Services
Fractional & Interim CFO
Senior finance leadership on the terms you need — a few days a month, or full-time through a transition — without the cost of a permanent appointment.
Overview
We place a senior advisor in your business as its chief financial officer, for as much time as the role genuinely needs. The advisor sits with your leadership team, owns the numbers, leads conversations with your board, lenders and investors, and builds the finance function so it no longer depends on any one person.
Clients are founder-led and family businesses that have outgrown a bookkeeper or financial controller, investor-backed companies preparing for their next round, and established organisations that have lost a CFO at a critical moment. We provide the role from any of our seven offices, including for groups operating across several countries.
Capabilities
- Part-time CFO on retainer
- Interim CFO during vacancies or transitions
- Board and investor reporting
- Fundraising and lender relationships
- Finance team leadership and hiring
- Systems and controls upgrades
Who this is for
Growing and mid-sized businesses that need CFO-level judgment but not yet a full-time CFO, and organisations covering a vacancy, a transaction or a turnaround.
What you receive
- A named senior advisor acting as your CFO for an agreed number of days
- Board and investor reporting, forecasting and funding leadership
- A finance function your team can run after the engagement ends
How the market is changing
More mid-sized businesses now buy senior finance leadership by the day rather than by the year. The model works when the advisor is senior enough to lead, not just report — and when the engagement is designed to leave a stronger team behind, not a dependency.
How to start
A first conversation is confidential and free. If this is the right service for your situation we will scope it in writing before any work begins.
Common challenges
Problems we're regularly asked to solve, and how
The problem
The business has grown faster than its finance function, and the founder is still the person answering every question from the bank and investors.
How we address it
Our advisor takes ownership of those relationships and the reporting behind them, freeing the leadership team to run the business.
The problem
A CFO has left in the middle of a raise, an audit or a restructuring, and recruiting a permanent replacement will take months.
How we address it
We place an interim CFO within days, keep the process on track, and help select and hand over to the permanent hire.
The problem
Investors and lenders want board-quality reporting the current team cannot yet produce.
How we address it
We put in place the forecasts, packs and controls investors expect, and train the team to produce them.
Process
How this engagement unfolds
- 01
Confidential discussion
We start by understanding the decision in front of you, the constraints around it and what has already been tried — confidential, free of charge, no obligation.
- 02
Scope in writing
You receive the proposed work, what it will produce, how long it will take and what it costs, before anything begins. The scope sets out the role, the days per month, the priorities for the first ninety days and how the engagement will end.
- 03
The work
Your fractional CFO works inside the business: running reporting, forecasting and funding conversations, and leading the finance team.
- 04
Decisions and follow-through
We review progress with the board each quarter and plan the handover — to your team, or to a permanent CFO we help recruit.
Contacts
Who leads Fractional & Interim CFO
Start a confidential conversation
Tell us what you are trying to decide. If we are not the right people for it, we will say so and point you to who is.