Founded in 2002, NSS is a financial consulting firm that has advised and coached more than 100 companies, from pre-revenue to Inc 500-caliber ($3-$50 million) businesses. We provide our clients with best practices, integrity, reliability and trust.

NSS is your business partner.

• Navigating in a challenging time demands skill sets that are above and beyond financial reporting, compliance and accounting.  NSS draws from a pool of financial experts with deep experience, who understand enterprise risk management, not just finance, have broad business insights, including micro and macro economics, and a keen sense for the competitive landscape.

• The CFO/Controller position is becoming more demanding and complex. Having access to a strategic and integrative CFO will give the CEO support in driving value, decision-making, negotiating, stakeholder relations, growth and funding strategies and more. Our Controllers bring years of experience in providing you with accurate and timely financial reporting, pre-audit support and  an understanding for the annual budget process.

• NSS takes pride in matching the needs of a client with a CFO/Controller’s skill set, personality and industry experience.  We work with you as a team and stay involved throughout an engagement whether getting you to the next stage of growth and maturity or through succession and exit planning.

Why NSS?

• We offer you a very strong ROI!
• We bring the finance department to you so that you can sleep at night!
• We achieve optimal flexibility and added value with our blended resources and blended rates.
• We recognize the opposing personality traits in finance, the tactical and the strategic, two very different mind sets.
• Our support is seamless and avoids painful and expensive turnover.
• NSS matches your needs with the right skills to meet your goals and objectives.

NSS offers a strong ROI

• NSS takes on the risk – you have no obligations to stock options, hiring fees, severance pay and benefits.
• Our staff is background checked and NSS is fully insured.
• Turnover among CFOs is very high.  According to a KPMG study from April 2009, turnover is up 36 percent from two years ago.  Average tenure is less than 20 months. The cost of 2 CFOs within 24 months is upward of $700,000, not including equity and the disruption and transition time for the new executive.

Finance-on-Demand Model

• NSS provides finance functions such as Controller and CFO on an outsourced basis.  We are not a placement agency but work mostly on retainer and project basis.
• With  our team approach, NSS can easily bring additional support to a project.
• Our staff has on average over 20 years of experience, eliminating the learning curve.

Strategy and Operations Focus

• With the strategic, forward-looking focus, NSS helps our clients devise high-concept, sustainable growth strategies, using predictive and financial modeling to create robust and realistic forecasting and scenario planning.
• Financial and operational efficiencies are a key component to running a lean business.  This includes measuring and monitoring supply chains, pricing and production metrics. Processes need to be in place so that your company is agile, fast and scalable.
• NSS offers IT/ERP project management expertise with over 25 implementations

Collective Knowledge

• NSS works as a team with proprietary management tools, online processes and communications.
• We cross-pollinate ideas and solutions and pass the collective knowledge on to our clients.
• The team approach is supportive of the CFOs, avoids isolation and uncertainties.
• Given the more complex and demanding role the CFO has, ongoing professional development is encouraged to stay abreast of all the changes in the market.

Contact us today for a free consultation.  Call us at 617-449-7728 or email us at info@nextstagesolutions.com