Peter Engel is the Founder and CEO of Actuals, a company transforming how businesses uncover truth across their finance tech stacks. With a career rooted in accounting and solving complex financial challenges, Peter recognized a common struggle: finance teams bogged down by fragmented systems, manual reconciliations, and complex data. Drawing from years of experience Peter set out to create Actuals. The platform acts as a full fledged automatic reconciliation and control engine, streamlining transaction flows across many sources, and bringing unmatched clarity and efficiency to high volume digital first financial operations. Peter’s leadership is driven by a belief that CFOs and their teams deserve real visibility and trustworthy insights—not just numbers. Actuals delivers solutions that empower finance leaders to move quickly, reduce errors, and make confident decisions.

The pop in the job:
Peter loves his job as CEO of Actuals because it’s about solving real problems for finance teams—problems he’s seen time and time again throughout his career. He’s passionate about removing the frustrations of manual reconciliations, fragmented systems, and unclear data so that CFOs and their teams can focus on what really matters: driving their businesses forward.

In today’s fast-moving digital economy, trust is harder to establish than ever—especially for high-transaction businesses like online merchants, mobility apps, and e-commerce platforms. Millions of transactions flow through these systems daily, but transaction data (orders, tickets, subscriptions, clicks etc.), payment data, and settlement records rarely align. Finance teams are left scrambling to manually reconcile the chaos, relying on estimates and endless spreadsheets just to make sense of it all. Actuals changes that. Our platform matches all transactions, payments, settlements, and accounting data to deliver one indisputable single source of truth. By eliminating the noise and confusion, we make manual reconciliation a thing of the past. Anomalies that used to go unnoticed are flagged instantly, unnecessary revenue losses are caught before they cause damage, and month-end closes become seamless instead of stressful. But Actuals goes beyond operational efficiency. It creates confidence. Companies using Actuals can prove that every transaction is accounted for, every order is paid, and every number is solid. This clarity doesn’t just streamline finance; it strengthens decision-making and builds trust—inside the business and out. Actuals gives companies a stamp of trust. It’s proof that what you say you’re doing to create value is actually true.