Electrical CFO

Fractional CFO for Electrical Contractors

Service work, tenant improvements, and big commercial projects feel like one company — until you notice they get paid on three different clocks and only one of them is fast. A fractional CFO makes the three legible, so you grow the ones that pay and stop quietly financing the ones that don't.

Service and projects run on different money

Service is quick cash and clean margins. Larger projects mean draws, retainage, and work-in-progress — margins that only work if the estimate held and the change orders got billed. Blend them and you can't tell whether your service base is subsidizing thin project work or the other way around.

A CFO separates them and reads the WIP, so you know your real margin by work type and whether that last big job actually made money or just moved a lot of it around.

The metrics behind bidding, hiring, and bonding

Backlog, margin fade against estimate, labor burden by crew, and bonding capacity — these are the numbers that decide which jobs to chase and whether you can staff them. Bid on gut and you find out at closeout; bid off a model and you find out before you sign.

We build the unit economics and keep the WIP honest, so your next bid, your next hire, and your bonding conversation all start from math instead of optimism.

How Kaizen runs it

You get a senior CFO a few days a month on top of clean, job-costed books with a real WIP schedule. We run a rolling cash forecast, break out margin by service, project, and commercial, track backlog and margin fade, and prep financials your surety and lender will actually respect.

It's the difference between chasing revenue and choosing it. One of those builds a company you could sell; the other builds a very busy calendar.

What's included

Margin by service, tenant-improvement, and commercial project
Work-in-progress and margin-fade tracking against estimate
13-week rolling cash forecast across draw cycles
Backlog and pipeline reporting

Bonding-capacity support and surety-ready financials
Labor-burden and crew-cost analysis
Bid and expansion scenario models
Monthly board-ready KPI and margin pack

Most electrical contractors start with the 1-2-3 CFO™ Reset: Month 1 clean and job-cost the books with a WIP schedule, Month 2 stand up cash forecasting and KPIs, Month 3 the first real board pack.

Pricing

$4,000–8,000/mosenior CFO, fractional · scoped to divisions and size · no contract

~$200K+/yrwhat a full-time construction CFO costs fully loaded, benefits and bonus included

Days, not a hiresenior CFO judgment a few days a month, on top of a real finance team

Decisions with mathbidding and hiring calls backed by WIP and unit economics, not a gut feeling

Straight answers

We have a bookkeeper already. Why add a CFO?

A bookkeeper keeps the numbers right; a CFO decides what to do with them — which jobs to bid, how to price labor, whether you can bond the next one. Many clients keep their bookkeeper and add us for the strategy layer.

Can you handle WIP and bonding?

Yes — an accurate WIP schedule and surety-ready financials are core to what we do. It's often the reason a growing contractor calls us in the first place.

What size company is this for?

Usually $3M+ in revenue or anyone carrying real project backlog and bonding needs. Smaller, service-only shops with clean books often just need a good bookkeeper — we'll say so.

Do you replace our accounting team?

No — we sit on top of it, or bring our own bookkeeping if you prefer. The CFO work is judgment and forecasting on a clean books foundation.

Free 20-minute books assessment

We'll show you the five things we'd fix first in your books — useful whether you hire us, hire someone, or do neither.

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