CFO Engagements
Receive ongoing CFO-level financial leadership tailored to your company’s stage, goals, and complexity, without the cost of hiring a full-time CFO.
MIV Partners provides practical fractional CFO guidance for founder-led businesses seeking stronger margins, predictable cash flow, and clearer financial decisions. Utah business owners can access CFO-level strategy without hiring a full-time executive, including forecasting, scorecards, cash management, and financial roadmaps tailored to their company’s goals, complexity, and stage of growth.
Strategic financial services helping founder-led businesses improve clarity, profitability, cash flow, and long-term decision-making.
Receive ongoing CFO-level financial leadership tailored to your company’s stage, goals, and complexity, without the cost of hiring a full-time CFO.
Build management-level scorecards and rolling forecasts that clarify revenue, margins, expenses, profitability, cash position, and business-specific KPIs.
Identify upcoming cash requirements, timing gaps, working-capital concerns, and liquidity risks while developing practical ways to improve cash availability.
Coordinate with bookkeeping and tax professionals so financial reporting and specialized accounting support align with broader planning and business decisions.
Use recurring financial reviews to compare actual results with budgets and forecasts, monitor KPIs, identify issues, and discuss upcoming decisions.
Develop a practical strategy covering pricing, margins, cost structure, operating leverage, capital requirements, and investment priorities for growth.
MIV Partners gives Utah founders a practical financial partner for the decisions behind the numbers. Through diagnostics, forecasting, scorecards, cash management, and strategic reviews, the engagement helps reveal profit leaks, clarify financial priorities, and connect capital decisions to growth objectives. Guidance is designed for founder-led businesses that have outgrown basic bookkeeping but are not ready for a full-time CFO.
MIV Partners combines CPA expertise with practical business ownership experience and actionable financial guidance.
Benefit from guidance shaped by both CPA expertise and real-world business ownership experience.
Services are designed for founder-led businesses navigating growth, complexity, and major financial decisions in Utah.
Identify financial problems and profit leaks before they become harder to address in the numbers.
Move from diagnosis to strategy and scalable financial systems through a clear engagement model.
Practical financial leadership for founders ready to grow with confidence.
Founder & CFO Advisor, MBA, CPA
Michel Chelnokov is the founder of MIV Partners and a credentialed CPA with an MBA, bringing over 20 years of combined experience in finance and strategy. As both a practicing business owner and a financial advisor, Michel offers a rare dual perspective that allows him to spot financial issues before they surface in the numbers and implement practical, real-world solutions. He specializes in serving founder-led businesses generating $1M–$15M in annual revenue, guiding them through his structured Diagnose, Strategize, and Install engagement model. Michel's philosophy centers on helping founders understand not just what happened financially, but what to do next. He is deeply committed to delivering CFO-level clarity, stronger margins, and scalable financial systems that empower business owners to grow with confidence.
No. A fractional CFO does not generally need to be a CPA because the role focuses on financial leadership, planning, forecasting, analysis, and strategic decision-making. However, CPA credentials can add valuable accounting knowledge and credibility. MIV Partners combines CPA expertise with business ownership experience to help founders understand financial performance and decide what actions to take next.
Talk with MIV Partners about your company’s financial priorities and next steps.
Certified Public Accountant expertise supporting practical financial guidance.
Business education supporting strategic financial decision-making.
Finance and strategy experience applied to founder-led businesses.
Share your goals and financial challenges to explore a practical CFO advisory path.
You can also send us a quick email at michel@mivpartners.com.
You can also send us a quick email at michel@mivpartners.com.