Fractional FP&A · Senior Advisory
You don’t need a full-time finance department to think like one. Cairn27 Analytics brings senior-level FP&A expertise in reporting infrastructure, forecasting, and financial clarity to growth-stage companies that are ready to move with confidence.
Cairn27 Analytics is a solo, fully remote fractional FP&A practice founded on a simple conviction: good financial infrastructure isn’t a luxury. It’s what lets leadership teams make fast, confident decisions at every stage of growth.
Kerry, Founder and Fractional CFO, brings more than a decade of FP&A experience; building reporting packs, automating management reporting, and designing business analysis frameworks that actually get used. She operates as a true partner: embedded in your business, aligned to your goals, and ready to build systems that scale with you.
Whether you’re building from scratch or optimizing what already exists, every engagement is scoped to deliver outcomes, not hours.
Management reporting packs, board decks, and KPI dashboards that surface the right information at the right cadence so leadership is never flying blind.
Rolling forecasts, scenario models, and budget frameworks built for flexibility. The plan you built in January rarely survives contact with March.
Turn repetitive manual reporting into automated, reliable outputs. From Power BI dashboards to Excel automation, reclaim the hours your team spends on formatting.
Design and build the financial infrastructure your company needs to grow: chart of accounts, data architecture, and reporting frameworks that scale.
Evaluate, select, and implement FP&A platforms with someone who knows what good looks like from day one, so you’re not paying to learn on the job.
Structured approaches to pricing analysis, profitability segmentation, variance analysis, and operational metrics giving your team a shared language around performance.
A focused 45-minute conversation to understand where your finance function is, where it needs to go, and whether we’re a good fit.
A clear engagement proposal with defined deliverables, timeline, and investment. No ambiguity about what you’re getting or when.
Embedded collaboration with your team to build the reporting, models, and infrastructure we scoped, with regular check-ins throughout.
Clean documentation, knowledge transfer, and ongoing availability so what we built together keeps working long after the engagement closes.
Pure FP&A focus, not a generalist advisor spreading attention across ten disciplines. Deep expertise in financial reporting, modeling, and automation.
Every system, model, and report is built with your team in mind—documented, transferable, and designed to outlast the engagement.
You work directly with Kerry, not a team of rotating analysts. That means continuity, context, and a partner who actually knows your business.
The fractional model is still new enough that a few persistent myths get in the way of good decisions. Here’s the reality.
“Fractional means part-time—I’ll only get a fraction of their attention.”
Fractional means focused. Without internal politics, all-hands meetings, or administrative overhead, a fractional executive often delivers more productive output per hour than a full-time hire. You get senior capacity applied directly to your highest-value problems.
“They won’t understand our business well enough to be useful.”
Fractional executives build business context quickly. It’s a core part of the skillset. Exposure across multiple industries is a feature, not a liability. Pattern recognition developed across many companies accelerates the diagnosis of problems your team may be too close to see.
“It’s just a consultant with a fancier title.”
Consultants deliver recommendations. Fractional executives deliver results—and own them. The engagement model is accountability-based: the work gets built, implemented, and handed off fully functional. There’s no incentive to extend the engagement beyond what’s needed.
“We’re not big enough to need this level of expertise, or afford it.”
Growth-stage companies need senior financial thinking the most and can rarely justify the full-time cost. Fractional FP&A is designed precisely for this gap: you get the expertise that helps you make better decisions now, at a cost structure that makes sense for where you are.
“Once the engagement ends, we’ll be back to square one.”
A well-run fractional engagement leaves your team more capable than it found them. Systems are documented, processes are transferable, and your internal team learns alongside the work. The goal isn’t dependency. It’s building infrastructure that runs without us.
“A fractional hire is just a placeholder until we can afford the real thing.”
For many companies, fractional is the right long-term model, not a stepping stone. Senior financial leadership doesn’t need to be a fixed overhead cost. Engaging fractionally keeps your finance function senior, flexible, and right-sized for where your business actually is.
Start with a no-commitment conversation. Tell us a bit about your company and what you’re working through.
We’ll take it from there.
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