About

Jeremy Hood, CPA

Founder and lead CPA of Truvio Financial. Jeremy spent years inside nonprofit finance departments before starting a firm built around the gap he kept finding in them: organizations with the bookkeeping covered and nobody accountable for the finance function as a whole.

Florida-licensed CPA
In accounting and finance since 2008
Master of Accounting, University of Florida
Bachelor of Accounting, University of Florida
QuickBooks Online and MIP Abila
Based in Gainesville, Florida

Why Truvio exists.

The same pattern kept appearing. An organization would have bookkeeping handled, a CPA firm doing the 990, and an auditor arriving once a year. On paper the finance function was covered. In practice nobody with controller-level experience owned the close, the reporting, the grant accounting, the controls, or the numbers leadership was using to make decisions.

The gap was rarely about competence. It was structural. A bookkeeper is not hired to exercise controller judgment, a CPA firm works in arrears, and auditors are prohibited from fixing what they find. The role that connects those pieces is the one most organizations in the five to twenty million dollar range cannot justify as a full-time salary.

Truvio provides that role on a fractional basis. Same accountability, sized to what the organization actually needs.

Track record

Where the experience comes from.

Controller

Meridian Behavioral Healthcare

Nonprofit healthcare, roughly $65 million, about 40 programs

Jeremy led accounting operations for an organization with multiple federal and grant-funded revenue streams, where the reporting had to satisfy funders, auditors, and a board at the same time. The work covered monthly close, consolidated reporting, cash management, and audit support including Uniform Guidance single audit requirements. He redesigned the close process and brought it down to ten business days, and led the migration from MIP Abila Desktop to MIP Cloud.

Complexity at this scale is where the gap between technically correct books and usable financial information becomes obvious.

Comptroller

Southern Legal Counsel

Nonprofit legal advocacy

A current engagement covering the accounting function, grant reporting, monthly close, internal controls, audit preparation, board reporting, and financial systems. Jeremy led the move from QuickBooks Desktop to QuickBooks Online and rebuilt the grant reporting and close processes, cutting the close from about three weeks to one.

Smaller organizations have the same reporting obligations as large ones, with a fraction of the staff to meet them.

President and Controller

A multi-entity operating business he founded

Roughly $3 million in annual revenue, exited in 2024

Jeremy founded and ran the business for nearly fifteen years, holding both the operating and the financial seat. He was responsible for payroll meeting a deadline, for cash covering it, and for the decisions that followed from the numbers he produced.

Having sat in the chair where the financial decision is actually made changes how you report to someone sitting in it.

Before focusing on nonprofits, Jeremy also worked in acquisition advisory and financial due diligence, and began his career in public accounting.

Approach

How Jeremy works.

Diagnose before prescribing

Every engagement opens with a look at the current setup: the accounting system, the close, the reports leadership receives, who does what, the funding structure, and anything that reads as immediate risk. Sometimes the finding is that the organization needs one or two specific fixes rather than ongoing support. You will hear that if it is true.

Direct involvement, not oversight from a distance

Jeremy leads every Truvio engagement and stays in the controller-level work: the review, the reporting, the judgment calls, and the client relationship. Staff accountants handle the transaction processing beneath it. You are not handed to an account manager.

Work with the people already there

Most organizations have a bookkeeper, an outside CPA firm, auditors, and staff who know things no system records. The job is to make that arrangement function with someone accountable for the whole, not to replace people who are doing their jobs well.

Say the uncomfortable thing early

If the books are worse than expected, if a funder report will not reconcile, if the audit timeline is unrealistic, that conversation happens when there is still time to act. Executive Directors generally prefer bad news in September to a surprise in March.

Related: how an engagement works and the full scope of controller services.

Talk with Jeremy

The first conversation is with Jeremy.

Not a sales call and not an account manager. Describe what is happening in your finance function and you will get a straight read on whether Truvio is the right fit.

Talk with Jeremy jeremy@truviofinancial.com