Kharis Consulting LLC

Alex Kharis

Fractional CFO

Kharis Consulting LLC

Palo Alto, CA

“AI gives you answers. I'm the CFO you hire to ask the right questions, test the answer, and decide what to do next.”

Send me founders who

  • 01Are building in the US after relocating, or setting up a US entity from abroad
  • 02Use AI and modern finance tools, but still have no one accountable for the whole financial picture
  • 03Have a cap table that is out of date or a mess, or no real cap table at all
  • 04Are raising, and not ready for the questions that kill rounds
  • 05Have a second entity, a second country, or both, and no consolidated view

What I do

01

Decision-ready finance.

A chart of accounts, revenue recognition and monthly close that hold up, plus cash forecast, budget, KPIs and reporting that tell you what to do next.

02

Fundraising and governance.

A defensible model, clean cap table, dilution scenarios, data room, board structure and corporate records ready for investor questions.

03

Cross-border scale.

US entry, banking, transfer-pricing coordination, consolidation and group reporting across entities and countries.

Recent work

  1. 01

    Built the financial architecture for a Delaware SaaS company as it moved from SMB to enterprise: chart of accounts, revenue recognition across a transactional model, three-year plan, and the 409A summary behind it.

  2. 02

    Converted layered convertible instruments into equity, and rewrote governance that had been producing deadlock into a standard Delaware structure with a functioning board.

  3. 03

    Built a finance function from zero at a Delaware entity: cap table reconstructed from source documents, corporate record put in order, accounting and investor reporting set up from scratch.

  4. 04

    Stepped into a CEO seat on an interim mandate and ran cost structure, organizational restructuring and group-wide planning.

  5. 05

    Ran the full operational backbone of a consumer hardware company: finance, legal, IP, HR, insurance, banking, and international entities.

Engagements

Fixed monthly fee, two-month minimum · fee schedule on request

Tier 1 · Strategic CFO Foundation

Visibility and control: systems setup, bookkeeper and vendor oversight, monthly financial review, cash projections and a CEO decision summary.

Tier 2 · Growth CFO Partner

Adds financial modeling and scenarios, budget and P&L planning, cap table guidance, investor materials and data room readiness.

Tier 3 · Embedded Fractional CFO

Adds a KPI framework, day-to-day operational finance, international entity support, and board and investor reporting.

Know a founder facing one of these situations?

Email [email protected] with a two-line introduction.

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I work alongside your bookkeeping and tax providers; bookkeeping and tax filing remain with them.

You're not paying for reports. You're paying for judgment, accountability, and what to do next.