Run a tighter ship with a controller at the helm. Process improvement, internal controls, and accounting oversight. Serving businesses in Philadelphia.
• Implement proper internal controls and segregation of duties
• Standardize processes across your accounting function
• Get audit-ready financials and documentation
• Reduce risk of errors and financial misstatement
An outsourced controller owns the accuracy of your numbers. That is a different job from bookkeeping, which records transactions, and from a CFO, who decides what to do about them. The controller sits between the two: they own the chart of accounts, the close calendar, the reconciliation standard, revenue recognition policy, and the internal controls that stop one person from both approving and paying an invoice. Most companies add the role about two years later than they should, because nothing visibly breaks without it — the books still close, they are just quietly less reliable each month, and you find out during diligence or an audit.
The three jobs get confused because small companies ask one person to do all of them. They are different jobs with different outputs, and they go wrong in different ways.
| Dimension | Bookkeeper | Controller | CFO |
|---|---|---|---|
| Core job | Records what happened | Guarantees the numbers are right | Decides what to do about them |
| Owns | Transaction coding, bank and card reconciliation, AP and AR | Close calendar, chart of accounts, revenue recognition policy, internal controls | Forecast, capital plan, board and investor relationship |
| Monthly output | A categorised ledger with reconciled accounts | Closed books with a schedule behind every balance sheet account | Model, runway, board deck, financing plan |
| Time horizon | Last month | Last month, done right, every month | The next 12 to 36 months |
| You need one when | Day one | The close slips past 15 days, numbers get restated, or an audit or diligence is ahead | You are raising, reporting to a board, or making pricing and hiring decisions |
| Full-time cost | $50,000 to $75,000 | $110,000 to $160,000 plus benefits | $250,000 and up, plus equity |
| With Mighty | Included in every plan, from $1,500/mo | Launch tier, $3,300/mo flat | Expand tier, $7,500/mo flat |
Flat monthly fee, scoped to transaction volume, entity count and close deadline. No hourly billing — it penalises you for asking questions.
Controllership sits in our Launch tier and above. A full-time controller runs $110,000–$160,000 plus benefits, which is more capacity than the work requires below roughly $10M in revenue.
See full pricing →Without proper oversight, errors and fraud risk increase significantly.
✓ Implement segregation of duties and approval workflows
Ad-hoc processes lead to inconsistent results and wasted effort.
✓ Document and optimize your accounting workflows
Without a controller, nobody owns the integrity of your financials.
✓ Dedicated controller oversight with regular check-ins
Evaluate current processes and identify control weaknesses.
Create optimized workflows with proper checks and balances.
Roll out new processes with training and ongoing oversight.
We tailor our approach to the unique needs of your business.
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Gross Margin
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Job Margin
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Gross Margin
Program Expense Ratio
Job costing, percentage of completion, retention. We understand the unique financial challenges of construction businesses in Philadelphia.
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Find My Solution →Controllership is the part of a finance function responsible for the integrity of the accounting records and the financial statements built from them. It covers the monthly close, account reconciliations, revenue recognition, internal controls and compliance reporting. The controller is the person accountable for it, whether that person is on staff or outsourced.
$3,300 to $7,500 a month on a flat fee, scoped to transaction volume, entity count and how fast you need the close. That is our Launch and Expand tiers. A full-time controller runs $110,000 to $160,000 plus benefits, which is more capacity than the work requires below roughly $10M in revenue.
A bookkeeper records what happened. A controller guarantees the output is right and designs the controls that keep it right. The practical test: "did this transaction get coded correctly" is a bookkeeping question; "is this customer segment margin-positive after support cost" is a controller question, and no amount of bookkeeping hours will answer it.
Any two of these together usually means the role is overdue: your close has slipped from 10 days to 20 without a matching jump in volume; you have restated numbers more than once this year; nobody owns the chart of accounts; your CPA is doing cleanup at year-end; or the same person both approves and pays invoices.
Yes, and that is the most common setup. We insist the controller is a different person from whoever does the bookkeeping — independent review is the entire value of the role. If the same person records and reviews, you have bought a title, not a control.
Yes. We specialize in Construction companies and understand percentage of completion accounting. Our team knows the metrics that matter: Job Margin, Backlog.
