Finance Transformation

Finance Fast Start

From opening balance sheet to a board-ready close in the first months of ownership.

OFFERING OVERVIEW

Finance Fast Start takes a newly acquired company from a clean opening balance sheet to a repeatable, board-ready close. Our team builds the reconciliation and reporting mechanics on AI-enabled workflows, while our senior professionals train the existing accounting team on accrual methodology and build the standardized reconciliations that make the close audit-ready, so the company is reporting on schedule from the first months of ownership.

Included capabilities

Chart of Accounts Redesign

A chart of accounts rebuilt to match GAAP and your parent company's standards.

Restructures, renames, and rationalizes the target company's chart of accounts to align with GAAP standards, parent company conventions, or platform requirements. Most applicable for non-QBO platforms.

ERP Provisioning

Your new accounting platform, configured and ready before day one.

Stands up a new ERP or accounting platform instance for the client: legal entity setup, admin access, fiscal year and period setup, and base settings required before data or users can be onboarded.

Historical Books Remediation

We correct the historical entries, so the go-forward books start clean.

Remediates inaccurate or non-GAAP-compliant transactions in the target's historical books through a defined cut-off, typically paired with controller training.

Opening Balance Sheet and Post-Close Transaction Data Load

The opening balance sheet loaded and reconciled the moment the deal closes.

Loads the TS-prepared opening balance sheet into the target accounting platform as of the deal close date, plus post-close transactions and customer/vendor list migration. Requires pre-engagement alignment with the TS team on cut-off date, account mapping, and any new accounts introduced.

Accrual Upskilling

We train your team to run accrual accounting, then hand off with confidence.

Trains the client's controller or accounting team to maintain accrual schedules. Structured in two phases: training and schedule build, then a supported close cycle with review.

Balance Sheet Reconciliation Build-Out

Every material account reconciled on a documented, repeatable schedule.

Designs and builds standardized balance sheet account reconciliation workpapers tied to supporting schedules (prepaids, accruals, fixed assets, deferred revenue), supporting clean monthly close and audit readiness.

Fast Start Reporting

Board-ready reporting on day one, not sometime after the first quarter closes.

Works with management to create day-one reporting output and schedule post-transaction, and works with the target accounting team to develop processes that deliver reporting on time each month.

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Finance Transformation

Data Migration and Remediation

After a transaction, the target's books need to move onto the parent's systems and reflect GAAP from day one. Our team uses AI workflows to accelerate the transaction categorization and reconciliation work behind restructuring the chart of accounts, standing up the new ERP or accounting platform, correcting historical transactions against GAAP, and converting cash-basis books to accrual where needed, so the TS-prepared opening balance sheet loads faster and the go-forward books reconcile to the databook the deal was underwritten on.

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Financial Operations and Reporting Assessment (FORA)

A full diagnostic of a company's accounting operations, GAAP compliance, FP&A reporting, and finance team and systems, delivered as one assessment or as individual modules. Our team speeds the diagnostic work in each area with AI-assisted analysis, so senior professionals spend the engagement identifying the gap between current state and what a PE-backed company needs to report to institutional standards, with recommendations the client can act on immediately or roll into a larger transformation engagement.

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FinOps AI Automation

We document how a client's finance processes actually run today, then design and build the automation that gets the highest-volume, most repeatable work off the team's plate. We build AI-enabled automation into the workflow itself, invoice processing, expense coding, reconciliation, so the function runs faster and more cost-effectively than a team relying on manual work, and we train the client's team on the new process so the gains hold after we leave.

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Finance Integration

When a target joins a parent company, we rationalize both organizations' processes into a single future-state operating model, build the roadmap to get there, and migrate the target onto the parent's systems. Our team accelerates the data mapping and reconciliation work behind the systems migration with AI workflows, so integration moves faster and more efficiently, with one integrated design and one sequenced plan, so nothing is left for the two finance teams to reconcile on their own.

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Surge Support

Experienced finance professionals step into a client's function for as long as a specific peak lasts: a diligence cycle, an audit, a system cutover. Our professionals run the routine data work through AI workflows, so they are productive from week one instead of ramping up on manual process, and the engagement scales back down once the peak passes, with no long-term hire required.

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Operational Due Diligence

A clear picture of what it will take to run the target's finance function after close, delivered before the deal closes. Our team speeds the assessment of accounting operations, FP&A reporting, the finance team and org, and the systems stack with AI-assisted analysis, so our senior professionals can also size the synergies available from combining the target with the parent quickly enough to inform the investment thesis before the deal closes, not after.

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Audit Readiness

Gets a company's books into the shape an auditor expects: a clean chart of accounts, historical transactions remediated to GAAP, cash-basis books converted where needed, and balance sheet reconciliations built out and documented. Our team accelerates the transaction-level remediation and reconciliation work with AI workflows, so a company can get audit-ready cost-effectively and on a defined timeline, whether that's ahead of a first audit, a PE acquisition, or a lender requirement.

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Platform Finance

Built for PE-backed platform companies running a roll-up strategy. We act as the full finance back office for the platform and carry each add-on through the entire deal cycle: QoE, post-close support, systems integration, accounting remediation, sales tax remediation, and ongoing CFO and controllership, with income tax compliance included. Because the same team runs the diligence, the integration, and the monthly close, nothing is lost in a handoff, and each acquisition lands on the platform's systems reconciled to the databook it was underwritten on. Our team runs the routine work through AI-enabled workflows, so the platform gets institutional-grade finance coverage across every add-on without building the function in-house.

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