Excel Advisory isn't a consulting firm that studied construction. We've worked inside contractors — specialty and service shops to general contractors running up to $170M — and we run finance the way it has to be run there.
Our background runs from audit into operating finance inside construction companies — not advising them from outside. We've lived the things most advisors only describe: closing the month under pressure, defending a number to a surety, surviving a fund audit, telling an owner a job is going to lose money while there's still time to do something about it.
What we do best is build the financial model a contractor actually runs on — and then make every part of the business sharper because of it:
- Profitability you can see and protect. Streamlined AP, payroll, and billing, with control points placed through the business cycle to cut cost and stop leakage before it compounds.
- Estimating that gets smarter every job. Reliable job-cost detail becomes the benchmark your estimators use to bid the next similar job — so accuracy compounds instead of resetting to gut feel every time.
- Problem jobs caught early. Monthly WIP reporting flags the job that's turning before it's lost, and puts it in front of the project team and ownership while caution still changes the outcome.
- An organization that runs leaner. Because the financials show the whole company, we surface where structure isn't serving the business — duplicated effort, roles that don't match the workload, cost that isn't earning its keep.
And we don't just diagnose. Our team includes experienced accounting professionals working under our direction, so the cleanup, the close discipline, and the reporting actually get executed — not handed back to you as a to-do list. You get senior leadership and the hands to implement it.
We started Excel Advisory for one reason: most contractors who need this level of financial leadership can't justify a full-time hire to get it. We think a lot of firms are leaving money — and peace of mind — on the table for exactly that reason. We'd like to fix that for as many of them as we can.