Twenty years inside the numbers, now on yours.
Derrek Space leads Consultgenix, a fractional CFO and bookkeeping practice in Coral Gables, Florida. He ran finance for AIG's consumer insurance business across 17 Latin American markets, led FP&A and transformation at Kemper, and has worked with owner-led businesses through Consultgenix since 2018.
English, Spanish and French. Based in Miami, working with clients across the United States.
Selected roles
I have spent my career where finance meets operations: building forecasts leadership trusts, cutting reporting cycles and redesigning cost structures. The same discipline now goes into owner-led businesses that cannot justify a full-time CFO.
- Founder, Consultgenix2018 to present
Fractional CFO, bookkeeping and finance transformation for owner-led businesses: finance function assessments, operating model redesign, reporting rebuilds, ERP and EPM implementation, AI workflow assessment.
- Director, Business Intelligence and FP&A, Kemper2022 to 2023
$5B portfolio. $55M in savings. Directed the Workday Adaptive Planning implementation and automated recurring reporting, cutting manual work about 30%.
- Interim Finance Head, Medicaid and Medicare, Aetna (CVS Health)2019 to 2021
Finance for Florida Medicaid and Medicare managed care operations. Three medical economics projects cut medical cost overspending 14% and contributed to a 6% Florida Medicaid revenue increase. Managed MLR, Achieved Savings Rebate, Florida Healthy Kids and AHCA filings.
- Head of Finance, Latin America Consumer Insurance, AIG2012 to 2018
Finance leadership for a $900M business across 17 markets. $65M (22%) in SG&A savings and a shared service center in Bogotá.
- Finance roles, PepsiCo, Markit (S&P Global), Brightstar, Pernod Ricard2008 to 2012
Planning, analysis and due diligence across consumer goods, data and telecom distribution.
- Finance and advisory, PwC and Lehman Brothers2001 to 2008
Internal finance and advisory at PwC. Operations and investment banking support at Lehman Brothers.
Education and certifications
Every credential below is verifiable. The Intuit certifications are issued through Credly; the university programs are on LinkedIn.
Education
- MBA, Accounting and Finance, University of Connecticut
- BS, Finance and Economics, University of Florida
Intuit QuickBooks
- QuickBooks Online Certification, Level 1
- QuickBooks Online Certification, Level 2
- Intuit Bookkeeping Certification
- Intuit Enterprise Suite Certification
- QuickBooks Workforce Certification (payroll)
- QuickBooks Desktop Certification
- QuickBooks Desktop Enterprise Certification
- Intuit Enterprise Suite Partner Seller Certification
- Client Advisory Services Foundations
Executive education
- Business Analytics, Wharton
- Business and Financial Modeling, Wharton
- Finance and Quantitative Modeling, Wharton
- The Business of Health Care, Wharton
- Six Sigma Green Belt, Kennesaw State
- Data Analytics for Lean Six Sigma, University of Amsterdam
- Corporate Strategy, University of London
- Behavioral Finance, Duke
- Strategic Leadership and Management, University of Illinois
The decision comes before the solution.
A problem is usually visible long before its cause is understood. Cash gets unpredictable. Margin falls without a useful explanation. Reports take days to assemble and settle nothing. Someone proposes an AI tool for a workflow nobody has defined.
I start by separating the symptom from the cause, then decide the smallest set of changes most likely to move the result. Sometimes that is a reporting rebuild, sometimes ownership and cadence, sometimes a process fix, and sometimes the right answer is to defer the project. The response depends on the facts of your business, not on a template.
A good fit
You run or lead a business with a problem that has real consequences: unreliable cash, margin pressure, books you cannot trust, reporting that does not support decisions, a transaction or capital decision on the table, or a workflow that may justify automation.
You can share enough context to look at the situation honestly, and you are prepared to change a process, a routine or a decision practice if the numbers support it.
Outside the scope
Legal advice, tax opinions, investment advice, generic business coaching, software resale, and AI demonstrations without a defined use case. You keep your CPA; I make their job easier.
The claims here are specific enough to check.
Consultgenix publishes case evidence, client context and results only where the facts are accurate and the client has agreed. Until a client has agreed, there are no stock testimonials, invented counts or unsupported claims on this site. The roles, numbers and credentials above are on LinkedIn and Credly for anyone to verify.
Bring your numbers. Leave with a next step.
A 30-minute call to find out whether this is a fit. No preparation needed, and the books do not have to be clean first.
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