Your CFO left. The board meeting did not move.
An unexpected departure, a planned leave, or a long search cycle creates a business interruption you cannot afford. We step into the seat at full capacity, with no ramp-up period, and hold it until your permanent CFO arrives.
You are probably a candidate if one of these is true right now.
If none of them quite fit, one call will tell you whether interim is the wrong shape and something else is the right one.
An interim CFO works with your CEO, management team, and board on the real decisions.
Not a caretaker. The same authority and scope your permanent CFO would carry.
Strategic counsel to the CEO
Working directly with your CEO, management team, and board on the strategic business issues that cannot pause for a search.
The accounting function
Oversight of accounting and the supporting functions, so the close, the controls, and the reporting stay on schedule.
External relationships
Reassurance for the board, investors, creditors, suppliers, banks, and auditors during a leadership change.
A clean handover
Current books, documented processes, and a stable team, so the incoming permanent CFO starts without a cleanup.
Two words the market uses loosely. Here is what we mean by each.
Getting the shape right matters more than the title. The wrong one costs you either money or coverage.
Interim CFO
Typically a full-time financial consulting position, retained for the transition period between one CFO leaving and the search and hiring of the next.
Fractional CFO
A strategic financial partner who works part-time on a regular basis. A cost-effective way to access senior expertise you cannot justify full-time.
The person in the seat has held the seat before.
Every CFO spent their career as a CPA inside a Big 4 accounting firm before joining us. When an interim CFO walks into your first board meeting, they are not learning the job on your time.
MEET THE LEADERSHIP TEAM →Not the right shape? There are five other ways in.
One call, no charge, and a straight answer on whether we are the right fit.
You will speak with the CFO for your market, not a salesperson. If the answer is no, we will tell you that too.