The finance role is vacant.
The month-end close is not.
Interim finance managers – CFO, head of finance, controller, accounting and FP&A: we fill the specific gap in your finance team. For PE portfolio companies and tech scale-ups we clarify responsibility, system knowledge and the next closing, forecast or board date. First profiles within 24 hours, start within a few days.
In brief
nugrow fills temporary finance roles: CFO, head of finance, controlling, FP&A and accounting. Typical triggers include vacancies, parental leave or illness cover, closing peaks, funding rounds and transactions. An operational role can be commissioned independently without also appointing a CFO. Tasks, duration, fees and handover are defined for the engagement.
Explore support by role and task:
- Roles: interim CFO, head of finance, controlling, FP&A, accounting
- Start: usually within 24 hours; engagements typically run three to twelve months
- Cost: day rate, market range €1,400–2,500 (interim CFO) and €800–1,200 (controlling) – details on the pricing page
- Track record: over 350 projects since 2019, nugrow GmbH based in Bochum, active across Germany
Experience from 350 projects.
Quantifiable successes in interim management for finances
Rely on our expertise in interim management for finances and see how we can help your company achieve demonstrable success through precise analyses and tailor-made solutions. Our experts work closely with you to optimize financial processes and ensure sustainable results.
Situation for Interim Management
Our Know How
Our experience spans 350 projects, including interim mandates and consulting projects such as digitalising a finance department. This includes working with common finance tools, from accounting and controlling to reporting.
Find out how we can help your finance function
Our Partners & Collaborations
Carefully selected to create synergies that provide real added value to our customers. We work hand in hand with leading experts and organizations to ensure innovative solutions and exceptional service.
Which role are you looking for?
Interim cover in finance comes down to four roles. Which one fits depends on whether leadership, steering or operational capacity is missing.
Interim CFO
Takes on finance leadership for a fixed period: decision rights, investor reporting and the next deadlines. Typical during a CFO vacancy, a handover or a transaction.
Interim Head of Finance
Runs the finance team day to day, without the full CFO mandate. Fits when team leadership is missing but the strategic level is covered.
Interim Controller
Builds forecast, variance analysis and reporting – or keeps them running through a vacancy. Often alongside a system migration.
Interim Accountant
Handles day-to-day bookkeeping, reconciliations and closing preparation – during an absence in the team or after a backlog.
Corporates and large companies
In larger structures interim is rarely a stopgap but an instrument with a clear end date. Three triggers come up most often.
A vacancy in one entity
Until the internal successor is in place, the close, consolidation and reporting carry on regardless. A fixed-term appointment keeps that rhythm without a permanent position having to be created.
Transformation and carve-out
A system change, merging entities or carving out a division ties up the team on top of everything else. Interim capacity takes on either the project or the day-to-day work – whichever gap is larger.
Special projects with an end date
An audit issue, a bank negotiation, a new reporting requirement: time-limited tasks for which a permanent hire is not the right instrument.
Interim management process
Briefing & Search
At the beginning, we take the time to understand your specific needs and goals in detail in order to tailor the search for the ideal interim manager precisely to them. We then identify suitable candidates who fit your company both professionally and personally.
Screen & Interview
In this phase, we conduct a thorough review of potential candidates, including an assessment of their qualifications and previous successes. We then organise detailed interviews to ensure that the selected interim managers have the right skills and attitude.
Decide & Sign
After the interviews, you will make the final decision for the best candidate. As soon as the choice is made, all contract details are clarified and the contract is signed so that the interim manager can start working as quickly as possible.
Further reading
We have answered the questions that come up before you engage an interim manager in detail.
Decision and selection
- Interim CFO, CFO as a service or a permanent hire? – the decision guide to work through before you start looking for a provider
- Finding an interim CFO – providers, platforms, associations and twelve selection criteria
- What does an interim CFO cost? – day rates by role, billing models and a worked example
Process and contract
- Interim management in the finance department – roles, how a mandate runs and the first 90 days
- Service contract or employee leasing? – criteria, deadlines and liability when the classification tips over
Terms in the glossary
- Interim CFO – responsibilities, typical situations and how it differs from other models
- Interim management – the principle, the triggers and the legal framework
- Head of finance – the finance role most often filled on an interim basis
- Employee leasing – licence requirement, the 18-month limit, equal treatment
- Bogus self-employment – criteria, back payments and the status determination procedure
- Service contract and contract for work – effort versus result, acceptance and warranty
Interim CFO references – twelve mandates since 2019 in portfolio companies of Main Capital Partners, Verdane, Paragon Partners, AEM Capital, Insight Partners, eCapital and BayBG, each with the brief, the scope and the outcome.
FAQ
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Articles on typical interim situations
The CFO has resigned: bridging the vacancy
Options, timeline and cost when finance leadership drops out at short notice.
Carve-out finance up to day one
A standalone balance sheet, accounting entity and payment operations by the first day on your own.
Your first statutory audit
Who is required to be audited, how it runs and the preparation that keeps the timetable.
All articles at a glance
Transactions, crisis and closing – sorted by topic.