Close & Financial Reporting
Reconciliations, month-end close, financial statement review, workpaper preparation, management reporting, and issue resolution—performed within your firm’s established process and standards.
FRACTIONAL CONTROLLER • BACKEND ACCOUNTING PARTNER
Experienced controller support, behind the scenes.
Compass Accounting partners with business management firms, family offices, CPA firms, and Client Accounting Services teams that need experienced fractional capacity without adding another full-time hire. I step into your existing workflow to support the accounting, reporting, and client-service work your team needs handled well.
WHEN YOUR TEAM NEEDS MORE CAPACITY
Add experienced capacity without adding permanent overhead.
Client work does not always arrive in neat, predictable increments. A new family, a cleanup engagement, staff transition, reporting deadline, or complex entity structure can stretch an otherwise strong team. Compass provides experienced backend support that can plug into established processes, work collaboratively with internal staff and outside advisors, and help maintain the quality your clients expect.
SERVICES
Controller-level support that fits into your team.
Family Office & HNWI Accounting
Entity and personal accounting, cash-flow tracking, owner activity, investment and property-related schedules, bill-pay oversight, and reporting across complex private-client structures.
Business Management Support
Backend accounting for entertainment and business-management teams, including AP/AR, cash management, entity accounting, reconciliations, reporting, documentation, and client-specific workflows.
CPA & CAS Team Support
Recurring or overflow capacity for Client Accounting Services teams, including close support, controller review, cleanup, workpapers, tax-ready books, and special projects.
Multi-Entity & Intercompany
Entity-level reporting, intercompany activity, due-to/due-from reconciliations, owner transactions, real estate accounting, and schedules that keep complex structures organized.
Cleanup, Transition & Overflow
Historical cleanup, staff transitions, system conversions, backlog support, process documentation, and focused engagements that require experienced accounting judgment.
WHO I SUPPORT
Built for firms and private clients with complex accounting needs.
Compass is designed to work as an extension of an existing professional team—whether you need ongoing fractional support, temporary capacity, or an experienced resource for a specific client or project.
- Entertainment business management firms
- Family offices and high-net-worth individuals
- CPA and public accounting firms
- Client Accounting Services (CAS) teams
- Private offices and multi-entity client structures
WHERE I CAN STEP IN
- Your team has more client work than current capacity can comfortably absorb.
- You need senior accounting help but do not need another permanent hire.
- A new or complex client needs hands-on controller-level attention.
- A staff transition, cleanup, or backlog is putting deadlines at risk.
- You want a reliable backend resource who can work within your systems and client-service model.
FOR FIRMS
Extra capacity. Your standards. Your client relationship.
Compass can work behind the scenes as an extension of your accounting, business management, or client service team. The goal is simple: give you experienced capacity when and where you need it, without asking you to build another permanent layer into the firm.
Support can be structured as recurring fractional capacity, overflow coverage, transition support, or a defined project. I can work within your existing systems, workflows, reporting formats, and communication structure—including white-label arrangements where appropriate. Engagements can be client-facing or fully behind the scenes, depending on your firm’s preference.
A FLEXIBLE RESOURCE FOR
- Capacity gaps — absorb additional client work without rushing a permanent hire.
- Complex engagements — add experienced controller-level attention to multi-entity or detail-intensive clients.
- Staff transitions — maintain continuity during vacancies, leave, onboarding, or restructuring.
- Cleanup & backlog — get books, reconciliations, workpapers, and reporting back on schedule.
- White-label support — preserve your firm’s client relationship while I operate as a trusted backend resource.
Discreet by design. I understand that in professional-services environments, technical ability is only part of the job. Responsiveness, confidentiality, documentation, and respect for the firm’s client relationship matter just as much.
ABOUT
Experience shaped by the firms and clients I now support.
Caroline Gallagher, M.Acc., is the founder of Compass Accounting and a fractional controller with more than a decade of experience across public accounting, entertainment business management, and complex privately held operations.
That background makes Compass particularly well suited to backend B2B engagements: stepping into established teams, learning firm-specific workflows, managing detail-intensive client accounting, coordinating across entities and advisors, and delivering polished work without creating another layer for the client to manage.
View Caroline on LinkedInAPPROACH
Designed to integrate, not disrupt.
Integrate
Learn your systems, standards, client structure, communication preferences, and where additional capacity is needed.
Execute
Own the agreed-upon accounting, close, reporting, cleanup, or special-project work with minimal hand-holding.
Coordinate
Work effectively with partners, managers, bookkeepers, tax teams, advisors, vendors, and client personnel as needed.
Protect
Support your firm’s standards and client relationships with professional, discreet, dependable backend execution.
START A CONVERSATION
Need an experienced accounting partner behind your team?
Tell me about your firm, family office, client portfolio, or current capacity need. Engagements can be structured around recurring support, overflow capacity, transitions, or defined projects.