Fractional CFO Services in South Florida
Vessel Advisors serves South Florida operating companies between $5M and $70M with fractional CFO and Controller services. International business, real estate, hospitality, distribution, and the family-owned operators behind South Florida's economy.
Miami / Fort Lauderdale / Palm Beach
Serving South Florida operating companies from our regional bench.
Vessel Advisors serves South Florida operating companies across Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties — international businesses, real estate operators, hospitality groups, distributors, healthcare services, and the family-owned businesses behind South Florida's economy.
South Florida is unlike any other US operating market. The international dimension is real. So is the multi-generational family ownership pattern across construction, hospitality, distribution, and real estate.
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How can we help? No pitch, no pressure — just a real conversation.
The Market
South Florida operates on different rules than the rest of the country.
South Florida is the most international middle market in the country — the Latin American business gateway, a magnet for capital flows from across the Western Hemisphere, and a major financial-services secondary market. The mid-market companies here are multilingual, often multigenerational, and frequently structured across multiple entities and sometimes multiple jurisdictions.
What we see most:
- Family-owned hospitality and lodging operators — boutique hotels, restaurant groups, multi-property operators across South Florida and the Caribbean.
- Real estate developers and property management companies with multi-entity portfolios and partner waterfalls.
- Distribution and logistics operators serving Latin America trade routes and the Florida market.
- PE-backed platforms across services, healthcare, and consumer brands using Miami as a US base.
- Construction contractors and trades businesses building South Florida's sustained development pipeline.
Industries
Where we work most in South Florida.
Hospitality and lodging
Boutique hotels, restaurant groups, food and beverage operators. Multi-unit reporting, margin discipline, and the team development that lets family-owned hospitality scale beyond founder bandwidth.
Real estate and construction
Developers, multi-entity property managers, and construction contractors riding South Florida's sustained build cycle. Partner waterfalls, project-level profitability, and multi-entity consolidation are baseline.
Distribution and logistics
Distributors and 3PL operators serving Latin American trade and the broader Florida market. Inventory accuracy, customer-level profitability, currency exposure, and trade-finance work are the recurring conversations.
PE-backed platforms and services
Sponsor-backed services platforms running add-on strategies across South Florida and the broader region. EBITDA quality, integration discipline, and quarterly sponsor reporting are where we add the most leverage.
How we engage.
When It's Broken
Put out the fire.
Interim CFO & Controller. At the loss of a key employee. When things crash or break. We deploy interim professionals — repairing what's broken and keeping the system running while you decide what's next.
When You're Building & Exiting
Advise and serve.
CFO, Controller & Accounting Team. Right-sized financial leadership — and the team to execute. Embedded for the long run. The CFO Power Team™: right roles, right cost.
When You Don't Know What You Don't Know
Assessment services.
Financial Discovery Assessment™. A structured deep-dive that reveals where your finance function stands today — and what it needs to support where you're going.
Transaction Readiness Assessment™. Will the books and reporting tell the right story to a buyer or investor — and do the systems and processes support merger or acquisition activities?
Coverage
We cover South Florida.
We support South Florida operating companies through our team and bench — on-site time when it matters, virtual delivery when it doesn't.
Coverage area: Miami, Coral Gables, Doral, Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton, West Palm Beach, and the broader Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach metro.
Work With Vessel Advisors
Ready to Know Where Your Business Actually Stands?
Most engagements begins with a Financial Discovery Assessment™ — a structured diagnostic that reveals where your finance function stands today and what it needs to support where you're taking the business.