Finance and operations leadership experience
Nexera Consulting is Erin Carlson. She works with founders and leadership teams who need clearer numbers, steadier reporting, and stronger operational follow-through before it makes sense to hire a full-time CFO or operations leader.
Her work is hands-on, practical, and tailored to the stage of the business. Erin has supported companies from early traction through organizations above $50M in annual revenue, always tying finance decisions back to how the business actually runs.
Experience across early growth through mid-market complexity
Led ERP selection and rollout for a 100+ employee engineering firm
Independent contractor payments automated into a weekly operating system
What Erin Does
Erin focuses on the financial and operational backbone that makes growth possible: cash flow visibility, system clarity, and decision-ready reporting. She steps in when the business needs senior judgment now, but not a bloated leadership layer.
Growth-Ready Finance
Forecasting, runway planning, pricing support, and reporting that help leaders make decisions with less guesswork.
Operational Systems
ERP and process improvements that replace patchwork workflows with reliable systems the team can actually use.
Execution Support
Hands-on leadership that bridges finance, operations, and cross-functional teams when ownership is unclear or work is stalling.
How Erin Starts the Work
The first phase is usually less about pitching a solution and more about getting honest about the business as it exists today. That means listening carefully, reviewing the numbers, and separating recurring issues from one-off noise.
Stakeholder discovery first
Erin starts with conversations across the people closest to the work so the operating reality is visible before any plan is drafted.
Finance and operations together
She reviews finances and operations side by side, because reporting problems, bottlenecks, and decision gaps usually cross both.
An honest starting point
On an initial fit call, founders do not need a polished story. What they know right now is usually the best starting point for a clear assessment.
When Leaders Bring Erin In
The numbers exist, but decisions still feel fuzzy
Reporting may technically be happening, but leadership still lacks the clarity needed to plan, price, or respond to risk with confidence.
Growth is stretching systems past their original design
Processes that worked at an earlier stage start creating reporting gaps, manual work, and bottlenecks once complexity increases.
What worked yesterday is starting to fail quietly
Teams often keep repeating an old approach because it used to work. Erin is usually brought in when the business has changed, but the management, leadership, or financial rhythm has not caught up yet.
Owners need senior judgment without a heavy hire
Erin is strongest when a business needs practical leadership now and wants to start with the work that matters most.
Operating Environments She Knows Well
Erin's background is broad enough to pattern-match quickly, but specific enough to be useful. The common thread is practical financial and operational work inside organizations that have real complexity, not just abstract strategy needs.
Tech and startup environments
Deep experience with tech startups, software-adjacent companies, ecommerce, Amazon-based businesses, wireless providers, and MVNO operating models.
Operationally complex businesses
Work across wholesale, retail, reselling, hardware manufacturing, engineering firms, and other businesses where reporting and execution need to stay tightly connected.
Regulated and public-sector rigor
Finance and accounting work in local and state government adds discipline around reporting, compliance, and process that carries into private-sector engagements.
Experience Highlights
- Guided a $60M wholesale company through the loss of its largest client, navigating a 50 percent year-over-year revenue decrease.
- Led ERP selection, customization, and deployment for a 100+ employee engineering firm, replacing an outdated system.
- Designed an automated weekly payments system for 3,000+ independent contractor sales agents at a national wireless MVNO.
- Managed an international software development team to deliver cross-border initiatives on time.
- Held finance and accounting roles for local and state governments, building the public-sector rigor needed for complex reporting and compliance.
Who She Works With
Erin is strongest when a company is scaling past its first million and needs better operating discipline without losing momentum. She adapts the work to the pace, maturity, and complexity of each team.
Networked Support
When specialized needs arise, Erin draws on trusted relationships across bookkeeping, accounting, senior finance leadership, people operations, data and analytics tooling, and IT infrastructure so the work can keep moving without overbuilding the team too early.
Credentials
Accounting degree from the University of Phoenix (UoP), plus a Math degree from Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU).
Experience
20 years in finance and operations leadership.
Contact Erin
If you need help stabilizing operations, building visibility, or deciding what support should come next, use the form below to start the conversation.