e-commerce, healthcare, real estate, and more, our team offers well-rounded expertise to companies of all sizes. We combine financial acumen with the drive to scale sensibly and exit profitably. Consider us an extension of your executive team - bringing fresh eyes to identify growth opportunities while architecting the accounting infrastructure to support expansion.

While optimizing finances may be why you bring us on board, our passion lies in propelling the value of your business. We dig into the details of your operations to pinpoint ways to increase margins, boost revenue, raise capital on favorable terms, and implement financial controls to enable rapid growth. Our collaborative approach means we work as trusted advisors, not just consultants.

Regardless of your industry or company stage, our Chicago fractional CFOs operate with agility and ownership. We combine deep functional expertise with general management experience to provide strategic financial leadership on demand. If you seek a finance partner to help drive transformative growth, let's connect.

Is a Fractional CFO in Chicago the Right Move for Your Chicago Business?

Here are 5 signs it may be time to bring on a fractional CFO:

  1. Rapid growth is straining your finance team. Your controllers are overwhelmed and can't provide the strategic insights you need. Propeller fractional CFOs have experience scaling finance teams to support growth.
  2. You need specialized expertise to guide key initiatives like raising capital, M&A, or expansion overseas. Our CFOs have successfully executed major strategic moves for companies across industries.
  3. Your reporting doesn't provide the metrics you need to make informed decisions. Propeller can design and implement KPI dashboards tailored to your business needs.
  4. Finance lacks the bandwidth to implement new systems and processes. We have hands-on experience streamlining systems, processes, and controls as companies scale.
  5. The CEO needs a strategic finance partner to identify opportunities and navigate challenges. Propeller CFOs go beyond the numbers to provide valuable insights and financial strategy.

Leverage Our Chicago Fractional CFOs to Scale Your Business

Propeller's fractional CFOs become strategic partners to drive growth, optimize finances, and address pain points for your executive team. Our broad business experience allows us to deliver value across key focus areas:

Reporting and Operations - Design scalable accounting processes, implement financial systems, ensure SEC compliance, and provide insightful management reporting.

Performance Improvement - Identify opportunities to boost revenue and margins through pricing, new products, or strategic partnerships. Tighten budgets and optimize costs.

Strategic Growth - Create long-term plans, evaluate growth opportunities, advise on capital raises and M&A, negotiate financing, and develop exit strategies.

In addition to standard CFO responsibilities, we tailor our approach to address your most pressing needs, whether tactical, operational or strategic. Our collaborative, owner-operator mindset means we work as true partners to accelerate success.

Our seasoned fractional CFOs have decades of experience in a wide range of industries, ideally equipped to take your Chicago-based business to the next level.