Part-Time or Interim Staff Augmentation

Many litigation, investigation, and distressed business cases require a great deal of paraprofessional-to-senior level assistance from a variety of forensic and managerial accounting and financial professionals. JE Moore's staff augmentation services are designed to meet this need. There are numerous other situations in which a staff augmentation arrangement might be a good fit for an organization. For example:

• When a company cannot justify hiring a full-time CFO, controller, accounting manager, internal auditor, or other type employee...either because the organization has not reached a size or level of complexity that requires a full-time person, or because the company concludes it just can't afford a permanent hire at the present time.

• During "gap-periods" that arise when a key accounting or financial employee is absent from work because of a medical, maternity, or personal leave situation or due to an employee relocation, termination, or death.

• For peak-period workloads due to non-recurring initiatives and projects such as the following: Mergers and acquisitions; accounting reconstructions; financial restatements; year-end audits; special analyses; internal audits and investigations; physical inventories; account reconciliations; system conversions; budgets, forecasts and other financial modeling.

• When a professional services firm obtains a new project or client and additional talent must be retained in order for the firm to deliver high-quality and on-time service. For example, a CPA firm might need additional manpower for an external audit,  SOX 404, forensic accounting, or other special engagement. Law firms and crisis management and business turnaround firms sometimes require specialized interim help with bankruptcy, lender workouts, fraud investigations, litigation, and other legal or trouble situations

Depending on the capabilities and available time of the client attorneys, executives and managers, the above scenarios may not call for our firm to provide leadership or supervision of our "loaned-staff" professionals. Rather, the part-time or interim associates often are directed by client personnel. Should additional staff guidance and/or monitoring be requested by the client, the staffing services will usually be "bundled" as part of a JE Moore consulting engagement as opposed to a staff augmentation arrangement.

Professionals we assign to staff augmentation engagements are billed to clients on a contract-basis, at hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly rates. These experts are primarily identified through our sponsorship of the Atlanta Financial Professionals Network. Regular communications with each client are maintained throughout the engagement to ensure just the right blend of talent is provided. Should a client want to permanently hire a JE Moore associate on a direct-hire basis, a generous "temp-to-perm" provision in our staff augmentation agreement offers a sliding-scale, credit discount off the normal contingency recruiting fee called for under our direct-hire recruiting arrangement.