Why Arena

Elevating Financial Leadership for Growth-Stage Companies

Trusted By Leading Organizations

Why Arena

Financial Leadership Built for Growth, Clarity, and Bottom-Line Results.

Trusted By Leading Organizations

Elevating Financial Leadership for Growing Businesses

Arena CFO delivers executive-level financial strategy and expertise through fractional CFO services, empowering scaling companies to strengthen cash flow, improve profitability, and make smarter decisions with real-time financial insight.

Why We Are Here

Most businesses never hire a CFO, and that comes at a cost.
90% of U.S. businesses operate without senior financial leadership. business owners attempt to “wear the finance hat” while also focusing on their customers, products or services, and employees.

  • A CFO costs on average $175k/year
  • Only ~200,000 professionals on LinkedIn identify themselves as a CFO
  • There are 33 Million businesses in the United States
  • 50% of businesses fail by their fifth year
  • 82% of those businesses fail due to cash flow related challenges

Many businesses try to plug the gap with spreadsheets, weekend accounting, and a patchwork of financial tools, but that leads to:

  • Absence of a growth plan
  • Ad hoc and inaccurate reporting
  • Unexpected cash flow issues
  • Manual payments and bookkeeping
  • Looking backwards
  • Reactive business planning
  • Inability to anticipate performance
  • Using owners’ personal funds to cover funding gaps
  • Higher costs of capital for last minute needs
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Our Mission is Clear

making strategic financial leadership accessible to All businesses

Businesses try to solve this gap by weekend work and a patchwork quilt of subscriptions to accounting, payment, and reporting tools.  Arena CFO allows businesses the access to a financial expert without hiring one full-time.  Our CFOs represent industries of all kinds, and we take on clients at any stage of the business lifecycle to help them reach their full potential. We continue to strengthen and expand our strategic advisors and CFO network nationwide as well as build out our digital toolkit to support our CFOs’ work.

Client-First Focus. Long-Term Financial Confidence.

Arena CFO helps companies replace guesswork with clarity, reactive work with strategy, and cost with confidence.

Recognition & Credibility

Arena CFO has been recognized across the financial and tech ecosystem for its innovative approach and impact:

These milestones reflect both Arena’s performance and its potential in the strategic finance space.

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#409 on the 2025 Inc. 5000 Award List

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