Big-four power. Startup pace.
Quality of Earnings (QofE) and senior accounting leadership for the middle market through to traditional search, ETA, and smaller public companies.
Senior work stays senior
We find what others miss
Scope changes. Rigor does not.
Leadership beyond close
Hollywell Partners is now part of Numera.
Your Hollywell partners are still your partners—same senior team, bigger bench.
The Experts on Your Deal
What you can expect
Clarity
We find what other small-deal providers miss—because the people on your work are big-firm trained, not just big-firm priced.
Velocity
Senior teams on your work in days, with answers that keep pace with the deal—not a mobilization calendar.
Impact
Findings that move the deal—price, protections, and post-close priorities—not a report for the shelf.
Experienced financial guidance for high-impact decisions
Numera provides the analysis, experience, and strategic perspective needed to make informed decisions with confidence, whether you’re evaluating an acquisition, preparing for due diligence, or planning your next phase of growth.
Quality of Earnings, built at deal speed.
Independent financial analysis that helps buyers, investors, and business owners better understand earnings quality, working capital, and transaction risk.
CFO + Controller leadership, month after month.
Experienced financial professionals who strengthen accounting teams during audits, reporting cycles, compliance initiatives, and other specialized engagements.
Proof in the work
Numera provides financial analysis and experienced guidance to move forward with clarity, whether you’re preparing for an acquisition, raising capital, expanding operations, or weighing a strategic opportunity
60+
Years of partner experience
100+
Quality of Earnings Engagements per year
100%
Projects led by Senior Manager+
$800M+
Annual deal flow
Built for consequential decisions.
1
Senior work stays senior
The Big Four–trained professionals you meet on day one are the ones doing your analysis—it is never handed down a chain of juniors.
2
We find what others miss
We read accounting choices, operating realities, and deal mechanics together—so the risks that hide between the silos show up in your report.
3
Scope changes. The rigor does not.
A smaller deal gets a right-sized scope, never a lighter standard—the diligence is just as real.
4
Leadership beyond close
After close, Numera's CFO + Controller team can run your monthly close, reporting, and forecasting, starting from the diligence file.
Our approach
When millions ride on the answer, you shouldn't have to choose between big-firm rigor and deal speed. Numera puts Big Four–trained senior experts on your work in days—people who find what smaller providers miss.
Help with the deal. Help long after it.
Bring us in to vet an acquisition, keep us on to run your accounting, or both—what we learn about your business in diligence carries straight into how your finance function operates.
Quality of Earnings
CFO + Controller Services
Technical Accounting & Assurance Support
Who we serve
Built for the middle market—and the decisions around it.
From a first institutional acquisition to recurring public-company accounting needs, the model scales around the complexity of the work without pushing senior attention out of reach.
Private equity portfolio companies
Traditional search and ETA companies
Mid-market and smaller public companies
Case Studies
Trusted by operators. Proven on deals.
A $100M+ acquisition called off
A buyer wanted a second opinion on a deal another firm had cleared. We found undisclosed liabilities. The client walked away.
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Funded before the Big 4 started
The Big 4 quoted three weeks to mobilize. We delivered the forecast in one. Funding closed the day they were set to begin.
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From roll-up to NASDAQ IPO
A PE sponsor rolled three businesses into one. We built the operating model and capital framework. NASDAQ IPO at over $1B.
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A CFO on site in two days
Four months of unclosed books, no CFO, a Series A closing. We were on site in two days and stayed on past the raise.
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The best team to take you where you want to go is one who's already been there.
What it’s like to work with us
Numera got us experienced people quickly, at a time when the right resources were hard to find. The team brought immediate depth and put in the hours to get us where we needed to be, while settling in with our people easily. Very professional, treated it like their own work rather than an outside engagement, and added the right compliment of experience to deliver.
Jason Potter
CFO, duPont REGISTRY Group
Frequently Asked Questions
What does Numera Advisory do?
Numera Advisory provides Quality of Earnings (i.e., financial due diligence), CFO + Controller leadership, and technical accounting and assurance support for middle-market private equity, SMBs, and traditional and ETA searchers.
Numera Advisory and Hollywell Partners: what's the relationship?
Hollywell Partners is now Numera Advisory. Numera Advisory is made up of the same partners, the same team and the same way of working. What changed is the bench behind them: bookkeeping, tax, and true CAS support across Numera that we can bring in when needed. If you worked with Hollywell, your contacts have not changed.
Who does Numera Advisory work with?
Private equity portfolio company, SMB, traditional search, and ETA leaders, independent sponsors and family offices, private credit, and smaller public companies. We work with clients that have up to $1B in revenue across multiple industries and tend to work in services, tech, industrials, manufacturing, energy, and retail.
What does CFO + Controller leadership look like month to month?
The Numera Advisory team focuses on deliverables, not hours, across our clients’ financial reporting, capital management, internal controls, management + investor + board reporting, governance + compliance, and talent management.
Do I have to be a Quality of Earnings client to use you for CFO + Controller work?
No. Plenty of clients come to us for accounting leadership with no transaction involved. However, when diligence is involved, it is an advantage, because nothing learned in diligence gets lost in a handoff to a different firm.
Do you replace my finance team or work alongside it?
Numera Advisory is capable of meeting your company’s needs, whether that is replacing or supplementing your current team. We step into fractional, interim, project, or turnaround CFO, Controller and other accounting leadership roles when the seat is empty or the role has been outgrown. We also work alongside an existing controller or finance team when they need senior cover on specific functional requirements, such as an audit, new standard adoption, financial modeling, or a transaction.
What does "Big Four–trained" mean here, and why should I care?
Numera Advisory partners spent years at Big Four firms in transaction services, assurance, and accounting advisory. That fundamental training is where they learned how to read accounting choices, operational realities, and deal mechanics.
Who does the work on client engagements?
Someone at the Senior Manager level or above leads every project. The partners you meet on the scoping call are the same people who oversee the work on an ongoing basis. Numera Advisory does not pass work down through a chain of junior staff.
How quickly can you start?
Regarding Quality of Earnings work, on average we get started the same week we are contacted and engaged. It’s the same for our recurring leadership clients, noting that we typically complete an initial state assessment within one to two weeks.
How do you price engagements?
Engagements are priced to the scope of the deal or the problem rather than by the billable hour. The scope is agreed upon before any work starts. Our rates are 75-80% below the billable rates at our prior big firms.
Do you work with companies outside the US?
Yes. The team works across US GAAP, UK GAAP, and IFRS, with clients in North America (Canada and Mexico) and in Europe.
Ready when timing matters
Put senior eyes on it
Quality of Earnings, CFO + Controller leadership, and technical accounting. One senior team, under one roof, ready in days.