Senior finance leadership one to three days a week. Forecasting you can defend, a close that runs on time, and a business that is ready for its lender, board or next raise.
A thirteen-week cash view and a forecast built on real drivers, so payroll and inventory decisions stop being guesses.
Month-end process, controls and reporting your team can run without heroics.
Clean financials, a credible model and the story behind the numbers before the diligence questions arrive.
Unit economics by product, customer and channel, so growth stops quietly eroding margin.
Typically one to three days a week on a monthly engagement, working inside your team rather than handing over a report. Every engagement starts with a scoping call so the mandate is clear before day one.
A financial baseline: where cash goes, how the close runs, and what the numbers can and cannot tell you today.
Forecast, reporting cadence and controls put in place, with your existing accounting team doing the work.
A board-ready package and a decision on what the finance function needs next, including whether a full-time CFO is the right hire yet.
For scale: the 2026 national average rate for a fractional CFO is $191 an hour (Go Fractional, 2026 State of Fractional Work). One day a week at that rate is about $6,600 a month.
We help you decide before we recommend anyone. Sometimes the right answer is no full-time hire at all.
A fractional CFO fixes a specific, urgent issue and hands off a function that runs.
A fractional CFO holds the seat while we run a retained search for the permanent leader.
Senior experience alongside the leader you already have. Nobody is replaced.
Part of the ETHOSLINK Fractional C-Suite: 18 vetted executives covering every seat.
A controller records and closes what happened. A CFO decides what should happen next: cash strategy, pricing, financing and the forecast leadership runs the business on. Companies that have a solid bookkeeper or controller but no one doing that forward-looking work are the typical fit.
When the finance agenda needs daily ownership: a capital raise in motion, an acquisition, multiple entities, or a board that expects a CFO in every meeting. Many clients start fractional, learn what the seat really requires, then hire permanently with a sharper brief. We run that search too.
Fractional executives work on a monthly engagement sized to the days per week you need, with no recruiting fee, benefits or equity. We agree the scope and fee before work begins.
As soon as you're ready. Our 18 fractional executives are already vetted, so there's no search to start from scratch. Timing is set by your schedule, not ours.