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Fractional Controller Services in New Hampshire
A controller is the person who ensures your financial reporting is true. Still North’s fractional controllers own the monthly close, reconciliations, and internal controls for growing companies across New Hampshire, Greater Boston, and beyond, delivering financials clean enough for a lender, a board, or an audit.
When You Need This
When "the books are done" and "the books are right" are different things
A bookkeeper can keep your transactions accurate and your accounts reconciled, and you can still lack financials a lender would sign off on. Without a disciplined close, reporting can run weeks late, or never truly finish. Without real controls, problems surface only after they’ve compounded. And without consistency, the numbers change depending on who assembles them.
If a bank, a buyer, or an auditor looked at your numbers tomorrow, a controller is the difference between a conversation and a scramble.
This is you if...
- Accounts that never get reconciled
- A close that finishes weeks late, or never formally closes
- Reports that change depending on who pulls them
What Your Controller Owns
The close, the controls, and the reporting
01
The monthly close
A disciplined, on-schedule close so every month ends with numbers you can stand behind.
02
Account reconciliations
Bank, credit card, and balance-sheet accounts tied out, so nothing hides in the gaps.
03
System-generated reporting
Financial statements produced by your accounting system, not rebuilt by hand in a spreadsheet.
04
Internal controls
The checks that keep errors and surprises out of the numbers as the company grows.
03
Audit and lender readiness
Financials with the documentation to hold up under outside scrutiny.
Your controller sits between our bookkeeping team’s daily work and CFO-level strategy, so each layer of the finance stack reinforces the next.
One Connected Finance Stack
Every layer reinforces the next
Your controller sits between our bookkeeping team’s daily work and CFO-level strategy. Clean books feed an on-time close; an on-time close feeds numbers your CFO and FP&A team can actually plan against.
See the full stack on the Bookkeeping and Fractional CFO pages.
FAQ
Common questions about controller services
What does "audit-ready" mean?
Audit-ready financials are complete, reconciled, and documented well enough that an outside party, whether an auditor, a lender, or an acquirer, can trace the numbers to support without gaps. It is a standard of discipline, not just a state of tidiness.
Do I need a controller or a bookkeeper?
A bookkeeper records the transactions. A controller makes sure the resulting financials are accurate, closed on time, and properly controlled. Most growing companies eventually need both, which is why we provide them as connected services from one team.
We are behind on our books. Can you still take over the close?
Yes. Cleanup of neglected or backlogged accounts is part of how many engagements begin. We get the history straightened out first, then put a repeatable close in place.