The finance role is vacant.
The month-end close is not.
CFO, head of finance, controlling, accounting or FP&A: we fill the specific gap in your finance team – first suitable profile within 24 hours.
In brief
Last updated: 20 September 2026
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
- Starting day rates at nugrow: bookkeeping from €850, controller from €1,050, FP&A specialist from €1,150, head of finance from €1,300 and interim CFO from €1,800 per day, excluding VAT. The agreed rate depends on scope, duration and profile.
- 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
CLIENT VOICES
What clients say about working with us
Real quotes from founders and managing directors, translated from German (originals on the German page). Some mention ScaleupLab – nugrow's former brand, same team, same company.
We have tackled several projects together with Sebastian and his team and have been working together since mid-2021. For medium- to long-term financial planning to optimise our business model, we brought in support for our financing documents and strategy, as well as for our pitch deck. Sebastian helped us with advice and hands-on work to make our financial planning more concrete, which supports our long-term strategic direction. We were also able to improve our EBIT. We can highly recommend working with Sebastian & nugrow.
Hannes Ott
TAKE A SHOT
Whether directly as CFO or as an adviser, Sebastian is a positive and proactive partner who really helped me. He finds the right approach for every startup and knows how best to put it into practice. I can only recommend him.
Raphael Fellmer
SirPlus
With his entrepreneurial background, Sebastian is a true expert and an experienced sparring partner in financial planning. His experience with tools is just as helpful as his DATEV knowledge and his understanding of what matters in investor conversations. Sebastian works as an equal and is always there with advice and support. What I also value highly: Sebastian gets to the point quickly and delivers very reliably.
Johannes Woithon
Orgavision
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.
Role vacant? First profile within 24 hours.
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 appointments in finance run through five roles. Which one fits depends on whether leadership, steering, planning 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
Keeps the month-end close, cost centres and management reporting running or sets them up. Often alongside an ongoing system change.
Interim FP&A
Builds planning, budget and scenarios and delivers monthly variance analysis. Typical when the forecast is missing or ahead of a funding round.
Interim Accountant
Handles day-to-day bookkeeping, reconciliations and closing preparation – during an absence in the team or after a backlog.
Go straight to the role: Interim CFO · Interim head of finance · Accounting, controlling and FP&A · Day rates for all five roles
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.