How TANSON Consulting Delivers Finance Transformations Faster by Partnering with Consarc

About TANSON Consulting

TANSON Consulting is a financial strategy and consulting firm founded by Varsha Nagpal, a finance leader with 30 years ofexperience across PwC, Brown-Forman, and PE-backed growth companies backed by Bain Capital Ventures and General Catalyst. TANSON specialises in Finance-as-a-Service and fractional CFO/CAO mandates for growth-stage and PE-backed organizations, helping them professionalise their finance function, accelerate close, and achieve investor and audit readiness.

Varsha holds a CPA. Her engagements have delivered close cycle reductions of up to 50%, 60% reductions in manual tracking, and 100% US GAAP-compliant financials with zero audit adjustments.

What a Fractional CFO/CAO Walks Into

When a fractional CFO or CAO steps into an organization, the mandate is rarely simple. The finance function is typically under-resourced, manual-heavy, and struggling to keep pace with the business. Leadership wants faster close cycles, cleaner reporting, and audit-ready financials. The team wants clarity on who owns what. Everyone wants less time spent on month-end.

The reality on the ground is usually one of three things, or some combination of all three.

The close process is built on spreadsheets.
Familiar, flexible, and entirely dependent on the individual running them. When that person is stretched or leaves, the model breaks.

‍The ERP is doing heavy lifting it was not designed for.
‍Their native workflows were not built to automate the close. Manual configuration piles up. Multi-entity environments add overhead with every new entity.

‍A close orchestration tool is already inplace but underdelivering.
Platforms like FloQast and Blackline bring visibility to the close. They tell the team what needs to happen and who owns it. What they do not do is execute the work. The manual burden underneath them remains.

In each scenario, the fractional CFO arrives with a clear transformation mandate and a tight timeline to deliver it. The tools available to them often cannot move at the pace the engagement demands.

How TANSON Consulting Partners with Consarc

TANSON's engagement model is built around a structured 90-day modernization roadmap. Varsha assesses gaps across people, processes, and technology, identifies the root causes of close friction, and designs a durable operating cadence that sustains performance long after the engagement ends.

Consarc became a core part of that model because it operates where most tools do not: at the execution layer.

Consarc's Noa AI Agents do not just track the close. They execute it. Each agent is configured to the client's exact operational reality, pulling data from multiple source systems, matching transactions, and surfacing exceptions for human review. The tool adapts to the environment rather than forcing the environment to adapt to the tool. For a fractional practice deploying across multiple client environments, that configurability is what makes it viable at scale.

Unlike orchestration tools that manage workflows, Consarc operates at the execution layer. Noa AI Agents are powered by an agentic data fabric that connects to any source system, normalizes data across entities, and enables multiple agents to work in concert to execute the full close cycle autonomously.

Equally important is Consarc's ForwardDeployed Accountant model. Rather than handing over a product and stepping back, Consarc's team works alongside TANSON and the client's finance function through implementation, configuration, and well beyond go-live. For a 90-day transformation mandate, that sustained support is not a convenience. It is what makes the timeline achievable and the outcomes stick.

"Most tools expect you to fit their model. Consarc fits yours. That is the difference between something you deploy once and something you can build a practice around."
- Varsha Nagpal, Fractional CFO/CAO | Founder, TANSON Consulting

How the Solution Is Deployed

TANSON's partnership with Consarc follows a clear deployment pattern across engagements. Varsha steps in, assesses the finance function, and maps the close process from end to end. Friction points are identified - where manual effort is concentrated, where visibility breaks down, where accountability is unclear. Consarc's Forward Deployed Accountants come in alongside her. Together, they configure the Noa AI Agents to the client's specific environment: the transaction flows, the entity structure, the AP workflows, the schedule requirements. Configuration is not generic. It is built around how the client operates. The close process is then migrated onto Consack's unified platform, giving the finance team complete visibility, clear task ownership, and a defensible audit trail across every entity. The Forward Deployed Accountant stays until adoption is solid and outcomes are being hit - not just through go-live, but across the full engagement.

"Consarc is part of how I deliver at the pace my clients need. The AI Agents handle the execution. I focus on the strategy." - Varsha Nagpal, Fractional CFO/CAO | Founder, TANSON Consulting

The Impact

When TANSON's transformation expertise and Consarc's execution layer work together, the outcomes are bigger than either can deliver alone. Across client engagements, the partnership has consistently delivered:

‍Close cycles reduced from 45 days to 12 days. What was a sprawling, manual month-end process becomes a structured, automated close that meets the timelines investors and auditors expect.

‍Faster, cleaner audit documentation. With transaction matching automated and the close running on a unified platform, audit documentation is produced as a by-product of the close process itself - not assembled under pressure at year end. That accelerates audit completion and reduces the cost of audit readiness.

‍Complete visibility into the finance close. Every task, every entity, every status on one platform. The ambiguity that comes with manual, fragmented close processes is replaced with clear ownership and real-time progress.

‍Stronger accountability across the finance team. Everyone knows what they own and where it stands. The grey areas that manual processes leave behind are gone.

‍A finance function that does not revert. The automation and operating cadence installed through Consarc sustains performance long after the engagement ends. Clients inherit aclose process that scales with them, without needing another transformation in two years.

"The question I used to ask was how many clients can I take on without the quality slipping. With Consarc, that is no longer the constraint it was." - Varsha Nagpal, Fractional CFO/CAO | Founder, TANSON Consulting

What TANSON and Consarc Deliver Together

The organizations that benefit most from this partnership share a recognizable profile: growth-stage or PE-backed companies managing multiple entities, with a finance function that has not kept pace with the business. Their close is too slow, audit prep is too manual, and the team is buried in execution when leadership needs analysis.

TANSON brings the transformation expertise - the ability to diagnose close friction fast, design a 90-day operating model, and draw on 30 years of multi-entity, PE-backed experience to know what good looks like on the other side. Consarc brings the execution layer - Noa AI Agents that automate the close workload, a unified platform for visibility and ownership, and Forward Deployed Accountants who stay through the full engagement to make sure outcomes are real, not just deployed.

Together, the model delivers a finance function that is transformed at the operating level and automated at the execution level. As more companies face the pressure of scaling finance without scaling headcount, that combination is becoming an operational necessity. TANSON and Consarc are building the model for what it looks like in practice.