to scale.
Finance systems engineered for the growth curve a clean-energy business actually runs on — multi-entity, multi-currency, project-driven.
While they grow the business, we build the architecture.
FTE Consult is an independent finance transformation practice with deep specialization in renewable energy — utility-scale wind, solar, battery storage, and IPPs — and the breadth to serve any high-growth operator. ERP, SCM, EPM/CPM, integrations, and the operational glue that holds it together — designed by operators, not generalists.
- Utility-Scale Wind
- Utility-Scale Solar
- Battery Storage (BESS)
- Independent Power Producers
Operators build companies.
Architecture lets them scale.
Most consultants hand off the blueprint and disappear. The architecture has to still hold at scale — so we design it, defend it through the build, and stay in the seat as the business grows into it.
Renewable energy is the sector where this work is sharpest — finance complexity compounds quietly and quickly. New projects spin up new entities. New entities create new intercompany flows, banking complexity, consolidation logic, tax equity positions, financing structures, and minority interest accounting. The system that worked at one development changes character entirely at fifteen. The same dynamic plays out in any high-growth, multi-entity operator — whether the asset is a wind farm, a biotech pipeline, or a portfolio of acquired businesses.
FTE Consult was founded on the operator's bias toward what actually has to work. Not a generic transformation playbook. Not a slide deck. The real choices: which Oracle modules earn their license, when NetSuite stops scaling, how EPM should mirror the operating reality of a project-driven IPP, and which integrations matter on day one versus day three hundred.
Six lines of work.
One discipline: finance that holds at scale.
A staged engagement.
Designed before built.
Operating Model
Mapping
Two to four weeks. The actual close cycle, the actual data flows, the actual pain. What the org chart says vs. what month-end shows.
Architecture
& Sequencing
Target-state design — what system, what modules, what integrations, what order. Phasing that maps to the business's growth, not a textbook timeline.
Implementation
Oversight
In the SI room. Requirements challenged, design defended, UAT run with discipline. Owner's-rep posture from kickoff through cutover.
Sustained
Advisory
The work post-go-live. Optimization, new-entity onboarding, AI agent evaluation, license rationalization. In the seat as long as it's useful.
A practice,
not a firm.
FTE Consult operates as a small, senior-only network. Engagements are led by an operator with direct accountability — not staffed by a tiered pyramid. When additional bandwidth is needed, it comes from a curated bench of independent practitioners with operator experience in finance, accounting, and ERP architecture.
Ed Burke brings nearly 20 years of experience in operational finance, accounting, and business and digital transformation. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he earned his CPA license, before joining Qualcomm's semiconductor division for over a decade.
At Qualcomm, Ed held diverse roles spanning commercial pricing, finance leadership for the Automotive Business Unit, global distribution channel management, Asia-Pacific controllership and operations, SG&A finance, software license management, and acquisition integration — building rare breadth across both operational and strategic finance.
Ed then joined Thermo Fisher Scientific as Senior Director of Finance for the Global IT organization, where he led FP&A for a $1B+ function — overseeing complex allocations, global software purchasing, product implementation reviews, vendor selection and negotiations, and spearheading an annual Zero-Based Redesign initiative that delivered significant cost savings year over year.
Most recently, Ed led the FinApp practice at a leading consulting firm, guiding clients through application selection and implementation for ERPs, SCMs, and CPM/EPM solutions across a broad portfolio of PE-backed companies in the renewable energy sector. Clients consistently describe him as a strategic partner with deep operational expertise — someone who drives practical process improvements that align business and technology, and stays engaged long after go-live.
Ed founded FTE Consult to deliver the same caliber of operator-level advisory that large companies take for granted — to organizations that are growing fast and need a trusted expert in their corner.
Joe Welton brings more than two decades of finance and accounting leadership across high-growth biotech, semiconductors, telecommunications, and federal audit. He is a CPA with an MBA and an M.S., and he has rebuilt finance functions from the ground up at multiple growth-stage companies — bringing both the technical depth and the operational discipline to make a finance organization scale.
Most recently, Joe served as Senior Director of Finance at BlossomHill Therapeutics, where he led financial operations during a critical scale-up phase. Before that, as Corporate Controller at Invivoscribe — a global molecular diagnostics company — Joe rebuilt the entire financial reporting, consolidations, budgeting, and treasury functions from scratch. He configured new ERPs end-to-end, implemented ASC 606 and ASC 842, and reduced the close cycle to a single week.
Earlier, as Corporate Controller at Nextivity, he brought the accounting systems from zero to first-class — establishing the policies, controls, and reporting cadence required of a venture-backed company preparing for the next stage of growth.
Joe spent more than a decade at Qualcomm — overlapping with Ed Burke at the same time — where he was an Accounting Manager directing high-volume AP and disbursements with a team of 17, and led GL close for AP and purchasing across multiple Oracle ERP environments in the chip division. He served as project lead on major ERP implementations there, giving him an unusually direct view of how large-scale finance systems work in practice.
Earlier in his career, Joe was a Senior Accountant and Auditor at the U.S. International Trade Administration, where he served as senior lead auditor under both US GAAP and IFRS — applying statistical regression, ANOVA, and SQL-based fraud detection to international trade audits. He holds a B.S. in Business and Managerial Economics from UC Davis.
Joe joins FTE Consult to deepen the firm's bench in technical accounting, controllership, and ERP implementation — with a particular focus on growth-stage companies that need to professionalize their finance function while preserving the velocity that got them there.
FTE means
something different here.
Transformation
Experts
Employee
Mindset
Execution
The expertise of consultants.
The ownership of full-time employees.
The execution that actually delivers results.
We don't disappear at go-live. We don't delegate to junior staff. We hold your architecture in mind across every phase — and we stay until it's right.
Building the next chapter
of your finance stack?
Initial conversations are direct and unbilled. If FTE is the right fit, an engagement scope follows. If it isn't, you'll get a candid pointer to who might be.