Your books are done. Your decisions aren't.
Frostbite Finance runs the management layer in between: the budgets, the forecasts, the board packages and the month-end read, for organizations with no CFO and no time to be one.
The problem
There is a seat here, and it is usually empty.
Your bookkeeper records what happened. Your accountant files it once a year. Between those two jobs sits the work that actually runs an organization: the budget, the forecast, the board package, and the monthly read on where the money went and what it means.
At most small organizations nobody owns that work. It lands on whoever has the least time: the executive director between everything else, the owner at the kitchen table on a Sunday night. So it gets done late, or it gets done thinly, or it gets done only because a funder asked for it.
That is the seat we fill.
What we do
The budget, the board package, and everything between them.
- Reporting
- Management reporting and board packages, produced on a schedule and written in plain language: the monthly or quarterly numbers on the table before the meeting, not after it. Board-ready when you answer to a board, owner-ready when the call is yours.
- Planning
- Budgets, forecasts and cash-flow models, built and then kept current. What is coming, from making payroll and the next hire through to reserves, runway and the year ahead.
- Analysis
- The figures behind a decision, worked out before you make it: profitability by program, product or job, a pricing change, the real cost of a hire. Built to decide on.
The whole picture
The numbers are never only the numbers.
A margin that keeps slipping, a budget that will not balance, a reserve that shrinks every year: the cause is rarely in the ledger. It is a strategy that drifted, a system that leaks, a role left unfilled.
We run the finances with the whole organization in view, using the same 4S Framework behind everything Frostbite does, so the fix lands where the problem actually started.
How we work
A project, or a standing seat.
A project.
A budget, a board package, a cash-flow forecast, a pricing model. Scoped, built, handed over, done.
A standing seat.
We become the finance team you don't have: the budgets, the reporting, the board package and the monthly numbers, run and explained month to month.
Most engagements start as a project. When it works, we keep the seat.
Why us
We run the seat. We don't replace your accountant.
We are not your bookkeeper, your auditor or your financial advisor, and we do not pretend to be. We run the management layer none of them touch: the budgets, the forecasts and the reporting that turn a set of books into a decision.
And we work from Yellowknife. We know the funders, the reporting deadlines, the boards, and the economics a Northern organization actually operates inside, including what it costs to get anything here.
Get in touch
Carrying the numbers yourself?
Start with a finance review. We'll tell you what the seat should cover at your size, and what to hand over first.