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In professional services, your profit lives in billable hours, project margins, and utilization, and generic accounting captures none of it. MAVI places finance professionals who understand project-based revenue and how a services firm actually makes money.
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Professional Services Finance Expertise That Matters

A professional services firm sells time and expertise, which makes its accounting revolve around projects, people, and utilization rather than products or inventory. An accountant from a product business can keep accurate books and still miss the metrics that tell a services firm whether it's actually profitable.
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Project Accounting and Profitability

In services, the project is the unit of profit, and knowing which engagements make money and which quietly lose it is the whole game. A specialist tracks cost and revenue at the project level and surfaces real project margin. A generalist reports firm-wide profitability and can't tell you that a third of your engagements are underwater, because the accounting was never structured around the project in the first place.

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WIP and Revenue Recognition

Work in process and revenue recognition on long engagements – percentage-of-completion, milestones, unbilled work – are central to services accounting and unfamiliar to most generalists. A specialist recognizes revenue as it's earned and keeps WIP accurate. A generalist recognizes revenue when they invoice and distorts every period where the work and the billing don't line up, which on a long engagement is most of them.

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Utilization and Billable Hours

Utilization is the heartbeat of a services firm, and the finance function has to connect billable hours to revenue and margin. A specialist ties time data to the financials and gives leadership a real read on utilization and realization. A generalist keeps the books without ever connecting them to the hours, so the firm's most important operating metric lives outside the numbers where no one can act on it.

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Retainer and Engagement Billing

Services firms bill in ways products never do – retainers, fixed fees, time and materials, all sometimes at once. A specialist accounts for each billing model correctly and keeps deferred and unbilled revenue straight. A generalist can handle a simple invoice and then tangle retainers and fixed-fee work into a mess of misstated revenue across periods.

Hiring Professional Services Finance & Accounting Talent with MAVI

MAVI matches you with finance professionals who have worked inside services firms, so they arrive fluent in projects, utilization, and the way billable time becomes profit.

Project Profitability Depth

Our accountants track cost and revenue by engagement and surface real project margin, so leadership knows which work makes money and which doesn't.

WIP and Recognition Command

MAVI talent handle work in process, percentage-of-completion, and milestone recognition, so revenue lands in the period it's earned, not just when it's invoiced.

Systems Familiarity

From time tracking and PSA tools to the GL, our network knows the services stack and ties billable hours to the financials without manual gaps.

Utilization Visibility

MAVI places accountants who connect time data to revenue and margin, giving leadership a real read on utilization and realization.

Scales With Your Firm

Support as engagements grow, a full-time accountant as headcount scales, an embedded team across practice areas – MAVI meets your finance function where it is.

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Meet Professional Finance & Accounting Talent in Our Network

Ananya
US Exp: 6 years | Location: India
Accountant at a consulting firm who owned project-level profitability tracking and tied billable hours to revenue, giving partners a real read on which engagements made money. Comfortable managing WIP on long projects.
Tomas
US Exp: 11 years | Location: Argentina
Senior accountant across professional services firms, handling percentage-of-completion recognition, retainer and fixed-fee billing, and utilization reporting. Knows how to keep revenue honest when the work and the billing don't line up.
Zanele
US Exp: 8 years | Location: South Africa
Accounting manager focused on services operations, running close with accurate WIP, deferred revenue, and by-engagement margin for a growing firm. Strong on the utilization-to-financials link that generalists leave disconnected.
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Do MAVI's accountants understand project-based accounting?

    Yes. The professionals we place track cost and revenue at the project level and surface real engagement margin, so you know which work makes money instead of only seeing firm-wide profitability.

  • Can they handle WIP and revenue recognition on long engagements?

    They can. MAVI talent handle work in process, percentage-of-completion, and milestone recognition, so revenue lands in the period it's earned rather than only when you invoice.

  • Utilization is our key metric. Can MAVI talent connect it to the financials?

    Yes. We place accountants who tie billable hours and time data to revenue and margin, giving leadership a real read on utilization and realization instead of a metric that lives outside the numbers.

  • We bill on retainers, fixed fees, and time and materials. Is that manageable?

    It is. MAVI talent account for each billing model correctly and keep deferred and unbilled revenue straight across engagements.

  • How quickly can a project accountant start?

    MAVI usually shares profiles within a day or two and can embed the right person in as fast as five days, which helps when a growing book of engagements outpaces your finance capacity.

  • Can we start with part-time project accounting support?

    Yes. Many services firms begin with project accounting or close support and scale the engagement as headcount and engagement volume grow.