Stephen Kall

Stephen started his career in audit at a regional CPA firm, then owned revenue accounting for the direct-to-consumer arm of a national apparel retailer, where he built reporting on payment methods and fraud risk and supported the company's move to SAP. As Director of Finance at a fast-growing energy company, he built the month-end and quarterly close, prepared financial statements for external filings, implemented the company's first ERP and CRM, and managed a seven-person team across finance, accounting, and IT. The pricing model and quoting tool he built helped grow annual recurring revenue from $9M to $50M. He then managed an eight-person accounting team at a publicly traded footwear retailer, overseeing $3B in merchandise payables and $1B in indirect spend, and folded two acquisitions into the company's finance systems and SOX control environment. At a specialty eyewear retailer, he moved from project finance manager to interim controller, stood up standalone finance and accounting after the business separated from its shared-services parent, implemented NetSuite along with inventory and point-of-sale systems, and renegotiated terms with landlords and vendors through the COVID-19 cash crunch.

At the e-commerce technology company, Stephen moved from growth into finance platforms and then billing. He built board reporting and the planning and forecasting model, then led the evaluation, implementation, and migration on two distinct ERP projects. Stephen also collaborated with two Big Four firms on automated order-to-cash controls and audit readiness. His receivables and collections overhaul cut DSO from 53 to 25 days while saving the company nearly $500K in administrative expenses. As head of billing and financial operations, he owned the billing code and databases, managed three engineers and an analyst, brought key billing services in-house for $1M in savings, and put a billing knowledge base, a support chat agent, and AI workflows for complex financial reporting into production. He brings SPRCHRGR clients both halves of that career: an accountant's sense of what the numbers have to prove, and the hands-on skill to build the system that proves it.

Stephen lives in Brooklyn, New York.