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Dimitri Pokhyla. You deal with me directly, from the first email to the last report.
Answering for a company's numbers is not something you hand to whoever is free that week. The same person does the work, signs off the figures, and answers the phone when one of them looks wrong.
I have been in finance since 1999. For sixteen of those years I ran my own practice, with up to thirty companies at the same time and teams of up to eleven people: systems put in, companies merged and put back together, working capital freed up, and the long conversations with banks about loans, covenants and guarantees.
Then Sweden. First an accounting firm, where I kept the books of more than fifteen Swedish companies: VAT, annual accounts, Fortnox and Visma. Then the Swedish company of an international group, where I built the finance function from the day the company was set up and still run it. The close went from seven working days to four. The audit came back with no significant findings.
I have also run companies of my own
Four of them, alongside the practice. One I built and sold. One I sold without it ever making a profit. One went bankrupt when the currency moved against it, which is where I learned what unhedged foreign exposure does to a small company. One I left behind when the war started.
I say this plainly because it is the part an owner cares about. I do not know a business only through its accounts. I know what it is to set a price and watch nobody buy. To owe salaries at the end of a month. To sit across from a bank that has stopped being friendly. To build a product everyone praised and nobody ordered.
So when you explain your company to me, you are explaining it to someone who has been on your side of the table, and who then goes and does the finance properly.
How I work
Relief comes from precision, not from reassurance. Nothing is solved by telling someone it will be fine. What helps is knowing exactly what happens next, in what order, what it costs, and which decisions are expensive to undo later.
I work in English with owners, boards and parent companies. The Swedish paperwork, the accounting firm, the bank and the auditor are handled here, on the ground.
My child once asked me what I do. I said I count other people's money.