Senior CFO and COO work across industrial manufacturing, aerospace supply chain, and consumer products. Family-owned businesses, privately held operators, and PE-backed companies. One principal. Direct involvement on every engagement.
Vic Datta is a senior finance and operations executive with more than 30 years of experience helping lower middle-market and mid-market companies improve performance, strengthen infrastructure, and prepare for critical business events.
His background spans CFO, COO, and senior advisory roles across industrial manufacturing, aerospace supply chain, consumer products, and other operationally demanding businesses. He has worked with family-owned companies, privately held operators, PE-backed businesses, and larger enterprises, and previously held leadership and advisory roles with IBM, PwC, KPMG, and FTI Consulting. Vic brings a practical blend of financial rigor, operating judgment, and transaction readiness to situations involving growth, margin pressure, lender scrutiny, and operational change. His education includes advanced study in law and finance, and he remains committed to ongoing executive education to stay current in governance, technology, AI-enabled finance, and the evolving demands placed on today’s CFO and COO.
Functional Expertise
Every item below represents work Vic has owned inside operating companies, not described from the outside. No delegation. No associates.
Financial reporting and management accounting
M&A diligence — buy-side and sell-side
Transaction readiness and QofE preparation
EBITDA normalization and working capital management
ERP financial systems implementation
Board and investor reporting
AI governance and control environment assessment
Order-to-Cash process design and optimization
Procure-to-Pay process management
Supply chain financial analysis
Operational KPI design and implementation
Post-acquisition financial integration
International operations and transfer pricing
Organizational design for lean finance teams
Every hour of every engagement delivered directly by Vic Datta. No associates. No handoffs. The person you speak with is the person doing the work.
The work is measured in what changed inside the business, not in the deliverables produced. Reports are a byproduct of the work, not the point of it.
Complete honesty about what a business is actually worth and what it will take to get there. No inflation. No false reassurance.
If you are within 12 to 24 months of any material business event, the time to prepare is now.
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