Independent advisory · Jersey City, New Jersey

Take the weight
off the numbers.

Century Relief LLC is a business financial advisory practice for owner-led and mid-market companies. The name is the promise: a plan built to hold up over the long run, and the relief that comes from finally seeing the whole picture. We help with financial planning, capital and debt strategy, and the ongoing counsel that turns a set of numbers into a decision you can defend.

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Industries served

Professional Services Light Manufacturing Consumer Brands Healthcare Logistics Construction Wholesale Real Estate
Why Century Relief

Built for the long run. Felt in the first month.

Century

The horizon we plan against

Decisions that look fine this quarter can quietly cost a business its next decade. We model the long consequences of today's choices, so the plan still holds when the market and the lenders change their minds.

Relief

The result you should feel

Financial pressure is mostly uncertainty: not knowing what the cash will do, what the debt truly costs, or which lever to pull. Relief is a clear picture and a written plan, and it arrives before the deadline does.

Counsel

Advice, not a product

We advise. We do not sell financing, take referral commissions, or carry a product to push. Independence is what makes a recommendation worth having.

Services

Three disciplines, applied to one balance sheet.

Most businesses do not have a numbers problem. They have a decision problem the numbers were supposed to answer, usually under pressure. Century Relief LLC builds the financial picture first, then works the decision with you until the pressure comes off.

  1. 01

    Financial Planning & Forecasting

    A working financial model of your business: cash-flow forecasting, operating budgets, margin analysis, and scenario planning. You get a model you can actually run, not a static deck, so you can test a hire, a price change, or a new location before you commit to it.

    Cash flow Budgeting Scenarios
  2. 02

    Capital & Debt Strategy

    Structuring the right side of the balance sheet. We assess existing obligations, model the true cost of available capital, prepare the financial package lenders and partners expect to see, and help you weigh the terms in front of you against the ones worth waiting for.

    Capital structure Lender readiness Risk
  3. 03

    Ongoing Advisory

    Senior financial counsel on a retained basis for companies that need the judgment of a CFO without the fixed cost of one. Monthly reporting cadence, review of major commitments, and a standing seat at the table when the consequential decisions get made.

    Retained counsel Reporting Board support
How we work

Defined scope. Written deliverables. Nothing left hanging.

Engagements are bounded and specific, the work stays owned by the people inside the business, and every step ends with something in writing.

01

Listen

A working session on your business, its operations, and the decision actually in front of you, before anyone opens a spreadsheet.

02

Frame

We put the situation in writing: the problem, the constraints, the options, and their financial consequences over the long run. You approve the framing before the work proceeds.

03

Partner

We work alongside your team against a defined scope, timeline, and fee. You keep the deliverables and continue to use them long after the engagement ends.

About the practice

Independent counsel, held to a written standard and a long horizon.

Century Relief LLC serves businesses that have outgrown their bookkeeping but do not yet need, or want, a full-time finance department. The name was chosen as a standard to be held to: advice that is still right years from now, and a client who sleeps better for having it.

Every company's financial landscape is its own. That is why the work begins with listening and ends with something written: a model, a framing, a recommendation you can hold up to a lender, a partner, or a board and have it hold together.

  • A senior advisor on every engagement
  • Fixed-scope, fixed-fee proposals
  • Written deliverables, not just slide decks
  • Independent by design, with no referral commissions
“The number is rarely the hard part. Knowing which number the decision turns on, and what it will mean ten years out: that is the work.”
Barry Shargel
Century Relief LLC
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Get in touch

Ready to see the whole picture?

Request a complimentary introductory consultation. We follow up within one business day to schedule a thirty-minute call.

ContactBarry Shargel
Email & phone[email protected]
(917) 657-7340
Office30 Montgomery Street
Jersey City, NJ 07302