Christian Boughner, ASA, MAAA · Richmond, VA

I run finance with an actuary’s eye for riskand a technical focus.

Fractional CFO for a multi-state manufacturer. Ten years of actuarial consulting before that.

Open to VP / Director of Finance roles — and select fractional CFO engagements.

Topographic contour rendering of a 13-week cash projection fanned across stress-to-upside scenarios. Synthetic data, for illustration.

Let’s talkSee the work
BASE CASE
WK 13 ENDING CASH$2,360k
FIG. 01 — 13-WEEK CASH × SCENARIO BAND · SYNTHETIC SERIES · FOR ILLUSTRATION

Career highlights

  • Days → hoursRecurring report preparation, after the reporting layer I built
  • ~80%Of a firm’s client business moved onto a platform I led, at about half the effort
  • $100M+Obligations presented to executives and boards
  • 80+Client engagements: 50+ public-sector, 30+ forecasting and modeling
  • 10 yrsActuarial consulting · ASA, MAAA

SEC. 01 — PROOF OF WORK

Built, not proposed.

The flagship system below runs day-to-day finance operations. Two additional builds show the same bias toward practical, decision-ready tools. Client details are withheld; every figure drawn here is synthetic.

FLAGSHIP SYSTEM

Executive financial visibility, on a phone

A mobile-accessible executive reporting system backed by normalized ERP data — designed for the decisions that cannot wait for a desktop report cycle.

DAILY PRODUCTION USESTATUS

THE PROBLEM

The legacy ERP required server access, desktop workflows, and manual assembly to answer basic questions about cash, receivables, margins, and the close.

THE SYSTEM

I built a responsive executive reporting application over a normalized ERP data layer, bringing general ledger, A/R, A/P, payroll, inventory, and sales into one decision-ready view.

THE OPERATING EFFECT

The application supports day-to-day executive and finance decisions, with reconciliation, freshness, and approval controls built into close and controller workflows.

Next.js · FastAPI · PostgreSQL

1,883 backend tests · Aug 2026

Illustrative phone screen of the executive reporting app, drawn with synthetic data: current cash with a 13-week trend, receivables by age, a twelve-month gross-margin trend, and month-end close progress.

SYNTHETIC DATA · FOR ILLUSTRATION

Screens shown from the working application and populated entirely with fictional demonstration data. Names, entities, dates, balances, and transactions are synthetic and do not represent a client or employer.

  1. Desktop executive finance workspace with period controls, an operating agenda, and a profitability-actions panel.
    DESKTOP VIEW · EXECUTIVE WORKSPACEExecutive workspace brings period and location selection, an operating agenda, and action review into one decision-ready view.
  2. Desktop receivables workspace with aging summary cards, a collection queue, and an account detail panel.
    DESKTOP VIEW · RECEIVABLES WORKFLOWReceivables workspace pairs aging context, collection priorities, and account detail for focused follow-through.
  3. Desktop financial outlook workspace with scenario and location selectors, a monthly review cycle, and forecast summary tables.
    DESKTOP VIEW · OUTLOOK REVIEWOutlook review organizes scenario controls, forecast summaries, liquidity review, and a guided monthly operating cycle.
  4. Mobile executive finance workspace with period controls, source calibration, and bottom navigation.
    MOBILE VIEW · EXECUTIVE WORKSPACEMobile executive view preserves period controls, source context, and direct navigation for on-the-go review.
  5. Mobile receivables workspace with a summary of aging categories and a bottom navigation bar.
    MOBILE VIEW · RECEIVABLES WORKFLOWMobile receivables view presents aging context and collection workflow in a stacked, touch-friendly layout.
  6. Mobile financial outlook workspace with scenario controls, a planning notice, and a monthly review checklist.
    MOBILE VIEW · OUTLOOK REVIEWMobile outlook view combines scenario controls and the monthly forecast workflow in a single-column review surface.

How the data gets there

  1. ERPGeneral ledger · A/R · A/P · payroll · inventory · sales
  2. PipelineCheckpoints · reconciliation · freshness
  3. PhoneDecision-ready views, same morning

SUPPORTING BUILDS

Additional systems built

Financial-statement automation

Workbooks that explain themselves.

A workbook engine that generates statements of cash flows, executive dashboards, historical summaries, liquidity and leverage ratios, charts, and plain-language financial diagnostics from raw accounting exports.

OPERATING CASH FLOW · EXCERPT
Net income$446k
Depreciation$101k
Change in receivables−$193k
Change in inventory−$54k
Change in payables$46k
Cash from operations$346k

DIAGNOSTIC Operating cash trailed net income; receivables growth absorbed most of the gap.

Python · Excel

Actuarial valuation library

A private working library for retiree-benefit valuation.

A Python library for ASC 715-60 retiree-benefit valuation: APBO, service and interest cost, discount-rate and trend sensitivities, mortality alternatives, rollforwards, and Monte Carlo outcome distributions.

MONTE CARLO · 2,000 DRAWS · LIABILITY OUTCOMES

MEDIAN $12,378k95TH PCT $15,971k

PythonASC 715-60

SYNTHETIC DATA · FOR ILLUSTRATION

SEC. 02 — TRACK RECORD

A decade of consulting. Then a seat at the table.

Since 2025, running the finance function of a multi-state electrical manufacturer through CMB Consulting — after ten years of valuation, forecasting, and risk consulting across three firms.

  1. 2025 — NOW

    CMB Consulting LLC

    Fractional CFO / Finance Director

    • Run controller, treasury, FP&A, and finance-systems work for a multi-state electrical manufacturer; lead the accounting team and advise the CEO.
    • Guided finance through multi-state expansion; priced the company’s first long-term service contracts.
    • Modeled company value and equity ownership for a management transition; redesigned PTO and 401(k) benefits.
    • Built an automated reporting layer over the ERP that turned multi-day recurring report preparation into same-day work — with reconciliation, freshness, and approval controls.
  2. 2023 — 2025

    United Actuarial Services

    Consultant / Consulting Actuary

    • Led a firmwide reporting-platform transition covering roughly 80% of client business, cutting recurring valuation and reporting effort by roughly half.
    • Owned firmwide assumption setting and advised clients on long-horizon asset and liability outcomes under stochastic scenarios.
    • Built forecasting and scenario models across more than 30 client engagements; developed analysts and reviewed their work.
  3. 2018 — 2023

    Precision Actuarial

    Senior Consulting Actuary

    • Owned recurring valuation and financial reporting for more than 50 public-sector clients, presenting $100M+ obligations to executives and boards.
    • Built time-series forecasting models for claims and reserves, including economic forecasting for the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
  4. 2016 — 2018

    SageView Consulting Group

    Associate Consulting Actuary

    • Ran annual valuation and financial-reporting cycles for roughly 40 employer plans a year, data workflow through delivered statement.
    • Modeled plan-design and funding scenarios, and presented the results to plan sponsors.
Christian Boughner — duotone portrait plate.
CHRISTIAN BOUGHNER · ASA · MAAA

Credentials

ASA
Associate of the Society of Actuaries
MAAA
Member of the American Academy of Actuaries
B.S. MATHEMATICS & ECONOMICS
The College of William & Mary, May 2015

Completed fellowship-track modules in quantitative finance, enterprise risk management, and financial modeling; passed the Quantitative Finance and Enterprise Risk Management examinations. Additional study included derivatives and option pricing, portfolio management, and scenario modeling.

SEC. 03 — CAPABILITIES

Rebuild the finance function.

For the owner of a growing manufacturer, or the company hiring its next head of finance: the same three disciplines, one operator.

Finance operations

Own the close, the cash, and the numbers a decision actually turns on.

  • Monthly close & management reporting
  • Budgets & rolling forecasts
  • 13-week cash & working capital
  • Margin & unit economics
  • Pricing & long-term contract analysis
  • Lender, vendor & customer terms

Finance systems

Build the systems the finance team runs on, with the controls built in.

  • ERP-to-mobile data pipelines
  • Automated reporting layers
  • Python · SQL · TypeScript
  • Tested, source-controlled workflows
  • Reconciliation & approval controls
  • AI-assisted finance workflows

Risk modeling & forecasting

Ten years of putting defensible numbers on uncertain futures.

  • Valuation & DCF
  • Stochastic projection & ALM
  • Time series, claims & reserves
  • Monte Carlo & sensitivity analysis
  • Company valuation & equity modeling
  • Assumption setting & model review

SEC. 04 — CONTACT

Let’s talk.

Two ways to work together. Either way, the first step is a short email or call.

Hiring for finance leadership

What I bring to a VP or Director of Finance seat:

  • Running the close, cash, and management reporting through to the board pack.
  • Forecasting under uncertainty: budgets, 13-week cash, scenario and risk models.
  • Building the reporting systems the team runs on, not just specifying them.
Email about a role

Fractional CFO engagements

For a growing company that needs finance leadership part-time:

  • A short call: where the numbers stand, and which decision they fail to support.
  • A focused look at close, cash, margins, and systems.
  • A scoped engagement with deliverables you can see working.
Email about an engagement

DIRECT

cboughner@cmbconsultingco.com
Email me

OR CALL DIRECT(804) 205-0821

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