About John
John Stilo specializes in fractional CFO services designed for startups and private-equity-backed companies. With over 12 years of finance leadership experience in Early and Mid-stage SaaS, marketplace, and D2C businesses, he excels in financial modeling, fundraising, cash flow management, setting up the accounting, and more. John spent his time earlier in his career in management consulting at EY and assurance services at PwC. His expertise in developing KPIs and fundraising strategies helps businesses thrive without the commitment of full-time hiring. Clients appreciate his ability to professionalize their financial functions & be a trusted partner for any financial or business related questions.
Why Clients Engage Me
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Modeling / Forecast and Budget support and build out
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Managing outsourced accountants, including rolling up financials for investors and management
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Co-lead Venture Capital fundraise process
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Board deck / investor presentations
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Cleaning up books / adding process efficiencies to the close process
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System implementations
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KPI / Metric Build out and cadence set up (includes ensuring the right metrics are tracked)
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Ensuring systems, chart of accounts, processes, etc are set up to scale, pass audits, and have successful transaction in future
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Having an unbiased strategic finance opinion and partner
Previous Successful Engagements
Advised & Partnered with CEO and head of finance of a Series C D2C Subscription app
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Model / Forecast support
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Built Metrics and advise on burn / cash management
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Act as trusted unbiased opinion across strategy decisions
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Auditor selection matrix and selection support
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FP&A planning tool system implementation support
Set up Accounting Function from scratch and managed investor relations and reporting for a Series A SaaS Start-up
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Created quickbooks instance and chart of accounts as revenue started coming in for B2B SaaS contracts
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Set up outsourced accountants for under $2k per month
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Managed the outsourced accountants for FP&A review and Revenue recognition
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Built out reporting for monthly and quarterly investor reports
Ran Accounting and Finance functions for Series A B2B Saas Start-up
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Built Fundraising model from Scratch that led to a successful Series A funding round
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Oversaw month end with outsourced accountants and provided tactical support as well
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Led finance section in board deck presentations and creation of Board documents
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Owned treasury management ensuring return on cash and ample liquid working capital available for business
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Submitted investor reporting KPI’s and financials
What Clients Say
Senan Ebrahim
John's startup finance experience was critical to our success. John was able to lead forecasting and modeling Delfina's unique business with impressive efficiency and accuracy. Partnering with John as a finance leader with extensive modeling and startup experience has been immensely valuable to our mission.