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IT Services & Technology
Fractional CFO for IT Services
Margin architecture, revenue recognition, and runway decisions for IT services companies that have outgrown blended reporting.
Trusted by 50+ SaaS businesses, marketplaces, and platforms:
Founder’s pains
Revenue is growing. Margin visibility isn't keeping up.
IT services companies carry multiple revenue lines, managed services, professional services, and product resale, each with a fundamentally different cost structure. Most track blended gross margin, which hides which services scale and which quietly erode profitability as the company grows.
The pressure points arrive together: board demands for cleaner reporting, fundraising prep that exposes revenue recognition gaps, and margin compression as technician labor scales faster than revenue per head. By the time these surface in diligence, the fixes are expensive and the model is still fragile.
Blended margin hides which revenue lines scale
Managed services, professional services, and product resale carry different cost structures and should be benchmarked separately: industry data shows managed services gross margin averaging 46.2% while professional services targets sit at 40-45%, yet most IT services firms report a single blended number that obscures which lines are actually profitable and which are dragging the business down.
Revenue recognition errors surface in diligence
Under ASC 606, managed services revenue is typically recognized over time using time elapsed, professional services may use percentage of completion with right-to-payment analysis, and product resale is recognized at a point in time, each requiring distinct performance obligation treatment and deferred revenue schedules that most scaling IT services companies handle inconsistently until a board or buyer questions them.
No client-level profitability model
Without a cost-to-serve model that accounts for fully loaded technician hours, overhead allocation, and effective rate per client, unprofitable client relationships stay invisible: the company keeps investing time and resources in accounts that lose money on every ticket because blended reporting masks which contracts are subsidizing the rest of the book.
Hiring decisions happen without a model
Technician utilization, revenue per consultant, and billable hours are operational drivers that should be forecasted before headcount is approved, but hiring decisions in scaling IT services companies are frequently made on backlog and gut feel: industry data shows billable utilization at a record low of 66.4% against a 75% target, meaning many firms are adding headcount while existing capacity is underused.
WHY FISCALLION
Why IT services companies choose Fiscallion
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Financial Planning and Analysis
A driver-based financial model links utilization, revenue mix, and margin architecture directly to cash and runway. Scenario planning maps hiring and pricing decisions to their margin and cash impact before commitments are made, so the model answers what happens if we add three technicians instead of reporting the result after the fact.
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Fundraising & Investor Support
Investor-grade models with clean revenue recognition across every services line, board decks that frame trade-offs and next decisions rather than just reporting history, and senior ownership on every engagement. Every client works directly with Aleksandar at the CFO layer, not an account manager or junior delivery team.
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Actionable KPI Dashboards
Service gross margin by revenue line, utilization rate, revenue per technician, client profitability, and recurring revenue percentage: metrics that drive operational decisions, not just dashboard polish. Each metric connects to a named decision: hire, price, restructure a contract, or exit a client.
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Growth Focus CFO Advisory
Senior CFO judgment from Aleksandar, drawing on FP&A leadership experience gained through the growth of a SaaS company to €100M ARR. The fractional model fits IT services companies that need decision-grade finance infrastructure and CFO-level judgment before the workload justifies a full-time CFO hire.
FINANCIAL MODELING
The finance infrastructure built for IT services companies
Revenue mix and margin architecture model
Separate gross margin tracking for managed services, professional services, and product resale. Uses industry benchmarks, managed services GM averaging 46.2%, professional services target 40-45%, product resale 15-20%, to identify which lines scale profitably and which drag blended margin down.
Client profitability and cost-to-serve model
Fully loaded technician hours, overhead allocation, and effective rate per client. Surfaces unprofitable client relationships that blended reporting hides, and gives the CEO a clear list of accounts to reprice, restructure, or exit before they erode overall margin.
ASC 606 revenue recognition framework
Distinct treatment by service line: managed services recognized over time using time elapsed, professional services using percentage of completion with right-to-payment analysis, and product at point in time. Includes deferred revenue schedules and performance obligation mapping for bundled contracts.
Rolling 13-week cash flow forecast
The first deliverable in every engagement. Maps collections, deferred revenue burn, technician payroll timing, and vendor payments to a single rolling view, giving the CEO a cash position that updates weekly and a runway number that holds up under scrutiny.
Headcount and utilization planning model
Links revenue per technician, utilization targets, and hiring triggers to forecasted capacity. Industry data shows billable utilization at 66.4% against a 75% target: this model ensures new hires are justified by forecasted demand, not backlog anxiety or gut feel.
Board and investor reporting cadence
Monthly or weekly reporting depending on engagement tier, with trade-off framing instead of historical recap. Board decks present scenarios, named owners, and next decisions, not just charts. Senior CFO judgment on every page, directly from Aleksandar.
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