Flight Financial

Flight Financial is an outsourced CFO firm that helps professional service providers have growing, profitable, and successful businesses. https://www.flight.financial/

Founder & Chief CFO

Cadilus

•  Cadilus is a managed service and consulting firm founded to bring Fortune 500 finance and analytics to the middle-markets. 
•  The Company's strategy is to merge finance, analytics, and best-practice management systems into innovative capability offers that enable customers to make better business decisions. 
•  The Company leverages technology and delivery process excellence and innovation to offer exceptional value at an unprecedented pace.
•  As a Manager, I was responsible for leading several client engagements and my key tasks centered on the following core service offerings – 
(1) Financial Modeling & Forecasting, 
(2) Performance Measuring & Reporting, 
(3) Business Planning & Budgeting, and 
(4) Business Analytics & Insights.

Manager, FP&A Services

AmeriLife

Summary:

• Provide direction, coordination, oversight and execution of all phases of acquisition analysis and due diligence to ensure consistency with company strategy, commitments and goals.

• Support the firm’s Corporate Development function through management of research, due diligence, financial analysis and development of presentations for initiatives across the company.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Support the CEO, CFO and other senior Corporate Development executives in strategic and financial analysis for acquisitions and key business initiatives. 

• Research and assess transaction opportunities. 

• Build valuation and financial models. 

• Communicating the business case for proposed acquisitions, particularly the strategic alignment, market context, business analysis and financial justification. 

• Manage the due diligence review of target acquisitions. 

• Identify risk issues that impact transaction value and engage the right resources to address. 

• Meet with stakeholders and provide status updates; clearly communicate issues, potential risks, and mitigation plans. 

• Serve as liaison with target acquisitions and internal subject matter experts to clarify due diligence requirements and ensure thorough follow through. 

• Consolidate due diligence reports from subject matter experts; Distill and summarize relevant information for Senior Executive team. 

• Identify due diligence issues and work with legal team to resolve issues in the transaction documents.

Manager, Corporate Development

Dixon Hughes Goodman LLP

• Participate in buy-side and sell-side financial due diligence engagements with both private equity and strategic corporate buyers 

• Perform (i) quality of earnings, (ii) working capital and (iii) debt and debt-like items analyses 

• Analyze the financial operations of the target companies and identify issues that may impact the purchase price 

• Understand and evaluate financial and operational trends of target companies 

• Lead diligence meetings with target company management team 

• Communicate due diligence findings in a formal report 

• Supervise senior associates and provide performance review feedback 

• Develop and maintain strong client relationships/project management 

• Manage multiple tasks/projects at a time

Manager, Transaction Advisory Services

MetLife

• Worked in MetLife's Corporate & Other Segment Controllers Group. 
•  Served as Controller for start-up businesses within MetLife, primarily the Expatriate Insurance Business (Life, Health, LTD).

Controller, Expatriate Business, C&O Controllers Group

Crosstree Capital Partners, Inc.

• Crosstree is a Healthcare-Focused Investment Bank Providing Mergers and Acquisitions
and Financing Advisory to the Diagnostics & Tools, Drug & Medical Device Outsourcing, and Healthcare Providers segments of the Healthcare industry.

Investment Banker

Silverwood Partners

• Provided financial and strategic advisory services to TMT and Healthcare companies in connection with M&A, divestiture, and private financing transactions.

About Silverwood Partners

Silverwood Partners is a specialized investment bank that provides merger & acquisition advisory services, private capital financing capabilities, and financial and strategic advisory services to public and private companies worldwide in the TMT, healthcare, and consumer sectors.

Vice President Investment Banking

Liberty Savings Bank

• Coordinated several client projects and internal initiatives across multiple offices in different states

Associate, Investment Services

Is your business booming💥but your bank balance barely pays your bills?😭I can help.😎I'm a fractional CFO for founder-owned, self-financed businesses seeking more money, more time, and more peace. | DM me for details 🚀

👋 Lawyers & Fellow Professional Services Firm Owners,

Are you buried in billable hours, but your bank balance barely budges?

Want to grow, but lack financial and strategic guidance?

Do you seek freedom over your time and income?

I started my own firm, Flight Financial, to gain autonomy over my time and earnings. 

🛫 Why 'Flight'? Because it symbolizes freedom, momentum, direction, and raising your firm to unprecedented heights.

Today, I’m committed to guiding you towards experiencing that same sense of liberation and clarity for your firm.

My clients work 40 hours or less per week and have profits in excess of $500,000 per year, without financial unknowns and stress.

At Flight Financial, we have a 6-step One Clear Path system for your firm that will give you the roadmap to that lifestyle.

Within the first 30 days you’ll have a bulletproof plan in hand to gain at least a 2x return on our service in the first year - the sky’s the limit!
 
✅ Here’s How I Elevate You:

➡️ Craft a Clear Profit Path: We’ll give you actionable next steps to achieve transformative results for your firm.

➡️ Seal Profit Leaks: We’ll stop your firm from being a leaky bucket of profits.

➡️ Amplify Marketing ROI: Waiting years for marketing to pay off is a thing of the past. Every $1 of marketing should be generating at least $3 of billable hours for your firm this quarter.

➡️ Optimize Staff ROI: Start earning at least 3x what the lawyers on your team cost you.

➡️ Simplified Financial Mastery: No convoluted jargon, just tailored insights. Each month, you’ll get an easy-to-understand 1-page scoreboard that will clearly show you what’s working and what needs improvement in your business. No need to look at boring or confusing financial accounting statements.   

As a fellow professional services firm owner with 15+ years in finance, accounting, and diverse business collaborations, I deeply understand your aspirations and your challenges. 

I've aided professionals, from lawyers to marketing agencies, in nurturing businesses that thrive, boost profits, amplify cash flow, and resonate with their unique definitions of success.

Ready to soar higher in your firm? 

Let’s get on a quick call to see if we’re the right fit for each other.

Book your free “Right Fit” call here: https://calendly.com/flightfinancial/right-fit 🚀

Brian Zapf, CPA

David Korn

Clover Financial Management • bookkeeping and financial solutions

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

Main Street Management

Main Street Management assumes the role of your CFO, quantifying everything that goes on in your business to ensure it yields profit. While we purposefully do not offer COO services or involvement with sales, our large, experienced team removes duties like mailing, banking, vendor AP, customer AR, overhead expenses, credit card bills, payroll sales taxes, payroll taxes, loans and much more. This empowers you to once again serve your company in the capacity of CEO.

Senior Account Manager

Direct Building Products

•	Was responsible for Inside Sales, including obtaining new leads and bids and maintaining existing customer relationships

•	Established accounts and negotiated pricing with prospective vendors

•	Implemented internal communications system to ensure smooth and successful function of operation

•	Executed and established protocols in regards to order processing and prompt delivery

Inside Sales Representative

💰 Bookkeeping and financial management / Reducing your financial stress / Increasing your cash flow / Your personal team to financial freedom.

As the founder and CEO of Clover Consulting, I provide bookkeeping and financial solutions to 47+ companies across 18 industries. 

I have a passion for helping business owners free themselves from the burden of bookkeeping, invoicing, pricing, payroll, paperwork, and more. I proactively look for and plug leaks in their business, and offer responsive, personal service. I also act as their trusted advisor, answering their questions and guiding them through the process of building and growing a profitable business. I am proud to say that 98% of my clients report increased profits and high satisfaction with my services.

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