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We have found a valuable asset to add to our team, our Rankin McKenzie Partner. Like many businesses, our financial situation is unique to our business. He jumped right in to learn how our business operates to get a full understanding of our current financial picture and future financial needs. Our Partner has assisted with cash flow forecasting to ease the challenges that come with a seasonal business. He’s been instrumental in assisting with new software integration and restructuring our chart of accounts to easily pull financial data. Gaining access to this data is a game changer for our business. Our RM Partner is personable, genuine, honest, and works hard to make himself available to us. I’ve learned so much from him in the short time that he’s been working with us.  I’m excited to continue working with him to better the business.

Upon starting our search, we had doubts about our ability to retain a highly competent finance person within our budgetary constraints who could handle maintaining our finances while also strategizing for the future. This made a fractional CFO like Anna a great fit. After interviewing Anna, we felt very comfortable that she had the right skills and temperament for the role. 

Anna is an experienced professional who has provided financial expertise and guidance to our company, while enabling us to get the right systems and processes in place to manage the daily requirements for finance and for reporting to investors. Anna has also done an excellent job of training people who are not finance professionals to handle the “everyday” work, which has greatly improved our efficiency as a company and enabled us to leverage Anna for higher-order needs. 

Most importantly, Anna has become a trusted advisor for the company – especially when managing complex decisions or new frontiers that the company has no experience with. When making these decisions, you can tell Anna really cares about the company and does everything in her power to fight for its success – which is critical in an early-stage business. 

I am not sure how we would have managed our finance function over the past few years without Anna, especially reporting, tax, and audit. Furthermore, Anna has had a lasting impact on several of our employees through mentorship and education. We are very grateful for her service to the company. 

We had the pleasure of working with Bethany Hong from Rankin McKenzie, and she was an exceptional asset to our team. Bethany quickly mastered our software, conducted thorough financial analyses, and significantly improved our overall performance. Her professionalism, friendliness, and seamless integration into our team were outstanding. Although her contract was short-term, Bethany made a lasting positive impact. We highly recommend Bethany and the excellent services provided by Rankin McKenzie.

From the moment Angela joined our team, her impact has been both collaborative and transformative. Working closely with me, she has implemented efficient workflows for accounts payable, accounts receivable, budgeting, and reporting. She has developed and documented formal procedures for recurring financial tasks, ensuring both consistency and compliance across the department.

Angela has been instrumental in building realistic, strategic budgets that align with firm-wide objectives and in enhancing our ability to track and manage key performance indicators. Her efforts have resulted in faster processes, more strategic budgeting, and stronger, more insightful reporting.

In addition to her process improvements, Angela has led targeted training sessions for the finance team, equipping staff with the tools and knowledge to work with accuracy and confidence. She is consistently proactive in offering assistance and mentoring others on the team, helping each person leverage their strengths to contribute more effectively.

We have had an outstanding experience working with Tom Mense and Rankin McKenzie.  One of the things that I was most impressed with in working with Tom is his ability to help in a variety of ways.  From executive level consultation, to implementing accounting processes, to actual “in the books” controller duties – Tom can do it all.  He works well with every personality and exudes a high level of emotional intelligence.  He is very flexible with his schedule and works hard to accommodate schedules for everyone on the team.  Tom also delivers feedback in a way that is professional and supportive.  He does a great job of identifying areas of improvement and is fully engaged in creating solutions and implementing positive changes.  Above all, Tom worked diligently to make sure we were in great hands before his consultation period was completed.  Not only did he assist with the hiring process of team members within our financial dept., but he also went above and beyond to make sure those individuals received great training and support.  I highly recommend Tom’s services and am very grateful that we had the opportunity to learn from him.

Our company has been experiencing many changes and our RM Partner, Steve Weiner has helped us navigate these waters with grace. His flexibility and availability has been invaluable, and we always feel like a priority. It has been exciting working on the Cycle Labs launch with him, and we are looking forward to continuing our work with Steve post-launch.

I’ve worked with Jeff for over 20 years across multiple companies and industries, and he has consistently proven himself as a trusted, high-impact leader. At Walz Group, a California-based tech-enabled operational business that was recognized in the Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in the US for 3 consecutive years, Jeff played a pivotal role on the executive team.  He led both operations and finance through a period of rapid growth, restructured the business, strengthened its operational foundations and significantly improved its financial accounting and reporting processes.

We partnered again when he led operational and financial due diligence on data platform ventures, serving as fractional CFO for a SaaS company that grew from a Raleigh-based startup to operate in multiple countries on multiple continents, supporting it all the way through its successful acquisition a few years later by a Global Fortune 500 company.

Jeff melds operational excellence with deep financial expertise, and is known for his tremendous reliability, relentless work ethic, and exemplary ethical and business integrity making him an invaluable partner to any leadership team.

When the company moved responsibility for accounting from a venture fund into the company, Kim took over as acting CFO, and we never had a problem with accounting after that.  We never had to worry about whether reports or tasks were going to be completed on time or with good quality.  Overall, Kim was quite pleasant to work with as well as serious about making sure the accounting in the business was being done correctly.

The short answer is that our part-time Controller, Denise Huska, was the best “consultant” I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with. First and foremost, she’s extremely smart. A person doesn’t need to work with her very long to realize that. Her consistently positive attitude is contagious. It didn’t matter if things were going well or if we were struggling a bit, she always radiated the feeling that everything will be just fine. We always felt that we were, to borrow a phrase, “in good hands”. And we always were. Our RM Controller fit in extremely well with our staff. She is instantly likable and always did her best to minimize interruptions to employees’ time. She’s very organized and always came to meetings well-prepared. Working with her always felt more like a personal, friend-to-friend type of relationship than simply a business one. To summarize, her top-notch business and interpersonal skills are second to none, and I’ve learned a great deal from her on both fronts. She does excellent work and is truly a pleasure to work with. Paragon is in a much sounder financial position now as a direct result of her efforts.

Jaye has made my life so much easier.  Prior to coming in, I was trying to do the job of multiple people.  She has taken so much off my plate, and I couldn’t be more grateful.  She is very good at explaining to everyone exactly what she needs.  We have a pretty tricky accounting system that we struggle to use.  While I can tell it’s frustrating, she powers on and continues to successfully get the information she needs out of it.  She has gotten our books straightened out and got us doing things we were never doing before.  I appreciate her every day and am so glad we decided to go with Rankin McKenzie.  Jaye is the perfect person for our business.