About
20+ years of doing the hard work, stabilizing, rebuilding, and scaling organizations others found too complex to touch.
Background
"I'm most useful when the reporting is broken, the systems are a patchwork, and leadership needs someone who can orient quickly and start moving."
I'm Dan Oswald, a finance and operations leader with over 20 years of experience working across construction, telecommunications, financial services, fintech, and public-company environments.
My career has been defined by a recurring pattern: organizations in transition, growing faster than their infrastructure, recovering from operational drift, or navigating a change in ownership, bring me in to create order and build the systems that let them move forward.
I started at Countrywide Financial as part of the original team that launched the Reverse Mortgage business, managing finance and reporting for a business unit that grew from concept to significant scale. That experience, building from scratch inside a large institution, shaped how I think about infrastructure, controls, and what it actually takes to make reporting trustworthy.
Over the next two decades I moved across corporate finance, FP&A, and executive leadership, at Prospect Mortgage, through Oswald Consulting, and most recently as Director of Finance & Operations at Cable Services Co. Each role deepened the same core capability: making complex organizations legible and scalable.
Credentials & Background
B.S. Economics, Cum Laude, concentrations in Finance and Accounting.
One of the most rigorous undergraduate business programs in the world. The analytical discipline has informed every role since.
Founded in 2006. Served 32 client organizations across software, fintech, telecom construction, and real estate. Peak billing $212K annually.
Fractional CFO/COO leadership, financial modeling, systems transformation, M&A support, and public-company reporting.
Preserved ~$20M in shareholder value as CEO of a public subsidiary. Supported ~$2M in angel funding with financial models. Recovered $200K+ in revenue through compliance remediation.
Full detail available in resume, happy to share on request.
How I work
Beyond the work
Based in north-central Pennsylvania. Open to relocation and remote engagement across the US and Europe.
Working through a citizenship-by-descent process, a long-running personal project that has required navigating international legal and bureaucratic systems with patience and precision.
Serious home cook. Weekly CSA produce, cast iron, and a preference for building things from scratch, in the kitchen and everywhere else.
Drawn to complexity across domains, finance, law, technology, history, music. The habit of learning across disciplines is what makes cross-functional leadership feel natural.