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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
Executive-level financial leadership built for growth, transition, and complexity.
College Creek Consulting brings CFO-level strategy and hands-in-the-work execution to organizations that need stronger finance leadership — without the cost and permanence of a full-time executive hire.
20+Years of experience
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
Growing companiesForecasting, reporting, and finance leadership that scales with you.
GovCon & constructionIndirect rates, job costing, WIP visibility, and compliance-minded structure.
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 recent finance operations and continuity work.
Engagement outcomeResult
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
Support queue eliminated
Cleared a 600+ ticket AP support queue down to fewer than ten open tickets — in under a week.
600+ → <10In under a week
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
Grant deadline met
Processed approximately 257 grant-funded invoices ahead of a hard grant deadline during a finance-team transition.
~257Invoices before deadline
Institutional knowledge captured
Inventoried a municipal finance department's discrete activities across AP, AR, budget, grants, payroll, and reconciliation — and drove SOPs from draft through client sign-off.
107+Processes documented
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 reporting, margin visibility, and 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 internal diligence through a successful private-equity sale.
Selected engagements
Real work, real organizations.
Two recent examples of embedded finance leadership in practice — one operational transformation, one continuity program.
Nonprofit · AP transformation & continuity
A leading regional anti-hunger nonprofit
Served as embedded accounts payable lead 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
Embedded AP lead
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 · SOP & continuity program
A Maryland municipal finance department
Helped a city government's finance department document and standardize its operating procedures during a leadership transition, so critical knowledge wouldn't walk out the door. Co-led a structured, time-boxed program from activity inventory through client sign-off.
Tyler Munis
OpenGov
SOP development
Execution lead
Inventory
- Cataloged 107+ discrete finance activities across AP, AR, budget, grants, payroll, and reconciliation
Document
- Designed a staff-by-staff process-walkthrough and recording program covering the full department
- Managed the SOP drafting-to-delivery pipeline through technical review and client approval
Deliver
- Delivered a durable library of standard operating procedures
- Produced a gap analysis identifying 35+ best-practice activities for future documentation
Career foundation
Two decades 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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Government contracting
GovCon internal controls & audit
Deep work in internal controls and audit for government contractors — the compliance foundation behind today's DCAA-readiness and indirect-rate work.
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Systems & ERP
ERP implementation leadership
Led Unanet ERP implementations for government contractors, building the systems fluency that now spans Unanet, Costpoint, NetSuite, and Munis.
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Private equity
Transaction leadership through a PE sale
Led internal due diligence for a specialty contractor through a successful private-equity sale — 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 growing companies, contractors, nonprofits, and public-sector organizations — plus incoming 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 with more than two decades of experience strengthening accounting functions, financial reporting, and finance operations across public accounting, government contracting, private-sector, nonprofit, and municipal environments.
He began his career at Ernst & Young in New York City and has since led GovCon internal controls work, Unanet ERP implementations, and internal due diligence through a private-equity sale. Most recently, he has provided embedded finance leadership to a Maryland municipal government and 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, 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
Drowning in backlog, mid-transition, or losing institutional knowledge?
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 · Finance operations · GovCon · Construction · Municipal & nonprofit