Hire Head of Finance

If you’ve ever felt like you’re making big decisions without enough financial analysis, and clarity, you’re not alone. Many executives find themselves here, running a business while juggling spreadsheets, investor decks, and compliance headaches. Without a senior finance leader in the seat, here’s what usually happens: 

• The Numbers Don’t Tell a Clear Story: Reports come in late, or worse, they don’t quite add up. Instead of guiding your financial operations, the numbers create more questions, and investors start to lose confidence. 
• Compliance Feels Like a Moving Target: Tax deadlines, filings, new regulations, something always seems to slip through the cracks. And the “we’ll deal with it later” approach eventually leads to penalties or sleepless nights.
• Costs Keep Creeping Up: Budgets blow past limits, cash flow feels tighter than expected, and no one’s really tracking the financial data or where the money should be going. Profitability quietly erodes.
• Decisions Happen Without Real Financial Insight: Hiring, pricing, expansion. You’re forced to rely on gut instinct instead of clear financial modeling. It’s a gamble every time.
• Growth Makes Everything Harder: Scaling into new states or countries only adds more complexity. Taxes, compliance, reporting, all of it gets more tangled without someone to lead finance.
• Board and Investor Updates Eat Up Your Time: Instead of focusing on strategy, you’re buried in spreadsheets and slide decks, preparing updates for people who expect polished, investor-ready narratives.