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Fractional CFO services
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Budgeting, forecasting, reporting, cash flow visibility, and strategic decision support tailored to the scale and complexity of your business.
Annapolis-based fractional CFO & finance operations
Fractional CFO for construction, GovCon, and project-based firms.
College Creek Consulting brings CFO-level strategy and hands-in-the-work execution to contractors, growing companies, nonprofits, and public-sector teams that need stronger finance leadership — without the cost and permanence of a full-time executive hire.
13.5xEBITDA at PE exit
Big 4Ernst & Young trained
CPALicensed in Maryland
FEIBaltimore chapter president
The value proposition
Strategy that reaches all the way to the invoice queue.
Most consultants stop at the recommendation. College Creek Consulting embeds directly with your finance team — diagnosing where processes break down, clearing the backlogs that pile up during transitions, redesigning the workflows underneath, and leaving behind documentation and controls your team can actually run on their own. From the executive conversation to the finance detail, and back.
Where the work lands
Construction & GovConJob costing, WIP schedules, indirect rates, and reporting that stands up to sureties and lenders.
Growing companiesForecasting, reporting, and finance leadership that scales with you.
Nonprofits & municipalEmbedded leadership in grant-funded, high-accountability environments.
Teams in transitionERP rollouts, leadership gaps, backlogs, and knowledge at risk of walking out the door.
Measured results
The numbers, reconciled.
Every engagement is different, but the standard is the same: outcomes you can count. A sample from CFO, controller, and finance operations work.
Engagement outcomeResult
Revenue doubled, then a premium exit
As CFO of a specialty contractor, partnered with the President as revenue doubled in a single year, then led company-side preparation for a private-equity sale at 13.5x EBITDA.
$6.5M → $13MRevenue in one year
Receivables brought under control
As controller for a DCAA-compliant government contractor, cut outstanding receivables through billing discipline and a collections process redesign.
$12.5M → $4MAR in two months
Close backlog cleared, close on schedule
As interim controller for a $40M project-based manufacturer, cleared three months of delinquent closes within the first month and brought the monthly close down to 10 days.
10-dayMonthly close
AP invoice backlog cleared
Reduced an accounts payable invoice inbox from roughly 270 open items to about 60 while stabilizing daily operations mid-ERP-transition.
270 → 60Open invoices
Payment errors caught before they cost money
Vendor reconciliations surfaced invoices that never reached the organization and flagged a mis-captured payable before it was paid.
$25K+Errors surfaced & stopped
Institutional knowledge captured
For the City of Annapolis Finance Department, through Harbor View Consulting: designed the staff walkthrough program that inventoried 171 finance activities, and managed SOP delivery through client approval.
100+SOPs delivered
From financial fog to clarity
When reporting lags, backlogs grow, and institutional knowledge lives in one person's head, leadership starts flying blind.
College Creek Consulting replaces that uncertainty with usable reporting, faster closes, cleared queues, documented processes, and a finance function that supports the organization instead of slowing it down.
What clients gain
Practical improvements that compound quickly.
The pattern is consistent across industries: better numbers, better decisions, fewer finance bottlenecks — and a team that keeps running well after the engagement ends.
- Cleaner month-end closes and management reporting
- Stabilized daily operations during ERP rollouts and staff transitions
- Sharper visibility into cash, margins, and project profitability
- Documented SOPs and durable knowledge transfer
- Board-, lender-, and audit-ready reporting
Services & specialties
Focused expertise, delivered the way you need it.
Engagements can be ongoing retainers, defined projects, or targeted support around a specific transition — designed for organizations that need serious financial leadership, but not necessarily a permanent seat.
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Finance operations & AP transformation
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Process assessment, backlog remediation, workflow redesign, internal controls, and AP-automation platform evaluation, selection, and troubleshooting.
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Interim leadership & continuity
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Embedded finance leadership during vacancies and transitions, plus SOP development and knowledge transfer so critical know-how never walks out the door.
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Government contracting
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Indirect rate support, overhead allocation, DCAA readiness, and GovCon ERP fluency across Unanet and Deltek Costpoint environments.
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Construction accounting
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Job costing, WIP schedules, margin visibility, and financial reporting that holds up to surety and bank review — built on accounting processes that reflect how projects actually perform in the field.
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Transaction readiness
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Financial cleanup, diligence support, and preparation for acquisitions, capital raises, or lender scrutiny — informed by leading company-side diligence through a private-equity sale at 13.5x EBITDA.
Selected engagements
Real work, real organizations.
Three recent examples of embedded finance leadership in practice — a construction controllership, an operational transformation, and a continuity program.
Construction & manufacturing · Interim controller
A $40M prefabricated multi-unit housing manufacturer
Stepped in as interim controller for a project-based manufacturer of prefabricated multi-unit housing with design offices in Germany and the UK — clearing a three-month close backlog, putting the close on a 10-day schedule, and realigning project margin analysis with how work is priced and tracked.
Percentage-of-completion
WIP reporting
Multi-currency
Interim controller
Stabilize
- Cleared a three-month close backlog within the first month
- Brought the monthly close down to 10 days
Report
- Owned percentage-of-completion revenue recognition and WIP reporting
- Consolidated multi-currency results across German and UK design offices
Align
- Reworked project-level margin analysis so pricing and project tracking measure the same thing
Nonprofit · AP transformation & continuity
A leading regional anti-hunger nonprofit
Led accounts payable transformation and finance continuity for one of the region's largest anti-hunger nonprofits during a finance-team transition and a major ERP rollout — stabilizing daily operations while redesigning the core workflows underneath them.
NetSuite
AP automation
Grant compliance
Finance transformation
Stabilize
- Cut the invoice inbox backlog from ~270 to ~60
- Cleared 600+ support tickets to fewer than 10 in under a week
- Processed ~257 grant-funded invoices ahead of a hard deadline
Fix
- Surfaced and stopped $25K+ in vendor payment errors
- Resolved ERP-to-AP-platform integration failures, including rounding-logic and segment-mapping errors
Leave stronger
- Authored the vendor evaluation recommending a replacement AP automation platform
- Built a co-developed SOP library and a weekly executive reporting cadence for the CFO
Municipal government · Finance leadership transition · Through Harbor View Consulting
City of Annapolis Finance Department
Senior consultant on Harbor View Consulting's five-month engagement supporting the City's Finance Department through a senior leadership transition — keeping daily operations running through FY2027 budget season and a delayed prior-year audit, while documenting how the department actually works so critical knowledge wouldn't walk out the door.
Tyler Munis
OpenGov
SOP development
Senior consultant
Inventory
- Designed the recorded staff walkthrough program that inventoried 171 finance activities across AP, billing and AR, payroll, cash, accounting, budget, and compliance
Document
- Managed the SOP drafting-to-delivery pipeline through technical review and client approval
- Delivered 100+ SOPs to the City
Team outcomes
- FY2027 operating and capital budget adopted on the statutory schedule
- Delayed prior-year audit closed and ACFR completed
Career foundation
A career across every side of finance.
A career built deliberately — from Big Four rigor, through government contracting and ERP systems, to private-equity transactions and public-sector leadership.
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Public accounting
Ernst & Young — New York City
Big Four training ground: audit discipline, financial reporting rigor, and the professional standards that anchor everything since.
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Federal finance
Federal internal controls & audit
Internal controls testing under OMB Circular A-123 and federal financial audit work with the U.S. Department of State's CFO office — the compliance foundation behind today's DCAA-readiness and grant-compliance work.
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Systems & ERP
ERP implementation leadership
Led a Unanet ERP implementation for a DCAA-compliant government contractor, building the systems fluency that now spans Unanet, Costpoint, NetSuite, and Munis.
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Private equity
CFO through growth and a PE sale
As CFO of a specialty contractor, partnered with the President as revenue doubled from $6.5M to $13M, then led company-side diligence through a private-equity sale at 13.5x EBITDA — firsthand experience with what sophisticated buyers, lenders, and investors actually scrutinize.
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Today
College Creek Consulting
Fractional CFO and finance operations leadership for contractors, growing companies, nonprofits, and public-sector organizations — plus president of Financial Executives International's Baltimore chapter.
Unanet
Deltek Costpoint
NetSuite · SuiteScript, saved searches, custom segments
Tyler Munis
OpenGov
AP automation · Zip, ZoneCapture
Advanced Excel
Microsoft 365
Notion
On the Chesapeake · Annapolis, MD
About the founder
Sean Doyle, CPA
"My goal is simple: give organizations the financial leadership that was previously only available to companies many times their size."
Sean Doyle is the founder of College Creek Consulting and a Maryland CPA whose career spans public accounting, federal audit, government contracting, construction, nonprofit, and municipal finance.
He began his career at Ernst & Young in New York City. As CFO of a specialty contractor, he partnered with the President as revenue doubled from $6.5M to $13M and led company-side preparation for a private-equity sale at 13.5x EBITDA. He has also led a Unanet ERP implementation for a government contractor and served as interim controller for a $40M prefabricated housing manufacturer. Most recently, he supported the City of Annapolis Finance Department through a leadership transition as part of Harbor View Consulting's team, and led accounts payable transformation for a leading regional nonprofit — hands-on engagements that pair strategic assessment with real operational execution.
Sean is fluent across the finance detail and the executive conversation. Whether the issue is forecasting, job costing, a WIP schedule headed to the surety, an overflowing invoice queue, an ERP integration failure, or a leadership gap, his approach is the same: make the numbers more useful, the processes more durable, and the finance function more effective.
TrainingErnst & Young alumnus
CredentialCPA — Maryland
EducationVillanova M.Acct.
LeadershipFEI Baltimore president
Sector strengthGovCon & construction
Special projectsPE transaction diligence
Start the conversation
Facing a bonding review, a transaction, a system change, or an open finance seat?
Book a free 30-minute consultation. No pressure — just a practical conversation about where your organization stands and how College Creek Consulting can help you get stable and stay that way.
Get in touch
Let's talk about your organization.
Whether you're preparing for a transaction, stabilizing operations through a transition, or outgrowing your current accounting setup, College Creek Consulting would be glad to learn more.
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Location
Annapolis, Maryland
Serving
Annapolis · Baltimore · Washington, DC · DMV Region
Specialties
Fractional CFO · Construction · GovCon · Transaction readiness · Finance operations · Municipal & nonprofit
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