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Fire & Forge Business Solutions

Fractional CFO for Electrical

CFO support to help electrical contractors manage job costs and cash flow.

Electrical work can tie up cash in labor, materials, progress billing, and project timing. We help you see what each decision does to margin and cash before you move.

  • Project and service margin visibility
  • Cash planning for materials, payroll, and progress billing
  • Hiring, equipment, and project-mix decisions modeled clearly

Electrical finance problems

Busy does not always mean profitable.

Recognize any of these? Start with the question that keeps coming back.

Projects look profitable until timing, change orders, and labor drag show up.

Materials and payroll hit before cash comes back in.

You need to know whether growth is creating profit or just more pressure.

What the CFO work focuses on

Know which electrical work pays off.

Better financial control lets you grow electrical work without letting job timing control the company.

Project-margin review

Bring job mix, labor, materials, and overhead into clearer view so bids and closeouts teach the next decision.

Cash timing model

Plan around deposits, progress billing, retainage, payroll, and vendor timing before the pinch hits.

Overhead control

Understand what the current business can support before adding managers, vehicles, software, or warehouse space.

Decision support

Electrical decisions we help turn into numbers.

The work is practical: model the decision, understand the cash effect, and decide with the owner before the business absorbs another fixed cost.

Which jobs should you bid more carefully or avoid?

Can you afford another electrician, apprentice, or project manager?

How much cash is tied up in current work in progress?

What overhead can the current margin actually support?

Books before strategy

If the books are behind, start with cleanup before CFO work.

Clean financials make the electrical CFO work faster and sharper. If the file is messy, we can start with monthly bookkeeping or cleanup.

Explore bookkeeping

Let's talk

Talk through the next electrical decision.

The first call is simple: what is on your plate, what the numbers look like now, and whether CFO work is the right next step.

Start with a conversation.

Tell us what is getting in the way. We’ll listen, ask a few questions, and work out whether there’s a useful next step together.

(484) 999-3347

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