Headquartered at One Vanderbilt Avenue in Manhattan and founded by CEO Nick Leopard, Accordion provides interim CFO and controller placements, FP&A enhancement, data and analytics, and exit-planning and transaction support for private equity-backed and growth-stage companies. The firm describes more than 1,000 professionals firmwide working at the intersection of PE sponsors and portfolio-company CFOs, with its New York office led by Managing Director Sonny Thadani. Additional practice areas include CFO technology implementation and turnaround and restructuring support.
Top Fractional CFO and Strategic Finance Advisors in New York, NY
Fractional CFO and strategic finance advisors in New York, NY ordered by mandate fit: the company stages each firm actually serves, the work it takes on, and whether a senior operator does the work. AI visibility is measured and shown for every firm. Fundraising readiness, board reporting, cash and runway planning, interim CFO.
We checked 8 firms that advertise fractional or outsourced CFO work in New York, verified 8 against their own websites, and ordered the top 8 by mandate fit: the company stages each firm serves, the work it takes on, and whether a senior operator does the work. Measured AI search visibility is published beside every firm.
New York founders hire a fractional CFO for three reasons more than any other: a raise is coming, the board wants real reporting, or cash is tighter than the bank balance suggests. The firms on this page cover all three, at different company stages.
Fractional CFO and Strategic Finance Advisors in New York
Fractional CFO work in New York ranges from a few days a month of senior finance leadership for a startup to a full interim CFO seat during a transaction. The firms below include venture-focused outsourced finance teams, multi-CFO practices serving mid-sized private companies, and principal-led strategic finance advisors who also handle capital decisions and deals.
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How We Order This List
What sets the order, and what the measured score does and does not tell you
We reviewed 8 firms that advertise fractional or outsourced CFO work in New York and ordered this list by mandate fit: the company stages each firm actually serves, the work it takes on, and how directly a senior operator does the work. That is why a venture-focused outsourced finance team and an independent principal-led practice can sit near each other here. The measured AI visibility figure sits alongside that judgment rather than replacing it, and it rewards firms that have been publishing longest, not the ones that fit a given company best. No firm paid for its position on this page. ProCloser may have, or enter into, referral relationships with firms covered on this site; see our Advertiser Disclosure.
AI Visibility Score
The share of AI answers naming each firm when we ask 10 fractional CFO questions about New York across Google AI Mode and ChatGPT (20 answers, September 2026). It measures published reach, so long-established platforms score highest and a newer independent practice scores low even when the mandate fit is strong.
Review Score
Aggregate ratings across Google and the ProCloser.ai verified review system. Firms working with a small number of private companies under confidentiality often carry no public reviews at all, and we show that as "No reviews yet" rather than penalizing it.
Mandate Fit
What each firm actually does: the company stages it serves, whether it handles fundraising readiness, board reporting and capital decisions or only monthly close, and whether a senior operator does the work. This is our judgment, informed by each firm's own published record, and it is what sets the order above.
Top 8 Fractional CFO Advisors in New York, NY
New York fractional CFO and controller practice at 1178 Broadway, operating as a division of Carr, Riggs & Ingram Capital, LLC, the same parent behind the firm's Los Angeles and Irvine offices. The New York team, led by Managing Director Rolla Salameh, describes serving fintech firms on Wall Street, media studios in Midtown and DTC brands in Brooklyn. Services include fractional CFO and controller work, month-end close support, government-contractor accounting and DCAA compliance, audit and due-diligence readiness, and R&D tax credit preparation.
Founded in 2008 by Chris Fenster, Propeller Industries runs a New York office at One World Trade Center, 285 Fulton Street, embedding full-stack finance teams inside venture and growth-stage companies rather than acting as outside consultants. The firm reports 250+ full-time, in-house professionals, 1,500+ clients, 230+ client exits and 26 unicorn partnerships across food and beverage, e-commerce, software, health and wellness, media and Web3. Offerings include fractional CFO and controller work, financial planning, and its own PropellerOS finance-operations platform.
Escalon runs a New York office at 450 Park Avenue South alongside its Delaware headquarters and offices in Los Angeles, Oslo, Tel Aviv and Mohali, India. The firm bundles fractional CFO services with outsourced accounting, HR and tax operations for growing and venture-backed businesses across SaaS, consumer goods, life sciences, nonprofits, media and Web3. COO David Horning is described on the firm's site as having more than a decade of experience as a fractional CFO for venture-backed startups, and several other practice leaders hold CFO titles for specific industry verticals.
Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Dallas, Riveron maintains a New York office at 10 Grand Central, 155 East 44th Street, serving the Office of the CFO for private equity sponsors, portfolio companies and corporate clients whose logos on its site include JCPenney and Tenet Healthcare. The firm reports more than 1,200 professionals across 18 international offices. Relevant services include interim CFO and controller placements, FP&A support, transaction execution, technology transformation, and turnaround and restructuring work.
Founded in 1974 by Fred Withum, Len Smith and Ivan Brown, Withum now reports approximately 3,200 team members across roughly 30 offices, including a Manhattan office at 1411 Broadway near Times Square. Its Outsourced Accounting Systems and Services (OASyS) practice provides CFO advisory and fractional CFO support alongside FP&A, cash management, budgeting, audit preparation and technical accounting guidance across multiple ASC standards, positioned within a full-service national accounting and advisory firm rather than as a standalone boutique.
Anchin, Block & Anchin operates from 3 Times Square in Manhattan and describes more than 100 years of history; its own site currently carries a banner announcing Baker Tilly's agreement to acquire the firm, with New York City set to become the combined firm's headquarters. Anchin's Client Accounting Advisory Services offer CFO-level advice and financial-executive access alongside outsourced bookkeeping, cash-flow projections, board-level KPI dashboards, audit-readiness work, and IPO and M&A transaction support, serving businesses its site describes as ranging from mid-market to large enterprises.
Prosperity Partners' New York City office sits at 575 Madison Avenue, established through a late-2025 merger with Farkouh, Furman & Faccio, a New York tax and advisory firm operating since 1974. The firm operates through affiliated entities NDH Advisors LLC and NDH CPA LLP across roughly nine US office locations. Its fractional CFO service covers financial strategy, budgeting and forecasting, cash-flow and working-capital monitoring, capital strategy and investor relations, board-meeting preparation, and M&A opportunity identification for growing businesses without an internal senior finance hire.
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Fractional CFO Market Overview: New York, NY
The right engagement depends on why you need a CFO now. A company heading into a raise needs the model, the data room and the narrative. A company with a new board or investors needs reporting that holds up. A company with a cash problem needs a thirteen-week cash view and a plan. Use the table to match the engagement type to the problem.
Regulatory and Licensing Environment
No license is required to act as a CFO or fractional CFO in most states. The CPA credential is separate, regulated by the state's board of accountancy, and matters if you need attest work or a firm that signs as your accountant, which most fractional CFO engagements do not include. Two practical points apply to New York companies. A fractional CFO who also raises capital for a success fee steps into broker-dealer territory, so ask how the firm charges for that work. And worker classification rules in many states mean a long-running, exclusive individual engagement should be papered as a business-to-business contract with a firm, which every firm on this page is.
Fractional CFO Fees in New York, NY
Fractional CFO pricing in New York follows three patterns. None of the 8 firms on this page publishes a rate card; every one quotes on request.
Ask what a month actually includes: days on site or on calls, who prepares the numbers, and whether controller and bookkeeping work is in the fee or billed separately. Two firms quoting the same monthly figure can be delivering very different amounts of senior time.
How to Choose a Fractional CFO in New York, NY
- Match the stage: a firm built for venture-backed startups runs on different tools and rhythms than one serving a $20M family-owned manufacturer. Every firm on this page publishes who it serves, and the honest ones say who they do not.
- Ask who does the work: the person in the pitch and the person on your weekly call are not always the same. Ask for the name of your CFO, their operating background, and how many companies they carry at once.
- Ask for the deliverables list: a monthly package should name the reports, the forecast cadence and the board materials. If the firm cannot list them, it is selling time rather than outcomes.
- Check the capital work separately: if you expect the CFO to help raise money, ask whether that is included, how it is charged, and whether the firm is registered to take a success fee. Most are not, and most do not need to be.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about hiring a fractional CFO in New York, NY.
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Reviewed by: Tania Kozar, ProCloser.ai Research | Last Updated: September 2026 | Sources: each firm's own website, FINRA BrokerCheck, SEC IAPD, ProCloser.ai AI-answer sampling (20 answers across Google AI Mode and ChatGPT, September 2026).
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