Your finance team needs reinforcement.
Not your next CFO.
Bookkeeping falling behind, the close wobbling, or FP&A capacity missing before your next round: nugrow provides experienced interim specialists for accounting, controlling and FP&A – alongside your finance leadership, not instead of it. Start, scope and handover are agreed after selection and availability checks.
In brief
Last updated: 29 September 2026
Interim accounting covers vacancies and helps resolve bookkeeping, reconciliation and financial close backlogs. Interim FP&A adds planning, forecasting and reporting capacity for PE portfolios and tech scale-ups. nugrow provides the right role for your finance team: accounting from €850 and FP&A from €1,150 per day, excluding VAT. Responsibilities, start date, scope and handover are agreed individually.
A better fit for you: permanent outsourcing or a modelling project?
- Roles: bookkeeping, controlling, FP&A specialist, head of finance – interim CFO also available if needed
- Start: first profiles usually within 24 hours, engagement typically begins within a few days; assignments usually 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: our Finance Manager Alexander Meißner has completed more than a dozen interim mandates as Finance Manager, Controller and Head of Finance since 2021, including at Ryte, Assaia, VMRay, Magazino and Integrity Next. nugrow GmbH is based in Bochum and active across Germany.
Experience from 350 projects.
Our results speak for themselves
Our interim mandates span accounting, controlling, FP&A, financial planning, head of finance and head of controlling roles, and many other specialist mandates. Altogether, we've reached these milestones:
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.
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
We agree a defined work package for open accounting periods, account reconciliations and closing preparation. FP&A covers budgeting and forecasting. Team leadership or CFO decision rights require a separate mandate.
Interim management process
Briefing & Search
To start, we need the open periods, documentation and account status, system access and a technical contact. These define tasks, deadlines and handover. Missing documents or unresolved accounting issues are recorded as open items.
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.
Check for yourself where things stall: the Finance Maturity Check takes three minutes, plus free templates for cash, reporting and budget.
FAQ
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