Bookkeeping

Bookkeeping is the art of recording all your financial information so it’s easy to see where your income is coming from and what you’re spending – an essential task if you are to correctly calculate taxes and keep track of your cash flow. Many businesses outsource their bookkeeping or handle it in-house using accounting software like Intacct, Dynamics or Quickbooks. Bookkeeping is essential for the nuts-and-bolts recording of financial transactions in a proper and systematic manner, but management cannot make well-informed decisions based solely on the data provided by bookkeeping.  

The bookkeeper’s role is one of recording.

Controller

A controller is generally the chief accounting officer in an organization, responsible for overseeing the entire accounting operations of a business. Specific tasks include setting up the accounting infrastructure, drafting financial statements, budgeting expenses, ensuring regulatory compliance and understanding how the financial data impacts the company’s short- and long-term goals. Almost all controllers start out as CPAs and have years of professional experience. Overall, their role is to set a course for confident decision making.     

The controller’s role is one of safeguarding and reporting.

FP&A

As the name suggests, FP&A professionals are responsible for providing senior management with the high-level analysis they need to make major operational, financial and strategic decisions. This person is responsible for running the annual budgeting process, performing cash flow forecasts, valuing assets and conducting extremely detailed financial modeling used for executive decision making. FP&A helps support decisions around financing structures (debt and equity), capital spending, operating budgets, mergers and acquisitions and long-term planning.  
 
The FP&A role is one of achieving economic return.

CFO

The Chief Finance Officer is responsible for optimizing the company’s present and future financial performance. He or she performs multiple duties in several key areas; ensuring the company can meet its financial commitments, deciding how and when to invest the company’s money, overseeing the capital structure of a company and attempting to create the highest investment returns for the business while balancing its overall risk profile. Other duties include leadership, communicating with the board, negotiating with suppliers, supporting the company’s long-term vision and securing a favorable exit.    

 The CFO role is one of providing high-level strategic guidance.

Connected

No more building spreadsheets from multiple systems; we place all your accounting, financial, invoicing, expense and HR software into one integrated workflow. Easily access your financial data and perform tasks from one location, anytime, anywhere.

People Provision

With Ventura, you gain access to an entire finance department from accounts payable specialists to a battle-tested CFO, at a fraction of the cost and time required to setup and manage an internal finance team and infrastructure.

Cost-Effective

FAAS provides a pay-as-you-go pricing model. This brings many benefits, including:
· No investment in infrastructure that you may not use to its fullest
· Get everything you need under a single contract
· Pay only for the financial support you need, performed by an appropriate level of staff.

This saves money compared to the cost of traditional hiring and allows for better budgeting since you’re only paying for services you are actually using – and nothing more. We take care of everything, which can considerably reduce costs.

Scalable

With FAAS from Ventura, you can change your package based on your needs at a given time. As your business evolves, you can replace resources you no longer need with access to the professionals that can add value to your business by steering you to the next level of business growth. FAAS scales as you do.

Reliable

By maintaining your data in the cloud, FAAS eliminates the burden of hardware set up, maintaining software upgrades and other costly technology-management tasks. All of this is automatically done for you – data backup, disaster recovery, and data replication services to make sure your data is always safe.

Built On Experience

FAAS is not just about technology and process – it’s also about the people. Here at Ventura, we have some of the best in the business. Our expert finance professionals have worked with scores of companies in multiple industries, allowing them a much broader insight into the type of financial issues you are facing. With a view from the outside, a partnership with Ventura can help you to increase the value of your business and realize significant process improvements and cost savings that may not be obvious to you from inside the business.