How the career started
From public accounting to controller to the shift from a job into a career.
Executive profile
Jessica Cohen, CPA
Founder, Centsible Solutions
Financial strategy for owners who need finance to move the whole business
Jessica Cohen helps owners and founders turn financial information into action, alignment, and measurable business movement.
Jessica is an accelerant for owners who are ready to turn clarity into change.
executive positioning
An accelerant for change
Jessica believes finance is not a support function. It is the architecture of every great company. Her work uses financial strategy as the lens to evaluate the entire business: people, pricing, profitability, cash flow, growth, reputation, and long-term value.
Jessica helps owners move beyond reactive financial management and into a more structured, forward-looking way of leading. Her role is not simply to organize information — it is to translate financial data into the language of the business so owners can understand what is happening, what is possible, and what decision needs to come next.
She also helps owners prepare for future exit, succession, valuation, or transition conversations by strengthening the financial story behind the business, with a strong emphasis on helping owners maximize their multiple through margin clarity, growth strategy, and clean financial visibility before they enter conversations with buyers, valuation advisors, estate attorneys, or succession planning professionals.
In her own words
Maximum impact in minimal time
“Most businesses aren't lacking effort. They're lacking visibility.”
Jessica describes the way she enters a business: create clarity fast, standardise the data, find where the money is actually being made, and surface the cost savings that are sitting unseen.
It is the same sequence behind every engagement — visibility first, then the decisions that visibility makes possible.
what jess is brought in to solve
Questions Jessica helps owners answer
Her role is to translate financial data into the language of the business.
- What is driving or limiting profitability
- Where are we leaving money on the table
- Can we afford this hire
- What is the cost of standing still
- Are we pricing correctly
- Where are expenses, margins, or people out of alignment
- What financial information should we be using every week or month
- Are we prepared for growth, financing, succession, M&A, or an eventual exit
how jess works
Built around four pillars
She works at the intersection of finance, people, and operations, because numbers do not move a company by themselves.
Modernization
Improving how financial information is captured, connected, and used across the business.
Collaboration
Bringing people around the table and aligning them to a unified vision.
Data
Replacing guesswork with clear financial visibility.
Speed
Helping owners act faster with better information.
industry focus
Experience across high-touch and service-oriented businesses
Jessica brings financial strategy and Client Advisory Services to businesses where financial decisions are closely tied to trust, experience, quality, discretion, client service, reputation, and growth, including family offices, aviation, hospitality, luxury retail, law firms, and interior design.
These businesses require more than technical financial reporting. Client expectations are high, delivery models are nuanced, margins can vary, and growth decisions often require balancing reputation, service quality, capacity, pricing, staffing, cash flow, and future value.
relevant client impact
Actionable strategy with deliverable outcomes
Jessica's work is connected to practical outcomes that can be implemented, measured, and built upon.
$250,000
Annual savings through health and liability insurance negotiations
$500,000+
Recovered revenue through credit card convenience fee restructuring
$235,000
Anticipated revenue lift through dynamic pricing and demand-based tiers
$60,000+
Monthly cost recovery through a fuel surcharge strategy amid rising fuel prices
More from Jessica
The thinking behind the work
Short pieces on how she approaches growth, talent, speed and the road that led here.
On being underestimated
Navigating ambiguity, leading through it, and why not fitting the mould turned out to be an advantage.
Built on instinct, then given structure
On owners who lean into change, and building the foundation a business needs to be poised for growth.
Moving fast, with a destination
On pulling every lever at once, and why speed without strategy is just driving fast.
financial strategy session
Work with Jessica
If your business needs clearer financial visibility, stronger profitability insight, better decision support, or an accelerant for change, Jessica can help.