Controller-Level Fractional and Project-Based Accounting Solutions
Bassetti Consulting partners with growing businesses to deliver senior-level finance and accounting expertise, without the cost of a full-time hire.
Why Choose Bassetti
Hands-On Expertise
Decades of controller-level experience applied directly to your books, not just recommendations from the sidelines.
Embedded Execution
We don't just advise. We roll up our sleeves and work alongside your team as a true extension of your finance function.
Personalized Attention
Every engagement is tailored to your business. No templated playbooks, just direct, responsive support from someone who knows your numbers.
What We Do
Finance and accounting support across five areas, from day-to-day bookkeeping to complex technical accounting.
Questions growing businesses ask
Plain answers about fractional controllers, how engagements work, and what audit readiness and technical accounting involve.
What is a fractional controller?
A fractional controller is an experienced accounting leader who runs a company's finance function part-time or on a project basis. They own the monthly close, financial reporting, cash management, and internal controls, and they work inside your team rather than advising from the outside. You get controller-level judgment without the cost of a full-time hire.
How is a fractional controller different from a fractional CFO or a bookkeeper?
A bookkeeper records transactions. A controller owns the accuracy of the numbers: the close, reconciliations, reporting, controls, and audit readiness. A fractional CFO focuses on strategy, capital, and investor relationships. Growing businesses often need the controller layer first, because reliable financials are what strategy, lenders, and auditors all depend on.
When does a growing business need a fractional controller?
Common triggers include a first audit or lender review, outside investment, a month-end close that takes weeks, reporting leadership cannot rely on, a departing controller, or a new accounting system. If your bookkeeper is stretched but a full-time controller is not yet justified, a fractional or interim controller fills the gap.
How do engagements with Bassetti Consulting work?
Engagements are either project-based or ongoing. Projects have a defined scope and end date, such as audit preparation, a system implementation, or building a budget and forecast model. Ongoing engagements provide embedded controller support for a set amount of time each month. Both begin with a conversation about your goals and current state.
What does audit readiness involve?
Audit readiness means your books can withstand outside scrutiny before the auditors arrive: reconciled balance sheet accounts, supporting schedules, documented policies and controls, and clean records for the period under review. Bassetti Consulting prepares the schedules, coordinates requests with the audit team, and resolves open items so the audit finishes on time.
What does technical accounting cover?
Technical accounting is the research and application of accounting standards to complex transactions: revenue recognition, leases, equity and debt instruments, business combinations, and other areas where the right treatment is not obvious. It typically produces position memos, supporting calculations, and journal entries that hold up with auditors, lenders, and investors.
Does Bassetti Consulting only work with businesses in Austin?
No. Bassetti Consulting is based in Austin, Texas, and works with growing businesses across the United States. Most engagements run remotely, inside your accounting systems and your team's meeting cadence, so location rarely limits the work.
Rather than offering advice from the sidelines, Rob works directly inside the businesses he serves.
Ready to Strengthen Your Finance Function?
Whether it's a single project or ongoing, embedded support, Bassetti Consulting brings controller-level expertise directly to your team.