Care in the details
Our bookkeepers focus on organized records, reconciliations, and dependable financial information—the foundation for understanding how your business is performing.
Explore bookkeeping ↗OUR FOUNDER & TEAM
Experienced people.
A shared commitment
to your business.
Led by founder Jacob Pilling, Finstravi brings together experienced finance professionals and talented bookkeepers to help business owners move forward with clarity.
We’re a young, growing firm built on the experience of our people. From the details in your books to the decisions ahead, our team connects dependable financial work with practical business perspective.
Meet our founder ↗
JACOB PILLING / FOUNDER
Financial experience.
An operator’s perspective.
Jacob Pilling
Founder · Finance & Operations
Jacob leads Finstravi with a focus on connecting financial insight, capable people, and the day-to-day realities of running a business.
Jacob’s background spans banking, CFO and interim executive roles, business ownership, and strategic advisory work. He has supported founders, private equity sponsors, and growth-stage companies, including businesses with international operations.
His work includes financial models, analytics, cash planning, reporting systems, and process improvement. He focuses on making the downstream effects of decisions visible so leadership teams can evaluate their options and follow through.
THE TEAM BEHIND THE WORK
A growing firm.
Experience across the finance function.
Jacob leads a growing team of experienced professionals and bookkeepers who bring care, curiosity, and financial discipline to the work. We’re building Finstravi around a simple belief: strong advice starts with understanding the business and getting the financial foundation right.
Insight you can use
Our finance professionals connect reporting, planning, and analysis to the questions behind your next decision: cash, profitability, capacity, and growth.
Explore planning & analysis ↗Leadership that connects it
Jacob brings the founder’s perspective to the wider team’s work, connecting financial detail to operating priorities and the direction of your business.
Explore financial leadership ↗We shape each engagement around the support your business needs, with a clear scope and responsibilities from the start.
LEADERSHIP IN PRACTICE
Build a useful system. Keep learning from it.
Make assumptions visible
Connect forecasts to the business drivers and scenarios that leadership can understand and influence.
Work across functions
Bring sales, operations, staffing, and finance into a shared view of performance and priorities.
Lead through uncertainty
Experience navigating the 2008 financial crisis and the 2020 pandemic informs an emphasis on resilient plans and timely decisions.
EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT
A foundation built through study and practice.
- Stanford UniversityExecutive education in mergers and acquisitions
- Quantic School of Business and TechnologyExecutive MBA
- Walden UniversityBachelor of Science in Business Administration
- Brigham Young University & University of MontanaUndergraduate coursework
BEYOND THE OFFICE
Perspective comes from more than a spreadsheet.
Jacob’s interests include youth sports, high school basketball officiating, civic involvement, white-water rafting, music, and early U.S. history. A dual U.S.–Canadian citizen, he brings an appreciation for different perspectives to both business and community life.
YOUR BUSINESS. YOUR NEXT CHAPTER.
Meet the people behind your next step.
Serving businesses nationwide across the United States and Canada, with remote collaboration and on-site work by arrangement.
Talk with Finstravi ↗