Senior finance leadership, day-in and day-out.
Experienced, hands-on finance leadership for nonprofits that need a Director or Controller running the operation. Where the CFO practice owns strategy, this practice owns execution: monthly close, accounting team leadership, compliance, and financial reporting on a fixed cadence.
When you need execution more than strategy.
You reach for this practice when your books need a steady hand, when the accounting team needs a leader, and when the last Finance Director's departure cannot be allowed to become a monthly-close crisis. Distinct from the CFO seat by design: operational excellence, not board-committee narrative.
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Senior Finance Director & Controller
Hands-on Director or Controller running the finance operation, leading the accounting team, and owning compliance.
- Financial operations and reporting
- Accounting team leadership
- Compliance and internal controls
Financial Operations & Reporting
Day-to-day management of budgeting, forecasting, monthly reporting, and cash flow oversight.
- Monthly and annual reporting
- Budget management and forecasting
- Cash flow oversight
Interim & Transitional Support
Short-term senior finance coverage during leadership transitions, staff vacancies, audits, or funding cycles.
- Seamless interim coverage
- Month-end close continuity
- Knowledge transfer to permanent staff
Interim coverage that keeps month-end on the calendar.
The moment a Finance Director leaves is not the moment to slow the machine down. We step in the day the seat opens, close the books on time, run the audit prep, and coach the incoming permanent hire when the search wraps. This is the single most-referred engagement in the practice, for good reason.
At the San Diego Food Bank, we ran interim Director of Accounting coverage during a permanent search. Month-end closed on schedule for every cycle of the transition, and the CFO's confidence carried the finance team through it.
Six named nonprofit leaders on the work.
Each proposal is paired with the specific engagement outcome it followed, so you can see the shape of the work, not just the sentiment.
Marjorie's calm confidence and friendly demeanor provided us with stability during our transition.
Seamless interim Director of Accounting coverage during permanent recruitment. Month-end closes continued without a missed cycle.
Their expertise, efficiency, and calm command of the work immediately gave our staff and board confidence.
Crisis-period finance leadership through complex audit preparation. Day-to-day operations covered without disruption.
Their optimization of our NetSuite environment has significantly enhanced our reporting capabilities.
NetSuite reconfiguration and executive-team financial literacy uplift during a leadership transition.
One Abacus' outside viewpoint and collaboration allowed us to create a more effective budgeting system.
New budgeting system and cash-forecasting cadence delivered and adopted by the finance team.
They quickly mobilized a talented group of professionals who handled everything with expertise and ease.
Day-to-day accounting and audit preparation carried through a critical grants-heavy period.
Their expertise was instrumental as we rebuilt our financial operations from the ground up.
Financial-operations reconstruction alongside an organizational restructuring.