Experience

Fifth Turn is grounded in more than two decades of operating experience across accounting, finance, systems, and strategy. That work has taken place inside complex organizations navigating growth, change, and pressure—where decisions compound and small structural issues become expensive quickly.

This experience spans the full financial and operating stack: accounting, finance, tax, payroll, insurance, close and reporting processes, systems implementation, board-level support, and M&A readiness. Not as disconnected functions, but as interdependent parts of a system that either scales—or doesn’t.

The focus has never been on checking boxes. It has been on understanding how the entire system behaves under real-world constraints so it can be designed to hold as complexity increases.

That operating exposure creates a consistent pattern of work.

Activities that do not require judgment are automated. Processes that should not depend on heroics are systematized. The capacity created is reinvested into better decisions, clearer trade-offs, and sustained value creation rather than more activity.

Accounting is treated as an economic and risk discipline, not a rule-following exercise divorced from the business. The emphasis is on substance, incentives, and control—so financial information reflects reality and supports decision-making rather than just compliance.

The result is leverage across the organization: balancing systems, talent, cost, and control so finance scales without becoming a bottleneck.

In practice, this experience typically enables:

• Decision-grade reporting that influences behavior, not just optics 
• Faster closes with fewer surprises, freeing leadership attention 
• Clear capital and cost trade-offs to support strategy, product launches, and acquisitions 
• Better tools and structures for non-finance teams so they can move faster without losing discipline
   

This work is most valuable where the business is growing, changing, or under pressure—conditions where judgment, structure, and influence matter more than titles or formal authority.