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Olivia Wayne

Fractional VP of Finance and financial systems architectAccounting Editor & Fractional VP of Finance · Accounting infrastructure, M&A finance, multi-entity systems and AI-native operations

Biography

Experience behind the byline.

Olivia brings more than a decade of progressive experience across corporate audit, finance and high-velocity venture-backed environments. She operates as a Fractional VP of Finance and Head of Accounting & Financial Infrastructure, working with leadership teams that need institutional-grade financial discipline before they have a large internal finance function.
Her project-based accounting experience spans commercial real estate, PropTech, construction and active procurement portfolios. The work includes cost-to-complete tracking, draw schedules, client billing, GAAP-aligned revenue-recognition workflows and controls for procurement-in-trust environments where client capital must remain traceable.
Olivia also works across M&A and corporate-development finance: financial due diligence, quality-of-earnings analysis, revenue concentration, valuation models, earnout design, integration-cost planning, entity consolidation and post-close accounting. In venture-backed settings, she connects investor reporting and unit economics to the operational systems producing the numbers.
Her systems work includes multi-entity reporting architecture, banking and legal coordination, audit readiness and business-model transitions from managed services toward hybrid platform or SaaS structures. She treats AI and automation as infrastructure choices: approval rights, exception routes, source records and final accountability are designed before repetitive work is automated.
Biographical and professional information was supplied by the author and reviewed for editorial scope. A public professional profile will be linked when available.

Professional experience

Work that informs the coverage.

Olivia builds the financial engine behind fast-moving companies: accounting controls, project economics, transaction diligence, entity architecture, reporting and automation that preserve an inspectable record.
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    Corporate audit and finance operations

    More than a decade of progressive finance experience across control environments, management reporting and fast-growing venture-backed businesses.

  2. 02

    Project and construction accounting

    Hands-on work with cost-to-complete, draw schedules, client billing, revenue recognition, procurement controls and project-level financial visibility.

  3. 03

    M&A and corporate-development finance

    Owns diligence, quality-of-earnings work, valuation and earnout models, integration planning, entity consolidation and post-close financial operations.

  4. 04

    Multi-entity and AI-native infrastructure

    Designs consolidated reporting, exception handling, approval systems and ERP-agnostic automation without hiding the source record or professional owner.

Areas of expertise

What this author covers.

Editorial method

How expertise becomes accountable reporting.

  1. 01

    Controls before automation

    The approval right, source record, exception route and final accounting owner are defined before an AI workflow is allowed to act.

  2. 02

    Trace every number

    Reporting claims should connect to a ledger, contract, operational event or documented assumption rather than a generated explanation alone.

  3. 03

    Keep professional boundaries visible

    Product analysis explains systems and operating trade-offs; it does not replace entity-specific accounting, tax, legal or investment advice.

Working with authors

From a market question to a useful article.

Our authors do not simply approve a finished draft. They help shape the question, add first-hand context, challenge the evidence and review the material before publication.
  1. 01

    Read the market

    We analyze current trends, audience questions and search demand to identify what readers need to understand.

  2. 02

    Bring in daily practice

    We connect that market question with experience built through the author’s day-to-day professional work.

  3. 03

    Build the complete view

    We combine established knowledge and credible data with the practical realities of applying them.

  4. 04

    Review and challenge

    The author and editorial desk review the evidence, test the argument and brainstorm how to make it more useful.

  5. 05

    Publish for practitioners

    We publish the material we would want to read ourselves when trying to understand the topic and make a better decision.

Published work

Latest from Olivia Wayne.