You need a bridge
The business needs senior operating capacity while you define or recruit a permanent role.
An experienced operator in the seat.
Fractional General Manager or operations leadership for an owner who needs help running the business, a leadership vacancy or a transition.
Margin Max provides leadership for agreed operating priorities, team accountability, vendor oversight and management transitions. The proposal defines the engagement lead, decision authority, time commitment and supporting resources. For accounting leadership, see the separate Controller service.
When this is the right engagement.
Finance and execution are disconnected
Reporting, collections, decisions and team accountability need a shared weekly rhythm.
The owner is the bottleneck
Responsibilities need to move from the founder’s memory into clear owners and repeatable processes.
Agree the responsibility before the work.
We scope the leadership role, decision authority, deliverables, meeting rhythm, time commitment and handoff to the owner or permanent team. Fractional engagements are quoted after the review, rather than sold as a fixed-price audit.
Discuss the role →A defined operating responsibilityA named leader.
A named leader.
Defined responsibilities.
A fractional engagement gives a specific responsibility to an experienced operator. It starts with the role and the business need—not a generic bundle of consulting hours.
Your proposal defines
- The role, reporting line and decision authority
- The operating priorities and agreed outputs
- The time commitment and meeting rhythm
- The fee, term, review points and handoff
Hiring decisions, signing authority and system access are agreed explicitly. Availability is confirmed during scoping.
Describe the responsibility →Finance leadership
Need a Controller in the seat?
For recurring close oversight, interim coverage, reconciliations, multi-entity reporting and accounting-team accountability, begin with our Controller offering.
Fractional, interim & contract Controller →Fractional CFO and owner advisory support can be separately scoped for budgets, forecasts, scenarios and financial decision support.
Operating authorityResponsibility that reaches
Responsibility that reaches
the operating result.
The leadership scope can include P&L oversight, vendor decisions, cash and collection priorities, production handoffs and cross-functional reporting. Define the decisions owned, people led and outcomes reviewed with ownership.
Define the authority
Agree reporting lines, budget and spending authority, personnel responsibilities, vendor decisions and escalation thresholds.
Lead the operating rhythm
Review financial and operating results, assign actions to named owners and follow through on cash, project margin, capacity and delivery priorities.
Develop the team
Set review standards, document procedures and build the internal capability to sustain the work.