Stephen Steinbacher, founder of Steinbacher Business Advisory, working on a laptop

Your numbers don’t match. Decisions are still being made anyway.

That gets expensive - fast.

Stripe revenue doesn’t match your accounting.
You can’t explain margin by product or location.
Reports change depending on who pulls them.

Most teams learn to work around it.

I build systems where every number ties out.

What I do

I step into revenue and finance systems that don’t reconcile - across Stripe, POS, and accounting - and make them reliable.

Not dashboards.
Not surface-level metrics.

Reconciled revenue across systems.
Margin you can actually defend.
Numbers leadership can stand behind.

What I’ve seen

Across industries and growth stages, the points of failure are the same:

  • Systems built for yesterday’s scale.

  • Reports that technically worked, but couldn’t be trusted.

  • Revenue hiding in reconciliation gaps.

  • Teams operating fast but not aligned.

Growth doesn’t break businesses. Weak infrastructure does.

The systems don’t break randomly. They break the same way every time.

Proof

At a multi-location hospitality brand, I rebuilt the inventory and revenue reconciliation process from the ground up. On paper, reporting looked clean. Leadership believed revenue numbers were right.

It wasn’t.

COGS weren't being attributed correctly. In some cases, not at all.

Product costs were estimated, not calculated.

Recipe-level production data and SKU-level sales lived in separate systems.

Margin reporting was unreliable.

Pricing decisions were built on bad assumptions.

I rebuilt the reconciliation process from the ground up, tying every transaction → payment → accounting entry into a single reconciled system.

Within weeks:

  • Over $400,000 in previously unaccounted costs were identified.

  • Margin became measurable and reliable.

  • The system reconciled automatically every month.

This changed how the business priced products, understood margin, and made decisions.

See how I rebuilt the system 

In high-volume retail, POS, payments, and the general ledger don’t reconcile by default. At a large-scale retail operation, I unified POS, payments, and general ledger data into a single source of truth.

Before:

  • One manual report

  • No reliable system

  • Leadership guessing at numbers

After:

  • Fully reconciled reporting

  • Automated workflows

  • Executive-level analysis delivered in half the time

  • Numbers leadership could actually trust

See how I rebuilt the system 

If your business is growing but your numbers don’t match your financial reality - something’s off.

Stephen Steinbacher, revenue operations consultant, in a professional setting

If this sounds familiar, you’re exactly who I work with.

If you’re growing fast but your systems feel fragile,
Your numbers don’t match your financial reality,
And you don’t fully trust your reporting,

You don’t have a dashboard problem.

You have a data foundation problem.

In one focused conversation, we’ll pinpoint where your numbers break, what it’s costing you, and exactly what needs to be fixed.

Start with a revenue diagnostic

How I work

01

I don’t patch problems. I rebuild the system so they don’t come back.


02

I map your full revenue flow and find exactly where it breaks.


03

I make it simple enough to run, so your team doesn’t need me to keep it working.


04

I connect payments, ops, and accounting so every transaction ties out.


If your revenue, payments, and accounting don’t tie out - you’re already paying for it.