Founder and managing principal, Bednar Finance.
Seventeen years across public accounting and private operating companies, now in fractional CFO work because that is where the most useful conversations actually happen. Today I am also the de facto CFO of a multinational manufacturer with three legal entities and a US-Korea structure, so multi-entity and cross-border complexity is the day job, not a line on a page.
Rutgers Business School, MBA Summa Cum Laude (2021) and BS Accounting Magna Cum Laude (2014). University of Maryland, BS Statistics Summa Cum Laude (2011). CPA (NJ, 2016). Enrolled Agent (IRS, 2017).
Why this background matters for a fractional CFO engagement: most fractional CFOs come from one side or the other. Public accounting only, with no operating experience. Or operating company only, with no audit or compliance fluency. The work that holds up in front of a bank, a board, an auditor, or a buyer demands both. A Diagnostic has to be defensible to your lender (public accounting), grounded in how the business actually runs (operating experience), and honest about what a sponsor or buyer will pay for (transaction thinking). That is the seat I sit in.
My clients are not defined by their sector. They are defined by a moment: the numbers have to be right, and something important is about to depend on them. That is the work I take.
Every meeting produces three decisions and a recommendation on each. Reports are inputs to decisions. They are not the deliverable.
A renewal, a board meeting, an audit, a close, a sale. The clock does not move, so neither do I. Clean and credible in weeks, not quarters.
You meet with the senior practitioner. Not an associate, not a rotating cast. The person at intake is the person at readout and the person on month 24.
The fee is the fee. The scope is the scope. Out-of-scope work is quoted separately, not absorbed quietly. Both sides know what they are paying for.
Email is the fastest way to start a conversation: edwin@bednarfinance.com
LinkedIn for ongoing dialog: linkedin.com/in/edwin-bednarczyk-cpa
Phone is reserved for active client engagements and scheduled discovery calls.
A 25-minute call costs nothing and tells us both whether a Diagnostic is the right next step. If it is not, I will say so and point you in the right direction.
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