Strategic Finance Solutions for construction and building materials businesses.

We focus on building materials manufacturers, suppliers, subcontractors and builders because we really know those businesses. With us on your team, you will improve margins and grow more profitably with less stress. If getting all that at the same time sounds good, set up a call with us!

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Promote the accounting department to 'Strategic Partner' in your organization!

Having strategic finance capability in your firm is the foundation for growth, profitability and stress reduction that you've been looking for. Let us show you how.

Most finance and technology consultants will want to bring you a generic solution from their playbook. We know that in construction, each team is unique and that differences in details make the difference in execution.

We'll develop a customized solution that leaves none of what you're good at behind, but sets you on a path to better results and a better future.

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Our Strategic Finance Services

At The Sharpen Group, we offer a comprehensive suite of strategic finance consultancy services to help building material suppliers, dealers, component manufacturers, and subcontractors optimize their financial operations, bridge the gap to strategic execution, and empower their growth.

Fractional and Interim CFO Services

Make us a permanent but part-time member of your team. We’ll guide your finance and accounting functions to where they are supporting your business and strategic objectives. It’s the highest leverage investment you’ll ever make in a consulting service!

Strategic Finance Evaluation

Analyzes your finance, technology, and budgeting capabilities to identify areas for improvement and help you achieve strategic financial objectives.

Financial Reporting Assessment

Evaluates the financial close process and monthly financial reporting package and provides a mockup of recommended level 4 reporting along with a roadmap for implementation.

Digital Environment Assessment

Assesses your processes to pinpoint inefficiencies, inaccurate data, and lacking internal controls, suggesting ways to streamline with automation and integration.

Forecasting Model Review/Design

Identifies opportunities for improvement through automation, system integration, and enhanced reporting, offering a gap analysis pinpointing areas of inefficiency, inaccuracy, or lacking internal controls.

Data Structure Review

If you want strategic insight from your financial function, you need a data structure in accounting and operations that can support that. We can show you where the gaps are, give you a prototype, and get you ready for a future driven by AI applications at the same time.

Incentive Compensation Review and Analysis

Reviews your incentive programs to understand the outcomes and behaviors they incentivize, offering suggestions for improvement.

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Case Studies

See how our strategic finance solutions have helped businesses achieve remarkable results.

Digital Conversion in the Accounting Department

Steep growth coming out of the housing collapse of 2009 reached a critical point in 2014 when the percentage increases in revenue were well into the double digits and the base to which they were adding was becoming sizable. The required transaction processing capacity of the Accounting department surged past the previous high point by about 30% and the company’s paper-based workflows became unsustainable and required the addition of significant staff and overhead costs.

Accurate Job Costing Aligns Incentive Pay with Company Success

The client had a very strong and trade-knowledgeable organization capable of delivering operational excellence on jobs ranging from very simple but high pace to very difficult but time-consuming. With such $100 M in volume, it was very difficult to tell if the company’s revenue-based commission plan was aligning the value of the contracts with the pay of the sales team, which led to negativity and the top salespeople feeling underpaid and threatening to leave jobs at competing companies.

A Better Pricing Model Leads to Increased Profitability

How to optimally price a mix of work that ranges from very easy to produce to very difficult. Complex jobs involve many more setups on the manufacturing line, slowing down production. Simpler jobs have fewer setups, so the line runs more continuously, increasing total throughput.