Fractional CFO services for Hamilton & the Golden Horseshoe
Senior financial leadership without the full-time hire. Forecasting, margin clarity, job costing, SaaS metrics, and board- and lender-ready reporting — from a Big Four-trained finance leader who also fixes the software feeding your books.
The financial leadership of a CFO, sized to what you actually need.
A fractional CFO gives you senior financial judgment — forecasting, capital and cash strategy, margin analysis, and the reporting that lenders, boards, and investors expect — on a part-time, right-sized basis. You get the seniority without the six-figure salary, equity, and overhead of a full-time hire.
Most growing businesses in this region are stuck in the same gap: they have outgrown bookkeeping but cannot yet justify a full-time CFO. The books get done, but nobody owns the forward-looking view — what the next two quarters of cash look like, which jobs or product lines actually make money, whether a covenant is about to be breached, or how to frame the numbers for a lender or a board. That is the gap I fill.
Steel City CFO runs two connected service lines. This one is the fractional CFO work below. The other is Financial Systems Architecture — configuring field and operational software so it feeds your accounting system cleanly. Together they mean I can fix both the numbers and the plumbing underneath them.
Finance built around your industry’s real economics.
Construction, manufacturing, software, and professional services each break differently. Pick the model that matches how your business actually earns and spends.
Construction & Trades
Finance built around how construction businesses actually run.
IndustryManufacturing
Finance built around how manufacturing businesses actually run.
IndustrySoftware & SaaS
Finance built around how software & SaaS businesses actually run.
IndustryProfessional Services
Finance built around how professional services businesses actually run.
Drivable, in-person fractional CFO support.
I am based in Hamilton and serve the Golden Horseshoe and southwestern Ontario in person. These are the markets I cover — Toronto-core competition deliberately excluded in favour of being genuinely present for the businesses I work with.
Hamilton
Fractional CFO serving Hamilton in person.
CityBurlington
Fractional CFO serving Burlington in person.
CityOakville
Fractional CFO serving Oakville in person.
CityNiagara & St. Catharines
Fractional CFO serving the Niagara region in person.
CityGrimsby
Fractional CFO serving Grimsby and west Niagara in person.
CityLondon, Ontario
Fractional CFO serving London and southwestern Ontario in person.
Fractional CFO by industry and city.
Every combination has its own page with the specific playbook for that industry in that market.
Start with a $750 audit. Scale into a retainer only if it’s worth it.
Transparent, fixed entry point; a right-sized retainer after.
The Diagnostic Audit. A focused review of your finances and the systems feeding them, with quantified findings and a clear recommendation. No retainer, no open meter — you get the map first.
See how the audit worksA right-sized monthly retainer once the foundation is clean: forecasting, reporting, lender and board support, and an operating rhythm you can run the business on. Scope and price scale to your size.
Book a CallReady for senior finance without the full-time hire?
Book a call and we’ll talk through where your numbers are costing you — and whether a fractional CFO is the right fix.