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Senior Financial Advisory

Your next stage demands
a different kind of
financial partner.

Systems that scale. Strategy that holds.

AdAstra works alongside CFOs and finance leaders at mid-market companies navigating complexity—whether that's rebuilding financial infrastructure, expanding across borders, or sharpening the strategic decisions that define your next chapter.

01 — Core Expertise
Financial Systems, Process & Controls
ERP implementation, reporting architecture, and control frameworks built for companies that have outgrown what they have.
02 — Core Expertise
International Expansion
Financial infrastructure, compliance, and operational readiness for companies entering new markets or managing multi-entity complexity.
03 — Core Expertise
Strategic Finance Advisory
Profitability modeling, cash flow visibility, and the financial decision-making frameworks your leadership team actually needs.
Controller-Level Depth
ERP & Systems Implementation
Multi-Entity & Cross-Border
Audit & Investor Ready

Not a vendor.
Not overhead.
A partner.

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Senior expertise, directly engaged

You work with the principal—not a junior associate handed your file after the pitch.

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Deep before broad

We take time to understand your operations before proposing anything. Surface-level fixes aren't our style.

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Built around your stage

Whether scaling domestically or expanding internationally, our engagements fit where you actually are.

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Outcomes over hours

We're measured by what changes in your business—not by how many reports we produce.

How We Engage

From first conversation
to lasting infrastructure.

01

Free Assessment

An honest conversation about your business, your numbers, and where the real friction is. No pitch, no agenda.

02

Scoped Engagement

We define a clear, time-bound engagement—recurring advisory, a systems build, or a strategic project—with transparent pricing.

03

Deep Diagnostic

We go into your operations, your data, and your workflows. Three months minimum. Long enough to actually solve the problem.

04

Deliver & Sustain

Real deliverables your team can own—systems, models, frameworks—built to outlast the engagement.

Our Expertise

Three disciplines.
One integrated practice.

AdAstra's work sits at the intersection of financial infrastructure, global operations, and strategic decision-making. We don't generalize—we go deep in areas where the complexity is real and the stakes are high.

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Financial Systems, Process & Controls

Most mid-market companies reach a point where their financial infrastructure can't keep up. Reporting is fragmented, controls are informal, and the ERP that worked at $1M is buckling at $10M.

We diagnose the gaps and build what's actually needed—from ERP configuration and custom reporting architecture to procure-to-pay process design and internal control frameworks that hold up under audit or investor scrutiny.

ERP ImplementationProcess DesignInternal ControlsCustom ReportingP2P Optimization
02

International Expansion

Crossing a border introduces a new layer of financial complexity—entity structure, intercompany accounting, transfer pricing, multi-currency reporting, and compliance obligations that vary by jurisdiction.

We help finance teams build the infrastructure to manage international operations cleanly from day one, so that expansion doesn't create a compliance backlog or a reporting blind spot.

Entity StructuringTransfer PricingIntercompany AccountingMulti-CurrencyCross-Border Compliance
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Strategic Finance Advisory

The best financial strategies aren't built in spreadsheets—they're built from a clear understanding of unit economics, cash flow dynamics, and the real levers in your business model.

We work alongside CFOs and leadership teams to build the analytical frameworks, profitability models, and cash visibility tools that support better decisions at every level of the organization.

Profitability ModelingCash Flow ArchitectureUnit EconomicsManagement ReportingBoard Readiness
Phillip Coomes, Managing Partner
17+
Years in Industry
3
Core Practice Areas
+$1 Billion
Managed Budgets
10+
Industries Covered
About AdAstra

Phillip Coomes, MBA
Managing Partner

Phillip brings 17+ years of progressive finance and accounting leadership to every AdAstra engagement. His career spans Fortune 500 logistics, NATO infrastructure, SaaS revenue accounting, climate technology, and direct air capture— further across public, private, and non-profit entities giving him a rare breadth of operational and strategic experience that few advisors can match.

As Finance Controller for Climeworks—the global leader in direct air capture—Phillip served as Acting Regional CFO for North America, overseeing the financial infrastructure for Project Cypress, a first-of-its-kind CO₂ capture facility with budgeted expenditures exceeding $1.2 billion. Before that, he designed and implemented the complete financial operations stack for Breakthrough Energy, the climate technology nonprofit network founded by Bill Gates.

He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Washington Foster School of Business and a BA in Economics from Western Washington University. He is a U.S. Marine veteran—Embassy Security, Staff Sergeant, honorable discharge—with a background built on trust, precision, and high-stakes responsibility.

→MBA, Finance — University of Washington Foster School of Business
→Internal Audit — Expeditors International (Fortune 500), 22 international subsidiaries
→FP&A — NATO Infrastructure, $500M+ annual expenditure oversight
→U.S. Marine Corps — Staff Sergeant, Embassy Security, Top Secret/SCI clearance
Get Started

Your next stage
starts with a
single conversation.

Whether you're scaling into new markets, building the financial infrastructure your next funding round demands, or bringing rigor to a business that's outgrowing its systems—AdAstra meets you where you are. Growing fast or fixing gaps, the conversation starts the same way.

→Scaling internationally and need the infrastructure to match
→Preparing for a fundraise and need audit-ready financials
→Systems and controls that haven't kept pace with growth
→Strategic decisions that need a senior financial voice

Request Your Free Assessment

Tell us where you are. We'll tell you honestly how we can help—and whether we're the right fit.