January 28, 2026By Parsepoint Team
The CFO’s Blind Spot: Why Corporate Facility Management Can’t Live in Spreadsheets
In many private equity backed middle-market and upper middle-market companies, operational risk is assumed to live in familiar places: the financial model, the budget, internal controls, or the monthly close. These areas receive constant attention, process rigor, and tooling. Yet one of the most persistent and expensive blind spots often sits quietly outside the core finance stack: real estate and facility management. This challenge is not the result of poor discipline or inattentive leadership. It is the natural outcome of running lean organizations at scale.