Charles Leikauf pitches fractional CFO work to corporate finance professionals. A $1,000/hour engagement that improves a $10M business by 5% generates roughly $500K in value. He walks through the model, how to package services, and where to find clients online.
If you're in corporate finance, you've memorized this book, you know exactly what to do. If you are in private equity, investment banking, corporate finance, consulting, fpa, whatever you may be in. If you're in one of these and you know this book, I want to tell you something. If you're like me, you've been trying to escape the rat race. You want to earn significantly more without grinding yourself to death with the hours. Here's how you do this. Because the old way of grinding yourself to death, waiting till you hit partner. When you do a partner, God forbid you got those golden handcuffs that you can't leave because you only get paid three years later. The new way of getting rich and getting your life back with corporate finance science knowledge is not studying the valuation book, my McKinsey. It's setting yourself up as a fractional CFO. Hi, I'm Charles Lykoff and I worked at one of the largest Fortune 50 companies on the planet. I was a CFO of a middle market company and now I own my own fractional CFO firm to help people start their own fractional CFO offer. Now I was able to escape the corporate finance world because I started helping small businesses with their finances. You might ask Charles, what the hell does a fractional CFO even do? Fractional CFO helps small businesses doing over a million dollars a year make more money, keep more of their money and understand their. If you can do those three things, you can offer for actual CFO services. Now, I recommend you get a certification, you learn a little bit how to put together a package and offer. But if you're already a corporate finance individual, you are considered a small business expert because corporate finance is up here as far as technical skills, small business finance is down here. So you probably have way more information than your average small business owner. You just don't have a way to package it correctly to even understand how to sell it to small businesses and even how to get clients. But if you look, if you earn Whatever it is, 50, 100, 2,000, $200,000 a year, $300,000 a year, whatever your earning, you can earn significantly more while working less by offering fractional CFO services. Typically they make about $1,000 an hour if you structure your package in the right way. So the things you might do is budget, forecast, working capital management. If you help a business that has $10 million a year, 5% better, you've made them half a million dollars a year. Well, for five grand a month, to make a business owner half a million dollars a year. That probably sounds like a good deal to them. And so you need to be able to embrace AI so you can spend less time working, build a really good fractional CFO offer or package so the client understands like, hey, this is what I'm getting, this is what I'm doing. And be able to get clients on the Internet. So I help people do that. We've helped over 300 firms do that. I'm a current fractional CFO. I do over a million dollars a year in my fractional CFO firm, and I've helped over 300 others start growing scale their own fractional CFO firm. If you're looking to get started, if you want to learn more about fractional CFO, I recommend you go to our website, profitsearchgroup.com or go through my YouTube channel here and consume all the information. Because escaping the corporate world is one of the best decisions I've ever made in my entire life.
