Financial operations • Controls • Defensive business security

Strengthen the systems behind your business.

Lilly Financial helps owner-led businesses improve payroll and compliance, financial workflows, access controls, fraud safeguards, reporting, and recovery readiness—without separating operational risk from financial reality.

  • Clearer accountability
  • Safer financial workflows
  • Decision-ready information

One operating system, not four disconnected problems

Financial and cybersecurity risk meet in the same workflows.

Payroll changes, vendor payments, cloud accounting, shared credentials, departing employees, backups, and management reporting all depend on the same people and systems. Lilly helps businesses make those dependencies visible and controlled.

Four primary service pillars

Practical support from routine operations through difficult repair.

Each engagement is scoped around the condition of the business, the risk to be reduced, and the operating outcome management needs.

01

Payroll & Compliance

Reliable payroll operations, filing support, account review, documentation, and a clearer compliance calendar.

  • QuickBooks Payroll and Gusto support
  • Form 941, Form 940, W-2 and W-3 issues
  • Payroll reconciliation and historical cleanup
  • Payroll-tax notices and process remediation
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02

Financial Systems & Controls

Accounting workflows, reporting structures, approvals, and safeguards that management can use and maintain.

  • QuickBooks Online configuration and cleanup
  • Vendor, ACH and payment approvals
  • Audit trails, permissions and user access
  • Workflow and internal-control design
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04

Advisory & Remediation

Structured help when records, controls, responsibilities, or systems no longer support the business.

  • Controls assessments and remediation plans
  • Payroll and financial-system remediation
  • Policy, procedure and workflow redesign
  • Periodic access and controls reviews
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Featured cybersecurity & controls service

Business Account & Financial-System Security Review

A focused human review of the accounts, permissions, financial workflows, and recovery controls that can expose a small business to account compromise, payment fraud, payroll disruption, or sensitive-data loss.

What the review can cover

  • MFA, account recovery, and administrative access
  • QuickBooks, payroll, banking, and payment permissions
  • Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, and critical SaaS
  • Vendor setup, ACH changes, and payment approvals
  • Employee and contractor onboarding and offboarding
  • Shared, stale, former-worker, and privileged accounts
  • Backups, restoration readiness, and continuity gaps
  • Prioritized findings with practical remediation steps

How we work

A defined engagement with a usable result.

Scope is established before consequential work begins. Assessment findings are tied to business impact and realistic next actions.

  1. 1

    Understand the operation

    We identify the systems, people, records, access, obligations, and decisions involved in the problem.

  2. 2

    Assess and prioritize

    We document material gaps, separate immediate exposures from longer-term improvements, and agree on the remediation scope.

  3. 3

    Implement and document

    We help put practical controls, reporting, policies, and workflows in place so the improvement can be maintained.

About Lilly Financial

Financial management where accounting, operations, and technology meet.

Lilly Financial Management Services is a business advisory firm serving owner-led companies with accounting-informed operational, control, and risk work.

We focus on the parts of the business that must be trustworthy: payroll, payments, records, access, reporting, and recovery. Tax knowledge remains a supporting capability for readiness, planning, and limited repair work—not the center of the firm’s identity.

Start with the operating problem

What needs to be more reliable, controlled, or recoverable?

Tell us where the business is exposed or losing clarity—payroll, payments, access, reporting, records, vendors, backups, compliance, or an unresolved operational problem. We will respond with the appropriate next step and whether Lilly Financial is a suitable fit.

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Protect sensitive information. Do not send credentials, tax records, banking information, identity documents, or other confidential records by ordinary email. Secure delivery instructions are provided after an engagement is accepted.

Professional scope

Lilly Financial provides non-attest bookkeeping and accounting support, payroll and compliance support, business advisory, financial-systems and internal-control services, and scoped defensive cybersecurity and controls assessments. We do not currently provide legal advice, attest services, authorized tax representation, penetration testing, red teaming, digital forensics, SOC monitoring, regulatory certification, or guaranteed compliance. Read the complete Professional Scope and Service Limitations.