Professional Services

We are ready to be your sounding board, providing the insight, feedback and confidence you need to reach your goals.

Some of the questions our professional services clients ask us:

Why is my business short on cash?

How can we finance the exit of a partner?

Do I have the right people doing the right jobs?

We are billing a lot, but we aren’t profitable, why?

How do I grow my professional services business?

What is the right level of compensation for top talent?

How should we manage a new partner joining the firm?

How do I find time to work on the business when I’m so busy day-to-day?

The Stawowski McGill Solution

The clarity, confidence and control you need to reach your goals.

With over 25 years of experience, our team of Fractional CFOs know the challenges you are most likely to face in the professional services industry. We are ready to help you develop tailored solutions to address your business’s unique requirements.

We get to know your business like our own, offering more than just high-level problem solving. We provide continuous support to empower your business decisions and become a relationship-based partner to help drive long-term success.

Some of the challenges our professional services clients face:

  • Managing Cash Flow

    Implementing the best accounting practices to manage time tracking, regular invoicing and collecting accounts receivable are important to maintaining strong business operations.

  • Ownership Transitions

    Ownership structures will change over time with partners joining or exiting the business. To ensure a seamless transition, with minimal disruption to operations, a detailed plan around both finances and logistics is critical.

  • Understanding Utilization

    When top-line revenue is strong, but profits are lower than expected, it is time to examine the company’s resource allocation, as well as its expenses, margins and financial model.

  • High Overhead Costs

    When people are your biggest asset, financial planning becomes critical. Knowing when to invest in talent and how to manage your high overhead expenses will be key to long-term success.

Our team has the collective experience to help you identify the challenges, develop solutions and make business decisions to drive stronger financial performance.

Are you ready for financial leadership with a big-picture approach?

  • "Stawowski McGill has been providing high impact business advisory services and financial leadership for our business, for many years. We would not be where we are today without them. Our long term relationship has resulted in an elevated clarity, focus, and confidence within our leadership team and an increased ability to make smart business decisions". 

    Bob Robinson, President and CEO, Westcor Construction Ltd.

  • "DSM has been in the industry for 20 years in Calgary and more recently opened a facility in Arizona. We engaged Stawowski McGill in 2016 as we were gearing up for growth in our business. Stawowski McGill has provided great financial expertise and has challenged us to look at our business for efficiencies. They have been excellent partners for myself and my executive team and the only thing I regret is signing them up a year after I was first introduced to them." 

    Duane Macauley, President and Co-Founder, Dynamic Source Manufacturing

  • “They helped us get things organized, understand the correct structure, and get visibility. Their reports help us make better decisions. When I talk to my network about SM, I talk about how much they helped our company in the beginning.” 

    Danny Hao, President, Tile and Stone Source

  • “They not only help us with our strategy and the financial aspect, but they help us understand if we have the right team in place to be able to execute.” 

    Shawn Freeman, Always Beyond

  • " In 2014, Contour Earthmoving Ltd. hired Stawowski McGill to help us with our company’s finances and to give us guidance with moving forward in a struggling construction industry. Their guidance has helped us immensely and definitely improved our bottom line. They are very personable and truly care about our company. I would highly recommend them to anyone in need." 

    Kevin Middlemiss, President, Contour Earthmoving Ltd.

  • "Our company has been on a fast growth track for the last 10 years. The opportunities were placing constraints on our resources and we were not getting the insights we needed to build out our growth strategy or see what capital structure challenges we were going to be facing in the year ahead. Stawowski McGill was very flexible and gave us the right amount of resources and time to assist us with the projects, planning and forecasting we needed. The combination of strategy, financial leadership and ability to identify and fill gaps in our business plan have all helped our business achieve success. Our business has gone from consistently growing to now being supercharged on its way to becoming an industry leader."

    Dean Koeller, President, Calvert Home Mortgage Investment Corporation

  • "They gave us the guidelines we needed to focus and work on our business with amazing results. Learning the skills to understand what the numbers mean and how to use them to improve our management system has made a tremendous improvement. Stawowski McGill helped us take our business from "bench warmer" to "player". 

    Tim Mack, Owner, BRT Construction Services Ltd. 

  • "Stawowski McGill worked with our family owned group of companies for over three years. They refocused us onto areas of our growing business which required our attention, and were instrumental in the negotiation and sale of our trucking business. Our return on investment far exceeded their fees." 

    Dean Swanberg, Swanberg Bros. Trucking Ltd.

  • "Stawowski McGill became the cornerstone of our restructuring plan; their insight and expertise provided us valuable advice and helped the leadership team prioritize objectives.  Having Stawowski McGill on our team is like having a full-time CFO and finance team you can rely on to interpret the fundamentals of your business so that you can focus on making decisions, fixing what’s not working and figure out the best growth plan." 

    Phil Roberts, President and CEO, Vintri Technologies