Big 4 Alumni
Big 4 Training. Portfolio Company Focus.
We spent years inside Deloitte and PwC learning how to evaluate finance functions. Now we build the ones that pass.
Big 4 experience teaches you how to evaluate a finance function with precision. You learn the standards cold. You develop a mental model for what good looks like across industries, revenue models, and organizational complexity. But audit is diagnostic work. It tells you what's wrong. It doesn't fix it.
We took that diagnostic rigor and built a consulting practice around it. The Verzia Diagnostic is, at its core, the same assessment discipline we practiced at Deloitte and PwC—applied to PE portfolio companies, with EBITDA impact mapped to every finding.
What Big 4 Training Means in Practice
We know what auditors look for
Because we were the auditors. The Diagnostic evaluates your finance function against the same criteria.
We know what breaks under diligence
Revenue recognition, cutoff procedures, related-party disclosures, inventory valuation. Architecture designs these to be airtight.
We know the standards
ASC 606, ASC 842, technical accounting applications. Working knowledge from years of practice, not research.
Why We Left
Big 4 firms are exceptional at audit and advisory for public companies. But mid-market PE portfolio companies need someone who can diagnose the problem and then stay to build the fix. Same person. Same context. Same urgency.
That's why Verzia follows the Diagnose → Architect → Advise lifecycle. The person who identifies the gap is the person who designs the fix and advises through execution.
How We Work
Diagnose → Architect → Advise
Every engagement follows a lifecycle designed for PE timelines. Most clients enter at the Diagnostic. Some come to us mid-hold with a specific architecture need. A few stay for ongoing advisory through exit.