About KATalign
Executive clarity for complex finance operations
KATalign is led by Katja Chandler, a senior finance and Order-to-Cash transformation leader with 28+ years of experience operating inside complex, global finance environments.
She works with CFOs and finance leaders when precision matters: during scale, system change, audit pressure, or operational strain, when finance must function as a controlled system, not a collection of workarounds.
Katja brings calm authority to situations where ambiguity, fragmentation, and risk have quietly accumulated.
Professional Focus
Katja is known for aligning finance operations where they have drifted out of sync — particularly across Order-to-Cash, revenue accounting, and finance systems.
Her work focuses on:
Structural clarity across O2C workflows
Governance and control without bureaucracy
Systems that reflect how finance actually operates
She does not optimize at the surface.
She addresses root causes.
Point of View
Most finance breakdowns are not caused by people or tools.
They are caused by misalignment:
Between sales, revops, billing, collections and finance
Between systems and operating reality
Between speed, control, and accountability
Katja’s approach is deliberately restrained.
Process first. Structure second. Technology only where it strengthens control and trust.
This is why her work holds under executive review, audit scrutiny, and real operational pressure.
Experience That Informs the Work
Katja’s background includes senior leadership across:
Global Order-to-Cash operations
ERP, billing, and CRM implementations
SOX-aligned controls and revenue governance
Enterprise finance transformation and change leadership
She has built, stabilized, centralized, outsourced and transformed finance functions from the inside — leading teams, partnering cross-functionally, and executing where outcomes matter.
This is advisory grounded in execution.
Meet the founder: Katja Chandler
I’ve led and supported Order-to-Cash and finance transformations for organizations including Sony Mobile, Enverus, Palantir, Snow Software, and Fourth Enterprises.
What makes me effective is simple: I bridge finance and systems. I translate messy operational reality into clean ownership, controls and measurable cash impact. Clients bring me in to reduce DSO, tighten billing and dispute workflows, improve control readiness, and turn O2C into a predictable operating rhythm without burning out the team.
KATalign helps finance leaders accelerate cash conversion, reduce disputes, strengthen controls, and build an operating cadence that holds. Across people, process, systems.
Recent outcomes (anonymized examples)
DSO (net): 46 → 30 days over 8 months during post-acquisition O2C integration
90+ AR: 18% → 3% in 3 months by stabilizing disputes, billing, and collections cadence
Dispute case backlog: ~900 → 100 cases in 4 months through triage, routing and increased billing accuracy
SFDC Billing: Implemented across 4 business units including CPQ revamp and revenue reporting
My Approach
A simple 3-step model:
Assess & Diagnose (2-4 weeks)
Stabilize (6-8 weeks)
Lead and scale (fractional, 3-9 months) or Finance Transformation Program Leadership (3-12+ months)
I don’t sell tools. I design systems that last.
See how we work together (Services).